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$AVGO lining up $50B+ in private credit just to build OpenAI's custom chip, and $ORCL is shopping for chip money too.

The AI build-out is running on debt now. Asia didn't love it overnight, Kospi down ~2% with yields near 24-year highs. Semis are the tell at the open.

[Bloomberg @business]

Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for the custom artificial intelligence chip it’s developing with OpenAI, part of a surge in deals to pay for AI infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported https://t.co/0XpSBZTNfE

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$MU read-through from Seoul: Samsung just guided a record ~107.4T won (~$80B) Q3 operating profit, its first quarter ever above 100T, on AI memory demand. Shares still slipped ~0.7%. The bar isn't this quarter anymore, it's whether memory pricing holds into next year.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Samsung forecasts record third-quarter profit of $80 billion on the back of AI boom https://t.co/TDCJLfLYgk

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$BULL down ~20% after a bipartisan House China committee flagged Webull's ties to the Chinese government as a national security risk to US finance. Webull says the report is full of inaccuracies. A China-risk label on a retail broker is a hard headline to trade through.

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Webull Stock Plummets as House Panel Flags China Ties as Security Risk: Report https://t.co/9zwVtMZRGR

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$TSLA slipping ~1% as Reuters digs into how Tesla leaned on the Dutch regulator to narrow its FSD safety review.

RDW approved FSD Supervised in April, but the wider EU vote has slid to December at the earliest. Europe was supposed to be the next FSD win, and it just got messier.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Tesla pressured Dutch regulators to weaken safety reviews of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ system. A @specialreports investigation reveals how the automaker shaped the evaluation meant to protect public safety https://t.co/nwuz7CqquR

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$INTC bulls get their answer. Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will build and run Terafab themselves, and TSMC maybe subleases a piece, nothing more.

Intel slid ~3% Monday and ~3% more Tuesday on the TSMC fear. Now bouncing ~1% premarket. $TSLA $TSM

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Elon Musk said his business empire will build and operate Terafab independently, quashing speculation about industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. swooping in to run his ambitious chipmaking venture. https://t.co/1fcc3SyvZS

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$STZ down ~5% after hours despite the beat. Beer depletions fell 0.6% (Modelo ~-2%, Corona ~-5%) and the reaffirmed FY27 EPS guide of $11.20-$11.90 sits below the Street. Shipments rose 5.5% while drinkers pulled back. Volume is the number that matters here.

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This Number Explains Why Constellation Brands Stock Is Down After Earnings https://t.co/EimgIEqsHT

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Another $40B buyer lining up for $NVDA chips.

The FT says SpaceX wants to raise $40 billion, in a financing led by Apollo ($APO), to buy Nvidia compute. Talks are early and could still fall apart, but the AI demand line isn't getting shorter.

[Financial Times @FT]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to raise $40bn in a financing effort led by Apollo Global Management to purchase Nvidia chips as the AI and rocket group amplifies its bet on the chipmaker’s advanced technology. https://t.co/RfsSe6MtBT

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$MRVL ripping ~7-10% off Investor Day. FY28 target lifted to ~$20B vs ~$18.2B Street, plus a first FY31 goal of $70B-$90B. The midpoint is nearly double the ~$47B consensus. Custom AI silicon is pulling $ALAB and $CRDO up with it.

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Marvell Stock Surges After CEO Announces Huge Long-Term Revenue Target https://t.co/NRjJq3ug6V

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$NVDA is knocking on the door of $6 trillion. Bloomberg says investors are rotating back into the AI chipmaker, putting it on the verge of being the first company ever to get there. Record close Monday, green again this morning, and just a few percent left to go.

[Bloomberg @business]

The AI frenzy is alive and well, putting Nvidia on the verge of becoming the first company with a $6 trillion market value. https://t.co/B42fY6sQ8i

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Now it's official. Google and Constellation signed a 20-year deal for 890 MW of new nuclear capacity on the PJM grid, plus a 15-year supply deal for 2,700 MW from existing plants.

$CEG up ~3% premarket. AI's power bill keeps landing at nuclear's door.

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Constellation Energy Stock Rises. What a Google Nuclear Deal Would Do for It. https://t.co/CmEOnfTIEb

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$CEG up ~3% overnight. Bloomberg says Google is close to a $1B+ multi-year nuclear power deal with Constellation, possibly announced this week.

Amazon, Microsoft, and now Alphabet. Every hyperscaler wants a piece of the biggest US reactor fleet.

[Bloomberg @business]

Google parent Alphabet is close to an agreement to buy nuclear energy from Constellation Energy, as technology companies race to line up power for the data-center boom. https://t.co/EhJsnl89F7

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$OPCH ripping ~22% after hours. FT says McKesson and CD&R are closing in on a $5B+ buyout, with a deal possibly as soon as Tuesday. Nothing signed yet, but the stock was down ~27% YTD, so this is a big rerate if it lands. $MCK

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Option Care shares surged after the FT reported McKesson and Clayton Dubilier & Rice were nearing a $5 billion-plus takeover offer https://t.co/KF64iO0WMf

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$RXO up ~23% after C.H. Robinson agreed to buy it in a ~$5.8B cash-and-stock deal, about $30.25 a share implied, a 29% premium to Friday's close.

The buyer is wearing it though: $CHRW is down ~13%. The market isn't loving the price tag.

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CH Robinson agreed to buy trucking brokerage firm RXO in a deal valued at about $5.8 billion https://t.co/5FubpHxr1g

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$PCVX ripping ~57% after its 31-valent pneumonia shot hit every Phase 3 goal head-to-head against Pfizer's Prevnar 20 and Merck's Capvaxive.

Two more readouts and an FDA filing still to come, but $PFE and $MRK just got a real challenger.

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Vaxcyte Stock Spikes 57% as Lead Vaccine Candidate Takes Aim at Pfizer and Merck https://t.co/aFS89RcXAy

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$NVDA is knocking on $6T. CNBC says options are pricing about a 50% chance it gets there by end of October, ~13% this week. Friday's first record close since May left it just under $5.7T. The number to watch is roughly $248 a share.

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$INTC ~-4% premarket. Musk confirms TSMC talks on Terafab are real ("just discussions"), and Intel was the named fab partner there.

Susquehanna also flags more CPU share lost to $AMD. After a monster run, that's enough for profit-taking.

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Intel Stock Drops as Elon Musk Signals a Setback for the Chip Maker https://t.co/EDeUDIacWz

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$PTC deal is official. Schneider Electric is paying $205 a share in cash, a 42.3% premium to the last close.

From here PTC trades like merger arb: upside mostly capped at the offer, and the real risk is regulators before the Q3 2027 close.

[Bloomberg @business]

Schneider Electric said it is acquiring US-based engineering software developer PTC for an implied enterprise value of $23.7 billion https://t.co/ZveHjV2sUR

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$PTC could wake up to a buyout. Reuters says Schneider Electric is close to a ~$20B deal for the industrial software maker, which has a market value of about $15.6B. The deal could be announced as soon as Monday, but talks aren't final yet. Watch the Monday open.

[Reuters @Reuters]

France's Schneider Electric nears $20 billion deal to acquire US software group PTC, source says https://t.co/T5CbauCmN3 https://t.co/T5CbauCmN3

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$VST just got a federal nuclear assist — CNBC says the U.S. is lined up to lend ~$4.2B to boost output at Vistra’s plants. Power for the AI buildout keeps finding a way.

[CNBC @CNBC]

U.S. to lend $4.2 billion to Vistra to boost nuclear power output, source says https://t.co/eWBO8BLG65

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$TSLA just cleared the delivery bar the street missed — CNBC says Q3 hit 486,532 vs ~461k expected, and the stock ripped ~5%. YoY still soft, but this print was a real beat.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Tesla reports 486,532 vehicle deliveries for third quarter, topping expectation https://t.co/n6l3wzYLPK