Post-election calls.
1. Neoclouds are done for a while. A buildout slowdown kills borrowed money and unpermitted gigawatts first.
2. Hyperscalers win this. Permitted, financed, 80-95% pre-leased capacity just got scarcer. Scarcity is pricing power.
3. Semis don't die, they de-rate. $2.48T of contracted backlog doesn't vanish. The multiple is what bleeds.
4. $NVDA prints a monster quarter on Nov 17. Demand is not the question. The question is whether the pop holds, with December hike odds at ~77%.
5. Iran: watch December. If an authorization bill hits the lame-duck agenda, ground troops stop being a bluff.
The math says $ANT wants $1.5T. The buyers are at $1.1-1.3T. Tonight, the company blinked first.
The S-1 never prints a total share count. But it leaves the key: 846,840,960 shares went to its benefit fund, stated as exactly 5% of fully diluted shares. Do the division: ~16.94B shares pre-IPO, ~17.8B after the new stock.
Reuters saw the copy Anthropic sent its bankers tonight: $70-$80 a share. On ~17.8B shares, that's $1.25-1.42T. The ask, in writing.
Hours later, the company emailed the banks again: the pricing was "inaccurate." Retracted.
Reference points: Anthropic's own internal mark in October was ~$71.43 a share, roughly $1.2T. Its May round priced at $965B.
So the fight is $1.5T vs $1.1-1.3T — and the first number the company put on paper didn't survive the night.
Watch the corrected filing. Low end holds $70, they held the line. Opens in the $60s, the buyers won.
Monday wrap: the index ripped, the story stocks split.
S&P +2.4%, Nasdaq +2.7% — best day since April, all 11 sectors green.
$NVDA -4.3% to $178.67, intraday -8.8%. The only big red name on a day like this — first session trading the board investigation. The record is still 0 charges, 0 findings, 0 sanctions.
$AMD +13.3% to $508.58. Oppenheimer upgrade to Outperform, $600 target — and Google picked EPYC to host its new TPU systems.
Brent settled $92.57, -5.9%, lowest since Aug 31. A reported Qatar-brokered deal that nobody has confirmed. From $113.43 two weeks ago: -18%.
Tomorrow: CPI at 05:30 PT (no YoY number this time), $CRWV after the close.
Two years of investigation of Jensen Huang. The official record is still three zeros.
$4.8B of $NVDA gear moved through Malaysia. Commerce found chips still sealed in boxes. Alice Huang was questioned in Singapore and released. No charges, no court findings, no sanctions — against anyone.
The gap between the headlines and the record is the story.
Next: Nov 11 Jensen Huang answers Congress · Nov 17 earnings · Nov 18 briefing
1. Smuggle GPUs into China are not spies, there is a massive amount of profit from the market, not from the government. They violate US export laws, they are criminals, not spies.
2. Jensen played favor to prioritize Megaspeed's demand due to his relationship with Alice Huang.
3. The affair is confirmed, and is made a big news by the media because Jensen is the $5 Trillion AI guy.
Somehow the internet conflate them together as if doom's day is coming for $NVDA. Jensen will be fine, good time to buy $NVDA.
NYT published a piece on this.
Alice Huang led Megaspeed, a Singapore data center firm that has bought more than $4.8B in Nvidia chips since June 2024.
U.S. officials began surveilling her over a year ago while probing whether Megaspeed helped smuggle restricted AI chips into China, and found her communicating with him.
A classified memo drafted this spring under Secretary of State Marco Rubio said China’s Ministry of State Security recruited her to target him.
One thing that puzzles me is, at Jensen's case, the US AI war againt China is serious and US must win, selling chips to China is a big deal and must be investigated; when Dems proposed to ban new AI datacenters, ain't they literally helping China to win the AI war? Shouldn't they get investigated?