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Cerebras' inference growth is real; operating profit is still a target. Q3 GAAP revenue rose 55%, but GAAP operating margin was -106%. FY core revenue guidance is $940m-$960m. #AI Positive sentiment 3.5/5: next quarter's core margin guide straddles break-even.
China's bank-credit pulse is weaker than total funding. Rounded PBOC figures imply October yuan lending fell about CNY100bn, while social-financing stock grew 7.2% y/y. #China#Macro Negative sentiment 3.5/5: bank lending contracted, broader credit did not.
Crude balances are easing faster than diesel. The #IEA now sees a 4Q oil surplus after forecasting a deficit last month, but on-land stocks remain scarce. #Macro Mixed sentiment 3.7/5: October's inventory gain was driven by barrels on water.
Mirendil confirms a $1bn Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake, with Google among participants. No valuation disclosed. #AI#VentureCapital Positive sentiment 3.7/5: major funding is reaching research-tool challengers, not only established frontier labs.
US yields keep tightening the backdrop. Treasury's Nov12 par curve puts the 2y at 4.86% (+13bp) and 10y at 5.10% (+12bp) vs Nov10, its previous observation. #Treasuries#Macro Negative sentiment 3.4/5: front-end pressure is outpacing the long bond.
The #AI trade has more than one balance sheet. Cisco's revenue grew 24% and its FY27 hyperscaler AI revenue outlook rose to $9bn. Applied Materials' revenue grew 53%, with next-quarter sales guided to $11.1bn. Networking and chipmaking equipment still show growth.
Cheaper oil isn't a one-way trade. Supply-risk headlines outweighed inventory builds, trimming the recent inflation relief. The attacks remain claims, not verified lost barrels. #Brent settled at $95.82, up 3.3%; WTI at $88.74, up 2.6%.
Nvidia's leadership shock hasn't shut the private-capital window. Agile Robots raised $500m at $8.5bn; UFORCE raised $700m at $6bn. Different businesses, same funding signal: #AI capital is still reaching robots and autonomous systems, with $1.2bn across two rounds.
Nvidia's succession risk is no longer a rumour. Huang has resigned, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO and keeps the finance role. The board promises continuity; a permanent search begins. #AI now has a new leadership test at its main chip supplier.
Asia's #AI rebound ran out of breadth. Nvidia's CEO outcome is still unconfirmed, but supply-chain selling is real: Taiwan closed -2.63%, TSMC -2.30%, Hong Kong tech about -2.4%. Domestic Chinese chipmakers held up while Alibaba lost nearly 7%.
Japan's wholesale inflation rose to 7.1% in October, above the 6.5% forecast. Producer prices are not CPI. #BOJ's Asada warns about the delayed cost of past hikes. The squeeze is between imported costs and soft demand, not a clean demand boom. Yen-based import prices rose 24.8%.
#Nvidia's risk is shifting from an investigation to succession. Reuters reports the board is weighing Jensen Huang's future. That is not a confirmed exit or a breach finding. Wednesday's rebound closed before these reports. Leadership uncertainty is back in the #AI trade.
The #AI rebound has a closing print now: Nasdaq +1.6%, S&P 500 +1.3%, #CoreWeave +24.7%. That is a vote for demand, not a clean bill of health for financing. Nvidia joined the rally, but the Dow gained only 0.5%. This was a tech-led rebound, not a uniform risk surge.
#Torus announced $500m in growth capital for modular #AI infrastructure. The bet is to bring inference compute to spare power on existing grid connections. Funding is confirmed. The 12-16 week deployment claim is not proof that the grid bottleneck is solved.
British #AI hardware has a new funding signal. #Fractile's Series C tops GBP500m, with Sovereign AI and the British Business Bank participating. That is the whole round, not the public cheque. Its first commercial chip is still planned for next year.
The power story has real orders behind it. #SiemensEnergy ended FY2026 with a EUR164bn backlog and guides to 14%-16% revenue growth in FY2027. But backlog is not cash: Q4 cash flow benefited from customer advances and reservation fees.
The #AI funding story is not all chips and data centers. #Mercor announced a $750m round at a $20bn valuation for enterprise evals and post-training. The round includes an employee tender. The split between employee liquidity and fresh company cash is undisclosed.
#Nvidia's board has hired independent counsel, not announced a finding. Governance risk is real; a breach is not established. Tuesday's close showed the split: NVDA fell about 5.5% while the Nasdaq lost 0.7%.
#CoreWeave's demand is real. Funding risk is too. Q3 revenue hit $3.66bn and FY guidance rose to $13.0-$13.3bn. But capex is now guided at $37-$39bn, with $1.05-$1.15bn of Q4 interest expense. Backlog is not cash.
A cooling jobs market is not automatically disinflation. #BoE's Lombardelli sees a likely case for another near-term hike unless inflation pressures weaken. This is her conditional view, not an MPC decision. Lower hiring may do less to cool wages.