building Northline: CRE loan surveillance + borrower reporting for lenders (fund reporting + draw monitoring coming). posting about AI, money and building
social security is giving retirees a 3.6% raise for 2027. about +$75/month on average (SSA)
biggest bump in four years and it's still just catching up to prices that already went up
amazon went public in 1997 at $18 a share
after splits that's about 7.5 cents
people called it an online bookstore. it was losing money, selling books, and the stock was "obviously overpriced"
the lesson isn't "buy the next amazon". almost nobody holds through the 90%+ drop it took in 2000 and 2001. the ones who got the return were the ones who didn't sell
anthropic told investors q3 revenue hit $16.8B
up 45% from $11.6B in q2 (and $4.7B in q1)
they said the quarter was profitable on an adjusted basis (Bloomberg)
nasdaq just lost 4.5% in one week and the dow still finished green
worst nasdaq week since late june (yahoo finance)
today alone:
nasdaq -2.1% to 26,140
s&p 500 -1.1% to 7,659
dow -0.3% to 52,002
money walked out of AI and into health care, which hit record highs while tech bled
coreweave fell 12% today and nearly 26% on the week (CBS)
investors are spooked by how much debt is paying for the AI data center buildout
micron -5.6%, intel -5.8% (AP)
the fed side didn't help either. odds of a december rate hike jumped to 74.3%, up from 50.2% a month ago (CME FedWatch)
10-year yield still sitting at 5.1%
one green spot, city therapeutics priced its IPO at $18, raised $200M and opened at $23 (https://t.co/q0G2E2lsfd)
the dow up 0.7% on a week like this is kinda wild
of 45 e-money tokens notified under mica, usdc is the first one the eu called "significant"
from nov 12 the european banking authority oversees its reserves, liquidity & redemption plans (EBA)