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.
@OfirPress That day will never come, unfortunately. You can only train on the text that are well represented, and documented. So much context and tribal knowledge are stored in the minds of engineers. No model can be trained that way.
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.
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