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The Fast Five Chipmaker stocks lose traction, Harris/Trump promises could feed market's Fed addiction, gold hits another at record, Ray Dalio worried about postelection, and Roaring Kitty sells stake in Chewy…

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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full calendar here

  • Today:
    PCE index, 8:30 am
    Initial jobless claims, 8:30 am

  • Tomorrow:
    Unemployment report, 8:30 am

Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, October 31 🎃

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 10/30/2024

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 37.70% for Week of October 24 2024

Last week: 45.45%. Updates every Friday.

Market Wrap:

  • Futures dip: S&P 500 -0.3%, Nasdaq 100 -0.5%, Dow -27 points.

  • Meta -3% on user miss, cost warning; Microsoft -4% on weak outlook.

  • GDP growth at 2.8%, short of 3.1%.

  • Key Fed PCE inflation data, jobless claims out today.

  • Big earnings: Apple, Amazon;

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week.

  • Today: Estee Lauder (EL), Intel (INTC), Peloton (PTON) Roblox (RBLX), Uber (UBER)

    • Amazon (AMZN) - earnings of $1.14 per share (+21.3% YoY) on $157.2B revenue (+9.9% YoY)

    • Apple (APPL) - earnings of $1.55 per share (+6.2% YoY) on $94.4B revenue (+5.5% YoY)

  • Friday: Wayfair (W)

See full calendar here.

HEADLINES

Semiconductor stocks fell on Tuesday as Super Micro Computer and AMD and Super Micro led a sell-off.

The Fed risks moving beyond its role as a lender of last resort to a prop markets need to function even in normal times, with pressures likely to increase as US presidential candidates look set to add trillions more to deficits.

  • Wall Street ends lower ahead of megacap earnings (more)

  • New economic data moves US closer to ‘soft landing’ (more)

  • Ray Dalio concerned about America postelection (more)

  • Gold at record high as political uncertainty boosts safe-haven demand (more)

  • US shippers avoid East Coast ports on risk of second strike (more)

  • Asian equities to fall as US bond rout extends (more)

  • Microsoft Cloud fuels stronger-than-expected revenue growth (more)

  • Meta warns of worsening AI losses after sales narrowly beat (more)

  • Reddit shares soar 40% on profitability, rosy guidance (more)

  • Trump Media plummets 22% after stocks worst-ever day (more)

  • Roaring Kitty sells stake in Chewy (more)

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Siemens to buy engineering software firm Altair for $10.6B (more)

  • Abu Dhabi has officially acquired a minority stake in Sotheby’s (more)

  • ConocoPhillips explores sale of Permian shale assets worth over $1 bln (more)

  • Aquarian buys stake in green property lender PACE Equity (more)

VC

  • FYLD, an AI-powered, fieldwork effectiveness platform, raised $10M in growth capital from NatWest (more)

  • Picnic Works, a food production automation company, raised $5M in funding (more)

  • Final Boss Sour, a gaming-themed snack alternative brand, raised $3M in Seed funding (more)

CRYPTO

  • Coinbase turns profitable as revenue doubles (more)

  • Crypto exchange Kraken lays off workers as new co-CEO joins (more)

  • Polymarket's influence on Wall Street grows despite red flags (more)

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