Long reads on the mechanism behind the event.
Anthropic filed its S-1 with the SEC to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The next day the Kospi rose 3.09%, with buying in SK Hynix, SK Square, SoftBank and Tokyo Electron.
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Monday, October 26·7 Min Read
After buying back $148.6B of stock in five years, Meta will sell up to $95B of new shares to fund its AI buildout. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom indicated interest in $5B, and most of the sale carries no vote.
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Sunday, October 25·7 Min Read
Musk said SpaceX had closed $40 billion of debt for GPUs, and that lenders have shut out cloud firms living only on AI chip rentals. CoreWeave bonds sold at a 9.675% coupon in June now yield about 15%, and Nebius and IREN face the same question.
Friday, October 23·7 Min Read
Bloomberg reports SpaceX is negotiating access to at least 80,000 cell sites, including with Crown Castle, for Starlink Mobile. AT&T and T-Mobile lost about $25B in value, while Crown Castle rose 9%.
Yemen's Houthis targeted Riyadh, Dammam, Yanbu and Aramco's Shaybah field over two days, and Aramco evacuated its Dhahran headquarters. Saudi output is intact, yet Brent ended the week up about 6% at $116.72.
Thursday, October 22·7 Min Read
In interviews with CNBC and Yahoo Finance, Jensen Huang argued that Nvidia chips are an asset class lenders can finance. Banks speaking to Reuters say Nvidia's 25% value guarantee is not enough, and CoreWeave's bonds have yet to price in the thesis.
SK Hynix halted plans to list Solidigm, the SSD business it bought from Intel, a day after two Korean regulators called the plan a breach of the rules. The Kospi erased a 4% morning drop and SK Hynix closed up 4.42%.
Chip-equipment maker Lam Research said its December guidance would have been higher without component and clean-room constraints. All 30 members of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell, dragging Nvidia, AMD and Micron, while Meta lost 7%.
Previous target · New target given on the call
Wednesday, October 21·7 Min Read
Musk said on SpaceX's October 20 call that both companies had formed independent committees, and he made the case for combining them. Reuters' sources say that open support could invite Tesla shareholder objections and stretch talks by weeks; Tesla declined to discuss it on its own earnings call.
Wednesday, October 21·6 Min Read
Meta generated $32.8B in operating cash in the third quarter and spent $33.9B on equipment. Revenue of $64.6B beat expectations, the 2026 capex budget narrowed to $135B–$145B, and the stock rose after hours.
Wednesday, October 21·8 Min Read
Micron technology chief Scott DeBoer set out DRAM, NAND and HBM plans through 2027 and said the 4F² design that CXMT is adopting this year and Samsung is expected to adopt in 2028 has fundamental problems. New AI memory uses more silicon per bit, keeping supply tight for two more years.
Tuesday, October 20·6 Min Read
According to a draft prospectus seen by the WSJ, Anthropic owes about $450B in mostly non-cancellable commitments, $252B of it to Google Cloud, Amazon's AWS and Microsoft. A single customer equals about a fifth of Google's and Amazon's backlogs.
Server maker Super Micro's September-quarter revenue estimate topped its own guidance by 27%. The next day in Seoul, SK Hynix rose 5.8%, Samsung Electronics 5.7%, and the Kospi recovered most of the previous day's loss.
Revenue at SpaceX's AI segment tripled in a quarter, yet $19.6B of capital spending was more than twice adjusted EBITDA. On Thursday, 1.3 billion locked-up shares become eligible for sale.
Monday, October 19·7 Min Read
Amazon will earn the right to buy 3.16 million 3M shares as its data center payments approach $6B, and 3M is taking a stake in Taiwan's GSEO. Amazon struck similar deals with Qualcomm and Generac in September.
Sunday, October 18·6 Min Read
Under a plan that needs stockholder approval, the board may add another 2% to the fund for every 50% rise in Anthropic's value. The company has not said whether the stake will be new shares; David Sacks and Elon Musk criticized the structure.
Microsoft has walked away from anchoring Nscale's site in Essex, the Telegraph reported, and the grid may not power it before the 2030s. Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of Nscale's $103B contract book.
Friday, October 16·7 Min Read
Trump suspended the Graham Act, which would have taxed all US-bound goods from countries buying Russian oil at up to 100%, before it took effect. The order came after Friday's close with Brent at $109.86, so markets price it for the first time on Monday.
Index provider MSCI's rule, effective November 30, could remove Strategy and its 848,250 bitcoin from global indexes. The stock fell 9.56% on October 16; the final list comes on November 11.
Friday, October 16·6 Min Read
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell for an eighth day, and short sellers made $32 billion in seven days. Bank of America's Vivek Arya wrote that Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron trade at the multiples Cisco carried after the 2000 crash.
Thursday, October 15·6 Min Read
Nine companies used a new SEC exemption to object to their shares trading as tokens on OKXICE, the venue built by OKX and NYSE parent ICE. Of the 63 names on the initial list, 55 stayed silent and left the door open.
Anthropic reported $16.8B in third-quarter revenue, but quarterly growth fell from 147% to 45%. Reuters reported some investors are discussing a $1.5 trillion IPO valuation instead of $2 trillion; ASML and Infineon fell sharply in Europe the same day.
Thursday, October 15·7 Min Read
TSMC expects fourth-quarter revenue to rise 14% and sees no slowdown in AI demand. Before the results, US inflation and rate fears sent SK Hynix down 11%, Samsung 9.5% and Kioxia 12%, and tripped the Kospi's circuit breaker.
Wednesday, October 14·6 Min Read
Barclays analyst Tim Long downgraded Dell, HPE and NetApp, arguing memory price increases sit behind the 122% jump in Dell's non-AI server revenue. Dell lost about $40B of market value on October 14, and the selling spread to HPE and Super Micro the next day.
Wednesday, October 14·7 Min Read
September inflation lifted the odds of an October 28 Fed hike from 22% to 37%, and the Nasdaq 100 fell 2.1%. CoreWeave, whose bond sold in June at a 9.625% coupon now yields about 15%, led the losses; Nebius and Oracle also fell.
Dutch chip-equipment maker ASML said the 30% capacity increases it planned for 2027 and 2028 will not be enough, and that pricing gains begin in 2027. Its US shares fell overnight while Amsterdam traded higher; TSMC's October 15 earnings are the next test.
Q2 2026 · Q3 2026
Tuesday, October 13·6 Min Read
JPMorgan spent $1.06B on its own stock in the third quarter instead of $6.70B, and Jamie Dimon tied the cut to loan demand. At Goldman Sachs, revenue from financing hedge funds rose 96%, and both banks' capital ratios fell.
Tuesday, October 13·7 Min Read
The Kospi fell 5.46% on Tuesday as foreign investors sold $1.6B of shares. The $41B in buybacks that Samsung and SK Hynix used to absorb that selling since August are now ending.
Monday, October 12·7 Min Read
Broadcom's Hock Tan and Intel's Lip-Bu Tan told a DBS conference in Singapore that demand will outrun supply until 2029 and that the real constraint is the cost of debt. By Tan's math, the world spends $200 billion a year on AI tokens and gets $150 billion back in revenue.
The Kospi fell 3.65% on Monday to a two-month low as foreign investors sold $1.5B of shares. Over the weekend, Chinese memory maker CXMT said it would ship 4F² server memory two years ahead of Samsung.
Saturday, October 10·7 Min Read
The Financial Times says options include a bigger stake, a full takeover or a Groq-style team transfer; Reflection was last valued at $25B. Reflection pays $150M a month to rent Nvidia chips in a SpaceX data center, while Nvidia's equity purchases hit $42.4B in the first half.
Saturday, October 10·8 Min Read
Treasury's General License 135 frees the sale and US import of Russian diesel through April 7, 2027. Moscow eased its own export ban by just 500,000 tons, about one day of US consumption, after Trump announced 4.8 million tons.
Friday, October 9·8 Min Read
According to Korea's The Elec, ASML will raise prices on all EUV and DUV spare parts sold to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix by 10% from January. Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron are raising prices too, while TSMC is resisting higher tool prices.
Friday, October 9·7 Min Read
Apple trimmed October parts orders for the $100-pricier iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max by 15-20%, Nikkei Asia reported, and Skyworks slid. Memory prices driven by AI servers lifted the phone's component cost 38%, more than the price hike covered.
Thursday, October 8·7 Min Read
SpaceX agreed to buy Grain Management's 800 MHz spectrum for a reported $8B, and T-Mobile had its worst day since 2013 with a 13.3% drop. Tower owners such as Crown Castle and American Tower rose on the same news.
Sept. 9, only Cognizant suspended (approx.) · Oct. 9, eight firms suspended
The Labor Department suspended PERM applications from Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini for an initial period of up to 180 days. Because existing work visas were untouched, Microsoft slipped 1.35% and India's Nifty IT index rose 3.13% the next morning on TCS's results.
Thursday, October 8·6 Min Read
TSMC's September sales lifted third-quarter revenue to $46.7B, above the company's own range. The same day, OpenAI's revenue report pulled TSMC down along with Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron, leaving margin as the open question for Oct. 15.
Incl. partner sales, as reported · As OpenAI told investors
OpenAI told investors its revenue run rate was $50B; the widely reported $70B figure included sales made through cloud partners. Oracle, Broadcom, Micron, AMD and Nvidia fell, while TSMC reported a record quarter the same day.
Thursday, October 8·9 Min Read
Samsung Electronics' third-quarter operating profit of about $80.3B beat forecasts, but $145.8B in revenue came in 2.7% short and profit growth slowed to a third of the prior quarter's pace. The stock fell 2.42%; for Micron, SanDisk and Nvidia, the question is now how fast memory prices keep rising.
Wednesday, October 7·8 Min Read
The House Select Committee on China said broker Webull is tied to China through its ownership, staff and data infrastructure. The report carried no fine or ban, yet the stock fell about 20% intraday.
Tuesday, October 6·6 Min Read
At its October 6 investor day, Marvell set a fiscal 2031 revenue target of $70-90 billion, against Wall Street estimates of $45-47 billion. The target also lifted Broadcom, Arista, Astera Labs and Credo, which sell to the same customers.
Tuesday, October 6·7 Min Read
Bloomberg reported that Seagate outbid Toshiba for the TDK unit that supplies all of Toshiba's read-write heads; Toshiba said the report was inconsistent with its understanding. Western Digital fell 6.9%, and the two lost about $30B in market value in a day.
Monday, October 5·7 Min Read
Microsoft cut its staff's Claude spending by more than a third and Meta's internal Claude Code users halved, The Information reported. The same day, banks began selling a $60 billion package to fund Anthropic's Google-Broadcom chip lease, a five-year commitment that did not change.
Monday, October 5·8 Min Read
Musk confirmed talks for TSMC to take a role in his Terafab project, where Intel had been the only manufacturing partner since April. On Monday TSMC hit records in Taiwan and New York, while Intel fell 2.42%.
The French electrical-equipment group is paying PTC holders a 42.3% premium and funding most of it with new debt. PTC jumped 34% premarket; the 13x multiple Schneider used to defend the price leans on sales that have not happened yet.
Friday, October 2·8 Min Read
After a U.S. warning of an export ban, a G7 call chaired by Macron approved a 100-million-barrel oil and diesel release through the IEA over four months. Trump said the ban was never on the table; Europe agreed to two-thirds of the diesel Washington asked for.
Friday, October 2·7 Min Read
The SEC let Cboe list six 3x Volatility Shares products tied to bitcoin, ether and four commodities. They escaped the 1940 Act's 2x ceiling because they were not built as funds; sales still await a separate registration.
Amazon is in talks to move Grace Blackwell chips running in its data centers into an investor-funded vehicle and keep using them as a tenant, the Financial Times reported. Whether the chips truly leave the balance sheet depends on who takes the resale-value risk.