🧠 As market heads into Thanksgiving, questions over AI, Fed rate cut remain

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🏛️ Financial News

• Federal Reserve 💵 CNBC: Fed likely to not cut rates in December following delayed September data, according to market odds

  •  CNBC: New York Fed President Williams sees room for ‘further adjustment’ to rates

  • CNBC: Trump says he’d love to fire Powell, urges Bessent to ‘work on’ him to lower rates

•  Jobs Report Sentiment 💼 CNBC: Delayed September report shows U.S. added 119,000 jobs, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.4%

  • CNBC: BLS says full October jobs data won’t be released, available figures to be included in next report

  • Reuters: US cancels release of CPI report for October because of government shutdown

• US Tariffs 🗽 Yahoo! Finance: Here's why $1T just got lopped off Trump's expected tariff windfall

• Banker Sentiment 🏦 CNBC: Ray Dalio says we are definitely in a bubble, but that doesn’t mean you should sell yet

• Home Mortgages 🏡 CNBC: Mortgage rates hit highest level in a month, pushing loan demand down 5%

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📊 Global Markets

• S&P 500 $VOO ( ▲ 0.63% )🌍 CNBC: Dow surges 500 points in big market rebound after steep sell-off this week

• Nasdaq $QQQ ( ▲ 0.48% ) 🌐 Reuters: Wall Street indexes jump as bets on rate cut increase, Nvidia gains on report

• Europe Markets $STOXX ( 0.0% ) 🏰 euronews: Europe’s markets mixed, easing crash fears ahead of Nvidia report

• Japan Markets $NIKKEI ( 0.0% )⛩️ CNBC: Japan October exports massively beat estimates on robust growth in shipments to Asia and Europe

• India Markets $NSEINDIA.P ( 0.0% ) 🕌 CNBC: India’s goods trade deficit in October shatters records, beating estimates, as gold imports surge 200%

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🚀 Stocks

• Retail : Big Box $HD ( ▲ 0.4% ) 🟧 CNBC: Home Depot cuts earnings outlook as home improvement demand falls short of expectations

• Retail : Big Box $LOW ( ▲ 0.68% ) 🔨 CNBC: Lowe’s beats on quarterly sales, but lowers full-year profit forecast amid economic uncertainty

• Retailer : Big Box $TGT ( ▼ 2.87% ) 🎯 CNBC: Target cuts profit outlook as shoppers look for deals, make fewer store trips

• Retail : Big Box $WMT ( ▼ 1.54% ) 🔅 CNBC: Walmart hikes sales and earnings forecast as it attracts shoppers across incomes

• Retail : Apparel $GAP ( ▼ 3.11% ) 👖 CNBC: Gap comparable sales surge after viral ‘Milkshake’ denim ad with Katseye

• Retail : Big Box $TJX ( ▲ 1.28% ) 👢 CNBC: TJ Maxx and Marshalls owner hikes outlook as CEO says holiday season is off to a ‘strong start’

• Media & Entertainment 🎪 Deadline: And so it begins: Paramount, Netflix and Comcast formally submit bids for Warner Bros. Discovery

• Communications $VZ ( ▲ 0.4% )☎️ CNBC: Verizon cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it restructures

• Healthcare : Pharma $AZN ( ▲ 0.21% ) 💊 Yahoo! Finance: AstraZeneca to invest $2 billion as part of US manufacturing push

• FinTech $XYZ ( ▼ 0.28% ) 💱 CNBC: Block says gross profit in 2028 will approach $16 billion as company unveils 3-year outlook

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🌐 Technology

• Semi-conductors $NVDA ( ▲ 1.49% )⚡ CNBC: US considering letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, sources say

  • TechCrunch: AI mania is making Nvidia a lot of money

• Chipmakers: Design $ARM ( ▼ 0.65% ) 📐 CNBC: Arm custom chips get a boost with Nvidia partnership

• Energy : Utilities $CEG ( ▲ 0.68% )⚡ CNBC: Trump administration backs Three Mile Island nuclear restart with $1B loan to Constellation

• Technology $GOOG ( ▲ 0.88% )🔍 TechCrunch: Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores

• TechCrunch: Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image-generation model

• Productivity : MarTech $ADBE ( ▲ 0.47% )🖼️ The Verge: Adobe to acquire digital marketing platform Semrush for $1.9B

• Communications $META ( ▲ 0.41% ) 👥 AP News: Meta prevails in historic FTC antitrust case, won’t have to break off WhatsApp, Instagram

• Autos : EV $TSLA ( ▲ 1.57% ) 🔌 CNBC: Elon Musk’s xAI will be first customer for Nvidia-backed data center in Saudi Arabia

  • CNBC: Tesla obtains permit to operate ride-hail service in Arizona

  • Sherwood by Robinhood: Tesla Robotaxi demand outpacing supply in Austin and San Francisco

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence

• Investor Sentiment 🚀 Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance: Bubble Trouble: AI rally shows cracks as investors question risks

  • Yahoo! Finance: Are we in an AI bubble? How to protect your portfolio if your AI investments turn against you.

  • Reuters via Yahoo! Finance: Jitters over AI spending set to grow as US tech giants flood bond market

  • Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance: Big Tech’s debt binge raises risk in race to create an AI world

• Frontier LLMs : Anthropic 🤖 CNBC: Anthropic valued in range of $350 billion following investment deal with Microsoft, Nvidia

• LLM Wrappers : Hugging Face 🦾 TechCrunch: Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble

• LLM Wrappers : Perplexity 🦾 CNBC: Perplexity AI announces free product to streamline online shopping

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With Thanksgiving next week, we’re taking a break but will be back the following Saturday morning to recap the week’s financial news. Shout-out to Money.com for partnering.

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