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Apple Q4 beats but stock falls on margin outlook, Oracle raises $20 billion for AI in one week, oil drops 7% on U.S.-Iran deal hopes

US midterm elections put markets on edge, Apple posts record Q4 but holiday margin guidance sends shares lower, Oracle raises $20 billion in one day to fund AI buildout

WTI crude falls 4% on Iran-US diplomatic breakthrough, Marvell acquires Lumentum in $115B AI deal, gold rebounds near $3900 after worst October since 2008

WTI crude falls ~4% as Qatar-mediated U.S.-Iran talks advance, tech futures rally ahead of midterms, JPMorgan calls post-election selloffs buying opportunities in banks and semis, Fundstrat signals tech selloff is bottoming on breadth and yield data

AI capex reckoning hits Alphabet, Amazon, and Intel; Anthropic files for a record-breaking IPO with $518B in compute commitments; DoorDash bets $17B on Instacart in a grocery delivery consolidation play

Alphabet, Amazon, Intel earnings misses spark sharp tech selloff, Fed holds rates with hawkish dissents, Bitcoin slides below $80K on ETF outflows, staking ETFs hold ground, Microsoft and AWS cloud growth confirms AI revenue but Alphabet miss fuels capex doubt

U.S. Q3 GDP hits 3.4% but PCE inflation accelerates to 3.6%, complicating Fed outlook, Alphabet posts near-30% earnings miss and negative free cash flow as AI spending surges and Search growth cracks, Mastercard beats Q3 estimates with 14% revenue growth and strong cross-border transaction volumes

US Q3 GDP beats at 3.4%, raising December rate hike odds, Eli Lilly crushes earnings with GLP-1 surge and guidance reset, Mastercard posts sixth straight beat on payment volume and services growth

Anthropic IPO filing fuels AI stock surge, Fed holds rates as December hike looms, Microsoft beats on cloud but flags margin caution

Vertiv Q3 earnings crush estimates on AI infrastructure demand, Anthropic files S-1 for potential $2 trillion Nasdaq IPO, Federal Reserve holds rates at 4% with hawkish inflation signal

EQT acquires Range Resources in $50B+ all-stock deal to create largest U.S. gas producer, HealthSpan Partners takes Surgery Partners private for $5.7B with Bain rolling its stake, Meta launches historic ~$98B equity raise to fund AI infrastructure while Zuckerberg retains voting control

SpaceX closes record $40B chip financing deal via Apollo, Anthropic publicly files S-1 targeting largest-ever IPO before Thanksgiving, Dan Ives assigns 80-90% odds on SpaceX-Tesla merger by 2027

Nasdaq drops 2.6% on Meta AI capex fears, $1.3T in chip stocks erased; Asian and European markets extend selloff to four-week losing streak; Robinhood secures Dubai license targeting 2027 MENA launch

Jio Platforms closes IPO with record 10.8 million applications and 18x subscription, Zetwerk Manufacturing beats grey-market expectations with 5% debut, Bloom Energy posts 138% revenue growth but shares fall on sell-the-news reaction

Tesla and SpaceX form merger committees for potential $3.5T deal, Meta posts first negative free cash flow in a decade amid $145B AI capex, Salesforce acquires Braze for $5.66B to power real-time AI agents

Salesforce acquires Braze for $5.66 billion in all-cash deal, US jobless claims hit three-month low at 194000, SpaceX Q3 earnings surge 161% as AI segment overtakes Starlink

SpaceX posts first-ever profit with AI segment driving blowout Q3 earnings, Musk floats SpaceX-Tesla merger but is locked out of boardroom talks, JPMorgan nearly doubles SpaceX price target to $500

SpaceX Q3 earnings: AI compute overtakes Starlink at $7.56B revenue, SpaceX and Tesla boards form special committees to explore merger, JPMorgan doubles price target to $500 citing superintelligence thesis

3M beats earnings and lands $6B Amazon data center partnership, GE Aerospace raises guidance on all metrics after 49% order surge, Hasbro's Magic: The Gathering hits $600M in a single quarter for the first time

Oil tops $110 on Middle East tensions, AI stocks hit 42% of U.S. market, Korean AI neocloud Elice crashes 32% on IPO debut

Strive buys 1223 Bitcoin with $500M more planned, SoftBank eyes $18B Allied Universal acquisition to deploy security robots, Indian markets drop 876 points on bank earnings miss and foreign investor selloff

September PPI surges 6.3% year-over-year, stoking Fed rate hike fears; Bank of America absorbs a historic $1.2 billion AML fine dragging earnings; Morgan Stanley posts record wealth inflows but shares slide on durability concerns

Nvidia shares jump on AI chip demand and analyst upgrades, Fed officials cloud rate cut timeline, major tech firms spotlight AI revenue in earnings season

September CPI jumps to 3.7% on gasoline surge and core beat, Goldman Sachs posts record equities trading revenue, JPMorgan misses while Citi surges in mixed big bank earnings

Tech stocks swing on 5.3% Treasury yields and AI valuation doubts, Q3 earnings season opens with AI capex and consumer themes in focus, major M&A deals across industrial software, healthcare, and energy signal corporate confidence

Goldman Sachs blowout leads mixed bank earnings season, memory chip stocks enter bear market on China DRAM threat and AI trade fears, Indian markets rally on finance minister tax relief signals

S&P 500 steadies ahead of CPI report and earnings season, Fed re-tightening reshapes market calculus, tech giants pour money into AI amid margin pressure, Schneider Electric acquires PTC for $22.6 billion, biotech M&A hits $203 billion in 2026

Private credit BDCs hit record outflows and 6% default rates amid industry shakeout, OpenAI revenue miss erases $170B in AI stock value in one session, global M&A falls 23% as high borrowing costs freeze dealmaking

Indian markets log worst session of 2026 as Sensex drops 1045 points, Trump administration suspends PERM green card filings for Microsoft and major IT firms, federal investigations launched into nine elite universities over J-1 visa abuse

Skydance Corp launches after $111B Warner Bros. merger closes, 10-year Treasury yield hits 24-year high of 5.33%, weekly jobless claims fall to 197K supporting hawkish Fed outlook