🔥 Eight Directions Evening Briefing | 10.27 U.S. Stock Highlights

📊 Monday close: Anthropic’s IPO filing fueled AI sentiment. Nasdaq +0.83%, S&P 500 +0.70%, Dow +0.28%; the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged 2.8% in a day.
⏱ Tuesday intraday (around 10:30 a.m. ET): Nasdaq +0.4%, S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.2%; tech stocks continued to support the market.

🤖 AI stocks
💳 Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley joined forces on $63 billion in financing to buy $AVGO ’s AI chips and lease them to Anthropic—one of the largest AI infrastructure debt deals in history. Broadcom rose about 3.5% on Monday.
🟢 Nvidia announced a further $3 billion investment in Meta; Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion through equity financing to expand its computing capacity. Shares closed down 1.9% on Monday.
🚗 $TSLA closed up 5.2% on Monday after a Barclays upgrade, reaching a closing high not seen in more than three months.

📑 Earnings highlights
✅ Coca-Cola raised its full-year guidance for the third time; UPS and Royal Caribbean beat expectations.
❌ Whirlpool unexpectedly posted a loss and cut its guidance, falling about 7% premarket; PayPal revenue missed expectations.

🪙 Crypto stocks
On Monday, $COIN fell 2.95%, MSTR dropped 4.24%, and CRCL slid 7.07%, while Galaxy bucked the trend, gaining 6.81%. Coinbase reports earnings on Thursday.

🏦 The Fed begins its two-day meeting today. CME puts the probability of a rate hike at only about 10%. Alphabet and Microsoft report earnings Wednesday evening.

💬 Eight Directions’ take: The AI story is moving from “talk” to “serious money on the table”—but the bigger the financing, the more important the returns. Wednesday brings both the Fed decision and megacap earnings: it could be a double whammy or a double win, so don’t go all-in on a directional bet.

Which earnings report do you think will give the Nasdaq a bigger boost: Alphabet’s or Microsoft’s? Join the discussion in the comments 👇

(For informational purposes only; not investment advice.)
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