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According to AMC, its Taylor Swift viewing parties were âa record-setting, box office smash hit,â as the âcinematic experienceâ for the release of Taylor Swiftâs âThe Life of a Showgirlâ grossed more than $50 million. AMCâs stock spiked briefly on the news before closing lower. Itâs worth noting that not only does Taylor Swift have the power to move AMC stock, but her net worth, estimated at $2.1 billion, actually exceeds AMCâs market cap, which is around $1.5 billion.
The S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 all retreated from Mondayâs highs to finish lower on Tuesday. It was a defense-on day, as utilities and consumer staples were the best-performing sector ETFs. Amazon was the only Magnificent 7 company to finish higher. |
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You buy Nvidiaâs flagship chips because theyâre supposed to be best in class, empowering you to build better AI capabilities or make lots of money off other companies that want to harness the power of the AI boom.
Not quite, per a report from The Information, which revealed that in the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost almost $100 million renting Nvidiaâs Blackwell chips. |
- The report explains that some of this is a timing issue, a gap between getting data centers equipped for use and when customers start paying for services.
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Citing internal documents, The Information says that Oracleâs âfast-growing cloud business has had razor-thin gross profit margins in the past year or so,â booking a gross profit of $125 million on rentals of servers that utilize Nvidia chips for the three months that ended in August, resulting in a gross margin of just under 14%.
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The pain quickly spread, with stocks including Nvidia, its top AI chip rival Broadcom, memory chip specialist Micron, foundry giant TSMC, neocloud companies Nebius and CoreWeave, disk drive sellers Western Digital and Seagate Technology, data center company Cipher Mining, and zero-revenue nuclear energy firm Oklo all taking a dive. Nvidia and Broadcom did claw their way back to flat by the end of the session.
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On one hand, this isnât great news: if you buy a money printer from Nvidia, you expect it to print some dang money, and you can be certain that investors havenât run up the price of these AI assets just to eventually squeak out a 14% gross profit margin. But on the other hand, itâs still the very early days, and it does take time to actually get these chips set up and going forward as a business, and early costs are far from an indication of future problems with the bottom line.
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Q3 2025 has come to a close â How did your portfolio fare?
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As of 9/30/25 the Nasdaq-100ÂŽ has returned 17.5% YTD. Over the trailing 3-YR and 5-YR periods, the index has returned annualized returns of 31.0% and 16.7%, respectively.1
Get to know the index that some of the most innovative large cap companies in the world, including the Magnificent Seven, call home. |
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When you think of the New York Stock Exchange, you might think of the famous Charging Bull statue or an image of a wild-haired trader on the floor, yelling buy and sell orders (though of course almost all trades have been done electronically for quite a while). What you donât think of is a place where the outcome of Sundayâs NFL matches matters. But the parent company of the NYSE, Intercontinental Exchange, is thinking about the future of futures and announced a $2 billion investment into prediction market Polymarket on Tuesday.
Right now, Polymarket is barred from business in the US, so the initial scope of the deal focuses on ICE becoming the distributor of the data produced by Polymarketâs predictions business. But Polymarket is expected to begin offering trading in the US again soon, and that has big implications: |
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Bloombergâs Matt Levine also has this new deal on his mind, and wrote in his Money Stuff newsletter, âFinancial markets and sports gambling are merging, and some big financial firms now go around acting like there is no difference between them.â He added that we shouldnât be surprised, as ultimately âthe purpose of the New York Stock Exchange is to give you the bets you want,â whether thatâs betting that stock X will go up or that team Y will win the big game.
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At long last, Tesla finally unveiled its new, cheaper Model Y, the more affordable car that the company has been promising for years. The stripped-down Model Y, dubbed âStandard,â comes with a price tag of $39,990, 11% cheaper than the previous base-level Model Y offered by the EV maker. Tesla also unveiled a âStandardâ Model 3. |
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Yesterdayâs Big Daily Movers |
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- Minutes from the Fedâs September meeting
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