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US payrolls grew by 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast, cutting market odds of an October Fed hike to 15% from about 25%. A December hike is still fully priced, so traders moved the date of the next rise and kept the rise itself.
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Accenture plans $5 billion of acquisitions in fiscal 2027 while guiding for revenue growth of 3% to 6%. At the fourth-quarter run rate the budget tops the revenue that range adds, so the stock's case rests on how much of the growth is organic.
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Nike now expects fiscal 2027 revenue to fall after $11.21 billion in first-quarter sales missed estimates and Greater China sank 26% currency-neutral. Its Pace overhaul adds about $300 million of charges this fiscal year, with role cuts from 2027 and savings stretching to 2031.
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Wednesday's print is the first real test of Nvidia's hyperscaler-versus-everyone-else disclosure. On consensus numbers, the mix barely moves.
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The first year-ahead forecast in Nvidia's history implies about $673 billion in fiscal 2028, roughly $103 billion above consensus, and hands every capacity planner a figure to hold it to.
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OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for Financial Services pairs built-in financial data with GPT-6 Astra reasoning for research, modeling and client materials. The announcement does not say where that data comes from.
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OpenAI's financial-services ChatGPT arrives with market data licensed from the vendors banks already pay, and without a published price the buy-or-keep comparison cannot be run. Its own benchmark still misses about three answers in ten.
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Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4bn and the contracted backlog reached $664bn, while the $28.5bn Oracle put into capacity in three months turned a record $23.1bn of operating cash flow into free cash flow of negative $5.4bn.
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The scrutiny centres on revenue booked through data collection centres and joint ventures that local governments capitalised. One person familiar with the review put the valuation impact at 60 to 70 percent if that revenue is stripped out.
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The engineering in OpenAI's financial-services launch sits in the retrieval path, and the flagship model underneath it is the one the API already serves. That split decides what a buyer can build for itself.
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The $11.36bn of customer prepayments turned what would have been roughly $16.8bn of burn into a $5.40bn shortfall, and it moves the funding question from Oracle's balance sheet to the credit of the customers writing the cheques.
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An investment-grade stamp would let the labs fund compute out of bond mandates instead of share issuance, and it would land years ahead of the revenue meant to service the coupons, which is what S&P flagged in September.
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Ondo's share of tokenized equities fell from 75% to 45% while a record month of on-chain spot trading came to a fraction of one day on traditional venues. The volume mix is what sizes this fight.
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Retail-driven Shanghai is now where domestic memory and humanoid programmes raise equity. The first-day pops describe the allocation, not the fab. CXMT's revenue line is the number worth reading.
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Chinese issuers are raising money into a domestic bid that then multiplies it by five, which says more about rationed supply than about durable AI earnings. Shein, the non-AI name in the queue, got the residual.
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The quarter grew revenue 11% with a guide near 12%, so Thursday's move repriced a fear rather than a forecast, and the $2.6bn Anthropic gain sitting behind it is a private valuation mark.
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The quant fund that seeded DeepSeek with cash and compute now farms state-favored listings, where a fivefold debut and a 460% opening day outran a trading book that lost money in eight of nine products in July, while DeepSeek raises capital elsewhere.
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The chip-design tool layer is where AI capex is supposed to land next. Synopsys's upgraded guide says it does land, but the cut arriving is thin.
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The FCA and Bank of England have staffed their reporting harmonisation taskforce with at least 49 named participants across three working groups. The membership, not the framing, shows the scope.
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Claude Science adds no new intelligence, only 60-plus database connectors and a reviewer agent. That was enough to move three research-tools vendors, and it reorders how you score AI suppliers.
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