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Nvidia (NVDA) earnings report Q3 2025
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Nvidia (NVDA) earnings report Q3 2025

Nvidia reported third-quarter earnings that beat expectations for sales and earnings while delivering a better-than-expected forecast for the current quarter. The results show that Nvidia is continuing to grow quickly while demand for its powerful artificial intelligence chips remains high.Shares fell 2% in extended trading.Here's how the company did, compared to LSEG analysts' expectations:Earnings per share: 81 cents adjusted vs. 75 cents expectedRevenue: $35.08 billion vs. $33.16 billion expectedNvidia said it expects about $37.5 billion plus or minus 2% in current-quarter sales, versus $37.08 billion expected by analysts polled by LSEG.The fourth-quarter forecast implies year-to-year growth of about 70% from a year earlier, a slowdown from 265% annual growth in the same period a year p...
US Department of Justice asks court to force Google to spin off Chrome
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US Department of Justice asks court to force Google to spin off Chrome

By Brian Fung for CNN The sale of Chrome could help prevent an illegal monopoly in web browsing, US government lawyers say. Photo: AFP / FILE The US government has formally proposed a partial breakup of Google, urging a federal judge to force a sale of the company's Chrome web browser after a landmark ruling this year finding that Google had violated US antitrust law with its search business. The request by the Justice Department and a group of states opens the door to the most significant antitrust penalties for a tech giant in a generation, targeting not only Google's illegal monopoly in search but also its growing ambitions in artificial intelligence. If approved, the penalties could revolutionise how millions of Americans search for information and potentially disrupt the tight i...
Get the most out of these tax-favored accounts in 2025
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Get the most out of these tax-favored accounts in 2025

Benefits enrollment season is here, and with it comes an opportunity for workers to tune up their workplace savings plans and sock away more money on a tax-favored basis. Traditional tax-deferred accounts, like 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts, are just the beginning for savers. With the proliferation of high-deductible health care plans as employers aim to reduce their costs, more employees are gaining access to health savings accounts – which allow savers to contribute on a pretax or tax-deductible basis, grow on a tax-free basis and permit tax-free withdrawals if they're for qualified health expenses. In 2023, there were $123 billion in HSA assets held in more than 37 million accounts, reflecting a 19% increase in assets from the prior year, according to Devenir Group . A...
10-year Treasury yield is looming as a potential anchor on stocks
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10-year Treasury yield is looming as a potential anchor on stocks

The runup in the 10-year Treasury yield is proving to be more than a short-term fluctuation, and that is starting to draw nervous looks on Wall Street. The benchmark yield was trading at about 4.41% on Wednesday. That is up from around 4.3% right before the presidential election, and well above the 3.6% level that it flirted with in September. Bond yields move opposite of price. US10Y 3M mountain The 10-year Treasury yield started to climb ahead of the election and has moved higher still after Donald Trump's victory. With the 10-year yield close to a key psychological level of 4.5%, there is concern that another move higher could lead to a downturn in the stock market. Notably, the yield moved solidly higher on Wednesday as the major equity averages struggled to gain ground, with the S &am...
Nvidia expects to sell more Blackwell chips than previously anticipated
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Nvidia expects to sell more Blackwell chips than previously anticipated

After a quarter where Nvidia's sales nearly doubled, investors and analysts are wondering how long the chipmaker can keep this kind of growth going now that it has a $140 billion annual revenue run rate.Those hopes fall on Blackwell, which is Nvidia's name for a family of server products based around its next-generation AI chip.CEO Jensen Huang and CFO Colette Kress gave investors several new data points on how Blackwell's launch is shaping up on a call with analysts on Wednesday. The duo emphasized that the rollout is on track, and they signaled that Blackwell sales over the next few quarters will be limited by how many chips and systems Nvidia can make, not how much it can sell."Blackwell production is in full steam," Huang said. "We will deliver this quarter more Blackwells than we had ...
Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian banana art sells for US$6.2m at Sotheby’s in New York
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian banana art sells for US$6.2m at Sotheby’s in New York

Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped Banana entitled "Comedian," is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's in New York, on 8 November, 2024. Photo: AFP / Ken Betancur A banana fixed to a wall with duct tape artwork has been auctioned off for about US$6.2 million (NZ$10.5m), about four times the initial estimate, at Sotheby's in New York. Seven bidders competed on Wednesday (New York time) to seize Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's latest edition of his Comedian artwork, which was estimated to sell for up to US$1.5m. Chinese founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON Justin Sun. Photo: Supplied / Sotheby's That was already above and beyond the selling point of previous editions, which went for between US$120,000 and US$150,000, according to Perrotin gallery. C...
Hyundai all-electric Ioniq 9 three-row SUV revealed
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Hyundai all-electric Ioniq 9 three-row SUV revealed

2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 EV.HyundaioHyundai Motor's newest all-electric vehicle is the 2026 Ioniq 9 SUV — a three-row, up to seven-passenger SUV for the U.S. market.The new vehicle is Hyundai's largest EV entry to date, joining the smaller Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 all-electric vehicles in the carmaker's growing fleet.The Ioniq 9 is expected to arrive in U.S. dealerships in the spring. Hyundai said the vehicle will be capable of fast charging from 10% to 80% in 24 minutes, will have an estimated range of 335 miles on a single charge and will be able to achieve 0 to 60 miles per hour in as fast as 4.9 seconds.Hyundai declined to disclose pricing for the new SUV until closer to its arrival in showrooms. The Kia EV9, from Hyundai's sister brand and which is based on the same vehicle platform, currently...
Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) earnings show mixed performance
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Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) earnings show mixed performance

Target's stock tumbled to a 52-week low on Wednesday, a day after Walmart shares soared to an all-time high — as the rival retailers' earnings reports again underscored how their performance has diverged.Target posted its biggest earnings miss in two years and cut its forecast. The company spoke about a "deceleration in discretionary demand" and blamed higher costs caused by the rush to move inventory ahead of the short-lived port strike in October.On the company's earnings call, CEO Brian Cornell described U.S. consumers who are "shopping carefully as they work to overcome the cumulative impact of multiple years of price inflation" and holding out for the best possible deal.Walmart, on the other hand, hiked its full-year forecast. It said it's gaining upper-income shoppers and seeing bett...
Billionaire Gautam Adani indicted in New York on bribery charges
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Billionaire Gautam Adani indicted in New York on bribery charges

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has been charged with paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes and hiding the payments from investors, US prosecutors say. Photo: AFP / PUNIT PARANJPE Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives have been indicted in New York for roles in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice says. Authorities said Adani and seven other senior business executives, including his nephew Sagar Adani, promised more than US$250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to secure solar energy contracts. Those bribes were "to lie to investors and banks to raise billions of dollars, and to obstruct justice," said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lisa Miller in a statement Wednesday. Worth...
Snowflake (SNOW) Q3 earnings report 2025
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Snowflake (SNOW) Q3 earnings report 2025

Snowflake shares spiked 19% in extended trading on Wednesday after the data analytics software maker reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat estimates.Here's how the company did, compared to LSEG analysts' expectations:Earnings per share: 20 cents, adjusted vs. 15 cents expectedRevenue: $942 million vs. $897 million expectedSnowflake's revenue rose 28% year over year in the quarter, which ended on Oct. 31, according to a statement. The company's net loss of $324.3 million, or 98 cents per share, widened from $214.3 million, or 65 cents per share, in the same quarter a year earlier.Product revenue represented around 96% of total sales. Snowflake called for $3.43 billion in fiscal 2025 product revenue, implying 29% growth. That's up from the $3.36 billion forecast management gave th...