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US stocks rally as tech strength offsets big bank slump

The S&P 500 closed up 0.5% after a whipsaw on Tuesday. The Nasdaq 100 gained 0.9%, while the Russell 2000 remained unchanged.

Sector ETFs were mixed. A solid showing from the tech sector, up 1.5%, was the key to today’s gain in the S&P 500. The real estate sector was the biggest winner and rose 1.8%. Energy lost the most and retreated 1.7%.

A few financial stocks tumbled. JPMorgan Chase was down 5.2%, its biggest decline since April 2024, a time when stock fell 6.5% after earnings. The shares slid more than than 7% during intraday trading, as bank President Daniel Pinto said that Wall Street forecasts on how much the bank will make in net interest income next year are overly optimistic. It’s just the 12th time the stock has lost 5% on a day the S&P 500 gained in the past 44 years.

Goldman Sachs lost 4.4%. The S&P financial sector ETF decreased 1%.

Oracle was up 11.4% and hit a record high after reporting better-than-expected results on Monday after the bell.

WTI crude oil futures were down as much as 5% during intraday trading on Tuesday. Global benchmark Brent futures also declined, hitting their lowest levels since December 2021. In a report released on Tuesday, OPEC trimmed its forecast for oil demand in 2024 and saw slower growth in store for 2025.

With the upcoming presidential debate on Tuesday night, politics may take center stage. Basket of stocks that stand to benefit from Republican policies (per Goldman Sachs analysts) took a lead after the first presidential debate but fell behind the Democratic policy basket after Biden announced his withdrawal from the race.

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Palantir tumbles after delivering spectacular results

Palantir’s exceptional earnings receive ugly reaction

The valuation agita hitting high-flying stocks overshadowed the AI and intelligence software company’s blowout quarterly update.

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Fermi secures preliminary approval for a low-emissions natural gas plant to meet AI power demands

Power provider Fermi said it has received preliminary approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the planned 6 gigawatts of natural gas generation that’s part of its “Project Matador” to meet the ever-growing power demands of the AI boom.

“At Fermi, our private grid model ensures that the growing demand for AI is met privately,” Fermi America CEO and cofounder Toby Neugebauer said.

Final approval is still subject to a formal meeting and public comment.

The initial gas generators are already en route to the campus, with plans to have these installed and online in 2026, Fermi said.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently remarked that “the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to power” is the biggest constraint he faces, just ahead of an announced deal with IREN to purchase power-secured cloud computing capacity.

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The negative reaction after Palantir’s earnings is spreading to other volatile retail favorites

Palantir is the poster child for a richly valued, retail darling, megacap momentum stock. It’s going down on largely good news, and that’s cascading to hit smaller, volatile segments of the market also beloved by the retail community.

Fuel cell company Bloom Energy and no-revenues nuclear company Oklo are both off about 5% or more in early trading.
Neoclouds Nebius and CoreWeave are facing significant selling pressure.
The quantum space is getting rocked, with D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti, IonQ, and Quantum Computing all down between 3% and 5% as of 9:42 a.m. ET.
Other story stocks deep in the red include SoundHound AI, Rocket Lab, and Opendoor Technologies.

Goldman Sachs baskets that track retail favorites and nonprofitable tech stocks are down more than 2% and 3% as of 9:43 a.m. ET, respectively, while the Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF is also off more than 2%.

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Stocks are getting speed checked

A retail favorite failing to build momentum even when it “deserves” to, the most important part of the stock market being told it’s overheating, and the heads of banks warning of a broader pullback.

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Spotify notches another quarter of strong active user growth and improved profitability

Spotify shares are up 3.25% as of 6:45 a.m. ET as investors digest the streaming giant’s Q3 earnings, in which the company reported that it added more than 70 million monthly active users, posted revenues that were up 7% from last year, and improved profitability.

Total revenues climbed to €4.27 billion, or around $4.91 billion, for the quarter, while net income came in at €899 million ($1.03 billion), which translated into adjusted earnings per share of €3.28 — ahead of the ~€1.96 that analysts had expected, per FactSet figures cited by The Wall Street Journal. Spotify now counts a whopping 713 million monthly active users, including 281 million premium subscribers, compared to 640 million and 252 million, respectively, on the same quarter last year.

The boosted figures come on the back of a host of new features that the streaming platform’s introduced, such as “lossless listening,” playlist mixing controls, and direct messages. The company is now forecasting that its total monthly active users will climb to 745 million by the end of the fourth quarter.

With the latest gains today, Spotify is now up ~48% year to date, even as cofounder Daniel Ek announced in September that he’d be stepping down as CEO at the end of the year, almost 20 years on from the company’s inception.

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