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Hyperscaler AI infrastructure spending, its effect on free cash flow, and whether the capex will earn adequate returns.
A guide of roughly 70% revenue growth for the year to January 2028 against a 44% street number moves about 18% more revenue into the year consensus had free cash flow returning, and the demand meant to fund it is still unproven.
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The record retail sale prices at 4.3% to 4.9% on a credit S&P calls BB+, and even at full size it leaves more than $20bn of the OpenAI pledge unfunded.
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Consensus has Nvidia doubling revenue while the chip index falls on yields. One source's calendar puts the earnings verdict and the rate verdict less than two days apart.
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Nvidia's 7.55% weighting in Vanguard's S&P 500 fund has passed Apple's 7.05%. Two names now carry 14.6% of the portfolio most American retirement money holds by default.
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New orders at their strongest since January 2018 and a record 11.5 trillion yen of July exports turn a thematic trade into an order book, on a single source that dates its own data loosely.
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Dhaval Joshi says software, silver and semiconductors each boomed and broke in turn as investors kept misjudging who captures AI's value. The rotation is what has kept the selloff from correlating.
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