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Updated Mon, November 17, 2025 astatine 11:35 AM CST 2 min read
US stocks wavered connected Monday amid doubts astir involvement complaint cuts, arsenic investors looked up to high-stakes Nvidia (NVDA) net and the delayed September jobs report.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) roseate 0.2%, portion the S&P 500 (^GSPC) gained 0.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) traded astir flat. The 3 indexes had fallen astatine the marketplace open.
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Wall Street is already getting acceptable for Nvidia's (NVDA) net connected Wednesday, ever an intensely scrutinized event. But the stakes are adjacent higher this clip amid doubts astir Big Tech valuations and hefty AI spending. The chipmaker's results and outlook volition trial religion connected Wall Street that net volition proceed to thrust banal gains and that the tech sell-off is simply a blip.
A boost to commencement the week came aft Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) disclosed it has taken a astir $5 cardinal involvement successful Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL). The determination — apt 1 of the past nether Warren Buffett's enactment — is simply a uncommon tech stake by the conglomerate, 1 that markets volition acceptable against AI commercialized concerns. The Google parent's banal popped astir 6% successful aboriginal trading. Meanwhile, Nvidia shares fell arsenic a filing showed that Thiel Macro, Palantir (PLTR) co-founder Peter Thiel's hedge fund, sold its involvement successful the AI chipmaker.
Investors are hoping to get an authoritative snapshot of the labour marketplace with the long-awaited merchandise of September's jobs study connected Thursday. But a afloat instrumentality to a implicit slate of economical information remains up successful the air, adjacent aft the national shutdown ended.
This week's delayed monthly representation of the US jobs marketplace volition travel nether precocious scrutiny, arsenic the much cautious code struck by Federal Reserve officials precocious throws uncertainty connected the cardinal bank's complaint determination adjacent month. Traders are present pricing successful a 45% accidental of a complaint cut, compared with 62% a week ago.
In net this week, investors volition get caller penetration into user spot arsenic retailers led by Walmart's (WMT) report. Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), Lowe's (LOW), and Gap (GAP) are others connected this week's docket.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD), meanwhile, is serving arsenic a wellness cheque for the crypto marketplace astatine large. Since its aboriginal October peak, the terms of the cryptocurrency has dropped from a grounds precocious of implicit $126,000 to arsenic debased arsenic $94,000 per token. The token has erased the gains made this year, which were sparked by the Trump administration's much crypto-friendly stance — a motion that investors are shifting to a risk-off mindset.
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After play ungraded astatine the Fed, Congress volition look astatine its ain banal trading successful the days ahead
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Alphabet reaches all-time precocious arsenic Berkshire buys shares of tech giant
Alphabet (GOOG) banal jumped much than 4% connected Monday morning, touching a grounds precocious aft Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) took a involvement successful the tech giant, scooping up 17.85 cardinal shares.
Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffett, has traditionally shied distant from Big Tech plays, with the objection of Apple (AAPL), its largest holding, and is seen by Buffett arsenic much of a user products company.
Alphabet banal is up 51% twelvemonth to date.
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Tesla banal rises arsenic Stifel gets bullish connected Full Self-Driving, robotaxis
Tesla banal (TSLA) climbed implicit 2% successful greeting trading connected Monday aft Stifel expert Stephen Gengaro raised his terms people connected the stock. The determination higher came aft a bruising week for the stock, with shares down astir 7% implicit the past 5 days.
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Big Tech stocks commercialized mixed arsenic Broadcom keeps rising
The "Magnificent Seven" Big Tech stocks diverged connected Monday, arsenic a surge for chipmaker Broadcom's shares (AVGO) bolstered the statement it should articulation their ranks.
Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) banal popped 5% aft Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) revealed it had taken a astir $5 cardinal involvement successful the Google parent. Meanwhile, Tesla's (TSLA) shares roseate astir 3%.
But Amazon (AMZN) sank 1.8%, portion shares of Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) some dropped by a fraction. Meta (META) fluctuated on the level line.
Nvidia (NVDA) banal clawed backmost crushed to commercialized astir 1% lower, aft tech mogul Peter Thiel's hedge money sold its full involvement successful the AI chipmaker. That echoes SoftBank's determination to offload its ain shares successful Nvidia.
Elsewhere successful spot stocks, Broadcom moved up 2%. The US company's marketplace headdress has present surpassed that of some Tesla and Meta, strengthening the lawsuit for the Mag 7 radical to expand, possibly to the "Great Eight."
Stocks wobble astatine the open
US stocks concisely fell astatine the unfastened connected Monday, but rapidly recovered to commercialized flat.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell astir 0.5%, portion the S&P 500 (^GSPC) slipped astir 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) traded astir 0.3% lower.
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However, the 3 large gauges reversed absorption to hover supra the level enactment minutes aft the commencement of Monday's trading session.
Any gains could assistance stocks commencement to revive a rally that stalled past week owed to doubts implicit the Federal Reserve's program for involvement complaint cuts.
The marketplace enactment comes arsenic investors look up to Nvidia's (NVDA) highly anticipated net study connected Wednesday and the delayed September jobs report.
Nvidia banal sinks arsenic Peter Thiel's hedge money sells stake
Nvidia (NVDA) shares sank astir 2% earlier the marketplace unfastened Monday arsenic a filing showed tech manufacture mogul Peter Thiel's hedge fund, Thiel Macro, sold its involvement successful the AI chipmaker successful the 3rd quarter. The involvement included much than fractional a cardinal Nvidia shares worthy astir $100 million, Reuters reported.
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The quality comes aft SoftBank Group (SFTBY) sold disconnected its ain Nvidia involvement — much than 32 cardinal shares — and conscionable up of the chipmaker's quarterly net study Wednesday. Nvidia's results are acceptable to shed airy connected whether AI-fueled tech stocks are successful a bubble connected the verge of bursting.
The banal is up astir 42% for the year.
Zymeworks, Jazz Pharmaceuticals stocks soar connected affirmative proceedings results for tummy crab treatment
Shares of the biotech institution Zymeworks (ZYME) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ) soared by implicit 34% and 20%, respectively, connected Monday greeting aft the partners announced affirmative results successful a late-stage proceedings of their tummy crab treatment.
In a statement, Zymeworks said its treatment, called Ziihera, "demonstrated highly statistically important and clinically meaningful improvements" successful endurance compared to the power for patients with tummy crab and different gastrointestinal cancers erstwhile utilized successful conjunction with chemotherapy.
“The topline results from HERIZON-GEA-01 correspond a existent turning constituent for patients with HER2+ gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma, marking existent advancement successful an denotation that has historically had constricted attraction options and mediocre outcomes,” Zymeworks CEO Kenneth Galbraith said.
Jazz, which acquired the commercialization rights to the treatment, plans to taxable the results astatine a large aesculapian gathering successful the archetypal 4th of 2026 and for work successful a peer-reviewed journal. The institution said it volition besides taxable the information to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines for adoption.
Nvidia, Walmart earnings, and the instrumentality of jobs numbers: What to ticker this week
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The large banal indexes finished past week flat. It felt overmuch worse for galore investors.
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Netflix's 10-for-1 banal divided takes effect
Netflix's (NFLX) 10-for-1 banal divided went into effect aft the adjacent of trading connected Friday, meaning Netflix shareholders received 10 shares for each 1 stock of the institution they owned connected Nov. 10.
It was the company's 3rd banal divided successful its past (the different 2 were successful 2004 and 2015). In a statement, the institution said it aimed to "reset" the terms to marque it much accessible to employees.
Netflix announced the divided connected Oct. 30, erstwhile shares were trading northbound of $1,000 apiece. On Monday morning, shares changed hands astatine astir $111 earlier the marketplace opened. They dipped by astir 0.2% connected a split-adjusted basis.
Chinese EV shaper XPeng's Q4 income forecast falls short
Reuters reports:
XPeng (XPEV) forecast 4th fourth gross beneath estimates connected Monday, arsenic a prolonged terms warfare and intensifying contention successful China, the world's largest car market, endanger to dilatory its growth.
The Chinese electrical conveyance maker's US-listed shares, which person much than doubled this year, fell astir 4% successful premarket trading.
The cautious outlook comes contempt XPeng and rival NIO (NIO) posting grounds deliveries successful October, adjacent arsenic Tesla's (TSLA) China income slumped to a three-year low. The contrasting show underscores the uneven interaction of a bruising terms warfare that has eroded profitability across China's crowded EV sector.
XPeng expects fourth-quarter gross betwixt 21.5 cardinal yuan ($3.03 billion) and 23 cardinal yuan, beneath analysts' mean estimate of 26 cardinal yuan, according to information compiled by LSEG.
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Premarket trending tickers: Dell, Marriott Vacations, HP, and Masimo
Dell (DELL) Stock fell 5% successful premarket trading connected Monday aft Morgan Stanley chopped ratings connected respective large exertion hardware makers, including Dell.
HP Inc. (HPQ) stock fell 3%. Alongside Dell, Morgan Stanley chopped ratings for the exertion stock.
Masimo (MASI) stock roseate 3% earlier the doorbell aft a US assemblage ruled that Apple (AAPL) indispensable wage Masimo $634 cardinal successful smartwatch patent case.
Alphabet banal rallies aft Berkshire reveals $4.9 cardinal stake
Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) shares roseate 5.5% successful premarket trading connected Monday aft Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) disclosed an astir $5 cardinal involvement successful the Google parent.
The determination marks what could beryllium 1 of the last large moves by the conglomerate under the enactment of Warren Buffett, who is stepping down from his duties arsenic president and CEO astatine the extremity of the year.
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A filing connected Friday showed that Berkshire owned 17.85 cardinal shares successful Google's genitor arsenic of September 30. As of the stock's past close, the involvement would be worthy $4.93 billion, according to Reuters' calculations.
Berkshire's determination comes amid increasing concerns over Big Tech's dense AI spending that intensified aft Michael Burry, known for "The Big Short", deregistered his hedge fund past week pursuing his caller disapproval of starring AI companies. ...
It was unclear whether Buffett, his portfolio managers Todd Combs and Ted Weschler oregon [next CEO Greg] Abel made the circumstantial purchase, though Buffett typically oversees the larger investments.
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‘Hold your ground’: Wall Street strategists accidental tech banal sell-off is simply a short-term blip arsenic net bull lawsuit remains intact
Yahoo Finance's Allie Canal reports:
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Japanese retail, tourism stocks autumn aft Beijing question warning
Some of Japan’s biggest tourism and retail-related stocks slumped aft China warned its citizens against traveling to and studying successful the country, amid a deepening diplomatic spat betwixt the nations.
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Oil drops arsenic Russia opens up cardinal larboard aft week closure
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