$VRT +14% today, to ~237. Vertiv makes the power and cooling gear inside AI data centers. Q3 sales +61%. Orders more than doubled. Full-year outlook raised. Still 37% under its May high. Sales show today. Orders show next year. #AI #StockMarket #Earnings

Why it's on our radar: · Q2 sales +20%, EPS beat by 45%, margin 20.6% vs 14.2% · Free cash flow guide raised to $1B+ · ~18x this year's earnings Why we wait: the last report moved it 26%, and memory chip costs are the swing risk. Let earnings confirm the breakout. #Investing

Setup to watch: $ZBRA (Zebra) Its scanners, rugged phones and machine vision run warehouses, stores and hospitals. EPS guide +33%. 12-week base after a 26% earnings gap. Volume drying up. Trigger: above 392.78 Wrong if: below 365 Earnings: Tue 3 Nov #StockMarket #Stocks

Why it's on our radar: · 110+ partners, 34 drugs in trials, ~19 trial readouts due through 2027 · Cash outlook raised to ~$51M · Analysts: 7 Buy, 0 Hold Why we wait: it still loses money, trades thin, and reports Friday. Let earnings pick the direction. #Investing #Stocks

Setup to watch: $OABI (OmniAb) Drugmakers use its engineered animals to find antibodies, then pay milestones + royalties. Eli Lilly just signed on. Up 160% in 3 months, now pressing 5.13. Trigger: above 5.43 Wrong if: below 4.50 Earnings: Fri 30 Oct #StockMarket #Biotech

Wall Street's big night, in CET: 19:00 Fed decision. Odds of no change: ~91%. 19:30 Fed chief Warsh speaks. Watch for a December hike hint. After 21:00: Microsoft + $GOOGL earnings, $7.9T of stock in one night. Watch AI spending. Set alarms. #StockMarket #Fed #Earnings

Same industry, opposite days. S&P 500 +0.6%, Nasdaq-100 +1.3%, chips +3.6%. But water stocks split: $PNR +12.8%, the S&P's best: sales beat, pool slump ending. Xylem -14.2%: cut its outlook as utilities delay orders. The outlook moves the stock. #StockMarket #Earnings #SP500

$BA -9.6% today, to ~170, an 18-month low. Its Q3 loss shrank. Orders hit a record $745B. So why? The 737 ramp slips to early 2027, and its 2027 cash outlook ($3B) is about half what Wall Street expected. Orders don't pay bills. Deliveries do. #Boeing #StockMarket #Earnings

$CLS (Celestica) +10% after the open, to ~272. Why: AI data center demand. Sales +83%, and it sees 2027 sales of $40B (+90%). Clients' 2028 plans are higher still. But it's 43% under its high, below its 50-day average. Good news isn't a fixed chart. #AI #StockMarket #Earnings

The AI trade woke up today. Nasdaq-100 +1.1%, chips +2.8%, S&P 500 +0.7%. Why: Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI models, filed to go public. $MU +3%, AMD +2.8%, Nvidia +2.4%. One filing won't end the AI debate. Big Tech earnings this week will. #StockMarket #AI #Nasdaq

Short setup: $COIN (Coinbase) Stocks rose today. Coinbase fell 2.4% to ~160, below its 1-month low, 56% off its high. Why: sales seen -36% y/y, Bitcoin ETFs lost $635M Friday. Trigger: below 163.33 (hit) Wrong if: above 182.93 Earnings: 29 Oct #Stocks #StockMarket #Crypto

$TSLA +5.9% after the open, to ~394. Why: Barclays upgraded it, target $450 (from $370). The bet: a SpaceX merger, and a battery business nearly sold out for 2027 on AI data center demand. Worst Mag 7 stock this year. Best in October. #Tesla #StockMarket #Investing

Midterms are 9 days away. History says: S&P 500 one year after each midterm since 1950: up 19 of 19 times. Average +15%. The worst: +1%, a year that included the 1987 crash. Why: the uncertainty clears, whoever wins. Not a guarantee. A tailwind. #StockMarket #SP500 #Investing

Europe: clocks went back today. The US waits until 1 Nov. So this week Wall Street opens at 14:30 CET (13:30 UK), an hour early. Don't miss Thursday: US GDP + core PCE inflation at 13:30 CET, then $LLY, Mastercard, Caterpillar earnings. #StockMarket #Investing #Earnings

9 of 11 S&P 500 sectors rose this week. Yet the index fell 0.5%. Why: a few giants. Communication -4.4%, chips -3.2% on AI spending fears. The average stock (equal-weight S&P) rose 1.1%. Profits: +29.5% y/y (FactSet). Weak index, healthy market. #StockMarket #SP500 #Investing

The Fed decides Wednesday, 6 days before the midterms. Odds of a rate hike: under 10% Wednesday, ~75% in December (Fed funds futures). A hike this close to an election: once since 1990 (2022). So watch what Chair Warsh says, not what he does. #StockMarket #Fed #Investing

Oil up, Dow down. Brent +3% to ~$117, a 5-month high, on reports of new US-Israel strike plans on Iran. Dow -1.2%, S&P 500 -0.5%, Nasdaq-100 flat. Energy $XLE +2.6%, the day's top sector. Next up: Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon earnings + the Fed. #StockMarket #Oil #SP500

Oilfield giant or AI stock? $SLB +6.9% today. Earnings beat, but the spark: its data center business grew 76% in a year. Bonus: Middle East sales rebounded 9% vs last quarter. Old-economy firms with a real AI side business are getting paid. #StockMarket #Energy #AI

Friday pre-market: this time the Dow cracks. Dow futures -0.9%, S&P 500 -0.4%, Nasdaq-100 -0.3%. Why: oil +1.5% to $115 on reports the US and Israel weigh new Iran strikes. $AXP -2%: earnings beat, but card spending slowed. Oil sets the mood now. #StockMarket #Oil #Dow

Wall Street split in two today. Nasdaq-100 -2.9%, chips -6.7%: AI spending fears are back. But the Dow closed flat. $PG +5.6% as shoppers bought more, Lockheed +7% on a record backlog, staples +3.3%. Money didn't leave stocks. It changed seats. #StockMarket #Nasdaq #Investing