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Next week's macro outlook: The U.S. midterm elections and non-farm payrolls will be the focus, Apple and AMD will release their earnings reports

From November 2 to 8, global markets will welcome several events. The U.S. midterm elections, Apple and AMD earnings reports, and October non-farm payroll data will become the focus of market attention. The Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate decisions, the results of the Israeli parliamentary elections, and the progress of the trilateral negotiations among Russia, the U.S., and Ukraine will also be closely watched. In the tech sector, Apple and AMD will release their latest earnings reports, serving as an important test after the confidence in AI trading has been impacted. Apple is expected to report revenues of about $113 billion, marking the first earnings report since the appointment of new CEO Tim Cook; AMD is expected to report revenues of about $13 billion, with attention on the progress of Helios cabinets and MI450 chips.Additionally, Qualcomm, Advanced Micro Devices, Coherent, Lumentum, and Berkshire Hathaway will also announce their performance. There are also reports that Marvell is negotiating to acquire Lumentum, with an announcement possible as soon as next week. Apple's smart access testing plan with Alibaba Qianwen will open on November 4. On November 3, the U.S. midterm elections will re-elect all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate, and the election results will affect the fiscal, tariff, and industrial policy advancement space of the Trump administration in the next two years.The final results of the Israeli parliamentary elections are expected to be announced on November 4, and the trilateral negotiations among Russia, the U.S., and Ukraine are scheduled to resume next week in Abu Dhabi. In terms of macro data, the U.S. October non-farm payroll report will be released, following a mere 29,000 new jobs added in September, with the market expecting an increase of 65,000 jobs in October. If the employment data performs strongly, it may further strengthen market expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike in December and impact the U.S. dollar, U.S. Treasury bonds, and gold prices. China's October foreign exchange reserve data will also be released.

U.S. chip stocks faced a "Black Friday": Intel plummeted 30%, and Nvidia's market value fell below $5 trillion

According to Gate data, on October 30, there was a widespread sell-off in the semiconductor sector during U.S. stock trading. Intel plummeted 30% after the opening, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 5.7%, AMD dropped about 10%, Arm fell 9.5%, Nvidia decreased by 3.3%, and the total market capitalization fell below $5 trillion. The Nasdaq 100 Index once dropped about 3%, and the S&P 500 Index fell about 1.25%.Intel's fourth-quarter guidance was weaker than expected, with projected revenue of $15 billion to $16 billion, below the market expectation of $17.07 billion; adjusted earnings per share are expected to be $0.25, lower than the expected $0.43. Revenue from the PC chip business in the third quarter declined 5% year-on-year to $8.1 billion. Management expects the PC market slump to last at least until the first half of 2027 and stated that AI demand has driven up memory prices, increasing costs for PC manufacturers.Bank of America downgraded Intel's rating to neutral, lowering the target price to $100, believing that pressure on PCs offsets data center performance and that external foundry attractiveness is insufficient. Bernstein pointed out that the market's optimistic expectations for server and foundry prospects have masked the deterioration in PCs, and the company still faces a mismatch of excess PC capacity and insufficient server capacity. The sell-off spread to storage and equipment stocks, with Micron down 5.5%, Qualcomm down 6.3%, Broadcom down about 4%, Applied Materials down nearly 5%, Lam Research down 5.5%, and Kioxia's American Depositary Shares down about 15%.Amazon's revenue and earnings per share were below expectations, heightening market concerns about the return on AI spending. The company expects capital expenditures to remain at $22 billion this year and still plans to expand next year. Raymond James strategist Matt Orton believes this is not a "reckoning moment" for tech giants, as the underlying fundamentals remain solid, but investors should reassess crowded positions in tech stocks. The S&P 500 energy and healthcare sectors rose about 1.8% and 1.4%, respectively. JPMorgan's trading team stated that concerns about AI monetization are deepening sector rotation, and tech-weighted stocks may continue to drag down the overall market performance in the short term.

Cryptocurrency casino Gamdom was extorted by the organization Whitearmor for a ransom of 15 million dollars in Bitcoin

According to Bitcoin.com, the cyber extortion group Whitearmor claimed on October 26 that it had stolen 15,420,003 account records from the crypto casino Gamdom, with each account containing 146 data fields, and demanded a payment of 15 million dollars in Bitcoin, or else they would expose sensitive customer information.The group has published a JSON sample of about 437KB, containing approximately 100 records as so-called evidence on its ransom website, claiming that the cumulative profits corresponding to these accounts exceed 1 billion dollars, but did not specify how this was calculated. It is reported that the attackers exploited an internal machine account with administrator privileges that had not rotated its credentials for a long time.Previously, Gamdom suffered a hot wallet attack on October 13, with founder Felix Römer admitting losses exceeding 3 million dollars, and blockchain researcher vxdb estimating the stolen amount across multiple networks to be about 4.2 million dollars. After suspending operations, the platform resumed on October 16, stating that user balances were unaffected. Gamdom disputed the scale of 15.4 million accounts but acknowledged that usernames, email addresses, and gambling activity information may have been exposed, while stating that verification documents were not affected.

first_img Intel and Qualcomm have raised processor prices, and AMD is rumored to follow suit

According to the Business Times citing supply chain sources, Intel has raised the prices of multi-generational PC processors since September, with the high-end Panther Lake seeing an increase of 15% to 20%. Qualcomm raised the prices of multi-chip platforms by about 10% on October 1, and AMD is reported to follow suit, with the increase, scope, and effective date still to be confirmed.The report states that Intel has raised prices three times since the end of last year. Starting from September 1, prices were adjusted differentially by product line, with the highest increase for high-end Panther Lake products, focusing on those equipped with high-end GPU tiles, rather than a simultaneous increase across the entire series; Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake saw increases of about 5% to 10%. Panther Lake adopts heterogeneous integration, with the CPU Compute tile produced by Intel 18A, and the high-end GPU tile outsourced to TSMC N3E. The largest increase this time is for high-end GPUs using TSMC's advanced process.The supply chain indicates that Qualcomm's Snapdragon X and X2 Elite platforms will increase by about 10% starting in October. AMD's Ryzen and EPYC heavily rely on TSMC's advanced processes, with the next generation of EPYC pushing towards 2 nanometers. Industry insiders say that process upgrades, product high-endization, and AI computing power demands are simultaneously driving up CPU prices, with AI, mobile, and high-end computing competing for TSMC's 3-nanometer capacity, while 2-nanometer is entering the ramp-up phase for mass production.
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