Nvidia's SEC filing confirms that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO and director. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO, and Harvey C. Jones becomes the company's first board chair. The filing gives no reason, and Nvidia has no formal succession plan (Guardian · Stock). The board moved within days. It opened a probe on Nov. 8 while saying it still had confidence in Huang, hired Wachtell Lipton on Nov. 10, and met late on Nov. 11 after a second affair was reported (Bloomberg Markets).
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The stock fell 4.27% on Nov. 9 and 5.47% on Nov. 10. It dropped another 8–9% after hours on Nov. 11 and was down roughly 12–13% early on Nov. 12, pushing Nvidia's market value below $4 trillion. On Nov. 12 Taiwan's Taiex fell 2.6% and the Hang Seng 1.2%. These are price moves: no filing has changed Nvidia's revenue or guidance, and earnings are due Nov. 17 (Abnormal Returns). Unnamed US officials have described Megaspeed executive Alice Huang as a Chinese intelligence asset. Reuters could not confirm that claim, and China and Megaspeed deny wrongdoing. The larger policy issue is export enforcement. Bloomberg compared Nvidia's on-site chip counts with trade records and found about 50,000 chips unaccounted for. Nvidia says it has located substantially all of them. Under current US rules, Chinese firms can still legally rent restricted GPUs in Southeast Asia in most cases (Odd Lots).
Anthropic's IPO and its suppliers
Anthropic's amended S-1 sets a $70–$78 range for 825 million Class A shares, worth up to $64.35 billion. Pricing is expected Nov. 18, with Nasdaq trading under the ticker ANT around Nov. 19 (Financial Times ·). The top of the range implies about $1.4 trillion, below earlier talk of $2 trillion (Financial Times ·). A $26 billion Class N placement brings the possible total raise to about $90.4 billion (Abnormal Returns). The filing shows $33.2 billion of revenue for the first nine months of 2026, including $17.0 billion in Q3. It also shows a $104 billion net loss, mostly from revaluing convertible notes. Nvidia and Alphabet are each buying about $10 billion of Class N stock and are also major compute suppliers to Anthropic. Bloomberg reports that Nvidia's pledge is under scrutiny after Huang's exit, but no change to it has been reported (Bloomberg Markets).
Neocloud financing
CoreWeave closed up 24.7% at $60.77 on Nov. 11, a day the S&P 500 rose 1.31%. Q3 revenue grew 168% to $3.66 billion, and 2026 guidance rose to $13.0–13.3 billion. The company expects about $9 billion from customer prepayments and contract-backed loans yielding 7–7.5%; yields on its unsecured 2032 notes had earlier passed 16%. It still lost $709 million in Q3 (WSJ · Markets). Nebius fell 16%. About $325 million of its $980.8 million in revenue came from a one-time item, power problems delayed some sites into 2027, and planned 2027 capex of $40–45 billion was well above the $28.77 billion analysts expected (CNBC · Earnings).
Rates, power and the AI build-out
The 10-year yield reached 5.23% in late September and was 4.86% on Nov. 6. October CPI rose 0.4%, and markets put the odds of a December rate hike near 90%. Fed research finds that about 80% of public non-financial corporate debt is fixed-rate, which slows the hit from higher rates. New borrowers, including AI builders, pay today's rates (TKer). SoftBank's ¥597.2 billion charge stems from reserving more than 13 GW of turbine capacity for an Ohio campus that needs 9.2 GW. Brookfield's Q3 net income rose to $1.31 billion from $219 million, and distributable earnings rose 16% to $0.73 a share, or 14% excluding carried interest (WSJ · Markets).
Crowded funds and cheap indexing
In October, Millennium lost 2.3%, Balyasny 3.4% and ExodusPoint 2.4%. PivotalPath estimates that the ten largest multi-strategy firms run $2.2 trillion of gross assets on $360 billion of capital, about 6x leverage. Bloomberg strategist Michael Ball attributes the Nov. 5 slide, when the S&P 500 fell 4.36% and the Nasdaq 5.52%, to forced selling (Odd Lots). Martin Schmalz's model suggests that index fees below about 0.20% push stock prices up and future returns down (Rational Reminder). AJ Ayers recommends setting aside 30–50% of income for taxes. A Fed survey found that 58% of self-employed adults had income that varied month to month in 2025 (Masters in Business).
