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📈 This Week’s Portfolio Update | Oct 17–23

🚨 Intel just beat… and the stock is down ~23% pre-market.

$INTC Q3: adj. EPS $0.52 vs $0.40 est., revenue $16.51B (+21% YoY), data center & AI +78%. But the Q4 guide is the problem: $15–16B revenue vs $17.1B expected, EPS $0.25 vs $0.43. Intel sees the PC slowdown lasting at least through 1H 2027, and capex is heading sharply higher.

🟢 Bull case: data center & AI is booming…

🚨 Amazon just missed — and the stock is down ~7% overnight.

Q3: EPS $1.89 vs $1.96 est. | Revenue $201.9B vs $202.3B est. (+12% YoY). AWS was the bright spot: $46.0B, +39% YoY, fastest in ~5 years. But capex hit $77.3B in one quarter, trailing free cash flow is -$42.4B, and Q4 guidance ($240–247B) came in light at the midpoint.

🟢 Bull case: AWS is re-accelerating (40%+ growth…

📊 ELI LILLY JUST BEAT AND RAISED — AGAIN 🚀

$LLY Q3 2026:

• Revenue $24.4B vs $22.6B est. (+39% YoY)…

🚨 US economy runs HOT: Q3 GDP +3.4% (est. 3.2%) while inflation stays sticky.

📊 Sept PCE: +0.5% M/M, 3.6% Y/Y | Core PCE 3.1% Y/Y, in line. Real final sales only +1.7%, so inventories helped flatter the headline. It's a day after the Fed held at 3.75–4.00% and kept a December hike on the table.

🟢 Bull case: Growth above 3% with consumers spending 3.8% means earnings support and…

⚡ AI GIANTS SPLIT: $GOOG sinks, $MSFT rallies after earnings

Alphabet and Microsoft reported minutes apart last night and got opposite verdicts.

📊 Alphabet: Revenue $127.6B (+25% YoY) narrowly missed the $128.2B est. EPS missed too, and free cash flow came in at -$9.1B as AI capex hit $51.4B. Google Cloud was the star: +103% to $30.7B with a $561B backlog. Stock ~-9% after hours.…

🚨 FED HOLDS — BUT 2 OFFICIALS WANTED A HIKE

The Fed kept rates at 3.75%–4.00% today in a 10–2 vote. Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed's Beth Hammack dissented in favor of a 25 bp hike. The statement says inflation "remains elevated" and upgrades growth to "strong." The 10Y yield climbed to ~5.05%, and futures now price ~86% odds of a December hike.

🟢 Bull case: No surprise,…

⚡ AI POWER BEAT & RAISE: $VRT +15% pre-market

Vertiv just posted a monster Q3: revenue $4.31B vs $3.75B est. (+61% YoY), adj. EPS $2.21 vs $1.82, and organic orders MORE than doubled. FY26 guide raised to ~$14.65B sales / ~$7.15 EPS, both above consensus.

🟢 Bull case: Orders growing far faster than sales = demand visibility well into 2027. The AI data-center power & cooling…

🚨 SK HYNIX $SKHY JUST POSTED THE AI MEMORY QUARTER OF THE YEAR

Record Q3: revenue ₩104.6T vs ₩98.3T est. (+328% YoY) and operating profit ₩83.3T vs ₩76.7T est. (80% margin!). Add ~₩100T in 2026 shareholder returns and a ₩20,000/share dividend. Shares +10%, Kospi +6%.

🟢 Bull case: HBM4 goes mainstream in Q4, 50%+ of 2027–28 capacity is locked under long-term deals, and management…

🏛️⚡ FED DAY: HOLD OR HIKE? ⚡🏛️

The Fed decides today at 2PM ET. Markets price ~90% odds of a HOLD at 3.75%–4.00% after September's hike. But September CPI ran hot at 3.7% (vs 3.6% est.) and the 10Y yield sits near 5%. The real catalyst is whether Chair Warsh signals a December hike, which futures already lean toward.

Then after the close: $MSFT (est. ~$4.72 EPS / $90.6B rev) and…

✈️🚨 BOEING Q3: REVENUE BEAT, BIGGER LOSS 🚨

$BA posted a core loss of $0.34/share vs $0.21 expected, but revenue rose 4% YoY to $24.19B (est. $23.84B). Defense sales jumped 15%, free cash flow hit $464M vs ~$325M expected, and backlog reached a record $745B. Commercial jets are still losing money (-6.5% margin) while 737 output sticks at 47/month.

🟢 Bull case: Record backlog,…

📊 Celestica just guided to $40B in 2027 revenue, and the stock jumped ~10% after hours.

Q3 2026 ($CLS):

• Revenue $5.83B (+83% YoY) vs ~$5.44B est.…

🚨 Anthropic just filed to go public, and chip stocks ripped.

The S-1 shows H1 2026 revenue of $16.3B vs $1.2B a year ago (+1,300%). Operating loss narrowed to -$0.7B. Compute & infrastructure ate $8.9B, 55% of revenue. Ticker: ANT on Nasdaq.

Semis rallied on the filing: SOXX +3%, $NVDA +2.6%, $MU +4% intraday.…

📊 Meta just launched a $95B equity raise to fund its AI build-out.

$META is selling ~$35B now ($22.5B common + $12.5B mandatory convertible preferred), with a ~$60B at-the-market program to follow once its new Class C shares trade (expected Q1 2027). Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom signaled interest in up to $5B. Shares rose ~2% pre-market after a 7% drop last Thursday.

🟢 Bull case:…

🚨 BRAZIL SHOCK: Lula's comeback sends Brazilian assets into freefall

Lula won a 4th term with 51.78%, the first round-one loser to win a runoff since 1988, and markets had priced in a Bolsonaro win.

📉 $EWZ -19.6% overnight…

🚨 Oil just hit a 5-month high, and the Dow felt it.

Brent touched $117.38 Friday, its highest since late April, and ended the session near $116 (+2.7%). WTI sits above $102. The trigger: Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, an Aramco HQ evacuation, and a tanker spill off the UAE. The Dow dropped 476 points while the Nasdaq edged up.

🟢 Bull case: Energy names get a cash-flow windfall,…

🚨⚡ $AXP BEATS & RAISES… BUT THE STOCK IS SLIPPING PRE-MARKET 📊

American Express just raised its 2026 profit outlook, yet traders are selling, and the reason is the one number that shows how hard the affluent consumer is really swiping 👇

📊 THE NUMBERS…

🚨⚡ Western Digital SMASHES estimates and raises guidance… yet the stock slides after hours 📊

When a 55%-growth beat-and-raise can't lift an AI storage leader, the market is telling you something about the AI trade right now.

📊 THE NUMBERS (FQ1 FY27, Actual vs. Consensus)…

🚀 $ORCL is pushing deeper into enterprise AI, and this is bigger than just another AI product launch.

Oracle has announced AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a no-code/low-code platform designed to let companies build, test, deploy, and manage AI agents tailored to specific industry workflows.

What stands out to me:…

🚨 $INTU is expanding its tax ecosystem with the launch of Credit Karma Tax.

Intuit is pushing Credit Karma deeper into personal finance, launching a tax-filing product with:

✅ $0 federal filing, regardless of tax complexity…

🚀🤖 AI + BIG PHARMA = THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE? 🧬💊

🔥 Oracle $ORCL 🤝 AstraZeneca $AZN are joining forces to explore how AI, cloud technology, and real-world health data can help identify patients for clinical trials, accelerate research, and bring new medical insights into patient care. 🏥📊

💡 Why does this matter for investors?…