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- Broadcom vs. Nvidia: If I Could Only Own One for the Next 5 Years, It Would Be This One
The author would choose Nvidia over Broadcom if limited to owning just one AI stock for the next five years, and says he keeps holding his shares. Nvidia's fiscal 2027 second-quarter revenue rose 106% to $96.2 billion and net income rose 126% to $59.7 billion, with data center revenue up 117% to $89 billion, and it projected third-quarter revenue of $108 billion. Its edge comes from a full ecosystem of GPUs, networking, software such as CUDA, and the Vera Rubin platform now moving into production. Broadcom, which makes custom ASIC chips and networking gear, reported fiscal 2026 third-quarter revenue of $29.6 billion, up 86%, and projected fourth-quarter revenue near $34.8 billion. The author sees Broadcom's custom chip business as promising but believes Nvidia has the stronger competitive position.
- If I Can Only Own Alphabet or Amazon for The Next 5 Years, I’m Choosing This One
Both Alphabet and Amazon reported faster cloud growth in Q2 while spending heavily on AI infrastructure. Google Cloud revenue rose 82% to $24.77B, while AWS grew 36.7%, its fastest rate in 18 quarters, with a $496 billion backlog. Alphabet posted free cash flow of -$5.86B, suspended buybacks, and saw long-term debt rise from $46.5 billion to $98.2 billion. Alphabet trades at about 15 times earnings versus about 35 for Amazon, and over five years GOOGL returned 148.27% against 49.06% for AMZN. The author picks Alphabet but flags concern that a $40B at-the-market stock program could dilute shareholders.
- Dad fined after two - year - old son falls 40ft to death from Cyprus hotel window
Joshua Foster, 37, was fined 3,000 euros (£2,500) at Paphos District Court after pleading guilty to causing his two-year-old son's death through a reckless act. The boy fell from the fourth floor of the King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Chlorakas on July 12, the first day of the family's holiday, after Foster placed him on a windowsill to see a waterpark and did not realise a section of the window was open. Blood tests estimated Foster's alcohol concentration at 124mg about six hours before the incident, though his lawyer said there was no testimony that he was drunk. The court heard Foster has no previous convictions and had been held in custody for eight days after the incident. The window measured 2.85 metres wide and 1.2 metres high.
- Meta is 'back on offense,' BofA says — with only one top risk
Bank of America analysts, led by Justin Post, say Meta is 'back on offense with AI' after a string of launches including the Muse AI agent and a new frontier model. Their note says recent launches have strengthened confidence in Meta's AI execution, and they rate Meta as having the least risk of AI disruption to its core business among the companies they cover. The stock is up close to 10% for the year, and the analysts' top risk is 2027 earnings-per-share pressure from more AI investment. Post said traction with Muse and its models could lift Meta's earnings multiple, with further growth driven by more usage, enterprise deals following Muse Wonder, and an enterprise coding agent. Meta's ads business generates cash flow that supports its AI push, but a surprise rise in already massive AI spending could still cause problems for investor relations ahead of Wednesday's quarterly results.
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- Russia fires mysterious weapon at Kyiv, shockwaves spread; President Putin appears in rare image, drawing global attention
On the night of 18 Oct, Russia launched a coordinated strike on multiple Ukrainian targets using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and Geran UAVs, focused on Kyiv. According to TST, around 10 ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M, S-400 or KN-23 types may have been used in the first wave; an above-ground metro station on Kyiv's left bank was reported damaged, disrupting rail and metro services, and videos of blue flashes led observers to suspect a new weapon. In western Ukraine, a 330 kV transformer station near Kovel may have been targeted. Meanwhile, Putin, who rarely appears in military uniform, visited a command post and stressed establishing a “security zone” along the border; blogger Yuri Podolyaka argued Moscow no longer treats these areas as bargaining chips. Front-line correspondent Alexander Kots said the part of Donetsk still controlled by Ukraine is just over 2,700 km².
- Semiconductor Sell-Off: 5 Stocks to Buy on the Dip
The article attributes the semiconductor selloff to investor doubts about the durability of AI infrastructure spending, even as cloud companies report strong demand for AI chips. It highlights five stocks: Nvidia (forward P/E just above 13.5 on fiscal 2028 estimates), Broadcom (custom AI chips, with that revenue expected to quadruple to $230 billion over two years; forward P/E of 11), AMD (riding inference and agentic AI demand), Cerebras Systems (high risk-reward; the company claims 30 times the inference speed of GPUs) and TSMC (forward P/E of 18 on 2027 estimates).
- Tom Lee’s Bitmine Adds $30 Million in Ethereum as Buying Nears Its Finish Line
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- Why Meta's Q3 earnings could be a little hard to interpret
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