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Meta Platforms (Nasdaq: META) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $64.601 billion, up 26% year over year, according to its Q3 2026 earnings release.Diluted EPS was $3.83, weighed down by a $9.89 billion legal charge; excluding that charge, Meta says EPS would have been $7.40.Shares rose in after-hours trading on October 21, as investors looked past the one-off charge to strong ad growth, a narrowed capex range and a new Class C share plan.On MEXC, the METAUSDT perpetual contract jumped about

Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $28.046 billion, roughly flat year over year, according to its Q3 2026 update filed with the SEC.Non-GAAP EPS of $0.48 topped the roughly $0.45 analysts had expected, but operating income fell 56% to $718 million as R&D spending climbed.Shares initially rose in after-hours trading on October 21, then reversed lower once the earnings call got under way.On MEXC, the TSLAUSDT perpetual contract edged up in the first hour after the release

1. Today's Market: Money Moved From Technology to Health Care and Real EstateUnit: %, single-day change on October 20; the set spans positive and negative, so a zero line is drawn and all three share one scale. The Dow reads +1.02%, the S&P 500 +0.28% and the Nasdaq −0.02%. The three indexes went three ways: the Dow up 1.02%, the S&P 500 up 0.28%, and the Nasdaq close to flat at −0.02%. The sectors tell it more clearly, because money went to health care at +2.37% and real estate at &

The AI supply chain filled all six layers on October 20 for the first time. The largest number of the day came from a Reuters exclusive: ByteDance, Alibaba (Ticker: BABA) and Tencent together ordered more than $35B of Nvidia (Ticker: NVDA) chips, yet none of the three nor Nvidia commented. Only two deals had a value the companies themselves disclosed, the $325M Series C at ASI and the 20MW ten-year contract worth more than $400M at Duos Technologies (Ticker: DUOT). AI Supply Chain in Six Layers

Overview Zcash's NU7 network upgrade sits at an unusual stage: the testnet has been running for two weeks, the mainnet target date is November 5, and the activation height has not been set. The official Zcash upgrade page currently states that the activation height for NU7 has not yet been set, and the Zcash Foundation's release notes for Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0 likewise state that no mainnet activation height has been set and that mainnet operators need take no action yet. That distinction matters for

Overview The Census Bureau released September new residential construction data on October 20. Per the official release, housing starts ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,221,000, down 5.2% from August and 7.4% from a year earlier, while building permits came in at 1,400,000, down 0.2% monthly and 3.0% annually. Single-family starts were 859,000, down 4.6%, and single-family permits were 845,000, down 4.0%. Before quoting any of those figures, one thing has to be established. The Cens

Overview BlackRock filed a Form 485APOS with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19 to register a new fund called the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, with PBIT as the proposed ticker. It is the firm's third bitcoin ETF filing. The status needs stating first: this is a filing, not a listed product. In the document as filed, the ticker, management fee and expense examples are all blank, and no listing exchange or launch date is specified. Under the timing of Rule 485(a)(2), e

Overview Strive closed its upsized initial offering of SATS preferred stock on October 20, selling 7 million shares at $90 each for roughly $630 million, under the formal name 15% Series A Perpetual SATS Preferred Stock, with trading beginning the same day on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol SATS. One disambiguation first: the Strive SATS preferred stock discussed here is a US-listed perpetual preferred security, unrelated to the bitcoin denomination unit or any similarly named token. T

Overview General Motors reported third quarter results on October 20 that beat across every core metric, with adjusted earnings of $3.70 per share up 32.2% year over year and adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of $4.106 billion up 21.6%, while the board approved a $20 billion multi-year share repurchase authorisation. The stock closed at $77.09, down 6.84%. That combination needs explaining on its own. Strong results, strong cash flow and a repurchase authorisation worth close to 30% of

Overview On SpaceX's third quarter earnings call on October 20, Elon Musk confirmed that both companies have formed special committees of independent directors to discuss a potential merger with Tesla. Per Axios, Musk stated plainly that he is a conflicted party and cannot be in the discussions, while also saying he thinks it would be a good idea. The nature of this needs establishing at the outset: these are exploratory discussions, not an agreed transaction. Per Fortune, the committees were fo