How it’s computed: half price, half fear. Price: the three indices’ average move (-1.93%), 25 points per 1% from 50. Fear: the VIX (20.8) as 50 − 4 × (VIX − 20). Averaged, capped 0–100.
The Call
Big Tech sells off as spending concerns resurface across the sector.
NVDA and MSFT lead declines. BTC drops 4.3%. S&P 500 falls 1.84%.
Top stories
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: Alnylam hit a 52-week low on Medicare access worries, pipeline delays and soft demand commentary. Stocktwits on MSN
Stocks over $2B in market value. Source: Yahoo Finance, previous session.
Power Players
Huang · Nvidia
Nvidia disputes report on suspected Chinese spy near Jensen Huang
Nvidia disputed a New York Times report that U.S. intelligence surveilled a person close to CEO Jensen Huang, saying diversion allegations were investigated and debunked.
Administration promised tariff relief to secure U.S. Audi factory
The Trump administration has promised to ease tariffs on automakers that commit to more U.S. manufacturing, according to people familiar with the situation.
It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
Neuralink@neuralink · 16h
Our engineers recently visited one of our speech restoration study participants for a 72-hour hackathon.
The goal: rapidly prototype as many features as possible to enhance the experience of using Neuralink to communicate with thought.
Here are some of the things we built 🧵 pic.x.com/Lk0UyRHitQ
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Tesla, Inc.
$TSLA · NASDAQ
$403.30▼ $0.92 (0.23%)At close · Oct 29
Pre-market $393.75-2.37%
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SpaceX
$SPCX · NASDAQ
$143.89▼ $1.34 (0.92%)At close · Oct 29
Pre-market $139.02-3.38%
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Bitcoin
$BTC · CRYPTO
$77,524.57▼ $2,667.19 (3.33%)24h
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