Monday, October 27, 2025

News Of The Day -- And -- Chart Of The Day -- October 27, 2025

Locator: 49532COTD. 

News of the day

  • Qualcomm, Saudi Arabia.
  • Qualcomm. New chip.
    • the big part of this story -- Intel -- has not been mentioned yet
      • except for Apple, the "edge" is out; the cloud is in
      • Qualcomm pivoted; Intel did not and won't 
  • US DOE: $1 billion; supercomputer; multiple tech companies; lead — AMD;
  • Trump's incredibly successful tour to Asia. Lightning speed; huge deals.
    • his predecessor would have had trouble crossing the stage; the photo-ops would have been embarrassing 
  • Qatar-Israeli-US Mideast Peace Initiative 
  • BRK-B downgraded to sell.
    • analyst was late on this call
    • this call should have been made a year ago 
    • now, it's a classic "buy high, sell low" strategy. 
  • another story not being addressed: the Jamie Dimon "cockroach" call
    • couldn't have been more wrong
      • regional banks doing just fine, thank you 
    • see today's top banking story: a $7 billion acquision 

Chart of the day