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Nvidia is the story investors can't look away from. Shares fell as much as eight point eight percent Monday before closing down roughly four point three percent, erasing nearly one hundred ninety billion dollars in market value after CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged a personal relationship with a former executive suspected of Chinese espionage. The board has opened an independent investigation but says it retains confidence in Huang, and the emerging consensus is a governance solution somewhere between full accountability and a clean exit — rein him in rather than remove him.
Shifting to crypto, Coinbase has cleared a major regulatory milestone, receiving a national trust charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, with an authorized opening date of November ninth. The OCC has approved gradual account transfers, though client-level migration timing remains undisclosed. This is a structural legitimization of crypto banking that the industry has been chasing for years.
Meanwhile, CoreWeave's earnings are giving tech stocks a lift this session. The cloud infrastructure provider has been ground zero for anxiety around AI spending sustainability, so results that met expectations — rather than disappointed — carried real signal weight. Markets read it as confirmation that enterprise AI buildout demand remains intact heading into year-end.
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