Good afternoon, this is Markets Desk with your midday market read.
All eyes are on Nvidia heading into Thursday's earnings report, where analysts are penciling in seventy-nine percent revenue growth year over year. The question on every trader's desk is whether the chip giant can push past its current valuation toward the six trillion dollar threshold, a level that would make it the most valuable company in history by a considerable margin.
Shifting to the credit data space, Experian posted a strong fiscal twenty twenty-six result, with profit before tax climbing twenty-six percent to one point nine five billion dollars. Benchmark earnings per share came in at one hundred seventy-nine point eight cents, up sharply from the prior year, signaling that demand for consumer credit intelligence remains remarkably resilient in this rate environment.
And on the policy front, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing back against the Education Department's new student loan borrowing caps, which inadvertently excluded advanced nursing degrees from higher limits. Given the ongoing healthcare staffing shortage, advocates argue the oversight could accelerate an already serious talent drain from the profession at exactly the wrong moment.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
