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Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, delivered a sales forecast that drew a lukewarm reaction from investors, even as revenue from data center operators continued to surge.Sales in the three months ending in July will be about $91 billion, the company said in a statement late Wednesday.

Though analysts estimated $87 billion on average, projections ranged as high as $96 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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• Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech co-host
• Paul Meeks, Head of Technology Research at Freedom Capital Markets
• Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners
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- Jennifer Bartashus, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst, Retail Staples & Packaged Food, recaps Target earnings. Target Corp.'s comparable sales jumped 5.6% last quarter, the biggest increase since the end of 2021 and triple the gain analysts were expecting. The company raised its annual revenue guidance by 2 percentage points to about 4%, but executives warned of tougher comparisons and more cost challenges ahead.

-Mary Ross Gilbert, Bloomberg Intelligence, Senior Equity Analyst, Covering Retail, discusses TJX Earnings. TJX Cos. raised its sales growth expectations for the year as cautious shoppers spend on lower priced goods at the company's discount chains. The company's comparable sales from its stores and e-commerce sites are now seen expanding as much as 4%, up from previous guidance for an increase of as much as 3%.

-Drew Reading, Bloomberg Intelligence U.S Homebuilding Analyst, recaps Lowe's earnings. Lowe’s Cos. reported sales growth in the first quarter that just missed estimates, with comparable sales rising 0.6% during the period. The company kept its full-year outlook unchanged, citing productivity boosts from artificial intelligence, and expects to offset higher transportation costs through productivity initiatives.

-Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Media Litigation Analyst, discusses a jury rejecting Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI betrayed its mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business, finding that he waited too long to sue the company. The verdict is a major relief for OpenAI as it eyes a potential initial public offering, and Musk and his lawyers have vowed an  appeal.

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-Drew Reading, Bloomberg Intelligence U.S Homebuilding Analyst, discusses Home Depot earnings. Sales at Home Depot locations open at least a year rose 0.6% during the three months ended May 3, slightly below analysts' estimates. Home Depot's business has been hit by elevated interest rates and high housing prices, leading Americans to take on smaller projects instead of extensive remodels.

-Caroline Hyde, BTech Co-Anchor, discusses top tech stories. Meta Platforms is reassigning workers to new jobs related to artificial intelligence as part of a broad corporate restructuring. Alphabet's Google agreed to create an artificial intelligence cloud business with Blackstone Inc.

-Riley Griffin, Bloomberg Tech Reporter, discusses the Bloomberg Big Take story: “Meta’s $200 Billion Data Center Rises From the Bayou.” Meta’s $50 billion "Project Sucre" data center is rapidly transforming Richland Parish, Louisiana—one of the nation's poorest regions—into a massive construction hub the size of Manhattan.

-Brendan Greeley, Author of  "The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money" and contributing editor at the Financial Times, discusses his new book. In THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, Financial Times journalist and Princeton financial historian Brendan Greeley argues that the dollar is not fundamentally a U.S. creation or a state-controlled currency.

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Dell CEO Michael Dell and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang say supply chain constraints are still the biggest bottleneck to AI growth, even as demand surges worldwide, including in China. Speaking with Bloomberg News' Ed Ludlow at Dell World in Las Vegas, Huang says demand in China is “incredible” and expects the market to open further over time.

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-Emily Forgash, Bloomberg Energy Reporter, discusses NextEra Energy agreeing to pay about $67 billion in stock for Dominion Energy in the biggest power acquisition ever, creating a giant utility extending from Florida to the artificial intelligence data centers clustered in Virginia.

-Matthew Palazola, Bloomberg Intelligence, Senior Analyst, P&C Insurance, discusses 13F filings. According to Bloomberg Intelligence: Berkshire Hathaway's first 13F under CEO Greg Abel suggest more willingness to commit to tech stocks than under Warren Buffett, with the purchase of roughly $12.5 billion in Alphabet stock. This is likely to add volatility but add exposure to potential gains from AI and other emerging technologies.

-Ira Jersey, Bloomberg Intelligence Chief US Interest Rate Strategist, discusses a recent survey from Bloomberg Intelligence on the transition to Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair. According to BI: A significant majority of market participants expect the Treasury yield curve to steepen as Kevin Warsh takes the helm of the Fed. This appears to be the result of a similar share seeing Warsh as relatively dovish compared with his predecessor, Jerome Powell, though not an outright dove. Respondents see scope for eventual shifts in the Fed's policy framework, yet assign low odds to a $1 trillion-plus balance-sheet reduction.

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- Bailey Lipschultz, Bloomberg News Senior Equities Reporter, discusses Cerebras Systems shares jumping 68% in its trading debut after raising $5.5 billion in the year’s largest IPO. This illustrates investors’ surging appetite for artificial intelligence data centers and the chips running them.

-- Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst, discusses tech. Figma gave an outlook for revenue in the current period that topped analysts’ estimates, touting early traction from charging users directly for AI features. Apple's partnership with OpenAI has become strained, with OpenAI preparing possible legal action due to the AI startup not seeing the expected benefits from the deal.

-Sid Philip, Bloomberg Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation, discusses Boeing appearing to have secured an order from China during US President Donald Trump's visit to the country, but details on numbers, aircraft type, and timing are unclear.

- Randall Williams, Bloomberg Business of Sports Reporter, discusses the top business sports stories. Sheldon Adelson’s son-in-law, Patrick Dumont, has big plans for the Dallas Mavericks and the city. Also, a group led by Silver Lake executive Egon Durban is acquiring 25% of the Las Vegas Raiders, according to people familiar with the matter.

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- Ryan Vlastelica, Bloomberg Equities Reporter, discusses earnings from Cisco Systems.  Cisco Systems  jumped by the most in more than 14 years after the company delivered a better-than-anticipated sales forecast and announced plans to cut thousands of jobs, an attempt to focus on the fast-growing AI market.

- Dan Ives, Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush Securities, discusses the Trump/Xi summit and how it impacts tech. President Trump has landed in China for the much anticipated summit with Xi where the two are scheduled to meet on Thursday and Friday, arriving at a critical moment for the tech cycle as geopolitics, chip export policy, and surging demand for compute are colliding, making the outcome critical for Nvidia, hyperscalers, and the greater tech ecosystem.

- Jody Lurie, Bloomberg Intelligence Credit Analyst, discusses the latest Bloomberg Intelligence travel survey. According to BI: At 65%, personal-safety concerns peaked in BI's US travel survey conducted April 17-28 amid the Middle East conflict, US policies towards visas and other geopolitical tensions. This may be affecting how much people travel internationally, as seen in a decline in respondents from the survey conducted in November.

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*Broadcasting From Eisner Amper West Coast Real Estate Summit in San Francisco, CA*

-  Ed Ludlow, BTech Co-Anchor, discusses Anthropic being is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing at a valuation of more than $900 billion. The round is expected to close as soon as the end of this month, but the deal is not finalized and no term sheet has been signed.

-Tarun Raisoni, CEO at Gruve AI, discusses the impact of AI on real estate. Gruve is an enterprise AI services platform that helps businesses move from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment. Its five-step framework covers strategy, data readiness, model development, security, and governance. By using AI agents to automate tasks like CRM migration and security monitoring, Gruve streamlines operations and integrates directly into client systems to deliver scalable, engineering-driven solutions with software-level efficiency.

-Ned Segal, Chief of Housing and Economic Development for the City and County of San Francisco, discusses leveraging partnerships in SF/real estate. Topics include what has changed for a small business owner trying to open their doors in this city today versus two years ago, office demand, and where SF stands with the current AI cycle. Ned is a passionate San Franciscan. He previously served as CFO at Twitter, SVP of Finance for Intuit’s Small Business Group, and a board member of Tipping Point Community.

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-Cecilia D'Anastasio, Bloomberg Video Game Reporter, discusses EBay rejecting a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen, describing the unsolicited bid as “neither credible nor attractive.” EBay’s board turned down the offer due to “uncertainty” around the financing plan, operational risks, and GameStop’s governance, among other factors.

-Lily Meier, Bloomberg Retail Reporter, discusses Under Armour. Shares sank after its guidance for this year missed Wall Street projections, weighed down by exiting a partnership with NBA star Stephen Curry and a financial hit from the conflict in the Middle East. Annual revenue will decline slightly, but it would have been little changed if the company still had the deal with Curry, the sporting-goods maker said Tuesday. Analysts on average projected a gain of about 2%. 

-Sid Philip, Bloomberg Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation, discusses the Bloomberg Big Take story: “Boeing Bets Comeback on Trump, China and an Elusive New Plane.” Boeing’s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, must soon decide how to replace the workhorse 737 aircraft, as the company tries to regain public trust after a series of sometimes deadly accidents. He's also trying to land a big sales deal in China, with Trump's help. Both the sale and the new plane will be key to reviving the aerospace giant.

-- Gautam Mukunda, Lecturer at Yale School of Management and Bloomberg Opinion contributor, discusses his Bloomberg Opinion column: “AI Isn’t Built for Bar Weather’s Black Swan Era.” AI models are matching or outperforming physics-based models in medium-range weather forecasting and are faster and require less computational infrastructure. These models struggle with extrapolating outside their training data, which can lead to failures when they encounter unusual weather patterns.

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-Carmen Reinicke, Bloomberg Equities Reporter, discusses Cerebras Systems seeking to raise as much as $4.8 billion in its initial public offering, offering 30 million shares for $150 to $160 each.
The company's IPO has drawn orders for more than 20 times the number of shares available, and is expected to price on May 13.

-Catarina Saraiva, Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Reporter, discusses the Bloomberg Big Take story: “Powell Exits With Legacy Built on Central Bank Independence.” Jerome Powell's term as Federal Reserve Chair ends on May 15. He will, however, remain a member of the Board of Governors until January 31, 2028, much to the chagrin of President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called for lower interest rates and sought to remove Powell over the Fed's monetary policy stance. Bloomberg looks at some of the highlights to his legacy.

-Sam Fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence, Director of Research for Global Industries and Senior Pharmaceuticals Analyst, discusses the latest in the biotech sector. President Donald Trump plans to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, according to a person familiar with the matter.  Repatriation flights of passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak began on Sunday.

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