Technology stocks led a rebound for US equity markets - Dow rose +226-points or +0.48% Amgen Inc (up +7.81%) was the leading performer in the 30-stock index after the pharmaceutical company posted a better-than-expected third quarter result and raised its full-year sales outlook after the close of the previous session Economic bellwether Caterpillar Inc gained +3.94%. Home Depot (down -2.41%) was the worst performing Dow component overnight.

• US equity markets retreated, with the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of investment banking giants Goldman Sachs Group Inc (up +0.68%) and Morgan Stanley (+0.22%) cautioning that equity markets could be heading for a drawdown of around 10% to 15% - Dow fell -251-points or -0.53%, with Caterpillar Inc (down -4.03%) and Nvidia Corp (-3.96%) both falling ~4%.

A mixed start to November for US equity markets ahead of another busy week of quarterly earnings releases - Dow fell -226-points or -0.48%, with Merck & Co Inc (down -4.06%) the worst performer in the 30-stock index. 3M Co (down -2.59%), UnitedHealth Group Inc (-2.27%) and Chevron Corp (-2.33%) all declined over >2%. Microsoft Corp (down -0.15%) announced it has secured export licenses to ship Nvidia Corp (+2.23%) chips to the United Arab Emirates amid Gulf’s ambitions to become an AI leader. Amazon.com Inc rallied +4.03% to be the leading Dow component overnight, hitting a fresh record high (US$258.60) after signing a multi-year US$38B deal to supply cloud computing services to OpenAI, affording the ChatGPT maker access to Nvidia's graphics processors. Amazon soared +9.58% in the previous session after releasing stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings after the close last Thursday’s (30 October), underpinned by a sharp acceleration in cloud revenue. Separately, an intense lobbying effort by Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, to persuade President Donald Trump to sell its chips to customers in China was thwarted by top US officials, The Wall Street Journal

US equity markets advanced on Friday (31 October) after a choppy session to cap a solid week and month for the benchmark indices - Dow edged +41-points or +0.09% higher Apple Inc settled -0.38% lower at US$270.37, unwinding an gain that saw the mega-capitalisation technology stock touch a fresh record intraday high of US$277.32 after reporting better-than-expected third quarter earnings after the close of last Thursday’s (30 October) session and forecast holiday-quarter iPhone sales and overall revenue that surpassed Wall Street expectations thanks to strong demand for its iPhone 17 models. Nvidia Corp slipped -0.20% following news it is partnering with Samsung and other South Korean firms to deploy 250,000 of its chips across the Asian country.

• US equity markets settled mixed albeit the benchmark indices logged record intra-day highs for a third straight session as investors digested the latest monetary policy pronouncements from the Federal Reserve and eyed corporate earnings releases from three mega-capitalisation technology companies after the closing bell - Dow eased -74-points or -0.16% to 47,632, touching a record intra-day high (48,040.64) earlier in the session. Nike Inc (-3.08%) and UnitedHealth Group Inc (-3.42%) both fell over >3%. Nvidia Corp +2.99% following a well-received presentation from Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jensen Huang at the company’s GPU Technology Conference, becoming the first company to close with a US$5 trillion market capitalisation just 78-days after closing with a market capitalisation of US$4 trillion for the first time. A US$5 trillion market capitalisation is larger than the 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) of every country except the U.S. and China, and it would roughly equal what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects for Germany’s nominal GDP this year.

Morgans AM - Thursday, 30 October 2025 by Morgans Financial

Benchmark US equity indices advanced to book record closing highs for a third consecutive session - Dow rose +162-points or +0.34% to 47,706.37.

US equity markets climbed to fresh record highs for a second consecutive session running on optimism that the U.S. and China will strike a trade deal when US President Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday (30 October) at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea - Dow rose +337-points or +0.71% to a record closing high of 47,544.19. Apple Inc (up +2.28% to US$268.81) and Microsoft Corp (+1.51% to US$531.52) are close to joining Nvidia in the US$4 trillion market capitalisation club, needing to close at US$269.54 and US$538.13 respectively to achieve the mark. Amazon.com Inc rose +1.23% after Reuters reported that the technology giant is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday (28 October) as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for over-hiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55M total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s ~350K corporate employees.

Benchmark US equity indices rallied to fresh record highs after delayed inflation figures bolstered expectations for two interest rates cuts before calendar year end - Dow rose +473-points or +1.01% 47,207.12, booking its first close above 47,000 ever a logging a record intra-day high (47,326.73). International Business Machines (IBM) Corp rallied +7.88% following a Reuters report the firm determined it could run certain quantum computing algorithms on an easily accessible Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc (+7.63%) chip. Investment banks Goldman Sachs Group Inc (+4.41%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (+2%) traded strongly.

US equity markets advanced following another busy corporate earnings calendar and ahead of the release of delayed inflation figures tonight AEST - Dow rose +144-points or +0.31%. International Business Machines (IBM) Corp settled -0.87% lower, paring earlier, steeper losses following the release of an underwhelming third quarter result after the close of the previous session.