NVIDIA Corporation

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, Societe Europeenne

BYD Company Limited

LVMH returned to growth, which was a sign of recovering demand for luxury goods. Gold once again became the main safe haven for investors, displacing bitcoin. Walmart agreed with OpenAI to integrate shopping into ChatGPT. Oracle and AMD announced an AI deal challenging Nvidia's leadership, and Microsoft, Nvidia and xAI are investing $40 billion in Aligned data centers. The main events of October 13-17 are in our review.

Highlights of the week: luxury rises, gold overtakes bitcoin, Walmart and OpenAI deal

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

The largest chip maker's quarterly sales were also the highest on record

TSMC reported record profits and beat forecast thanks to demand for AI chips

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

ASML Holding N.V.

This week, investors are likely to be left in the dark about a number of key US macroeconomic indicators - their publication has been postponed due to the government shutdown that has lasted for 13 days. Data - from import prices and retail sales to wages and jobless claims - are very likely to be excluded from the publication calendar, Yahoo Finance <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stocks-dip-as-government-shutdown-continues-rare-earths-rally-what-to-watch-this-week-114600627.html#:~:text=In%20the%20week%20ahead%2C%20the%20market%20will%20continue%20to%20fly%20blind%20on%20several%20key%20points%20of%20economic%20data%20that%20would%20normally%20publish%20if%20not%20for%20the%20gridlock%20in%20Washington.%20Figures%20ranging%20from%20import%20prices%20and%20retail%20sales%20to%20hourly%20earnings%20and%20jobless%20claims%20are%20likely%20to%20be%20missing%20from%20the%20calendar.">writes</a>.<br><br>The main macroeconomic release this week for Wall Street was supposed to be the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September in the U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics had planned to publish it on October 15, but <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/bls-to-publish-september-cpi-report-on-oct-24-despite-shutdown?sref=Y0jVLcFo">postponed</a> it to October 24. To work on it, the agency recalled some employees from vacation. If the report on inflation will be prepared on time, the Fed will receive it before its meeting on interest rates, which is scheduled for October 28-29, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/bls-to-publish-september-cpi-report-on-oct-24-despite-shutdown?sref=Y0jVLcFo">notes</a> Bloomberg.

Wall Street bank earnings, ASML and TSMC: what investors need to know this week

Leading chip and processor maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) achieved a sharp rise in sales in the third quarter. The largest contract chip maker continues to capitalize on multibillion-dollar investments by tech giants in the artificial intelligence technology race. Among Wall Street economists, there is still no one recommending selling shares of the Taiwanese company. However, analysts assess the prospects of the AI rally very differently.

Leading chipmaker TSMC reported earnings above forecasts. Is the stock worth buying?

Broadcom Inc.

Oracle Corporation

Identifying a new group of leading stocks is complicated by the fact that several key beneficiaries of the AI boom are not publicly traded

Bloomberg called the "Magnificent Seven" obsolete. Which stocks to pay attention to?

Intel Corporation

Intel shares have risen 16% over the past two days

WSJ: Intel has approached TSMC with an investment or partnership proposal

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Omaha-based Orukul has been selling BYD stock since the summer of 2022 without explanation   

Buffett got out of BYD stock. They went up 4500% after his first investment 

Intel's $5bn deal with Nvidia is "symbolic in nature", says Financial Times

Intel stock got a downgrade from Citi. Partnership with Nvidia won't help?

The main party affected by the deal could be contract chipmaker TSMC if Nvidia shifts some orders to Intel's factories

AMD investors have changed their minds to panic over Nvidia and Intel alliance. What risks does it bring?

KLA Corporation

MercadoLibre, Inc.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

AI is the one "big idea" worth betting on, argues Janus Henderson Global Technology and Innovation fund manager Danny Fish

The head of an IT stock fund that far outperformed the S&amp;P 500 named four favorite companies

On Friday, August 22, Intel officially <a href="https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-and-trump-administration-reach-historic-agreement">confirmed</a> that the U.S. government received 9.9% of the company and became its largest shareholder. Measures of this kind are usually taken in crisis situations, when the collapse threatens entire industries. This was the case, for example, with General Motors and Chrysler in 2009 - then the Obama administration bought their shares to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-21/heres-why-you-dont-want-the-trump-administration-to-buy-stock-in-intel">save</a> 1.9 million jobs. Intel employs 96,000 people and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-is-cutting-more-jobs-ceo-tan-tries-fix-manufacturing-missteps-2025-07-24/">will</a> have 75,000 by the end of the year - a significant reduction, but not a national disaster. Yes, the computer giant has been making serious losses lately, but it has already raised $2 billion from Softbank and is now <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/intel-investors-equity-softbank-trump.html">looking for</a> other big investors. The point seems to be different: Intel is virtually the only U.S. company capable of producing state-of-the-art computer chips, and this production is exactly what the government does not want to lose.<br>

Intel's share went to the White House: what do U.S. officials fear losing? 

Micron Technology, Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

The U.S. Commerce Department is pushing the idea of giving government subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for their stock, and Trump likes the idea, sources tell Reuters