Nvidia added $150bn to buybacks and launched agent-safety tools; Meta's enterprise AI platform hit software shares; long-end yields at 19-year highs and oil near $105 pressured equities; AI power equipment stayed a sellers' market.
Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback, taking total authorization to $235 billion through fiscal 2028, and introduced an open agent-safety platform with more than 100 partners; OpenAI was not listed. Management describes minimal agent rights, sandboxing and monitoring. Bulls see cash-return confidence; skeptics, including Reddit holders, call the buyback defensive against vendor-financing fragility.
Meta is starting a business selling AI tools to enterprises and tapped MongoDB's CEO to lead it, bundling Muse, business agents and coding tools; MongoDB fell 18% and IGV dropped over 2.5%. No pricing or enterprise customers were disclosed. The stated aim is to monetize more than $100 billion of AI infrastructure spending; bears call it 'SaaS apocalypse, part 2'.
Morgan Stanley says power equipment is a sellers' market, with GE Vernova contracting turbines for 2031-32 and on-site power a very large market by 2030. Morgan Stanley models US data-center IT power demand rising from 9.2 GW in 2025 to nearly 79 GW by 2029; Bernstein sees roughly 19% annual growth to 1,570 TWh by 2032. Grid lead times remain years long.
The 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.23-5.27%, its highest since 2007, and the 30-year hit 5.57% as oil stayed near $105 and Trump rejected Iran's Hormuz proposal. WTI's one-month correlation with the 10-year reached 0.96. Treasury executed only $4 billion of an announced $6 billion buyback, which JPMorgan's Bob Michele read as no cap on long-end yields.
Nvidia added $150 billion to its repurchase authorization, taking the total program to $235 billion through fiscal 2028; management tied it to confidence in cash generation.
BlackPantherCap discloses 62% of portfolio in BE, NBIS, IREN and CIFR, betting on data-center power demand; Morgan Stanley models US data-center IT power demand rising from 9.2 GW in 2025 to nearly 79 GW by 2029.
EndicottInvests discloses buying more CRDO at $192.32.
Babyfolio models LITE FY28 revenue at $11.1 billion, above roughly $9.6 billion consensus, but concludes risk/reward is unattractive at current levels and prefers a significant dip.
FinnStockinger argues the $8.2 billion deal only makes sense if other companies run workloads on Instinct, and notes World Labs already works with Nvidia Isaac Sim.
Russell Investments removed its slight duration overweight and prefers higher-quality, front-end fixed income; Vanguard sees long-term entry value but no near-term asymmetric trade.
Meta's enterprise AI platform triggered a software selloff, with IGV down over 2.5% and MongoDB down 18%; StockMarketNerd calls the MongoDB exit a red flag against buying the dip.
A Reddit bear flags CRWD at roughly 180x forward non-GAAP P/E and 3.5x peer median, arguing it is among the most rate-sensitive cybersecurity names; another holds weekly puts tied to Nvidia's agent-safety launch.
A Reddit holder argues the buyback is the only way to avoid losing market cap and to keep financing arrangements intact with clouds buying Nvidia chips, calling it a death spiral.