AI data centers' massive demand for aluminum is crushing the US aluminum industry

📊 Wall Street Week Ahead Investors on watch for AI, economic updates as US stocks steady

Investors will look in the coming week for signals about profitability for artificial intelligence companies, as well as the broader economy's health, to steady the U.S. equity market.

Stocks rebounded this week from their biggest pullback since April, helped by a firming conviction that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December.

But some of the market's heavyweight shares remained volatile. Big moves in Nvidia and Alphabet for instance, were driven by developments in AI. Reuters reports.


📊 Shares end tough November on firmer ground helped by Fed cut bets

Global stocks headed into a jittery final session of the month on Friday, as an outage at exchange operator CME Group halted trading in a swathe of futures on currencies, commodities, Treasuries and stocks, further draining market liquidity.

The outage at CME datacentres came with U.S. investors due to return from the Thanksgiving holiday for a shortened session on Friday. Reuters reports.


🛒 Amazon, Walmart's Flipkart plan new consumer loan offerings in India

Amazon.com is gearing up to provide loans to small businesses in India, Reuters reported Friday, citing a company executive.

The e-commerce giant will offer customized "lending propositions" for merchants and small businesses to enhance cash flow management and provide capital, the news agency reported, citing Mahendra Nerurkar, Amazon vice president for payments for emerging markets.

Walmart-owned (WMT) Flipkart is planning to offer buy-now, pay-later products in India, Reuters reported, citing company filings.

Flipkart registered its Flipkart Finance non-bank lending arm in March and is now waiting for the Reserve Bank of India's final approval for its business plans, according to the report. MarketScreener reports.


🤖 Nvidia rebuts critics in memo to analysts amid pushback campaign

Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, has gone on the defensive against skeptics of its $4.5 trillion valuation, down from a historic $5 trillion, by waging an information campaign on Wall Street and social media.

Last week, the company issued a detailed memo to sell-side stock analysts with a point-by-point rebuttal of claims made by Michael Burry, who was featured in the book and movie "The Big Short," and others writing on Substack.

Burry, who shot to fame for betting against the U.S. housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, is widely watched by investors for his comments on markets and the economy; he has stepped up criticism of Nvidia in recent weeks in a new newsletter. Reuters reports.


❄️ 90% of derivatives freeze as cooling failure stops global finance

At 03:00 GMT on November 28, 2025, a cooling system failure halted 90% of global derivatives trading after machines at a CyrusOne data center in Illinois overheated.

This caused the CME Group’s systems to shut down. This technical outage revealed a critical vulnerability in financial infrastructure.

Physical cooling capacity, not computation or cyber threats, suddenly became the weak link for global market operations.

Cooling System Failure Halts Global Trading CME Group confirmed that all markets were halted due to a cooling failure at a CyrusOne data center.

The exchange, handling approximately 30 million contracts daily, ceased operations across its entire Globex platform.

Treasury futures, energy, and agricultural markets froze from Chicago to Kuala Lumpur. Yahoo Finance reports.

*Estimate and Actual numbers represent Earnings Per Share in US Dollars


GLBS: Globus Maritime
Q3 2025
After Market Close
Estimate: -0.120
Actual: N/A

CHA: Chagee Holdings
Q3 2025
Before Market Open
Estimate: 0.400
Actual: N/A

Time (ET)/ Report/ Period

9:45 AM - Chicago Business Barometer (PMI) - Nov.

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