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Public.com presents the rundown, your daily market update in under 10 minutes. My name is Zaidad Mani, and Today is Wednesday, November 19th. In today's episode, we'll tell you what the market is expecting from Nvidia's earnings tonight. We'll also tell you about Meta's huge win in court yesterday and Google's launching of Gemini 3. Then stick around to the end of the show for an earnings recap of Target and Lowe's and. And sweetgreen's plans to win back. Producer Mike, we got a great show for you today. Let's go. Stocks were down for the fourth straight day yesterday, with the S&P 500 losing 0.8% and the Nasdaq dropped 1.2%. And once again, tech stocks were the biggest losers, despite some big AI headlines. Yesterday. Microsoft and Nvidia announced an investment in Anthropic, which is the maker of the cloud chat bot. And, and Google launched Gemini 3, which we're going to talk about in a bit. You know, a month ago, headlines like these would send US Stocks soaring, but all these companies had a down day yesterday. So there's definitely a big vibe shift happening. And it seems like it's all going to come down to Nvidia's earnings tonight. You know, the AI trade has lost a lot of steam over the last couple of weeks. It feels like the AI bubble pop is just inevitable, and the only company that can stop that from happening is Nvidia. Or I guess they could also send the markets into a bigger panic, depending on what they say tonight. You know, I think Nvidia has to absolutely crush earnings expectations and deliver a monster guidance to keep their stock and the rest of the market for that matter, from tanking. I think if they have just a slight beat or mediocre guidance, that's going to send their stock lower. Either way, it's expected to be pretty volatile. The options market is pricing in an 8% swing in Nvidia stock up or down following the earnings report, which is massive for a $4.4 trillion company. So, yeah, guys, we got a big day coming up. As always, we're going to be watching it closely. In fact, I even do an instant reaction on Instagram following Nvidia's earnings. So go follow us there and make sure you guys tune in tomorrow for the full breakdown. Let's run through some headlines, starting with Meta. Meta just won a huge antitrust case yesterday against the ftc. A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate antitrust law when they bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. See, the FTC had sued Meta back in 2020, claiming that those deals stifled competition and made Meta Facebook back then into a social media monopoly. And the FTC wanted Meta to basically break off Instagram and WhatsApp to unwind those deals. But a federal judge ruled that the FTC failed to make a strong enough case to force the breakup. The judge pointed to a changing landscape in 2025 compared to 2020. The emergence of TikTok alone has been a clear competitor to Meta. Meta also points to the existence of YouTube, Netflix, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, literally every app fighting for your attention, Apple as their competition. And honestly, I think that's fair. You know, I think you could have made a case in 2020 that Meta was a monopoly. But today Instagram and Facebook aren't the only game in town when it comes to social media and consuming content. TikTok and YouTube offer similar experiences. So Metal won this case and they can breathe a sigh of relief that they don't have to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, which I'm not even sure how that would have worked. Now what I worry about though, is if the government will stop going after big tech altogether because they've taken a lot of losses in court lately. Just a couple of years ago, the FTC lost their case to block M. Microsoft from buying Activision. The DOJ also lost their court case against Google over the search monopoly earlier this year, and now this loss against Meta. Now the government still has pending cases against Apple and Amazon. I think those cases are pretty legit, but I wonder if the government will keep trying or are they going to just throw in the towel after losing so many cases? And are big tech companies going to see that as an opportunity to consolidate and actually become a monopoly? So yeah, definitely something to keep an eye on. Let me know in the comments of what you guys thought about this court case. Do you think that Meta should have been broken up, or do you agree that they have a decent number of competition these days? Let's shift gears and talk about Google, because They just dropped Gemini 3, their latest and greatest AI model. They also took a direct shot at OpenAI. Google began rolling out Gemini 3 across the entire Google ecosystem yesterday, including the Gemini app and AI mode in search. I got access yesterday afternoon. I've been messing around with it ever since. This update to Gemini came just eight months after Google launched Gemini 2.5 and Google says this version is a massive jump in reasoning and coding abilities and also image generation. Google even threw a little shade at ChatGPT, saying that Gemini 3 aims to deliver genuine insight and not cliche and flattery. So there seems to be some AI trash talking going on and I kind of like it. So far the early reviews have been really positive. Now I've only used it a couple of times, so I need to mess around with it more before I give my thoughts. But the model is crushing leaderboards for benchmarks that compared against rival models like GPT 5.1 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 across most categories. Now this might come as a surprise to a lot of people, but the Gemini app has 650 million monthly users, which is up from the 450 million in July. Now that's still behind ChatGPT, which leads at 800 million weekly users, but that gap is shrinking. Google has such a huge advantage when it comes to distribution, they can put their technology in front of the billion plus people that use Google every day. So it's hard not to be bullish on Google when it comes to AI. Honestly, it's been a pretty big week when it comes to AI releases. Public launched our Generated Assets AI tool on Monday and now Google launched Gemini 3. Honestly, I'm not sure which is a bigger deal. Let's talk about some stocks making moves today. Loewes is having a strong morning today after the home improvement retailer beat profit expectations and posted positive same store sales for the second straight quarter. Loaves is seeing a strong growth in online sales, which was up 11% year over year. And they're also leaning into selling to professional contractors where demand continues to be steady and helps buffer the slowdown from the DIYers. Lowes has been deepening its exposure to the professional contractor market. Last month they completed their $8.8 billion acquisition of the Drywall Company Foundation's building materials. And that's one reason why Loews is doing better than Home Depot right now. Home Depot is feeling the pain right now from the housing slowdown and people spending less money on big home improvement projects. We actually did a full recap of Home Depot's earnings on yesterday's episode, so go check that out if you missed it. Investors seem to be more bullish on Loewes Outlook. Their Stock is up around 5% this morning in reaction to their earnings. Now on the flip side, Target is struggling. Their stock is down after the company reported another decline in sales and they lowered their full year profit forecast. Net sales in Q3 fell by 1.5% from a year ago to $25.3 billion and and same store sales dropped 2.7%, the third straight quarter of decline. Essentially, Target sales have basically flatlined for the past four years, and the stock has lost about two thirds of its value since peaking back in 2021. So it's been a rough four year stretch for the company, but they're making moves to turn things around. For one, they have a new CEO taking over on February 1st. On top of that, Target is planning to spend $5 billion next year to to open new locations, remodel existing stores, and refresh their merchandise. Target's also doing some cost cutting. They eliminated 1800 jobs last month, which was their largest layoff in a decade. And finally, they're leaning into AI because of course they are. This morning, Target announced a partnership with OpenAI, which will let customers buy stuff from Target inside ChatGPT. Walmart made a similar announcement a few weeks ago. So pretty much every retailer is rushing to win the AI shopping era. Now, I think all these moves by Target is nice, but it doesn't solve Target's core problem, which is that consumers just aren't buying discretionary items. Target is known for their home good products and apparels and seasonal items, and people are cutting back on that. I mean, I'm even finding myself spending less time with the Target pickup line. And I think until people start spending money on those items, Target is still going to have a hard time because no one's going to Target to buy groceries. So investors are worried about Target. Their stock is down 3% this morning following the earnings, and it's down more than 35% for the year. Let's wrap the show with the fun fact. Sweetgreen has officially entered their gym bro era. The salad chain just launched a new menu item called the Power Max protein bowl, and it's packed with 106 grams of protein, which is an absurd amount for a salad. I guess sweetgreen heard all the criticism about skimping on the chicken and steak portions and responded by stuffing an entire rotisserie's worth of meat into a bowl. It's been a pretty bad year for sweetgreen as a business. They've seen a big sales slowdown recently and the stock is down more than 80% this year. So maybe this could help change that. I don't know. We'll have to see. As of right now, this bull will only be available through the Sweetgreen app, and it's only available through December 15th. Now, I've never had sweet green before. I'm not really a fan of paying 20 bucks for a salad, but producer Mike used to be a fan until recently. I think Mike needs to go get this new protein bowl and post a review on Instagram. I think if we get enough comments, Mike might even do it well. All right guys, that's the rundown for today. Hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. 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