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Weekend Brief · Saturday, November 14, 2026

Three tests in four days — Nvidia, Anthropic, and Shenzhen — with the 10-year at 5.14%

Signal of the Day

Next week the AI trade faces its three biggest tests in four days — Nvidia's earnings under a caretaker CEO, Anthropic's IPO pricing, and a Trump–Xi–Putin summit — and it walks in with the 10-year at 5.14% after Treasuries' worst week in months.

Stocks rallied this week on the view that Huang's exit was a governance problem, not a demand problem. Friday's Reuters report that he misled Nvidia's own general counsel reopens that question just before interim CEO Colette Kress speaks.

Bonds are pricing December (and maybe January) hikes on 6.5% wholesale inflation, and Anthropic will price the largest AI listing ever against the most expensive money of the cycle. Each event alone is manageable; stacked in one week with no rate relief, any single miss can reprice the whole complex.

Watch for
  1. 10-year direction Monday — above 5.2% raises the stakes
  2. Nvidia's guide, China commentary and any board update Tuesday
  3. Anthropic's final range and whether it prices above it
  4. Hormuz or chip-export language in APEC readouts
  5. Microsoft's post-incident report and the FAA's root cause

Top Stories

1Reuters: Jensen Huang misled Nvidia leaders, including its general counsel, about his relationship with Alice Huang
Reuters / FT / CNBC / Yahoo Finance  ·  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥  ·  DEVELOPING  ·  Semis / Governance
The report lands days before Colette Kress's first earnings call as interim CEO on Tuesday. The FT says Huang struggled to reach the Beijing policymakers driving China's chip self-sufficiency push; US officials say Trump won't raise the spy allegations with Xi. NVDA slid again Friday. Tuesday is now a credibility test as much as a demand check.
2Bond rout: 10-year up ~30 bp on the week to ~5.14% after October PPI hits +6.5% YoY
CNBC / Bloomberg / FT / CME Group  ·  🔥🔥🔥🔥  ·  DEVELOPING  ·  Fed / Macro
PPI rose 0.3% on the month (below the 0.4% consensus), but the annual rate is the highest since late 2022. The FT called it Treasuries' worst week since "liberation day." Bloomberg says the Fed is on track to hike in December and maybe January; Boston's Collins says more hikes are coming. Investors warn the rout isn't over.
3Trump, Xi and Putin will hold their first-ever three-way meeting at APEC in Shenzhen next week
AP / NBC / ABC / The Hill / Al Jazeera  ·  🔥🔥🔥🔥  ·  NEW  ·  Geopolitics
The summit runs Wednesday–Thursday; the trilateral likely follows a Trump–Xi bilateral and working lunch Thursday. A senior official says no agreement is expected. Iran and nuclear arms reduction are on the agenda; Ukraine is not.
4A ~24-hour global Microsoft 365 outage and a 4.5-hour FAA nationwide ground stop hit the same Friday — neither a cyberattack, officials say
Bloomberg / AP / WIRED / CNN / Axios / NYT  ·  🔥🔥🔥  ·  NEW  ·  Infrastructure
Microsoft says servers lost capacity when a secure-connection process was overwhelmed, tied to a fault from an earlier network upgrade. The FAA halted all US flights after communication failures at multiple air route traffic control centers; officials blamed overloaded, outdated equipment. Root causes for both are still unconfirmed.
5Anthropic IPO: investors flock to the book but question how durable its AI lead is
Reuters / Bloomberg / WSJ / FT  ·  🔥🔥🔥  ·  DEVELOPING  ·  AI Capital
Bloomberg says buyers have more pricing influence than on SpaceX; the WSJ reports Amodei told Jamie Dimon he hopes the IPO will "underpromise and overdeliver." Pricing is expected around Nov 18–19 — into a 5%+ 10-year and Nvidia's caretaker earnings.

Markets

InstrumentPriceChange%Δ
S&P 500 Futures (ES)7,561.00−54.25−0.71%
Nasdaq Futures (NQ)27,927.25−457.25−1.61%
Crude Oil (WTI)$88.92+0.18+0.20%
Gold$3,887.60+2.30+0.06%
10Y Treasury5.139%+3.6 bp~+30 bp wk
2Y Treasury4.852%−1.2 bp—
DXY (Dollar)103.41+0.24+0.23%
Friday closes — markets are shut for the weekend. Week: stocks posted their first weekly gain in five weeks (S&P 500 index 7,561.67, +2.5%; Nasdaq Composite 25,136.27, +2.3%; Dow 52,347.55, +2.1%) despite the bond rout. Monday watch: Nvidia earnings Tuesday, Anthropic pricing ~Nov 18–19, APEC Shenzhen Wednesday–Thursday. Macro pulse: the IEA says global oil supply is back in surplus for the first time since the Iran war began, even as the IRGC claims two more tankers hit mines in Hormuz.
Threat & Cyber Intel
🔴 CRITICAL
Check Point Gaia CVE-2026-123039 (local root) chained with the PHP2Shell Mobile Access flaws: attackers planted a backdoor and, in some cases, pivoted over SSH to wipe VMware ESXi hosts. Added to KEV Nov 13, federal deadline Mon Nov 16. Apply the November Jumbo Hotfix and hunt for gateway-to-ESXi SSH logins.
CISA KEV / Check Point Research / BleepingComputer
🔴 CRITICAL
N-able took N-central offline after 33 flaws dropped, including the "4EverAble2Shell" chain that bypassed Hotfix 2. MSPs should confirm the patched build before reconnecting and audit agent activity.
Dark Reading / BleepingComputer / SOCRadar
🟠 HIGH
UnrealIRCd CVE-2026-114713 added to KEV, due Nov 16. GPUStack auth bypass CVE-2026-102895 is drawing exploit attempts — keep AI-cluster management interfaces off the internet.
CISA KEV / SANS ISC
🟡 MEDIUM
Ransomware: Vanderbilt University is recovering; a Belarusian cloud provider's outage disrupted customers for days. Krebs profiles who runs the Qilin group.
GovTech / The Record / Krebs
SANS diary: the "Macfinger" ClickFix campaign tricks Mac users into pasting a terminal command that installs the DownTheDRAIN infostealer.