Pre-market brief — Monday, Nov 9, 2026
- NVDA is 176.95 premarket, down 5.2% from Friday’s 186.64 close.
- Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation after NYT and FT reports that Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort.
- The board says it has “no reason to believe” national security or company secrets were compromised, and Huang stays CEO while the review runs (CNBC, Reuters via Investing.com).
- So far the selling is mostly in Nvidia itself
- TSMC closed up 4.7% in Taiwan.
- NVDA was already below its 200-day SMA of 204.67 and its Sep 14 low of 208.93, with RSI at 30.8.
Friday confirmed both weekly exits, and acting on them is your call:
- TSM: weekly close 375.44, below the 390 exit. It’s still above the Jul 29 low of 372.72 and is 382.04 premarket.
- ASML: weekly close 1424.75, below the 1500 exit. It’s 1486.83 premarket.
DDOG is 179.04, still below its 243.15 exit-review level and its 200-day SMA of 200.18.
No holding changed category since Friday. The levels now use Friday’s final close, and the levels page is updated.
- AMZN is still the only name holding trend. It closed at 259.30, above all your indicators, and is up 3.3% premarket at 267.88.
- CRWD (216.90, just above its weekly 21 EMA of 216.21) and SPCX (134.27, below its weekly 21 EMA of 144.49) are pulling back.
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Below their 200-day SMAs: GOOG, NVDA, TSM, ASML, MRVL, DDOG, BE, INTC, NBIS and CRDO. Most are up 1–4% premarket.
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New buys stay paused.
- QQQ’s weekly close of 656.10 is below its weekly 21 EMA of 704.49 and below the 700 floor.
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It’s 662.90 premarket, up 1.0%, and still below its 200-day SMA of 680.89.
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This week brings October CPI Tuesday (expected 3.9% headline, 2.8% core) and PPI Friday.
- After Friday’s 165K payrolls, CME FedWatch prices about an 80% chance of a December hike (Investing.com), and the 10-year yield is 4.85% (CNBC).
- CoreWeave, Cisco and Applied Materials report this week, and NBIS reports Wednesday.
- The data-center restrictions behind last week’s selloff are still proposals
- Nothing has been enacted.
On the watchlist, AMAT, ALAB, CIEN, CEG, COHR and VST are up 2–3.5% premarket and CRWV is down 1.8%. Those are premarket quotes only, with no indicator check, so none counts as a setup.