Friday, November 13, 2026
The Daily Brief →Nvidia
Nvidia Board Approached Arm CEO Rene Haas in CEO Search, FT Reports
The Financial Times says Haas, a former Nvidia executive who has run Arm since 2022, is among several candidates to succeed Jensen Huang. Arm declined to comment, Nvidia did not respond, and Reuters could not verify the report.
Nov 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Nvidia Falls 8% Pre-Market as Its Board Decides the Fate of Jensen Huang
Pre-Market
Nvidia
Research. The Nvidia Investigation: What Jensen Huang, the Board, Trump and Beijing Have Actually Said
By Kanchan · Nov 9, 2026

CPI
October CPI Rises 0.4% as Shelter Drives Over 30% of the Increase

Nvidia
Nvidia Falls for a Second Day as Trump Backs Huang and Shareholders Sue

Markets
Stocks Slip, 10-Year Yield Jumps to 4.95% as Waller Floats a 50-Basis-Point December Hike

Hegseth
Massie Files Eight Impeachment Articles Against Hegseth; House Must Act by Wednesday
Markets
ⓘ Delayed data, not real-time. Where our data comes from
Rates
Nov 12| Fed Target | 3.75–4.00% | |
|---|---|---|
| Fed Funds Eff. | 3.88% | |
| SOFR | 3.90% | |
| U.S. 3-Month | 4.32% | ▲ 2 bp |
| U.S. 2-Year | 4.86% | ▲ 13 bp |
| U.S. 10-Year | 5.10% | ▲ 12 bp |
| U.S. 30-Year | 5.43% | ▲ 8 bp |
Currencies
Nov 13| EUR/USD | 1.1052 | ▼ 0.26% |
|---|---|---|
| GBP/USD | 1.3227 | ▼ 0.22% |
| USD/JPY | 160.00 | ▲ 0.19% |
| USD/CNY | 6.6719 | ▲ 0.05% |
| USD/INR | 94.24 | ▲ 0.21% |
| USD/CAD | 1.4258 | ▲ 0.07% |
| USD/CHF | 0.8384 | ▲ 0.63% |
Rates: U.S. Treasury constant-maturity yields (Federal Reserve H.15, via FRED) and New York Fed reference rates, latest published. Currencies: European Central Bank reference rates. Changes are against the prior reading; rates in basis points.
Research
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The Election Was the Match, Not the Fuel: Thursday's Chip Crash
A 12% one-day collapse in semiconductors needs more than a headline to explain it. Read the tape closely and the selloff looks less like a verdict on AI demand and more like a crowded trade meeting a memory cycle that has started to hurt its own customers.
Nov 7, 2026 · Niraj Neupane
Midterms 2026
With Immense Power Comes the Ledger: What the New Democratic Congress Promised, What Flipped-State Voters Need, and the Gap Between Them
Democrats won both chambers on affordability and healthcare. Their stated agenda matches the flipped farmer vote on ACA premiums, Medicaid and tariffs in intent — and has no named programme yet for fertilizer, diesel or farm credit. And the most urgent farm deadline is decided by the outgoing Congress, before the new gavels are seated on January 3.
Midterms 2026
Iowa Farm Country Decided Control: Turek Beats Hinson, and the Senate Flipped With the Soy Market
An open seat, a harvest run on expensive diesel, a soybean market hit by tariffs — and the race AP called at 11:35 p.m. that gave Democrats the Senate. The numbers behind the flip, and what the new Agriculture Committees can and cannot deliver from January 3.
Midterms 2026
Kansas: The Farmer Flip — Hamilton Ends a 94-Year Drought on a $737,375 Farm Ledger
The Preisser family of Sylvia, Kansas itemised it on paper for CBS News: $514,625 more for fertilizer, $187,000 more for diesel, and $325,000 less in revenue. Fertilizer up 15.3 percent nationally, no Farm Bill after a two-year wait, and a first-ever Democratic vote from the man who started the farm. Kansas also kept the counterpoint in the same story — not every farmer under the same pressure flipped.
Midterms 2026
Maine: Heating Oil Above $6, a Canada Tariff Waiver on October 23, and the Seat Susan Collins Still Lost
Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger, ousted a five-term senator in a state where 54% of homes heat with oil. The waiver exempted nine farm categories four days before the election — and the same order added other tariffs. What the record shows, and what it does not.
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