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Who Gets the Money? Amazon, Intel & Chevron | Newstock · Oct 30, 2026

The macro backdrop, liquidity and the Fed, followed by how Amazon, Intel and Chevron earnings could affect suppliers, server deliveries and energy projects. Recorded morning edition; information cutoff 8:50 a.m. New York.

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Episode transcript

Kylie opening

Today is October thirtieth, twenty twenty-six. Let's take a look at today's headlines.

Who gets the money?

Cloud sales are surging, server supply is tight, and oil profits are growing. Today, we follow the money from three earnings reports to the businesses next in line.

Macro, liquidity and the Federal Reserve

First, the backdrop. September consumer spending rose half a percent, but inflation-adjusted spending barely increased. Annual PCE inflation reached 3.6 percent; the core measure was 3.1 percent. Liquidity is another constraint: Wednesday's bank reserves fell about 74 billion dollars from the previous Wednesday, alongside a roughly 70-billion increase in Treasury cash. Yesterday's secured overnight funding rate was 3.94 percent. The Fed held rates at 3.75 to 4 percent this week, while two policymakers preferred a hike. Our reading: persistent inflation and the cost of financing make project selection crucial. For today's stories, ask who can fund construction and convert it into delivered capacity.

Amazon → NVIDIA → TSMC

First, Amazon's results last night. AWS quarterly sales reached 46 billion dollars, up 39 percent. Yet Amazon's trailing twelve-month free cash flow was negative 42.4 billion, as AI infrastructure spending climbed. The connection starts with AWS's existing NVIDIA Blackwell instances. Additional deployments can carry cloud demand into NVIDIA hardware, then into TSMC, which manufactures Blackwell chips. Why does this matter? AWS growth supports a large infrastructure market, but the cash needed to build it is rising sharply. Amazon also deploys its own Trainium chips, so the purchasing mix matters. Our next checks are Amazon's cash spending and NVIDIA's data-center deliveries: do installed capacity and supplier revenue keep pace with the cloud growth?

Intel → server deliveries → memory and storage

Second, Intel. Revenue rose 21 percent to 16.5 billion dollars, and management says its immediate priority is increasing Xeon supply. That matters to server builders such as Dell: a missing processor can hold up an entire machine. Better CPU availability could unlock completed-server deliveries, carrying demand into memory and storage. Micron offers products validated for Xeon 6 platforms, making it one company to examine at that second stage. The mechanism is the number of complete servers shipped, each requiring memory and storage. Intel also expects the PC slowdown to last into the first half of 2027. Our test is whether Xeon shipments and server deliveries improve enough to strengthen suppliers' data-center mix despite weaker PCs.

Chevron / ExxonMobil Guyana → TechnipFMC

Third, Chevron reported 9.9 billion dollars of quarterly earnings this morning. Follow its 30-percent interest in Guyana's Stabroek block to operator ExxonMobil, then to TechnipFMC, which already holds the Hammerhead subsea-equipment contract. Project execution turns investment into equipment deliveries and supplier revenue. But yesterday's TechnipFMC results reveal an important split: subsea revenue grew 12 percent, while new orders were only about eight-tenths of quarterly revenue. Existing work is progressing faster than orders are being replaced. Our judgment: strong oil-company profits support funding, while the equipment outlook hinges on fresh project awards. At Chevron's call at eleven in the morning, Eastern time, watch the mix and timing of development spending; then check whether new subsea orders rebuild the supplier backlog.

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Kylie closing

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