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Nvidia’s Nnot Nnormal, Never Mind Earnings
Monopoly power has a price. The chipmaker’s weight in the S&P 500 will make for a twitchy end-of-summer earnings report.
Now at 6% of the S&P 500.
Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Britain has a national holiday. The US has one next Monday. Students are returning to college, and kids to school. The last week of August is normally the Sargasso Sea of market action, almost as becalmed as Thanksgiving or Christmas. But Wednesday afternoon, we’ll hear the latest results from Nvidia Corp. We can’t sign off completely until then.