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This week: It’s the last days of summer – and bank earnings season. Canada’s biggest banks report their third-quarter earnings this week, covering the three months that ended July 31. Perhaps most notably, Toronto-Dominion Bank reported its first quarterly loss in 21 years after it set aside a US$2.6-billion provision to pay anticipated regulatory fines over anti-money laundering failures.
But investors worldwide were focused on Nvidia’s results, which are treated as a proxy for the strength of the AI boom. The chip maker forecast revenue of US$32.5-billion, plus or minus two per cent, for its coming quarter, compared with analysts’ estimates of US$31.8-billion. Yet, despite outpacing analyst expectations, the company’s stock still dropped after the earnings were released. There’s no pleasing some people – investors in particular.