The Global Pulse Weekly Update 01st Sep'26

Salesforce reported earnings of $5.90 a share against the $3.27 expected and had its second-best day ever, except $2.53 of that did not come from selling software.

Meta agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion as settlement and its stock went up. Nvidia added $435 billion in a single session, on a day the average American company lost money, then gave back half of it. And on a side note, Amazon hiked the price of an Echo Dot up from $49.99 to $79.99 and nobody blinked, because everyone already knew memory chips had got expensive.

The Indiana attorney general, announcing the Meta settlement on Wednesday, put the whole week in one line: “[…] it’s about changing how these platforms operate so they stop exploiting […]”