Palantir Technologies reported another quarter of record revenue on Monday, propelled by a surge in new customers flocking to buy artificial-intelligence technology from one of the hottest names on Wall Street. The data-analytics company said it had $1.18 billion in sales for the third quarter, a year-over-year gain of 63%, and a net profit of $475.6 million. Both came in ahead of analyst expectations. Palantir stock rose to another record high Monday after notching successive new gains for about the past two weeks. Shares have more than doubled this year. “It is worth remembering that the business is now producing more profit in a single quarter than it did in revenue not long ago,” Chief Executive Alex Karp wrote in a letter accompanying the earnings release.

Save for a brief while during the closing minutes, SMI index stayed positive on Monday, but still ended the session with just a slender gain as several stocks pared early gains due to a lack of support at higher levels. Investors digested data showing Switzerland's consumer price inflation slowed unexpectedly in October after remaining stable in the previous two months. The SMI, which climbed to 12,310.75 around mid morning, ended the day's session at 12,235.54, up 1.04 points or 0.01%. Sandoz Group climbed nearly 3.5%. Logitech International, Galderma Group and Richemont gained 1.9 to 2.05%. Nestle gained 1.1%. Geberit, SGS and Swiss Life Holding climbed 0.4 to 0.7%. Sika ended down 3.82% after the company lowered its medium-term growth targets and introduced restructuring measures. Lonza Group lost 2.7%, while VAT Group, Straumann Holding, Alcon, Sonova, Givaudan, Partners Group and Holcim ended lower by 1 to 1.7%. Data from the Federal Statistical Office said Switzerland's consumer price index rose 0.1% on a yearly basis in October, following a 0.2% increase in September. Meanwhile, economists had expected the inflation to rise to 0.3%. Prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages were 0.5% less expensive compared to last year, and transportation charges dropped by 1.7%. On the other hand, education costs grew 2.6%, and housing and energy prices were 0.8% higher.

Europe
European markets closed mostly higher on Monday, led by gains in the banking and automobile sectors. The pan European Stoxx 600 climbed 0.46%. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 gained 0.16% and Germany's DAX closed up by 1.1%, while France's CAC 40 edged down by 0.14%. Switzerland's SMI settled 0.01% up. Among other markets in Europe, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Turkiye closed higher. Iceland and Sweden ended weak, while Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands and Spain closed little changed. In the UK market, Airtel Africa surged nearly 6%, adding to recent gains. Games Workshop climbed 3.1%, British American Tobacco gained 2.7% and IAG moved up 2.3%. M&G, The Sage Group, Prudential, Schroders, Legal & General, Diageo, Standard Chartered, Intercontinental Hotels, Easyjet, Imperial Brands, Haleon and Halma gained 1 to 2%. Oil major BP is gaining about 1.2% after it agreed to divest stakes in U.S. shale assets to Sixth Street for $1.5 billion. Vodafone Group, WPP, JD Sports Fashion, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Anglo American Plc, Marks & Spencer, Rio Tinto, Croda International, Convatec Group, Glencore and Beazley closed down by 2 to 5.2%. In the German market, Rheinmetall, Siemens Energy, Volkswagen, Commerzbank, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Continental, Deutsche Bank, Porsche Automobil and Allianz gained 1.3 to 4%. Zalando, Qiagen, Vonovia, Bayer, E.ON, Fresenius, Fresenius Medical Care, Daimler Truck Holding and Merck declined sharply.

United States
After ending last Friday's session in positive territory, the major U.S. stock indexes turned in a mixed performance during trading on Monday. While the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 saw further upside, the narrower Dow moved to the downside. The Dow fell by 226.19 points or 0.5 percent to 47,336.68, but the S&P 500 rose 11.77 points or 0.2 percent to 6,851.97 and the Nasdaq climbed 109.77 points or 0.5 percent to 23,834.72. The gain by the tech-heavy Nasdaq partly reflected a sharp increase by shares of Amazon (AMZN), with the online retail giant surging by 4.0 percent to a record closing high Amazon extended last Friday's rally after announcing a $38 billion agreement with OpenAI that provides Amazon Web Services' world-class infrastructure to run and scale OpenAI's core artificial intelligence workloads. AI darling and market leader Nvidia (NVDA) also jumped by 2.2 percent after software giant Microsoft (MSFT) revealed it has secured export licenses from the Trump administration to ship Nvidia chips to the United Arab Emirates. On the other hand, a 4.1 percent plunge by shares of Merck (MRK) weighed on the Dow along with notable declines by Nike (NKE), 3M (MMM) and Chevron (CVX). Traders may have been reluctant to make more significant moves ahead of the release of payroll processor ADP's report on private sector employment on Wednesday. In U.S. economic news, the Institute for Supply Management released a report showing manufacturing activity unexpectedly contracted at a slightly faster rate in the month of October. The ISM said its manufacturing PMI slipped to 48.7 in October after edging up to 49.1 in September, with a reading below 50 indicating contraction. Economists had expected the index to inch up to 49.5.

Asia
Stock markets in Southeast Asia are trading significantly lower on Tuesday. Market participants report profit-taking following the recent rally driven by AI hype, particularly in South Korea. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has kept its key interest rate unchanged in view of the smouldering inflation risks. As expected by most economists, the key interest rate, known as the cash rate, was confirmed at 3.60 per cent.

Bonds
In the U.S. bond market, treasuries continued to show a lack of direction after ending last Friday's trading roughly flat. Subsequently, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, crept up by less than a basis point to 4.106 percent.

Analysis
HSBC raises Richemont to Buy (Hold) – Target CHF 190 (155)
UBS lowers Saint-Gobain target to EUR 92 (95) – Neutral
UBS raises Intesa target to EUR 6.15 (6) – Buy

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