McDonald's (MCD) is expected to post its third quarter 2022 earnings results Thursday before market open. McDonald's international exposure in fiscal year 2021 (total percent of units outside of the U.S.), was 66%, only to be outdone by Yum! Brands, 67%, and Domino's Pizza, 70%. Particularly for McDonald's, analysts at Goldman are keeping an eye out for Japan, where the average third-quarter FX/USD rate is down 20% year-over-year, compared to Europe and the U.K., both down 14%. Year-to-date shares of McDonald's are down 4.2%.

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ up roughly 9.3%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day's session up approximately 5.5%, 7.4%, and 3.7%, respectively. Palantir (PLTR 9.46%) reported third-quarter earnings results that displeased investors. The company's revenue growth is slowing as businesses reduce expenses. Palantir to generate about $1.4 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of 2022. This is a 26% increase compared to the same period in 2021. Free cash flow of $127 million over the first nine months of 2022, falling from $320 million in the same period one year ago.

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$$Amazon.com(AMZN)$ The world's 5 richest people lost billion of dollars year-to-date. 1. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: -$87.3 billion 2. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao: -$72.6 billion 3. Tesla CEO Elon Musk: -$66.4 billion 4. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: -$65.7 billion 5. Google cofounder Larry Page: -$39.2 billion

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in October, which was a 14% drop from September. Tesla’s September sales of 83,135 were an all-time high for Tesla in China. China EVs and hybrids sales jumped 87% to 680,000 units. Tesla China Model 3 sedan dropping by nearly 5% to 279,000 yuan, and the entry level Model Y SUV’s price coming down by 9% to 316,000 yuan.

Nio (NIO) stock crashed Thursday morning, sinking 6.5% lower as of 11:25 a.m. ET. The Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer is upping up its battery swap game and even setting up a battery manufacturing business. Yet the overhang from China -- also Nio's largest and domestic market -- is weighing on its shares.

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$hit its lowest level in about 18 months, and the shares continued to move further below the notable $200 level, down by 1.5% after having touched a new 52-week low of about $187 per share. Concerns are mounting that Elon Musk's actions away from the company may be negatively impacting the Tesla brand. Musk's acquisition of Twitter could result in him needing to sell more Tesla stock.

Elon Musk's $44 billion buyout of Twitter, analysts and investors are debating one crucial question -  Can he manage Tesla, Twitter and more.  Musk, who also runs brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring company, is expected to become interim chief of Twitter, according to a person familiar with the matter, after he fired CEO Parag Agarwal and other top company officials.

$Visa(V)$Over the past month, shares of this global payments processor have returned +14%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +8.1% change. During this period, the Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry, which Visa falls in, has gained 13.9%. Visa is expected to post earnings of $2 per share, indicating a change of +10.5% from the year-ago quarter. The Zacks Consensus Estimate has changed -0.4% over the last 30 days. For the next fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $9.65 indicates a change of +15.7% from what Visa is expected to report a year ago. Over the past month, the estimate has changed -2.6%. Visa reported revenues of $7.79 billion in the last reported quarter, representing a year-over-year change of +18.7%. EPS o

$BlackSky Technology Inc.(BKSY)$  ceiling value of the five-year Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity contract with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency for economic indicator monitoring was increased from $30 million to $60 million. BlackSky has won a combined total of $14 million of orders within just the first year of this five-year contract.

$NIO Inc.(NIO)$ grew its deliveries by 29% and revenue by almost 33% year over year in the third quarter. More notably, Nio's outlook for the fourth quarter was a big surprise -- it expects to deliver 43,000 to 48,000 vehicles in Q4. Nio plans to deliver nearly 33,000 to 38,000 cars between November and December. Nio's production slowed down in the last quarter, but it still sees a big jump in car deliveries ahead.

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ invested in a number of SPACs ( special purpose acquisition company) last year, looking for investment gains and customer relationships. One of those investments has declared bankruptcy, putting about $9 million in annual sales at risk and is bound to have investors questioning whether other investments could go south.

$NIO Inc.(NIO)$ dropped 7.6% early Monday morning. As of 10:25 a.m. ET, Nio's American depositary shares were still down 5.3%. Nio provided encouraging estimates for its fourth-quarter vehicle deliveries but China now increase the risk due to the new surge in COVID-19 cases which has already resulted in a five-day lockdown of a large port city. Nio will again be impacted by the strict policies used to contain those cases. 

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ gained 3%, $Snowflake(SNOW)$   jumped 4.3%, $Shopify(SHOP)$ surged 6.2% as of 12:10 p.m. ET. Investors are buying up shares of their favorite technology stocks, hoping that the worst of the bear market is behind us. Shopify, Snowflake, and Palantir stocks will likely continue to experience significant volatility as macroeconomic data moves the pendulum far more than financial performance. 

$Roku Inc(ROKU)$shares plunged in extended trading after the company forecasted a wider-than-expected loss. Roku expects adjusted EBITDA of negative $135 million for the fourth quarter, more than three times what analysts were expecting. For the third quarter, revenue was $761.4 million, up 12% from a year ago, while average revenue per user rose 10% year-over-year to $44.25.

$NIO Inc.(NIO)$  Barclays analyst Jiong Shao cut Nio's price target to $18 per share from $19, citing cost concerns. UBS analyst Paul Gong is even more bearish about Nio now, having slashed the EV stock's price target to $13 today from $32. It appears most analysts were compelled to slash their price targets on Nio stock just because it dropped to as low as $10 per share. 

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ revenue rose by 47% in 2020 and grew by 41% to $1.54 billion in 2021. But for 2022, it expects its revenue to grow just 23% to $1.9 billion. $Twilio(TWLO)$  revenue rose by 55% in 2020 and grew by 61% to $2.84 billion in 2021. But this year, management expects its revenue to rise by just 34% to about $3.8 billion.

$Intel(INTC)$ Director, Lip Bu Tan, bought 48,146 shares on 11/08/22 at $27.9767: $1.3 million in total. Shares were up 7.4% for the week. $Datadog(DDOG)$  Director, Matthew Jacobson, via ICONIQ Strategic Partners, bought 719,894 shares from 11/07/22-11/08/22 at prices from $69.2621-$71.0229: $50 million in total. Shares climbed 15.8% for the week. $Unifi(UFI)$   Director, Ken Langone, bought 100,000 shares on 11/08/22 at $7.09. Director, Archibald Cox, bought 50,000 shares on 11/08/22 at $7.23. Shares jumped 18.6% for the week.

$Airbnb, Inc.(ABNB)$  revenue bounced back in 2022 as pent-up travel demand drove a surge in bookings. The company reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue figure of $2.9 billion. Net income swelled 46% year over year to a quarterly record high of $1.2 billion, and free cash flow increased to $960 million. Airbnb saw close to 100 million nights and experiences booked -- up 25% on a year-over-year basis. Airbnb shares are down 38% year to date.  

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$Palantir generated $1.4 billion in AI software sales in 2021. This beat out Microsoft, IBM, and other large competitors. It grew its revenue by 26% year over year in the second quarter of 2022. Palantir is not low-risk, but the prospect of "next-generation" AI could lead to considerable returns.

$NIO Inc.(NIO)$  share price climbing 2.8%, EV charging company $ChargePoint Holdings Inc.(CHPT)$   rising 3.6%, and EV battery company $Quantumscape Corp.(QS)$   jumping 6.1%.  Investors are hoping that easing inflation will cause the Federal Reserve to be less aggressive with its interest rate hikes. There could be more short-term volatility from Nio, QuantumScape, and ChargePoint as investors try to determine where inflation is going and how the Fed will respond to it.