Haidi Stroud-Watts
Bloomberg Television anchor and interviewer who hosts Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. She joined Bloomberg in 2015 after anchoring business news at Channel NewsAsia, CCTV News, and Fox Business Network; earlier in her career, she practiced law in Melbourne.
Samsung’s Record Profit Trails Estimates as Memory Demand Outpaces Supply
Samsung reported record operating profit of 107.4 trillion won for the three months through September, as rising memory-chip prices and AI infrastructure spending lifted earnings. CLSA Korea Research Head Sanjeev Rana said the result was broadly in line with his expectations, despite falling short of the analyst estimate shown with the figures. He remains bullish on the memory cycle, citing demand that exceeds supply and expecting a sharp rise in high-bandwidth memory pricing in 2025.
SpaceX Shares Fall as $18.4 Billion AI Spending Overshadows Revenue Beat
SpaceX’s first quarterly report as a public company beat revenue expectations and posted a smaller-than-expected AI operating loss, but its shares fell as investors focused on $18.37 billion in capital spending and management’s plan to maintain a similar pace through year-end. Bloomberg’s Danny Lee said Starlink remains the company’s profitable cash generator and that compute sales are already producing revenue, while Haidi Stroud-Watts characterized SpaceX’s longer-term plan for data centers in space as largely unproven.