Hello and welcome back to Equity, the Tech Crunch Podcast where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

This is Alex, good morning. Welcome to our Monday show where we take a look back at the weekend and a look at the week that is to come.

Today is November 6th, 2023 and on the podcast this morning we have big stock market moves

and a packed earnings week.

More positive news for crypto,

how one venture fund is crushing the game in India,

the state of the AI race,

and a little bit about Musk.

With that, it's a busy morning. Let's go.

Kicking off with a look at the global world of money,

that means we have to talk about stocks.

Over in Asia, shares are sharply higher this morning, led by Korean stocks after short selling was banned in the country.

The Cosby Index in South Korea rose more than 5% today.

Japanese stocks were also higher, while Chinese stocks managed the smallest gains of the three countries.

But hey, up is up.

In Europe, shares are down today, but not by too much.

And here in the US stocks are set to rise a tiny bit at the

open but pre-market trading this close to break-even is just hard to trust.

Now there's a lot of earnings this week across a number of key technology industries, so listen for your favorite name, but here is what we're going to hear this week.

On Monday, data from Terra Data, Ring Central, Alteryix, Compass, and Olo.

Then Tuesday will bring us Uber, Coupong,

Data Dog, Global Foundries,

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