SYLVIE DOUGLIS, BYLINE: NPR.
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ADRIAN MA, HOST:
This is THE INDICATOR FROM PLANET MONEY. I'm Adrian Ma here with Darian Woods.
DARIAN WOODS, HOST:
Hello.
MA: And super special guest this week - Sarah Gonzalez from Planet Money.
WOODS: Welcome to the show.
GONZALEZ: Thank you. Thank you.
WOODS: We are here for indicators of the week. We've got a pretty packed lineup with AI stock pickers - seeing what they think of the market. We're looking at the 32-hour workweek, and we're investigating this Airbnb crackdown.
MA: Coming up after the break.
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MA: Indicators of the week - Darian, you're first up. What you got?
WOODS: My indicator is triple, which is related to the chipmaker Nvidia, which has been in the spotlight a lot recently. Its share price has more than tripled this year. It's doing very, very well because a lot of AI systems use its chips. Investors were laser-focused on its earnings report this week, which came in even stronger than expected. Its share price shot up even further.
MA: So are you telling me that it's too late to get on this train?
WOODS: We thought it might have been too late this week, but it still went up quite a lot. Whether or not it keeps going higher, I mean, I'm no psychic.
GONZALEZ: Take the gamble, Adrian. Take the gamble.
MA: (Laughter) Buy high, sell higher, right?
WOODS: That's the hope from some people. But what we're seeing with Nvidia is really an extreme version...
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