Every few months, thousands of people await a single company’s results. NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) earnings have grown into one of those events. What used to be a check-in on a chipmaker is now treated like a macroeconomic indicator. That’s because the company sits at the center of the AI boom, and its numbers tell us something crucial: whether the wave of capital expenditure (CapEx) from the world’s largest tech players is still rising or starting to stall. The stakes are high. Simply said, if hyperscalers such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) keep pouring billions into NVIDIA’s GPUs, the AI build-out looks alive and well. If these orders slow, markets worry that the boom has peaked. It may even trigger another sell-off in AI-related stocks. This is why NVIDIA’s quarterly print often moves not just its own stock but also the broader NASDAQ and the S&P 500....