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NEW: $NVDA PERP DROPS BELOW $180 ON HYPERLIQUID AS NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG ADMITS AFFAIR WITH SUSPECTED CHINESE SPY IN EMAIL TO STAFF

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✍️Edited by Luís Barata

The headline reports that the NVDA perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid fell below $180, and attributes the move to an alleged email in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. The claim is unverified in the headline itself, and no confirmation from Nvidia, Huang, or a primary source is cited, so the reported drop should be treated as a price reaction to an unconfirmed news item rather than an established fact. The likely transmission channel is idiosyncratic risk repricing: a sudden leadership-integrity shock raises the perceived probability of management disruption, governance scrutiny, and regulatory or security exposure, which hits the equity and its derivatives directly. Hyperliquid perpetuals are thinly capitalized relative to the Nasdaq-listed shares and trade around the clock, so the move may be amplified by leverage and liquidation cascades and may not reflect the spot price on the primary exchange. Traders should check whether the spot NVDA share price on Nasdaq moved comparably, since a divergence would point to venue-specific dislocation rather than broad repricing. The next thing to wat

Source: Originally reported by BN at November 09, 2026. Summary and market context by Trading News Terminal editorial.

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