Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) reported disappointing profit and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) slashed its fourth-quarter sales guidance. Caterpillar sees higher costs, slowing demand in China Caterpillar missed expectations for fourth-quarter profit and gave downbeat guidance for 2019, sending shares plummeting 9.1%. Although price increases covered the higher costs, Caterpillar had expected pricing gains to exceed cost inflation.