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[Miser][Smile]Fellow Tigers, Q2 13F filings are fully disclosed, and this quarter is packed with signals—Buffett's third massive $Alphabet(GOOG)$ purchase, Tepper loading up on Magnificent 7 while dumping memory stocks, and $SpaceX(SPCX)$ getting swarmed by hedge funds post-IPO. 📌 One-Sentence Summary in Adavance Q2 smart-money rebalancing theme: loading AI giants (especially Alphabet), embracing the SpaceX space narrative, taking profits in memory/semis, concentrating China ADRs into AI-core names, and quant giants vs. discretionary managers taking opposite macro views. Buffett's third Google purchase, Tepper dumping memory while buying Magnificent 7, hedge funds swarming SpaceX, Renaissance buying Meta

Investors closely track Big Tech’s quarterly capital expenditures, but reported CapEx only captures part of the AI buildout. Nine major technology companies reportedly have about $3 trillion in future lease, chip-purchase and infrastructure commitments that are not yet fully reflected on their balance sheets. 1. Where Did the $3 Trillion Come From? According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of financial-statement footnotes, nine major technology companies reported roughly $600 billion in combined CapEx over their latest 12-month periods. However, their broader future commitments approach $3 trillion, including approximately: $1.2 trillion in data-center leases that have not yet commenced; $1.9 trillion in long-term purchase agreements covering chips, memory, power and other infrastructure

Hello. The first thing to move this week was not a set of results. It was policy. The US government spoke up and asked Apple to steer clear of Chinese memory chips. That one request lifted the entire memory chain on Monday. $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ closed up 8.88 per cent at US$1,786.85, and $Tradr 2X Long SNDK Daily ETF(SNXX)$ rose 17.73 per cent in a day. $Micron Technology(MU)$ closed up 4.13 per cent at US$1,011.75, back above US$1,000. $Western Digital(WDC)$ rose 5.35 per cent, $SK hynix(SKHY)$ 3.04 p

【Money Market Fund】 US$ MMF Net 7-day Yield: +3.64%* During the week, nonfarm payrolls were softer and CPI inflation was broadly in-line. OIS markets priced in around 30% probability of a hike at the September FOMC meeting. However, HSBC’s view is for Fed to hold policy rates steady through 2026 and 2027, though risks to the outlook are skewed to the upside. * 7-day net yield is calculated based on calendar days and NAVs in 5-decimal. 【REITs】 S$ SRT YTD total return: -2.52% As of 14 Aug 2026 (Fri), $CSOP iEdge SREIT ETF S$(SRT.SI)$ declined 0.14% WTD, bringing its YTD total return to -2.52%. WTD losses were led by industrial, retail and residential by subsector, and MLT, CLAR and CICT, by individual REIT. Nevertheless, looking at Singapore’s eco

The Macro Backdrop: Cooling Inflation Meets Record Equities After months of navigating sticky economic signals, stock markets received the green light they were waiting for: softer inflation print readings and steady economic output. Driven by resilient earnings, massive corporate capex in artificial intelligence, and easing producer price index (PPI) figures, the benchmark $S&P 500(.SPX)$ S&P 500 recently notched a record close, touching intraday levels above 7,800. This milestone reflects a classic "Goldilocks" tailwind—an economy slowing just enough to bring price growth back toward the Federal Reserve’s target, without tumbling into a sharp demand-led recession. However, as the benchmark index trades near record territory, market focus

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Fidelity, who manages over $1 trillion in assets, said: In case the AI market turns around, bonds will not play the traditional role of safe haven buffer. Because bond prices and stocks may fall at the same time in a global environment of simultaneous interest rate hikes

The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,785.76 after touching a record 7,816.70 during the week. We are basically sitting on the roof of the market. And right now my feed seems split into two camps. 🐂 Camp one: Buy the breakout. Don’t overthink it. New highs lead to new highs. 🐻 Camp two: Take profit immediately. Stocks are expensive. A correction has to be coming. I’m doing neither. I’m already invested, so I’m not running for the exit. But I’m also not throwing fresh money at record highs just because the chart is green. The market still has to earn my next dollar. And for me, that comes down to two dates. 📅 August 19: FOMC Minutes 📅 August 26: NVIDIA Earnings One tests the price investors are willing to pay for growth. The other tests whether the growth itself is still strong enough to deser

Last Week's Recap 1. Weekly Market Digest: Stocks Flat, Yields at 2007 Highs, Inflation Moderates, Oil Rebounds Flat market — U.S. indexes were little changed as stocks took a breather after the prior week's record highs. S&P 500 and NASDAQ ended fractionally higher; Dow fractionally lower. Elevated yields — 30-year Treasury yield climbed back to ~5.26% (highest since 2007); 10-year at 4.69%, while the 2-year eased slightly to 4.17%. Moderating inflation — July CPI held steady at 3.4% annual rate (down from June's 3.5%); PPI showed inflation little changed from the prior month. Robust revenue — S&P 500 Q2 revenue growth on pace for 15% (highest since Q4 2021), per FactSet; earnings growth tracking above 50%, strongest since Q2 2021. Oil rebounds — U.S. crude rose above $82 Friday (

Hello. The weekend is over, and the most striking thing left from Friday's close was a pair of numbers pointing opposite ways: $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ up 6.50 per cent, $Broadcom(AVGO)$ down 5.94 per cent. Both are AI chip names, and they spent the day going in different directions. What the market was reading that day was not results. It was second-quarter position disclosures. Stanley Druckenmiller's 13F showed him loading up on Amazon and AMD while dumping a batch of chipmakers, and a Soros fund was adding AMD too, alongside $Micron Technology(MU)$, $Appli

Market participants recently received a double dose of macroeconomic relief as both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) demonstrated continued moderation. On paper, both metrics signalled the same underlying economic dynamic: inflationary pressures across the United States are steadily subsiding toward the Federal Reserve’s target. However, equity markets reacted with striking asymmetry to the two releases. While the CPI report triggered a modest, cautious advance, the subsequent PPI print unleashed an aggressive risk on surge across major benchmarks, driving tech indices toward fresh elevated levels. Understanding why Wall Street differentiated so sharply between these two inflation metrics holds the key to evaluating how much further this equity rally can run, w

I would stay invested in AI and semiconductors, but avoid aggressively adding at these levels. The macro backdrop has improved, but the market has already priced in a lot of good news. The S&P 500 is coming off another record close, while July retail sales fell 0.6%, the first decline in nine months. Combined with benign CPI/PPI and weaker employment, this strengthens the case for a September Fed hold.  My preference would be: 1. Keep AI/semis: The secular earnings story remains strong, although valuations and expectations are high. Applied Materials' 5% drop despite good guidance is a reminder that even strong AI-related results can disappoint when expectations are extreme.  2. Gradually rotate into financials/consumer: Not a wholesale switch, but these sectors offer diversi

Disclaimer: Nothing I say or post should be considered financial advice. Please do your own due diligence before making any investment decisions. So will the constant pressure of inflation force the hands of the fed to make an adjustment to interest rates before end of 2026? Or will they find strategies to ease investors on inflationary risks? Let’s see how this plays out.[Cool]  @PawsAndProfits - Specialist in combining FA and TA for Options selling and Swing trading.[666] 

$Applied Materials(AMAT)$   Applied Materials reported quarterly revenue of $9.12 billion, above Wall Street’s $8.99 billion estimate. The chip-equipment maker also guided for next-quarter revenue of about $10.25 billion, well ahead of the $9.54 billion consensus, while adjusted EPS guidance of $4.02 topped expectations of $3.69. AI spending remains the main driver. Applied now expects advanced-packaging revenue to grow more than 70% in 2026, up from its previous forecast of more than 50%, as chipmakers keep investing in DRAM, leading-edge logic and packaging capacity. Still, the stock dropped more than 5% in extended trading. Shares had already more than doubled this year, leaving little room for anything shor

🌟🌟🌟The US Mid Election: Are you trading the pre election bump or sitting tight & waiting for post November stretch? Strategy A: Hunting the Bump This historical bulls will point out that the ruling party loves to sprinkle policy sugar all  over the economy in late summer & early autumn.  They would do anything to make voters feel wealthy going into the booths. Breaking news: Trump is weighing a major massive investor tax break: indexing Capital Gains Tax to inflation & expanding exemptions for primary home sales. If this happens, the stock market is likely to go up. Strategy B: Wait for November stretch Ignore the political theatre entirely & wait for the post November clearing when there is more certainty in the market.  The market does not like uncertainty

Hello. The last of this week's AI hardware papers came in overnight, and both were sold. $Applied Materials(AMAT)$ earned US$3.50 a share, ahead of forecasts, grew revenue 25 per cent year on year, said AI-related demand hit a record, and guided next-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations. It closed down 2.48 per cent and fell another 5.13 per cent after hours, to US$507.11. $Coherent(COHR)$ was starker. Its report the previous evening beat on both lines — earnings of US$1.74 a share against US$1.6474 expected, revenue of US$2.046 billion against US$2.025 billion — and it closed down 7.99 per cent yesterday at US$327.23, giving back the whole of the prior day's 8.24

Defense stocks have already rallied on higher budgets, Europe rearmament, drones and missile defense.$RTX Corp(RTX)$$Lockheed Martin(LMT)$$Northrop Grumman(NOC)$$Boeing(BA)$ The next theme may be simpler: the US needs to rebuild missile inventories. Recent conflicts have turned a long-known production gap into an urgent supply problem. Citrini Research notes that US missile and interceptor use over a five-month period exceeded any full year since the Gulf War. Air defense is the clearest case. CSIS estimates the Iran conflict consumed about 65% of pre-war US Patr

I lean wait for earnings rather than chase tech at record highs. The inflation backdrop is clearly improving: July CPI eased to 3.4%, while headline PPI was flat MoM and 4.7% YoY, strengthening the case for the Fed to remain on hold. That supports equity valuations, but the S&P 500 is already at a record and much of the easier-policy narrative is being priced in. I would keep existing tech exposure, avoid aggressively adding after the rally, and direct some new money towards gold/defensives. Earnings now need to justify elevated AI and growth expectations. Burry’s bearish positioning is worth noting, but not a timing signal by itself. My positioning: 50% wait, 30% tech on pullbacks, 20% gold/defensives.

July CPI: no surprises, but the market still found something to chew on Headline landed at 0.1% m/m, 3.4% y/y. Core came in at 0.2% m/m, 2.5% y/y — the slowest annual core print since February. Shelter and food each added 0.1%; energy was the drag, down on the month even as gasoline is still running +24.6% y/y. The "in-line" read is actually the story: it's the second straight month of cooling core inflation, which is why traders leaned harder into a September hold rather than a hike. Future now price meaningfully lower hike odds than a week ago — the fourth straight downward revision. Equities shrugged it off calmly (S&P +0.26%, Nasdaq +0.54%), but gold's +2% move to $4,471 says someone's still hedging. That's the tension: a "boring" CPI print that both confirms disinflation *and

[Miser][Smile]Fellow Tigers, Q2 13F filings are fully disclosed, and this quarter is packed with signals—Buffett's third massive $Alphabet(GOOG)$ purchase, Tepper loading up on Magnificent 7 while dumping memory stocks, and $SpaceX(SPCX)$ getting swarmed by hedge funds post-IPO. 📌 One-Sentence Summary in Adavance Q2 smart-money rebalancing theme: loading AI giants (especially Alphabet), embracing the SpaceX space narrative, taking profits in memory/semis, concentrating China ADRs into AI-core names, and quant giants vs. discretionary managers taking opposite macro views. Buffett's third Google purchase, Tepper dumping memory while buying Magnificent 7, hedge funds swarming SpaceX, Renaissance buying Meta

Investors closely track Big Tech’s quarterly capital expenditures, but reported CapEx only captures part of the AI buildout. Nine major technology companies reportedly have about $3 trillion in future lease, chip-purchase and infrastructure commitments that are not yet fully reflected on their balance sheets. 1. Where Did the $3 Trillion Come From? According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of financial-statement footnotes, nine major technology companies reported roughly $600 billion in combined CapEx over their latest 12-month periods. However, their broader future commitments approach $3 trillion, including approximately: $1.2 trillion in data-center leases that have not yet commenced; $1.9 trillion in long-term purchase agreements covering chips, memory, power and other infrastructure

Hello. The first thing to move this week was not a set of results. It was policy. The US government spoke up and asked Apple to steer clear of Chinese memory chips. That one request lifted the entire memory chain on Monday. $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ closed up 8.88 per cent at US$1,786.85, and $Tradr 2X Long SNDK Daily ETF(SNXX)$ rose 17.73 per cent in a day. $Micron Technology(MU)$ closed up 4.13 per cent at US$1,011.75, back above US$1,000. $Western Digital(WDC)$ rose 5.35 per cent, $SK hynix(SKHY)$ 3.04 p

【Money Market Fund】 US$ MMF Net 7-day Yield: +3.64%* During the week, nonfarm payrolls were softer and CPI inflation was broadly in-line. OIS markets priced in around 30% probability of a hike at the September FOMC meeting. However, HSBC’s view is for Fed to hold policy rates steady through 2026 and 2027, though risks to the outlook are skewed to the upside. * 7-day net yield is calculated based on calendar days and NAVs in 5-decimal. 【REITs】 S$ SRT YTD total return: -2.52% As of 14 Aug 2026 (Fri), $CSOP iEdge SREIT ETF S$(SRT.SI)$ declined 0.14% WTD, bringing its YTD total return to -2.52%. WTD losses were led by industrial, retail and residential by subsector, and MLT, CLAR and CICT, by individual REIT. Nevertheless, looking at Singapore’s eco

The Macro Backdrop: Cooling Inflation Meets Record Equities After months of navigating sticky economic signals, stock markets received the green light they were waiting for: softer inflation print readings and steady economic output. Driven by resilient earnings, massive corporate capex in artificial intelligence, and easing producer price index (PPI) figures, the benchmark $S&P 500(.SPX)$ S&P 500 recently notched a record close, touching intraday levels above 7,800. This milestone reflects a classic "Goldilocks" tailwind—an economy slowing just enough to bring price growth back toward the Federal Reserve’s target, without tumbling into a sharp demand-led recession. However, as the benchmark index trades near record territory, market focus

Last Week's Recap 1. Weekly Market Digest: Stocks Flat, Yields at 2007 Highs, Inflation Moderates, Oil Rebounds Flat market — U.S. indexes were little changed as stocks took a breather after the prior week's record highs. S&P 500 and NASDAQ ended fractionally higher; Dow fractionally lower. Elevated yields — 30-year Treasury yield climbed back to ~5.26% (highest since 2007); 10-year at 4.69%, while the 2-year eased slightly to 4.17%. Moderating inflation — July CPI held steady at 3.4% annual rate (down from June's 3.5%); PPI showed inflation little changed from the prior month. Robust revenue — S&P 500 Q2 revenue growth on pace for 15% (highest since Q4 2021), per FactSet; earnings growth tracking above 50%, strongest since Q2 2021. Oil rebounds — U.S. crude rose above $82 Friday (

The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,785.76 after touching a record 7,816.70 during the week. We are basically sitting on the roof of the market. And right now my feed seems split into two camps. 🐂 Camp one: Buy the breakout. Don’t overthink it. New highs lead to new highs. 🐻 Camp two: Take profit immediately. Stocks are expensive. A correction has to be coming. I’m doing neither. I’m already invested, so I’m not running for the exit. But I’m also not throwing fresh money at record highs just because the chart is green. The market still has to earn my next dollar. And for me, that comes down to two dates. 📅 August 19: FOMC Minutes 📅 August 26: NVIDIA Earnings One tests the price investors are willing to pay for growth. The other tests whether the growth itself is still strong enough to deser

Market participants recently received a double dose of macroeconomic relief as both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) demonstrated continued moderation. On paper, both metrics signalled the same underlying economic dynamic: inflationary pressures across the United States are steadily subsiding toward the Federal Reserve’s target. However, equity markets reacted with striking asymmetry to the two releases. While the CPI report triggered a modest, cautious advance, the subsequent PPI print unleashed an aggressive risk on surge across major benchmarks, driving tech indices toward fresh elevated levels. Understanding why Wall Street differentiated so sharply between these two inflation metrics holds the key to evaluating how much further this equity rally can run, w

Hello. The weekend is over, and the most striking thing left from Friday's close was a pair of numbers pointing opposite ways: $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ up 6.50 per cent, $Broadcom(AVGO)$ down 5.94 per cent. Both are AI chip names, and they spent the day going in different directions. What the market was reading that day was not results. It was second-quarter position disclosures. Stanley Druckenmiller's 13F showed him loading up on Amazon and AMD while dumping a batch of chipmakers, and a Soros fund was adding AMD too, alongside $Micron Technology(MU)$, $Appli

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I would stay invested in AI and semiconductors, but avoid aggressively adding at these levels. The macro backdrop has improved, but the market has already priced in a lot of good news. The S&P 500 is coming off another record close, while July retail sales fell 0.6%, the first decline in nine months. Combined with benign CPI/PPI and weaker employment, this strengthens the case for a September Fed hold.  My preference would be: 1. Keep AI/semis: The secular earnings story remains strong, although valuations and expectations are high. Applied Materials' 5% drop despite good guidance is a reminder that even strong AI-related results can disappoint when expectations are extreme.  2. Gradually rotate into financials/consumer: Not a wholesale switch, but these sectors offer diversi

Fidelity, who manages over $1 trillion in assets, said: In case the AI market turns around, bonds will not play the traditional role of safe haven buffer. Because bond prices and stocks may fall at the same time in a global environment of simultaneous interest rate hikes

Hello. The last of this week's AI hardware papers came in overnight, and both were sold. $Applied Materials(AMAT)$ earned US$3.50 a share, ahead of forecasts, grew revenue 25 per cent year on year, said AI-related demand hit a record, and guided next-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations. It closed down 2.48 per cent and fell another 5.13 per cent after hours, to US$507.11. $Coherent(COHR)$ was starker. Its report the previous evening beat on both lines — earnings of US$1.74 a share against US$1.6474 expected, revenue of US$2.046 billion against US$2.025 billion — and it closed down 7.99 per cent yesterday at US$327.23, giving back the whole of the prior day's 8.24

Defense stocks have already rallied on higher budgets, Europe rearmament, drones and missile defense.$RTX Corp(RTX)$$Lockheed Martin(LMT)$$Northrop Grumman(NOC)$$Boeing(BA)$ The next theme may be simpler: the US needs to rebuild missile inventories. Recent conflicts have turned a long-known production gap into an urgent supply problem. Citrini Research notes that US missile and interceptor use over a five-month period exceeded any full year since the Gulf War. Air defense is the clearest case. CSIS estimates the Iran conflict consumed about 65% of pre-war US Patr

[Happy]Hi, Tigers! The AI Infra Print Party Is Here 🎉 If you thought the AI trade was running out of steam, Wednesday's earnings just told you otherwise. Three companies. Three different layers of the AI stack. All three blew past expectations — and by the closing bell, the moves were even bigger than the initial after-hours pop suggested. Here's the scoreboard:   The ripple effect was immediate and, by end of session, much bigger than early prints suggested: $NEBIUS(NBIS)$+27-34%, $IREN Ltd(IREN)$+10%, $Coherent(COHR)$+9%, $Ciena(CIEN)$+13%,

The U.S. critical-minerals trade is moving beyond tariffs and geopolitical headlines. Washington is now using equity investments, long-term loans, price floors and purchase guarantees to build an independent supply chain. That improves the sector’s long-term investment case—but the latest funding does not benefit every rare-earth stock equally. Where Is the Money Actually Going? On August 7, President Donald Trump met with more than 200 mining executives, investors, educators and government officials as part of his effort to make the United States a “minerals superpower.” Reuters estimated that the newly announced critical-minerals, battery and related investments totaled approximately $3 billion. The White House separately listed more than $2 billion in mining-related projects and over $1

Hello. The figure this market had spent two days sitting still for landed last night, and all four parts of it came in on the nose: July CPI was 3.4 per cent year on year and 0.1 per cent on the month, with the core at 2.5 per cent and 0.2 per cent. Traders trimmed their bets on a September rate rise, with the odds easing to about 33 per cent. The gate opened. The water did not run towards the mega-caps. Of the Magnificent Seven, only $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ rose, up 3.03 per cent. $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ fell 3.38 per cent, $Microsoft(MSFT)$ 2.26 per cent, $Amazon.

When major stock indices hover near all-time highs ahead of crucial inflation data, equity markets resemble a tightly coiled spring. In the days leading up to Wednesday’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, major benchmarks—including the $S&P 500(.SPX)$ S&P 500 and the $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ Nasdaq Composite—entered a distinct holding pattern. Volume thinned, intraday ranges compressed, and market participants treated the headline inflation figure of 3.4% year-over-year as an absolute "pass mark" required to keep the multi-month bull market intact. Wednesday morning’s release delivered precisely what Wall Street ordered: headline CPI cooled to 3.4% YoY (down from 3.5% in June), while core inflation held

Disclaimer: Nothing I say or post should be considered financial advice. Please do your own due diligence before making any investment decisions. So will the constant pressure of inflation force the hands of the fed to make an adjustment to interest rates before end of 2026? Or will they find strategies to ease investors on inflationary risks? Let’s see how this plays out.[Cool]  @PawsAndProfits - Specialist in combining FA and TA for Options selling and Swing trading.[666]