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Hello. Three companies reported on Tuesday. Put the three side by side and no order makes sense. $Fabrinet(FN)$ beat on revenue by about 3.1 per cent and on earnings per share by about 7.5 per cent, both records — and closed down 19.38 per cent at US$482.59. $Home Depot(HD)$ beat on both lines, posted net sales of about US$47.9 billion and its best comparable sales since 2022, and reaffirmed full-year guidance — and closed down 0.12 per cent. $BIDU-SW(09888)$ missed on both revenue and profit, with earnings per share about 22.7 per cent short — and closed down 12.73 per cent. Full marks fell 19 per cent, a pass fell 0.

Introduction & Market Backdrop: Bonds Pressuring Growth On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, global financial markets find themselves at a critical juncture. Equity indexes across North America, Europe, and Asia have experienced sharp selling pressure driven by a powerful global bond market sell-off. Long-term sovereign yields have climbed to multi-year highs, with the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield advancing to 4.71% and the 30-year Treasury yield rising to 5.28%. $US Treasury 10 Year Note ETF(UTEN)$ This upward repricing in risk-free rates has transmitted directly into technology and growth equities. The $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$ Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq-100 index, has declined by 1

$Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLK)$ shares fell sharply on August 18 as long-term Treasury yields reached levels not seen since 2007. The important issue is not that semiconductors suffered one bad session; it is that higher long-term discount rates can compress the valuations of companies whose market prices depend heavily on profits expected many years from now. The 30-year Treasury yield climbed above 5.3% intraday as higher oil prices, inflation concerns, government borrowing and global bond weakness pushed investors to demand greater compensation for lending long term. The 10-year yield touched its highest level since January 2025. Reuters’ August 18 market report documents the bond move and equity reaction. The

Major Wall Street institutions like $JPMorgan Chase(JPM)$ JPMorgan and $Goldman Sachs(GS)$ Goldman Sachs (along with $Morgan Stanley(MS)$ Morgan Stanley) have lifted their targets for the $S&P 500(.SPX)$ S&P 500 toward the 8,000 milestone. Yet, retail investors are grappling with recent index pullbacks and localized volatility. Wall Street's 8,000 Call: Top-Down Bullishness vs. Short-Term Reality Wall Street equity strategists set index targets using macro fundamentals—primarily corporate earnings per share (EPS) and price-to-earnings (P/E) valuation multiples. The move toward an 8,000 S&P 500 target rests on thre

So was today another God-sent or the start of the meltdown some was calling for?  What do you guys think? Shall we ear-mark today and all the comments and revisit next week? Possibly mid-week?  Why mid-week? Because the was the time when stocks rallied to another record high after a brutal sell-off the week before.

[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

Hello. Three companies reported on Tuesday. Put the three side by side and no order makes sense. $Fabrinet(FN)$ beat on revenue by about 3.1 per cent and on earnings per share by about 7.5 per cent, both records — and closed down 19.38 per cent at US$482.59. $Home Depot(HD)$ beat on both lines, posted net sales of about US$47.9 billion and its best comparable sales since 2022, and reaffirmed full-year guidance — and closed down 0.12 per cent. $BIDU-SW(09888)$ missed on both revenue and profit, with earnings per share about 22.7 per cent short — and closed down 12.73 per cent. Full marks fell 19 per cent, a pass fell 0.

Introduction & Market Backdrop: Bonds Pressuring Growth On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, global financial markets find themselves at a critical juncture. Equity indexes across North America, Europe, and Asia have experienced sharp selling pressure driven by a powerful global bond market sell-off. Long-term sovereign yields have climbed to multi-year highs, with the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield advancing to 4.71% and the 30-year Treasury yield rising to 5.28%. $US Treasury 10 Year Note ETF(UTEN)$ This upward repricing in risk-free rates has transmitted directly into technology and growth equities. The $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$ Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq-100 index, has declined by 1

Major Wall Street institutions like $JPMorgan Chase(JPM)$ JPMorgan and $Goldman Sachs(GS)$ Goldman Sachs (along with $Morgan Stanley(MS)$ Morgan Stanley) have lifted their targets for the $S&P 500(.SPX)$ S&P 500 toward the 8,000 milestone. Yet, retail investors are grappling with recent index pullbacks and localized volatility. Wall Street's 8,000 Call: Top-Down Bullishness vs. Short-Term Reality Wall Street equity strategists set index targets using macro fundamentals—primarily corporate earnings per share (EPS) and price-to-earnings (P/E) valuation multiples. The move toward an 8,000 S&P 500 target rests on thre

$Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLK)$ shares fell sharply on August 18 as long-term Treasury yields reached levels not seen since 2007. The important issue is not that semiconductors suffered one bad session; it is that higher long-term discount rates can compress the valuations of companies whose market prices depend heavily on profits expected many years from now. The 30-year Treasury yield climbed above 5.3% intraday as higher oil prices, inflation concerns, government borrowing and global bond weakness pushed investors to demand greater compensation for lending long term. The 10-year yield touched its highest level since January 2025. Reuters’ August 18 market report documents the bond move and equity reaction. The

[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 (

So was today another God-sent or the start of the meltdown some was calling for?  What do you guys think? Shall we ear-mark today and all the comments and revisit next week? Possibly mid-week?  Why mid-week? Because the was the time when stocks rallied to another record high after a brutal sell-off the week before.

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

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

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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