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Yardeni lifts S&P target to 8,400 on earnings momentumEd Yardeni raised his S&P 500 target to 8,400, citing what he calls fabulous earnings momentum running through Q2 reporting season. That is one of the more bullish calls on the Street right now, co…Korean stocks up 22% in 10 days on chip rallyThe Kospi has ripped 22% higher in barely two trading weeks as memory chip pricing and AI demand reignite Samsung and SK Hynix. That pace outstrips even the sharpest AI-driven rallies of the past t…GoTo dropped from MSCI after three months stuck at 50 rupiahMSCI is removing GoTo Group from its Global Standard indexes effective after the close on 31 August, ending a freeze that began in May when the Indonesian ride-hailing and e-commerce group's shares…China's tech trade rotates from chips to Tencent and JDTencent reports Wednesday, JD.com Thursday, and SMIC's outlook will show whether chip demand is holding up, three results that together test whether the recent move out of AI infrastructure stocks …Markets barely blink at Middle East riskVolatility gauges have dropped sharply even as regional tensions persist, suggesting traders have priced geopolitical risk out faster than the risk itself has faded.Trump Media's crypto pile just cost it $190m in one quarterTrump Media posted a Q2 net loss of $238.1 million, more than ten times last year's $19.2 million shortfall, driven almost entirely by non-cash markdowns on digital assets that totalled $190.4 mill…India's new closing auction is scaring away the traders it needs mostSEBI's 20-minute Closing Auction Session, live since 3 August for stocks with derivatives contracts, was built to fix a $5.2 trillion market's messy old close. High-frequency traders have largely s…Chip stocks stall, and Asia catches the coldA pause in the chipmaker rally is not a correction, but after eighteen months of Nvidia-led gains carrying entire regional indices, even a pause moves everything downstream. Asian markets opened lo…Caterpillar becomes the unlikely referendum on AI capexCaterpillar's earnings this week land in the middle of an AI selloff that has nothing to do with excavators and everything to do with whether data centre construction demand, which has been proppin…HSBC's record rally now has to survive its own earningsHSBC shares have run further than most UK bank analysts expected this year, which means Wednesday's numbers face a higher bar than a simple beat, they need to justify a valuation that's already pri…Korea's stock market just had its best day on recordA single-day gain in the mid-teens percentage range for a major national index is a repricing, and it happened because Korean chipmakers and AI supply chain names got swept up in the same optimism …Chinese companies are buying back stock at trade-war paceChinese firms are lining up the heaviest wave of share buybacks since the trade war escalation, a direct response to a market rout that's spooked Beijing enough to encourage corporate intervention.…Market Talk roundups: tech, autos, materials and energyCross-sector desk notes today lean cautious on materials pricing and steady on energy, with auto names still digesting the UK production numbers.The AI chip boom just showed its first real cracksSK Hynix posted a sixfold profit jump on AI memory demand, NXP and ASM International both raised outlooks on the same wave, and yet chip stocks sold off hard enough to qualify as a proper unwind ra…Beijing's memory chipmaker just became China's biggest stock debutCXMT priced its Shanghai listing to raise capital and ended the day worth roughly $484 billion, a 466% pop that makes it the largest new listing in China's market history. Hefei, the Anhui province…The chip rally is cracking under its own financing structureJapanese and Korean chip stocks fell hard this week as investors started pricing two problems at once: circular financing between AI infrastructure players propping up demand that may not be real, …Crude's rally is a bigger threat to the Fed than to TrumpOil climbing back toward levels that feed straight into petrol prices arrives just as the disinflation narrative was gaining credibility in Washington and London alike. Every sustained $10 move in …Seoul tightens leveraged ETF rules before the next margin call, not afterSouth Korea moving up its deposit requirement timeline for leveraged and inverse ETFs is a direct response to retail trading volumes regulators think are running ahead of the collateral backing the…McCormick choosing London for its listing bucks the Wall Street gravity trendA US spice giant seeking a London listing following its Unilever Foods tie-up runs against the recent trend of companies fleeing the London Stock Exchange for Wall Street's deeper liquidity and hig…Korean margin traders are back at the tables just as brokers call the unwind overSouth Korean brokers are telling clients the forced margin-call unwinding that hammered the Kospi is nearly finished, and retail traders have responded by piling straight back into the leveraged be…Asian tech stocks rally while oil keeps climbing, and both can't be bullish signalsA tech rally usually reflects risk appetite and cheap money expectations, while rising oil reflects supply tightness or geopolitical risk, and having both at once means investors are pricing two di…Chip stocks slide as oil climbs, and the two are connectedA semiconductor selloff landing on the same day as an oil spike isn't coincidence. Rising Brent raises input costs and inflation expectations, which pushes rate-cut odds down, which hits the long-d…Thailand's stock market flips from regional laggard to leaderThai equities were the region's worst performer for most of the past two years, weighed down by weak tourism recovery and political instability, and now foreign funds are piling back in on valuatio…Australian bank rally burns short sellers betting on a lending slumpThe short thesis on Australian banks was straightforward: household debt is high, property is overvalued, and a lending slowdown was overdue. It hasn't arrived, and the rally in ASX-listed banks ov…Stripe wants to buy the company it was supposed to replacePayPal was the incumbent Stripe spent fifteen years positioning itself against, and now Stripe and private equity firm Advent are offering roughly $53.4 billion to own it outright. PayPal shares ju…Wall Street's trading desks are having the best year of the decadeRecord trading revenue at the big banks says less about skill and more about volatility being good business, and 2026 has delivered volatility in spades between tariff shocks, oil spikes and rate u…India's large caps look cheap because everyone already sold themA stock only rebounds on foreign flows if foreigners already left, and that's precisely the setup in Indian large caps right now. Beaten-down blue chips are being positioned for a rebound as foreig…Chinese airlines still can't get demand back to where fares justify itCapacity keeps coming back faster than passengers willing to pay full fare, and that mismatch is what's eating Chinese airline margins again. Weak domestic and outbound travel demand is set to exte…Two prominent traders are publicly clashing over whether leveraged ETFs are safer than options or a new source of hidden portfolio risk.Two prominent traders are publicly clashing over whether leveraged ETFs are safer than options or a new source of hidden portfolio risk; both are right depending on how positions are sized.Cross-sector Market Talk roundups today span autos, tech and telecom, energy and utilities, and basic materials.Cross-sector Market Talk roundups today span autos, tech and telecom, energy and utilities, and basic materials, with no single item breaking out as decisive on its own.The US jobs market just gave the Fed the cover it needed to cutUS hiring slowed sharply in June, and the Federal Reserve's hesitation on rates suddenly looks less like caution and more like patience with a plan. Nonfarm payrolls came in well below expectations…Best quarter since the pandemic, and nobody quite believes itQ2 2026 closes with the S&P 500 and European equities posting their strongest quarterly gains since 2020, which is a remarkable outcome for a period that opened with a tariff shock, a bond wobble, …BlueBay flags near-term downside in Japanese AI stocks before a potential rally. That sequencing matters.BlueBay Asset Management's view on Japanese AI equities is usefully specific: near-term risk first, then rally. The near-term risk is valuation compression as the global AI trade digests the BIS wa…US equity futures edge higher as Iran risk coolsS&P 500 futures advanced modestly in Asian hours, tracking the Iran ceasefire signal and a constructive close from last Friday. Gains are thin given residual uncertainty on the Fed path and this we…Tech sell-off spreads to Asia as Oracle layoff numbers circulateYesterday's global tech sell-off, which started in US sessions on 23 June, carried through Asian markets overnight with particular pressure on semiconductor and enterprise software names. The Oracl…Taiwan's retail investors borrowed heavily to ride a 100 percent rally. The leverage is the story.Taiwanese retail investors have taken on significant margin debt to chase a stock market that doubled, with reported anecdotes of individuals going deep into personal loans to amplify exposure to w…BHP takes a $2.3bn writedown on Jansen potash. The mine keeps getting more expensive.BHP's Jansen potash project is becoming the mining industry's most expensive lesson in greenfield cost discipline. The company has flagged a $2.3 billion impairment and simultaneously disclosed tha…SK Hynix ETFs now drive the stock's trading as AI memory mania peaksETF flows are becoming a bigger driver of SK Hynix trading than the actual memory chip fundamentals. The Korean giant's share price has surged 230 percent year-to-date on AI memory demand, pushing …US futures bounce after tech selloff as Iran strikes endUS equity futures rebounded in early Thursday trading after Wednesday's sharp tech-led pullback, with confirmation that US military strikes on Iran had been completed swiftly helping to cool oil pr…UK property as pension strategy fails inflation testA UK investment firm is warning Britons not to rely on residential property as their pension after calculating that homes are now worth less in real terms than in 2016. The analysis shows investors…