$Western Digital (WDC) Rebounds +1.78%: Storage Giant Holds $440 Support, Poised to Reclaim $528 ...
📊 Market Recap As of October 2, 2026 (ET), 'WDC' closed at $462.56, up +1.78% (+$8.10). The stock traded in a range of $440.05 – $463.55, recovering sharply from intraday lows. The close remains approximately 42.2% below its 52-week high of $799.87, but is showing renewed upward momentum after a prolonged consolidation phase. 🚀 Key Drivers AI Storage Cycle: Sustained demand for high-capacity HDDs driven by AI data center buildouts continues to support 'WDC' fundamentals, keeping market sentiment cautiously bullish. Capital Inflow Resurgence: Five-day capital flow data shows two consecutive sessions of net inflows (Sept 29: +$17.69M; Sept 30: +$16.04M), signaling renewed institutional accumulation interest. Valuation Re-rating Potential: With a TTM P/E of just 19.05 and robust EPS growth of
$SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) Rose +0.50% to $382.76: Safe-Haven Momentum Builds as Gold ETF Eyes $407 ...
📊 Market Recap As of October 2, 2026, 'GLD' closed at $382.76, gaining +0.50% on the day. The ETF traded in a tight range between $380.36 and $383.70, reflecting a modest recovery from recent selling pressure. The closing price remains approximately 24.9% below its 52-week high of $509.70, while standing about 8.9% above its 52-week low of $351.40. The recent performance suggests a stabilization attempt near the $380 level after a period of weakness. Trading volume of 5.81 million shares was relatively subdued, with a volume ratio of 0.65, indicating limited conviction behind the rebound. In after-hours trading, 'GLD' edged up to $382.89, reinforcing short-term support around the $380-$383 zone. 🚀 Key Drivers Gold Sector Momentum: Positive developments in gold mining stocks, including high
$Tesla (TSLA) Slips -0.20% to $354.11: Support Near $334, Breakout Potential Toward $396 Resistance
📊 Market Recap As of October 2, 2026, 'TSLA' closed at $354.11, down -0.20% for the day with an intraday range of $353.80 to $359.79. The stock remains roughly 29% below its 52-week high of $498.83 and about 19% above its 52-week low of $297.38, reflecting a broad consolidation phase after the previous uptrend lost momentum. 🚀 Key Drivers Tesla–SpaceX speculation: Tesla adjusted its voting mechanism, fueling renewed market discussion about a potential Tesla–SpaceX merger, although both companies have not confirmed any deal. Capital outflow pressure: Five-day capital flow data shows persistent net outflows, with September 30 recording the largest single-day net outflow of approximately 86.61 million, suggesting short-term institutional caution. Analyst sentiment divergence: The average anal
🇨🇳 Tencent’s $7B AI Chip Deal: Is China Finding a New Route to Advanced Compute?
China’s AI companies face a major challenge: they need increasingly powerful computing infrastructure at a time when access to advanced AI chips is becoming more restricted. $TENCENT(00700)$ may have found another route. According to the Financial Times, $TENCENT(00700)$ has agreed to a five-year deal worth roughly $7 billion with $Oracle(ORCL)$, giving it access to around 100,000 advanced AI chips housed in Oracle data centers across Southeast Asia. About 30% of the contract is reportedly being paid upfront. Reuters said it could not independently verify the report, and neither company had commented when its repo
$MU Earnings: The Numbers Are Huge. The Real Story Is Supply.
$Micron Technology(MU)$ just delivered another record quarter — but the most interesting part of the report may not be the headline EPS beat. Micron reported $54.23 billion in fiscal Q4 revenue, up from $41.46 billion in the previous quarter and $11.32 billion a year ago. Non-GAAP EPS came in at $33.42, while non-GAAP gross margin reached 87.0%.  Those are extraordinary numbers. But then Micron raised the bar again. For fiscal Q1 2027, the company is guiding for $61.5 billion ± $1.5 billion in revenue and $38.15 ± $1.00 in non-GAAP EPS, with non-GAAP gross margin expected around 86.25%.  The bigger takeaway is what this says about the memory market. Memory is becoming a bottleneck AI infrastructure isn’t only about GPUs. Every new
STOCK OF THE DAY: $CLS — THE AI TRADE BEYOND THE CHIPS
Everyone is watching Nvidia. Then came the memory trade. Now another part of the AI infrastructure chain is starting to get attention: Networking. $Celestica(CLS)$ — sits in a part of the market that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as GPUs or HBM, but increasingly matters as AI data centres scale. The problem is simple: More AI = more data moving between servers. And eventually, computing power isn’t the only bottleneck. Bandwidth becomes the bottleneck. Fresh analyst coverage is highlighting this exact theme, with networking and optical hardware increasingly viewed as critical infrastructure for next-generation AI systems. Celestica is also being linked to programs involving Alphabet’s custom TPUs, OpenAI’s next-generation ch
$GameStop(GME)$ is back on my radar — and this time, it’s not just because of the meme-stock history. The interesting part is what’s happening behind the ticker. CEO Ryan Cohen just bought another 450,000 GameStop shares for about US$10.6 million on the open market, at an average price around $23.48. That came after additional large purchases earlier in September.  That makes the insider activity hard to ignore. Cohen now beneficially owns roughly 8.8% of GameStop, including warrants.  What makes GME interesting to me isn’t simply “CEO buying = stock goes up.” It’s the size and frequency of the purchases. The market has seen plenty of insider transactions, but repeatedly putting tens of millions of personal capital into the same compan
$900 a share. A $12.2 trillion valuation. That’s the number Citi is putting on the table for $SpaceX(SPCX)$ if its long-term Starship and space-infrastructure vision plays out. Sounds crazy? Maybe. But the interesting part is what has to happen for SpaceX to get there. Starship’s latest flight marked another important step. The massive rocket reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, giving SpaceX another demonstration of how Starship could eventually support a much larger space-based network. And that’s where the valuation story gets bigger than rockets. Citi’s thesis is essentially that SpaceX could become a platform for several huge businesses: 🚀 Reusable launch infrastructure 📡 A much larger Starlink network 🤖 AI infrastructur
📈 THE INVESTING SKILL NOBODY TALKS ABOUT ENOUGH: DOING NOTHING
Markets make it incredibly easy to feel like you should always be doing something. Buy the dip. Sell the rally. Rotate into the next hot sector. Catch the breakout. Move into cash before the next correction. Then repeat. But sometimes the hardest decision an investor can make is doing absolutely nothing. A stock falls 5% and suddenly the thesis feels broken. A stock rises 20% and suddenly it feels like you’re missing out. The market hits a new high and investors start looking for the next crash. The market falls sharply and everyone starts talking about recession. Noise creates urgency — and urgency can lead to decisions that weren’t part of the original plan. One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is the difference between price movement and fundamental change. A stock falling doesn’t
The AI boom needs something that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as GPUs: Electricity. Lots of it. $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ just signed a 20-year power agreement with $Constellation Energy Corp(CEG)$ that could help expand the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Maryland. And this isn’t just another corporate electricity contract. Amazon will support more than $3 billion of investment at the facility, including improvements across the existing 1,790 MW plant and approximately 190 MW of additional generating capacity expected to come online between 2030 and 2032.  The agreement covers 690 MW of power, including the new capacity. Why does this matter? Because the biggest bottleneck in the n
$Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ $AMD Passed Every Chart Test I Have. I Still Can't Sell a Put on It. I've run my sell-put checklist on a lot of names this year. Most fail on the chart. Boeing and SoFi were both trading under their 200-day moving average when I checked, and that's an automatic no for me. AMD is the opposite. It's the cleanest chart I've scored all year, and it's still a NO TRADE. The reason has nothing to do with the company. It's arithmetic, and I think a lot of put sellers here are running into the same wall without noticing. Where AMD stands (close Sept 30) Price: $611.76, up 0.69% on the day 52-week high: $639, so about 4% below the top Up roughly 280% in twelve months 200-day SMA around $515, which puts price about 19% abo
⚡ Missing Piece in the AI Boom: POWER! (Looking at $Defiance AI and Power Infrastructure ETF(AIPO)$ ) Everyone knows ETFs like QQQ, SMH, SOXX, and VGT. They’ve delivered incredible, lifecycle-defining returns off the back of the AI revolution over the past few years. However, these funds focus heavily on software platforms and semiconductor chips. There is a critical piece of the AI Build-up puzzle that pure tech ETFs often under-weight: Electrical Infrastructure and Energy Generation. Without massive power generation and grid upgrades, data centers simply cannot run next-gen AI clusters. 🔎 ETF Spotting: Defiance AI & Power Infrastructure ETF (AIPO) One interesting fund tackling this physical bottleneck head-on is the Defiance AI & Po
McDonald down 32% from its high. The burgers didn't change. The bond market did.
Hi guys rasinbunlover here! This is my first post so I’d appreciate your view and a follow if you like my content:) Came across an interest chart, since March, the US 10Y yield has risen from ~3.95% to 5.28%. Over the same period, $MCD has fallen ~32% from its high. Almost a perfect mirror image MCD vs 10Y 🔍 Why does McDonald trade “against” yields? McDonald's is mature, slow-growing, dividend-heavy and carries a lot of debt. So the market prices it partly like a bond: Higher yields = its steady future cash flows are worth less today A 5%+ Treasury competes directly with its dividend Higher rates slowly raise its own borrowing costs 💰 What the selloff has done to the valuation Forward dividend yield ~3.3%, the highest in over a decade (dividend just raised to $1.93/quarter) P/E at its low
The Micron Paradox: Why $MU Crushes Earnings and the Stock Stands Still
Few phenomena in modern equity markets confuse and frustrate investors quite like the post-earnings behavior of Micron Technology ($MU). Picture the scenario: the quarter ends, and Micron delivers a masterclass print. Revenue surges past top-end guidance, adjusted earnings per share blow out Wall Street’s consensus by double-digit percentages, gross margins expand by hundreds of basis points, and management raises forward guidance while declaring its High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) capacity fully booked through the next calendar year. By any traditional metric, it is a triumph—a quarter that in software or mega-cap tech would trigger a double-digit price surge. Yet, as the after-hours tape rolls, the stock barely budges. It ticks up 1%, turns negative, waffles around flat, and settles into a a
🇺🇸 Wall Street’s September Recap: Stocks, Sectors & the October Outlook
September brought a sharp divergence across U.S. equities. Technology stocks remained resilient, while the broader market came under pressure from rising Treasury yields, elevated oil prices and uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next move. The $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ Nasdaq Composite gained 1.86% in September, while the $S&P 500(.SPX)$ fell about 0.45% and the $Dow Jones(.DJI)$ Industrial Average dropped 4.29%. Despite the monthly pullback, the market entered October after another positive quarter for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. 📊 September by the Numbers Index September Q3 Nasdaq Composite 1.86% 2.47% S&P 500
The $150 Billion Buyback. On Mon, 28 Sep 2026, $NVIDIA(NVDA)$’s CEO Jensen Huang’s announced a record $150 billion share-buyback, the single largest authorization increases in US corporate history. Honestly, it was a direct response to market doubts about NVDA’s valuation and the durability of AI boom - more than a capital-allocation update. Actually, I have touched on the #1 chipmaker’s valuation concerns in my last Thursday post. (click here !to read) By lifting the company’s remaining repurchase capacity to $235 billion thru’ FY 2028, NVDA effectively told investors that, in management’s view, the be
Unlocking Your SRS Potential: Kenny Loh on Tax Relief, the 0.05% Trap and Where to Put Your SRS Mone
Speaker: @Kenny_Loh (Wealth Advisory Director, S-REIT Specialist & SGX Academy Trainer)Live Date: September 29, 2026 (Review Live >>) In this livestream, Kenny Loh walked viewers through how to use the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) to cut their tax bill. He covered how the relief works and how to read your Notice of Assessment. He also explained why leaving SRS cash at 0.05% quietly costs you, where SRS money can actually be invested, and how SRS fits into a layered retirement income plan. Want a deeper dive? We broke this session down into 4 full recap articles, each covering a different piece of the SRS puzzle> Live Recap 1: SRS
I said to buy $Micron Technology(MU)$ at $80. Now it’s trading above $1,000 — and the crazy part? $MU is cheaper right now. 👀 🎯 I didn’t just call $MU to $1,100. I called $1,100 as the earnings target for this quarter. Then $MU hit it. At that point, I said the earnings move was already priced in and told members to consider a $1,000 / $1,100 / $1,200 butterfly instead of chasing calls. Now earnings are out, and the $1,100 target was right on the money. 🔥 But I’m not done with the thesis. I’m still bullish on $MU into Q4, with $1,250 as my next target. $80 → $1,100 was the first leg. Now I’m watching what comes next. 📈 Markets are always moving - and sometimes, the best move is knowing what works for you. With Treasury yields, oil prices and rate ex
$Moderna (MRNA) Drops -5.35%: Cancer Vaccine Rally Cools, $192 Pivot Decides Next Breakout
📊 Market Recap As of the latest close on October 1, 'Moderna, Inc.' (MRNA) settled at $192.57, down -5.35% from the prior session. The stock opened at $186.55, touched a high of $196.83 and a low of $184.58, with amplitude of 6.02%. The pullback leaves the price roughly 7.8% below its 52-week high of $208.90. 🚀 Key Drivers Personalized Cancer Vaccine Catalyst: Three abstracts on intismeran autogene were accepted for ESMO, including pivotal 3-phase INTerpath-001 data for melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Profit-Taking After Parabolic Run: Following a single-day surge of over 12% previously and a year-to-date gain exceeding 500%, momentum traders locked in gains, reflected by a short volume ratio near 19% on recent sessions. Valuation Concerns Against N