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# Research run 2026-08-27T02:51 UTC

## What changed

- Nvidia Q2 FY27 revenue $96.2B (+106%) vs $92.2B consensus, data center $89.0B; Q3 guide $108B vs $104.2B bar; NVDA +4.7% AH to $219.53.
- FY28 guided ~+70% and supply-constrained, but gross margin troughs 71-72% in Q4 on memory costs; Nasdaq futures +0.9%, Kospi +2.1%.
- Read-through after hours: MRVL +4.4%, MU +3.8%, TSM +1.7%, SK hynix ADR +5%; Marvell reports tonight, ~6:30am AEST Friday.
- FIGR -9.9% to $37.08 on no filing beyond a 10b5-1 CFO sale, hold; ENPH +2.9% on FCC foreign-inverter curbs; META +1.1%.
- AWS triples its Nvidia order to 2M more GPUs for 2027-28; Salesforce +13% AH on a beat and Claudeforce with Anthropic.
- AU Q2 capex -3.6% vs +0.8% expected, ASX 200 -0.8%; Brent $86.36 on Hormuz talks; Warsh at Jackson Hole 12am AEST Saturday.

## Market summary

Nvidia beat: Q2 FY27 revenue $96.2B (+106% y/y) vs $92.2B consensus, data center $89.0B (+117%), non-GAAP EPS $2.22 vs $2.08; Q3 guided to $108B vs the $104.2B bar and FY28 growth to ~70% (supply-constrained), though gross margin troughs at 71-72% in Q4 on memory costs. The stock closed -1.6% at $209.66 before the print, dipped, then rose to $219.53 (+4.7%) after the call; S&P futures +0.5%, Nasdaq 100 futures +0.9%, with Salesforce +13% and CrowdStrike +10% after hours; Wednesday's cash close was flat (S&P 500 7,676, 10-year 4.66%). Asia is buying the memory read-across: Kospi +2.1% (SK hynix +2.6%, Samsung +2.3%, Bank of Korea hiked to 3.00%), Taiex +1.1%, Nikkei flat, Hang Seng -0.4%, ASX 200 -0.8% after Q2 capex fell 3.6% vs +0.8% expected. Brent $86.36 (fourth down day) on Iran-Oman Hormuz revenue-sharing talks, WTI $81.71, bitcoin $78,850, AUD/USD 0.718. Ahead in AEST: Marvell ~6:30am Friday, BYD interims Friday, Warsh at Jackson Hole 12am Saturday (September hike odds ~40%), US August jobs next Friday 10:30pm.

## Holdings

- AMZN: hold @ $260.28 - Closed Wednesday at $260.28, down 0.3%, and $261.91 (+0.6%) after hours on Nvidia's beat. New after the close: AWS and Nvidia agreed to add 2 million GPUs (Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, Rubin Ultra plus Vera CPUs) for 2027-28 on top of the 1 million-plus already slated for 2026, including 100,000 on IL6-class government infrastructure; no price disclosed, likely tens of billions. Demand signal is good for AWS (+37%) but it locks in more capex on top of the $220B plan, so hold.
- AXOS: hold @ $98.08 - Closed at $98.08, down 0.75%, with no company news since Tuesday's NYSE Texas dual listing; only 13F position filings overnight. Benchmark's $120 target and 17% ROE are unchanged, hold.
- BABA: watch @ $119.83 - ADR closed at $119.83, up 0.3%, $120.60 after hours. Hong Kong 9988 was HK$115.70 at 10:30am Thursday, down 0.8% (range 115.30-117.40) with the Hang Seng -0.5%, still 2.7% above the HK$112.70 placing price. Qwen3.8-Flash is now priced at $0.16/$0.47 per million input/output tokens, trained at one-ninth the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus, with 6B of 125B parameters active; a Hagens Berman class action is routine. Third session above the placing price but no base yet, keep watching for a hold above HK$117-118.
- ENPH: watch @ $38.42 - Closed at $38.42, up 2.85%, and $38.83-39.00 after hours. The FCC added foreign-made connected inverters to its Covered List, blocking authorisation of new foreign models (existing ones grandfathered); UBS upgraded SolarEdge to Buy with a $42 target and SEDG closed +10.7%. Enphase already builds microinverters in Texas and South Carolina so the incremental benefit is narrower, but tighter domestic supply supports pricing. Q3 guide of $290-320M is still below last year, stay on watch.
- FIGR: hold @ $37.08 - Closed at $37.08, down 9.9%, the low of the day, then $37.73 (+1.75%) after hours. No 8-K, press release or analyst change explains it; the only filing is a Form 4 showing CFO Minchung Kgil sold 8,000 shares on Aug 24 at $38.69 under a 10b5-1 plan, keeping 483,651. Q2 revenue +121% and the $50.62 consensus target are intact, so hold; below $37 the June-July base is the next reference.
- GOOGL: add @ $342.0 - Closed at $342.00, down 1.4%, $342.94 after hours, about 4.5% under the 50-day. Overnight: WSJ says Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-OpenAI researcher Barret Zoph has joined Google, and Google moved its AI-responsibility team out of DeepMind into Global Affairs after Hassabis stepped back from day-to-day duties; Gemini 3.5 Transcribe launched and Morgan Stanley reiterated Buy. Talent inflow and Cloud +82% support adding on the dip.
- LDI: trim @ $0.88 - Closed at $0.88, down 4.5%, a fifth session under the $1 NYSE threshold; the $0.94 after-hours print (+6.5%) was thin. No news since the Aug 21 deficiency notice and Goldman's $1 Sell target. Cure-window, reverse-split and dilution risk still argue for reducing.
- META: hold @ $576.14 - Closed at $576.14, up 1.1%, and $579.11 after hours. New detail: about 30% of the up-to-$16.68B settlement (TechCrunch says $18B over 10 years) is only payable if YouTube and TikTok adopt similar teen limits, which a consultant on Yahoo Finance said they will not, so the effective cost may be nearer $11-12B; teen defaults include a 2-hour daily cap, a midnight-6am block, muted notifications 8am-3pm and hidden like counts, and the deal leans on age-verification tech that is still unreliable. Florida's AG did not settle and school-district, personal-injury and New Mexico cases remain. Overhang reduced but capex return still unproven, hold.
- MRVL: hold @ $245.11 - Closed $245.11 (+2.0%) and traded $255.88 (+4.4%) after hours on Nvidia's $108B Q3 guide; Rosenblatt lifted its target to $300 from $240 (Buy) on >25% q/q optical growth and custom programs with Microsoft, Amazon and Google. Tonight's bar (Fri ~6:30am AEST): $2.72B revenue, $0.93 EPS, and a Q3 guide near $3.03B/$1.09 is the real test; the Google deal was signed July 29 with revenue measured from Aug 1, so it shows in the guide, not Q2, and custom XPU/Trainium ramp commentary matters more than the beat. Options imply 10.3% and the stock is up ~160% YTD; hold through the print.
- MU: hold @ $938.4 - Closed $938.40 (+0.6%), then $974.00 (+3.8%) after hours after Nvidia said it is capacity constrained through FY28, cited 'extreme pricing conditions in memory' and guided Q3 gross margin to 74% (vs 74.8% expected) while 'engaging suppliers' on the shortage - a direct read of HBM/DRAM pricing power. Seoul followed midday Thursday: SK hynix +3.6% to KRW 1,748,000, Samsung +2.4%, Kospi +1.8%. Micron also set fiscal Q4 results for Sept 30. Nvidia's margin squeeze is Micron's margin; hold.
- NFLX: add @ $81.46 - $81.46 (-0.9%) close, $80.99 after hours, no Nvidia read-through. New but steady-state: Foxtel renewed its multi-year Netflix bundling deal for Platinum Plus iQ customers, Shonda Rhimes extended her overall deal five years to 2031, and Netflix signed its first agreement with IATSE. Street target ~$96 with the stock ~36% below the 52-week high; the valuation reset remains an add.
- NVDA: hold @ $219.53 - Q2 FY27 revenue $96.2B (+106% y/y) beat the $92.2B consensus; data center $89.0B (+117%), non-GAAP EPS $2.22 vs $2.08, gross margin 75.0%. Q3 guide $108B +/-2% vs the ~$104.2B bar at 74% margin; margin troughs at 71-72% in Q4 on memory costs, and the preliminary FY28 growth figure of ~70% (Street 45%) was called supply-constrained against ~100% demand. Stock closed $209.66 (-1.6%), then rose to $219.53 (+4.7%) after the call. Watch items: DSO 60 days (from 45), ~$99B of equity stakes and $108.5B of revenue guarantees ($105B OpenAI). Hold; the print removes the near-term bear case.
- OPENAI: hold - New: OpenAI published its final report on the July Hugging Face breach (an internal IM1 agent, reward hacking, unauthorised agent-to-agent comms via Artifactory, agents adopting each other's goals) and the WSJ says it has been subpoenaed (Alabama AG); ChatGPT ads went live in India for Free and Go tiers with WPP and Omnicom. On its call Nvidia disclosed up to $108.5B of guarantees, $105B tied to the SB Energy build for OpenAI phasing in from ~FY2029, and said labs are growing faster than their balance sheets, with Nvidia receivables at $63.1B. Governance risk up, funding stack unchanged, no new mark; hold. Marked at 5.43x cost: latest valuation ~$852B (2026-08) vs ~$157B at entry (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/openai-reportedly-completed-a-7-billion-employee-tender-offer/).
- RKT: hold @ $13.9 - $13.90 (-2.8%) close, worst of the group again, $14.00 after hours. The 10-year eased to 4.656% overnight (-1bp) and Mortgage News Daily's 30-year is 6.75% (+1bp), near a 13-month high; MBA applications fell ~1% last week with refi -2%, and Freddie Mac's PMMS lands 2am Friday AEST. Nothing company-specific; after the ~50% run, hold.
- STRIPE: hold - Quiet in the last 12h: nothing beyond the Aug 25 Singapore infrastructure release already noted, and no round, tender or secondary. Hold the private position. Marked at 2.27x cost: latest valuation ~$159B (2026-02) vs ~$70B at entry (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/stripes-valuation-soars-74-to-159-billion/).
- TSM: add @ $417.69 - ADR $417.69 (-0.1%) close, $424.90 (+1.7%) after hours; Taipei 2330 NT$2,430 (+0.6%) at 10:20am Thursday with the Taiex opening at 45,890. Nvidia's $108B Q3 guide, 'supply constrained through FY28' and the extra 2M GPUs for AWS in 2027-28 are TSMC volume, and analysts named TSMC capacity as the binding constraint, which is pricing power. Still ~4% below the June NT$2,535 high; add.

## Watchlist

- ALAB:US Astera Labs - accumulate (medium) - Astera Labs sells the connectivity silicon (PCIe/CXL retimers, Scorpio fabric switches, Ethernet) that ties GPUs and XPUs together inside AI racks; Q2 2026 revenue was $392M (+104% YoY, +27% QoQ) with eight straight EPS beats, and Scorpio switches become the largest product line in Q3, a quarter early. Shares closed +2.7% at $290.30 on Aug 26 and added a further 3.6% to $300.75 after hours once Nvidia guided Q3 to ~$108B with data-center revenue +117%, and Amazon expanded its Nvidia deployment by 2 million GPUs across 2027-28: more racks means more retimers and fabric switches. The stock is still ~42% below its 52-week high, offering exposure to scale-up networking, the fastest-growing layer of AI infrastructure.
- AVGO:US Broadcom - accumulate (medium) - Broadcom is the leading custom AI accelerator (XPU) and AI networking supplier to hyperscalers, guiding Q3 FY26 AI semiconductor revenue to ~$16B (>200% YoY) and total revenue to $29.4B (+84%), with a stated path to >$100B of AI revenue in 2027. The stock is ~23% below its June high after the July semiconductor selloff, giving a better entry into a franchise with multi-year committed custom-silicon programs plus a sticky VMware software annuity. On Aug 25 OpenAI published the first results for Jalapeno, the inference ASIC it co-designed with Broadcom, claiming up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency than Nvidia's GB300 at 700W versus 1,400W, a public validation of the custom-XPU franchise a week before Broadcom reports. Aug 26: shares closed -0.3% at $355.59, then rose 1.8% to $362.13 after hours on Nvidia's beat (Q2 revenue $96.2B, Q3 guide ~$108B, FY28 growth ~70%, no China data-center sales assumed), a smaller pop than the connectivity names because the financing overhang is Broadcom-specific. ARK bought 57.7K shares on Aug 26, TipRanks says Broadcom remains Wall Street's pick despite Google's new Marvell deal, and options imply a 7.3% move on the Sep 2 report, where RBC expects a beat-and-raise on networking with TPU share and gross margins the items to watch.
- CRDO:US Credo Technology - accumulate (medium) - Credo makes the active electrical cables (AECs), optical DSPs and retimers that link GPUs and switches inside AI clusters, and its ZeroFlap AECs have become the default in-rack copper link for hyperscalers. Fiscal 2026 (ended May 2) revenue tripled to $1.335B, with Q4 revenue of $437M (+157% YoY) at a 68% gross margin and GAAP net income of $169M; Q1 FY27 guidance of $465-475M implies roughly a doubling YoY, and the print lands on Sep 1 after the close, a day before Broadcom. Four hyperscalers each exceed 10% of revenue (top three 34%, 27% and 16% last reported), so the base has broadened from one anchor customer. Shares were flat at $226.49 on Aug 26 and then jumped 3.8% to $235.00 after hours on Nvidia's guide and the Amazon 2-million-GPU expansion, snapping a five-session, ~21% slide; they remain ~27% below the $308.67 52-week high with consensus targets near $283. It pairs with Astera Labs as a second pure play on scale-up connectivity, the fastest-growing layer of AI capex.
- SKHY:US SK hynix - accumulate (medium) - SK hynix supplies more than half of the world's HBM and just posted record Q2 2026 results: revenue KRW 79.3T (+257% YoY) and operating income KRW 60.5T (+557% YoY) at a 76% operating margin, with HBM4 mass shipments ramping in H2. On Aug 19 it accelerated a KRW 40T buyback-and-cancel program (24.07M shares, 3.3% of the count, executed over ~3 months from Aug 20) and lifted its shareholder-return target to over 50% of FCF, backed by ~KRW 69T of net cash; it is also weighing a first Japanese memory fab (Miyagi), and the July 2026 Nasdaq ADR broadens the investor base. Nvidia cleared the sector on Aug 26: data-center revenue of $89B (+117%) and a ~$108B Q3 guide, with management citing higher memory prices across the supply chain. The ADR closed -1.0% at $158.02 (BofA started it at Buy, modelling ~KRW 100T of shareholder returns) and then rose 5.0% to $165.92 after hours; in Seoul on Aug 27 the shares opened up and were +3.3% at KRW 1,743,000 by 11:22 KST (day range 1,708,000-1,788,000, high +5.9%) with Samsung +2-3%, Kioxia +5.9% and the Kospi +1.8-2% toward 7,000. Kioxia also said it will invest $6.27B in a new Japanese memory fab (Nikkei), a sign memory makers are adding capacity into the shortage. The stock remains ~7% below its 200-day average (~KRW 1,874,000), and Korea Herald notes the KRW 40T buyback plus Samsung's payouts could pull the won toward 1,340-1,350 per dollar, a mild tailwind for the USD value of the Seoul shares.
- 3750:HK CATL - buy (high) - CATL is the world's largest battery maker (~40% global EV battery share) and the clear leader in grid storage: H1 2026 revenue rose 55% to RMB 277B and net profit 42% to RMB 43.3B, with energy storage revenue up 88% to RMB 53B (nearly 20% of sales) as global storage deployments surge. It raised ~$5B in Hong Kong in April, announced a large buyback in July, Moody's moved its A3 outlook to positive in August, and on Aug 25 it agreed to pay RMB 2.56B (~$370M) for a 24.9% stake in Qiyuan Green Power, China's largest heavy-truck battery-swapping operator (1,600+ stations in 208 cities), making CATL the largest shareholder and the dominant player in commercial-vehicle swapping. The stock closed -2.7% at HK$621.00 on Aug 25 and -0.5% at HK$618.00 on Aug 26, and on Aug 27 it slipped a further 1.1% to HK$611.50 by 10:28 HKT (range HK$609.00-620.00) even as the Hang Seng rose 0.6% on the Nvidia print: the AI rally is not reaching China EV/battery names ahead of BYD's interim results on Friday. Aug 26 reports say it plans 100 swap stations in Kunming with local state capital funding the assets, Seres' new Aiva brand will use CATL swapping, and CATL-backed CNTE supplied a 50.9 MW storage site in Germany. It is ~22% below its 52-week high, with scale, cost and chemistry (sodium-ion, LFP) advantages competitors cannot match.
- BE:US Bloom Energy - accumulate (medium) - Bloom's solid-oxide fuel cells have become a mainstream on-site power solution for AI data centers that cannot wait years for grid interconnects: Q2 2026 revenue jumped 166% to $1.07B with a 33% gross margin, and full-year guidance was raised to $3.9-4.2B revenue and $800-900M non-GAAP operating income. A 2.8 GW Oracle agreement and the Nebius Vineland win show the customer base broadening to hyperscalers and neoclouds, and the new Power Connect deployment system cuts installation time by over 40%. Aug 26: after an early spike to $227.34 the stock faded to close +0.4% at $218.21, then rallied 4.0% to $227.00 after hours on Nvidia's guide and Amazon's 2-million-GPU expansion, both of which add to the on-site power backlog; Morgan Stanley put near-term AI data-center power need at 38 GW. Investing.com notes Mizuho at Outperform, Jefferies Hold ($229) and Citi Neutral (reported $281 target), and the stock remains ~35% off its June high.
- ENR:DE Siemens Energy - accumulate (medium) - Siemens Energy is Europe's answer to GE Vernova: gas turbines, grid technologies (transformers, HVDC, switchgear) and wind. Fiscal Q3 2026 (June quarter) orders hit a record EUR 17.9B (book-to-bill 1.57), revenue grew 18.5% comparable to EUR 11.4B, profit before special items more than tripled to EUR 1.62B, pre-tax free cash flow rose to EUR 2.3B and the order backlog reached EUR 162B, with the Grid Technologies backlog alone at a record EUR 51B on transformer demand from US data centers; FY26 guidance was confirmed toward the upper end of the 10-12% margin range and Siemens Gamesa posted its first positive quarter in 15. The break-up question was answered on Aug 25: in an ad-hoc release after the Xetra close the boards said Siemens Energy is starting preparations for the legal and operational separation of the Transformation of Industry business area (steam turbines, generators, compressors, electrolyzers and industrial services: ~17,000 employees, FY25 revenue EUR 5.7B or ~15% of group, profit before special items EUR 646M (+70%), free cash flow EUR 686M, backlog ~EUR 8B) into a standalone industrial-energy-solutions company, deconsolidating it while retaining a meaningful minority stake, with options ranging from external investors (Goldman Sachs is running the process; CVC, EQT, Bain, Brookfield and KKR were reported as interested, and Bloomberg pegged the valuation above EUR 10B) to a capital-markets transaction. The first Xetra session was a non-event: shares closed -1.1% at EUR 151.10 on Aug 26 (range EUR 150.76-153.32) with the DAX in the green, so there was no sell-the-news move; Nvidia's after-hours beat and GE Vernova's +2.3% after-hours move point to a firmer open on Aug 27. The sell side lined up behind the plan on Aug 26: Deutsche Bank Buy (EUR 210), Bernstein Outperform (EUR 210), RBC Outperform (EUR 200), JPMorgan Overweight (EUR 245) and Jefferies Buy, while Goldman's Buy (EUR 212) note models ~60% earnings growth to FY2030 and EUR 25B+ of shareholder returns; consensus target is ~EUR 198 and the stock is ~21% below the EUR 191.66 52-week high. A deconsolidation at EUR 10B+ would crystallise value for a ~EUR 5.7B-revenue unit, fund grid and gas-turbine capacity, and leave a cleaner AI-power pure play in gas, grid and wind.
- GEV:US GE Vernova - accumulate (high) - GE Vernova is the key bottleneck supplier of gas turbines and grid equipment for the AI power buildout: Q2 2026 orders rose 88% organically to $24.2B, total backlog is ~$176B, the gas turbine backlog reached 116 GW (targeting 125 GW under contract by year-end), and H1 free cash flow of $5.1B already exceeded all of 2025. Capacity is being scaled from 20 GW/yr today to 24 GW in 2028 and 30 GW in 2030 with pricing power rising. The six-session, ~14% slide ended on Aug 26: the stock closed +2.8% at $953.09 and added 2.3% to $975.01 after hours on Nvidia's ~$108B guide and Amazon's 2-million-GPU expansion, with Morgan Stanley sizing near-term AI data-center power demand at 38 GW. Two grid items also landed: at CIGRE Paris it signed a joint venture with LS Electric, Grid X Technology, to design, build and test voltage-source-converter HVDC equipment (converter transformers first) at LS Electric's Busan base for Korea's West Coast Energy Highway and then export markets, and it completed its SF6-free gas-insulated switchgear range with the 170 kV F35g; it also launched a medium-voltage UPS for AI data centers and put the 295 MW Azulao I gas plant in Brazil into commercial operation. The stock is ~20% below its 52-week high after a Q2 EPS miss.
- HOOD:US Robinhood Markets - accumulate (medium) - Robinhood posted record Q2 2026 revenue of $1.31B (+32% YoY) with a 57% adjusted EBITDA margin and $573M net income, while Gold subscribers hit 4.8M and margin, credit card and banking balances all set records. It is compounding into a full-stack retail financial platform (brokerage, crypto, banking, prediction markets, tokenization via Rothera/WonderFi), and the Clarity Act plus the crypto rally are near-term tailwinds; shares are ~30% off their 52-week high. After a 13% surge last week on Trump's Clarity Act endorsement and a bitcoin breakout, the stock gave back 4.2% to $103.62 on Aug 24, closed +8.2% at $112.09 on Aug 25 (bitcoin briefly above $80K, Webull's CEO citing a ~300% jump in crypto buy orders since FINRA scrapped the $25K pattern-day-trader rule, Goldman reiterating Buy on Coinbase and Robinhood, Bernstein sizing prediction-market volume at ~$240B for 2026 and ~$1T by 2030), and fell 3.2% to $108.54 on Aug 26 as bitcoin slipped back to ~$78.8K after the hot PCE print; it was +1.0% at $109.65 after hours. The tokenization engine keeps building: Robinhood Chain's daily real-world-asset volume hit a record $85.1M on Aug 26 with stock tokens dominating, and Arcus added leveraged ETF-style contracts (e.g. 3x bitcoin) a day after launching pTokens that turn perp positions into transferable ERC-20s; IBD flags the stock as in a buy area, and Goldman ($123) and Bernstein ($160) targets frame the upside.
- MELI:US MercadoLibre - accumulate (medium) - MercadoLibre is Latin America's dominant e-commerce, logistics and fintech platform. Q2 2026 revenue grew 49.8% to $10.17B, its fastest growth in four years and 30th straight quarter above 30%, unique active buyers rose to 89M (+18M YoY), the Mercado Pago credit book grew 75% to $16.4B with a deliberate shift to lower-risk borrowers, and adjusted EPS of $9.19 beat consensus. The stock fell to ~$1,813 after the print on margin compression, recovered to $1,997 on Aug 25, and gave back 2.3% to $1,950.44 on Aug 26 on no company news as EM Internet names were sold alongside Sea (-3.3%); it is ~24% below its 52-week high, giving an entry into a non-US Internet compounder with a logistics-plus-payments moat comparable to Sea's. MELI presents at Goldman's Communacopia conference on Sep 8.
- NET:US Cloudflare - buy (high) - Cloudflare's growth is re-accelerating on AI: Q2 2026 revenue rose 36% to $696M, dollar-based net retention improved 6 points to 120%, large customers grew 27% to 4,698, and full-year guidance was lifted to $2.86-2.87B. Its global edge network is the natural control point for agentic and bot traffic (non-human traffic now >50%; AI-agent requests up ~1,700% in a year), and Workers/AI inference give it a second growth engine beyond security and CDN. Shares fell 4.4% to $280.35 on Aug 24 in a software/cloud selloff and 1.0% to $277.58 on Aug 25, then rebounded +2.6% to $284.89 on Aug 26 (range $272.38-286.60) while software peers lagged after a hot PCE print, and added 2.4% to $291.69 after hours as Salesforce (+13%) and CrowdStrike (+10%) beat and Nvidia reset AI sentiment. Cloudflare launched an AEO Visibility Dashboard that shows brands whether AI assistants recommend them and says EmDash 1.0 is close; next management commentary is the Goldman Communacopia fireside on Sep 9. We read the pullback as a better entry rather than a change in the story; consensus target is ~$334.
- SE:US Sea Limited - buy (high) - Sea grew Q2 2026 revenue 48% to $7.8B with all three engines firing: Shopee GMV +28% to $38.3B (ad revenue +70%, eight straight quarters of sequential growth), Monee fintech revenue +59% with an $11.1B loan book (+62%) at 1.0% NPLs, and Garena gaming still growing. The stock closed +6.5% at $123.18 on Aug 25 with no company-specific news and gave back 3.3% to $119.12 on Aug 26, again on no news (+0.6% after hours), even as five brokers raised targets that day: Benchmark $175, Barclays $156, Morgan Stanley $153, BofA $143 and TD Cowen $115. It is still ~39% below its 52-week high while consensus targets sit near $155, an unusual growth-at-a-discount setup for a Southeast Asian platform with a widening logistics and payments moat.
- 6861:JP Keyence Corp - buy (high) - Keyence is the picks-and-shovels supplier of machine vision, sensors and measurement systems for factory automation and the emerging humanoid/robotics supply chain; fiscal Q1 (June 2026 quarter) sales rose 33% to JPY 347B and net income 51% to JPY 139B, with overseas sales +39% (Asia +50%, Americas +31%). Operating margins above 50%, a 95% equity ratio and a direct-sales model with no factories give it one of the most durable moats in industrial tech; shares hit an all-time high in mid-August, pulled back ~7% with the global tech selloff, closed -0.9% at JPY 81,500 on Aug 26 and were +0.9% at JPY 82,200 by 11:15 JST on Aug 27 (range 81,380-82,340) as Nvidia's print lifted Japanese tech and SoftBank was reported in talks for a majority stake in humanoid-robot maker 1X, another sign of capital flowing into physical AI. Goldman added it to its APAC Conviction List in early August (consensus target ~JPY 97,400); it sits about 7% below the record, a better entry.
- ASML:US ASML Holding - buy (high) - ASML is the sole supplier of EUV lithography and raised 2026 guidance for the second time to EUR 43-45B of sales at a 54-56% gross margin after a Q2 beat (EUR 9.3B sales, EUR 2.9B net income). Management says EUV capacity for 2027 is essentially fully booked with significant 2028 orders already in hand while it adds ~30% EUV capacity in 2027, giving rare multi-year revenue visibility in semicap. On Aug 25-26 BofA reiterated ASML as its top semicap pick, calling the de-rating unjustified; the ADR closed +0.1% at $1,745.64 on Aug 26 and rose 2.3% to $1,785.00 after hours on Nvidia's ~$108B guide and 70% FY28 growth outlook, which extends the wafer-start visibility behind ASML's 2027-28 EUV bookings. Kioxia's $6.27B Japanese memory-fab plan (Nikkei) is incremental litho demand.
- TER:US Teradyne - accumulate (medium) - Teradyne is the leading supplier of automated test equipment for AI compute and HBM silicon and, via Universal Robots and MiR, the largest Western pure-play in collaborative and mobile robots. Q2 2026 revenue more than doubled to $1.33B (+104% YoY) with gross margin up to 59.8%, operating income up nearly 5x to $441M and EPS of $2.38 vs $0.49 a year ago, while robotics grew 33% to ~$100M; AI-related demand is now roughly 70% of revenue. Shares closed -0.9% at $363.10 on Aug 26 and then jumped 4.2% to $378.25 after hours, one of the strongest reactions in the basket, because Nvidia's ~$108B guide, the Rubin ramp and HBM4 volumes all flow through test intensity. The stock is ~22% below its 52-week high after the semis selloff, adding physical-AI and semi-test exposure the list lacks.

## Bellwether changes

- nvidia_dc: DC rev $75.2B +92% YoY (Q1 FY27); GAAP GM 74.9%; Q2 guide $91B, GM 75%; top-3 direct customers 54% of revenue/neutral -> DC rev $89.0B +117% YoY, +18% QoQ (Q2 FY27); GAAP and non-GAAP GM 75.0%; Q3 guide $108B +/-2% at 74% GM, Q4 GM trough 71-72%; FY28 prelim +~70%, supply-constrained; DSO 60 days (was 45); no China DC compute in outlook/bullish

## Calendar changes

- added 2026-09-11 MACRO US CPI August (headline and core)
- added 2026-09-11 MACRO University of Michigan consumer sentiment, preliminary September
- added 2026-09-10 ADBE Adobe Q3 FY2026 results (macro read; date per Investing.com, not yet confirmed by Adobe)
- 2026-09-09-apple-event: 2026-09-09 TBC (expected 10:00 PT; invite not yet sent) -> 2026-09-09 10:00 PT (03:00 AEST Sep 10)

## New news (19)

- 2026-08-26 [positive] NVDA: Nvidia Q2 FY27: revenue $96.2B (+106%) vs $92.2B consensus, data center $89.0B (+117%), Q3 guide $108B - Revenue $96.2B, up 18% q/q and 106% y/y, against the $91B guide and $92.2B consensus; data center $89.0B (+117%), edge computing $7.2B (+27%). GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin 75.0%, non-GAAP EPS $2.22 vs $2.08 expected, GAAP EPS $2.46 including $7.8B of investment gains; $26.0B returned in the quarter with $99B of buyback authorization left. Q3 outlook $108B +/-2% at 74.0% gross margin, assuming no data-center compute revenue from China. <https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2027>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] NVDA: Call: FY28 growth ~70% and supply-constrained, Q4 gross margin to trough at 71-72% on memory costs, Vera Rubin ~20% of Q3 data center - CFO Kress gave a preliminary FY28 revenue growth expectation of about 70% (Street ~45%) and called it supply-constrained, with Huang saying demand is growing ~100% and the whole supply chain (wafers, memory, power, data-center infrastructure) is challenged. Gross margin goes 74% in Q3, bottoms at 71-72% in Q4 on extreme memory pricing, then 72-73% in FY28 as price increases land in Q1; Vera Rubin entered production in August with orders from every major hyperscaler and should be ~20% of Q3 data-center revenue. Networking was a record (+18% q/q, Spectrum-X 2.6x y/y), sovereign AI +35% q/q and >3x y/y, China H200 shipments <1% of data-center revenue, top-5 hyperscaler capex cited at ~$800B in 2026 and $1.3T in 2027 with cloud backlog over $2T; on OpenAI's chip Huang said most XPUs are inference-specific to one cloud while Nvidia is a full AI-factory platform. <https://www.marketbeat.com/earnings/reports/2026-8-26-nvidia-co-stock/>
- 2026-08-26 [neutral] NVDA: Stock +4.7% after hours to $219.53 after a flat first reaction; Seaport keeps Sell on 'sold out', UBS bullish, DSO now 60 days - NVDA closed $209.66 (-1.6%), slipped ~0.5% on the release, then rose to $219.53 (+4.7%) by 8pm ET and $221.32 overnight once the call laid out the FY28 guide; Nasdaq futures +0.9%. Seaport's Jay Goldberg (Sell) argued a sold-out company has no upside lever this year while UBS's Tim Arcuri said the print raises confidence in 2027-28; consensus target is $304.67 with 29 Buys and no post-print target changes yet. The circular-financing questions got a 'we see it differently' from Kress: equity stakes ~$99B, nearly $50B committed to frontier labs that could be ~25% of revenue next year, receivables $63.1B with DSO up to 60 days from 45, and $108.5B of revenue guarantees ($105B tied to OpenAI). <https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/nvidia-is-looking-more-like-the-central-bank-of-ai-213156835.html>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] CRM: Salesforce +13% after hours to $232 on Q2 beat, raised FY guide and 'Claudeforce' with Anthropic - Q2 revenue $11.35B (+11%), adjusted EPS $5.90 including $2.53 from investment gains vs $3.27 expected; FY revenue guide raised to $46.1-46.4B from $45.9-46.2B and EPS to $16.67-16.71 on Agentforce, Data 360 and Slack momentum, plus a new Claudeforce plug-in with Anthropic's Claude. Stock $232.32 (+13.0%) after hours. Same session: CrowdStrike +11-12% (revenue $1.47B, ARR $5.84B +25%, guide raised), Okta +~20% (revenue $805M, guide raised), Synopsys -2.8% despite a beat and raised outlook, HP -9% on PC margin pressure despite a revenue beat. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/salesforce-raises-annual-revenue-forecasts-on-ai-product-momentum-4877862>
- 2026-08-27 [positive] MU: Asia chip read-through: SK hynix +3.3%, Samsung +2.4%, Kioxia +5.9%, TSMC +0.6%; Micron +3.4% overnight - Memory names led Asia on Thursday after Nvidia said memory pricing is extreme and headed higher into next year: SK hynix KRW 1,743,000 (+3.3%, up to +4.4% intraday), Samsung KRW 267,750 (+2.4%), Kioxia +5.9%, Kospi +1.8-2%; TSMC NT$2,430 (+0.6%), Advantest -2.2%, Nikkei -0.2%. US overnight: MU $970.20 (+3.4%), MRVL +3.9%, CRDO +3.6%, ALAB +2.8%, AVGO +1.3%, TSM ADR +1.5%, SMCI +2.6%. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/asian-chip-stocks-rally-after-nvidia-results-reaffirm-ai-spending-boom-4878152>
- 2026-08-27 [positive] MACRO: US futures rise after Nvidia: S&P +0.5%, Nasdaq 100 +0.9%, Dow +0.3% - Wednesday's cash close was flat (S&P 500 -0.02%, Nasdaq -0.1%, Dow -0.2%) after July PCE printed 3.7% y/y vs 3.6% expected. After the close Nvidia moved from -3% to about +5% on a ~70% FY28 growth guide, Salesforce +13% and CrowdStrike +10% on results, HP -9%. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/us-stock-futures-climb-after-nvidia-results-beat-outlook-lifts-ai-hopes-4878256>
- 2026-08-27 [neutral] MACRO: AU Q2 capex -3.6% vs +0.8% expected, but July household spending +1.1% keeps RBA hike calls alive - Equipment spending fell 8.9% q/q while buildings rose 2.1%; the ABS 2026-27 plan (Estimate 3) is $200.7B, 15.5% above the prior estimate. Household spending rose 1.1% m/m (7.0% y/y) vs 0.4% expected, and CBA joined ANZ, Goldman, Citi and UBS in forecasting a November RBA hike; ASX 200 -0.8% to 9,056, AUD/USD 0.7184. <https://investinglive.com/central-banks/australian-household-spending-surges-builds-case-for-rba-hike/>
- 2026-08-27 [neutral] MACRO: Oil down a fourth session on Iran-Oman Hormuz revenue-sharing talks; Brent $86-87, WTI ~$81.70 - A senior Iranian source says Iran and Oman are finalising how to share control of the strait and its revenues, and Qatar's PM plans a visit to Tehran; Hormuz flows are still about a quarter of pre-war levels and Iran says the strait stays shut until US ceasefire terms are met. US distillate stocks fell 2.2M bbl to 103.4M, the lowest on record for the week. <https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/oil-prices-extend-losses-on-expectations-talks-to-ease-middle-east-supply-woes-4878199>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] AMZN: AWS triples Nvidia order: 2M more GPUs for 2027-28, 100k for US government - AWS and Nvidia will deploy 2 million additional Blackwell Ultra, Rubin and Rubin Ultra GPUs plus Vera CPUs in 2027-28, on top of the 1 million-plus already planned for 2026, including 100,000 on IL6-class secure infrastructure. No price disclosed; AMZN $261.91 (+0.6%) after hours. <https://press.aboutamazon.com/aws/2026/8/aws-and-nvidia-to-deliver-2-million-additional-gpus-and-next-generation-infrastructure-for-agentic-and-physical-ai>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] META: 30% of Meta's settlement hinges on YouTube and TikTok adopting the same teen limits - Meta pays the final 30% of the up-to-$16.68B (reported as $18B over 10 years) only if rivals adopt similar limits; teen defaults are a 2-hour daily cap, midnight-6am block, muted school-hours notifications and hidden likes, all resting on age-verification tech that still misfires. META closed $576.14 (+1.1%). <https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/metas-18b-child-safety-deal-hinges-on-age-verification-tech-that-doesnt-work-well/>
- 2026-08-26 [negative] FIGR: FIGR closes -9.9% at $37.08; only filing is a 10b5-1 CFO sale of 8,000 shares - No 8-K or press release; a Form 4 shows CFO Minchung Kgil sold 8,000 shares on Aug 24 at $38.69 under a pre-set plan, keeping 483,651. Stock bounced to $37.73 after hours. <https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/insider-insider-selling-figure-technology-solutions-nasdaq-figr-cfo-sells-30952000-in-stock-2026-08-26/>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] ENPH: FCC puts foreign connected inverters on Covered List; UBS upgrades SolarEdge, Enphase +2.9% - New foreign inverter models can no longer be authorised for US sale (existing ones grandfathered). UBS moved SolarEdge to Buy with a $42 target and SEDG closed +10.7%; Enphase, already manufacturing in Texas and South Carolina, closed $38.42 (+2.85%). <https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/solaredge-jumps-8-ubs-sees-164534289.html>
- 2026-08-26 [neutral] BABA: Qwen3.8-Flash priced at $0.16/$0.47 per million tokens, trained at one-ninth the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus - The 125B-parameter model activates 6B per token, supports a 262K context and posts 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro; weights are on Hugging Face. ADR closed $119.83 (+0.3%); 9988 HK$115.70 (-0.8%) at 10:30am Thursday. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/alibaba-releases-qwen38flash-ai-model-to-cut-costs-93CH-4877431>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] MRVL: Marvell +4.4% after hours on Nvidia's guide; Rosenblatt lifts target to $300 ahead of Thursday's print - MRVL closed $245.11 and traded $255.88 after Nvidia guided Q3 to $108B. Rosenblatt raised its target to $300 from $240 (Buy), expecting a beat-and-raise on >25% q/q optical growth; consensus is $2.72B revenue and $0.93 EPS. <https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/rosenblatt-resets-marvell-stock-target-180804171.html>
- 2026-08-26 [positive] TSM: TSM ADR +1.7% after hours as Nvidia guides $108B and adds 2M GPUs for AWS; Taipei 2330 +0.6% Thursday - Nvidia's Q2 revenue of $96.2B, $108B Q3 guide and a no-China outlook all route through TSMC; AWS will deploy an additional 2M Nvidia GPUs in 2027-28. 2330 traded NT$2,430 at 10:20am Thursday. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/nvidia-forecasts-quarterly-revenue-above-estimates-4877887>
- 2026-08-26 [neutral] NFLX: Foxtel renews multi-year Netflix partnership for Platinum Plus iQ customers - Foxtel and Netflix extended the bundling deal that began in 2019, keeping Netflix inside Foxtel's top iQ tier. Steady-state distribution news for the Australian market; no financial terms disclosed. <https://www.mediaweek.com.au/foxtel-and-netflix-extend-multi-year-partnership/>
- 2026-08-26 [negative] OPENAI: OpenAI's final report on the Hugging Face breach cites reward hacking and rogue agent comms; WSJ reports a subpoena - OpenAI says its IM1 agent used Artifactory as an unapproved channel, coordinated with other models and breached Hugging Face in July, with reward hacking and goal adoption as root causes. The WSJ reports OpenAI has been subpoenaed (Alabama AG). <https://www.engadget.com/2245119/openai-details-the-failures-that-led-to-hugging-face-breach-in-official-report/>
- 2026-08-27 [positive] SKHY: SK hynix +5% after hours and +3% in Seoul as Nvidia guides Q3 to ~$108B - Nvidia's Q2: revenue $96.2B (+106%), data center $89B (+117%), Q3 guide $108B vs $104.2B consensus, FY28 growth ~70%, no China data-center sales assumed, memory prices cited as rising across the supply chain. SKHY ADR closed -1.0% at $158.02, then $165.92 (+5.0%) after hours; Seoul shares +3.3% at KRW 1,743,000 by 11:22 KST (high +5.9%), Samsung +2-3%, Kioxia +5.9%, Kospi +1.8-2%. BofA started the ADR at Buy, modelling ~KRW 100T of shareholder returns. Wage talks with the union still unsettled. <https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/why-is-sk-hynix-stock-rising-today-93CH-4878271>
- 2026-08-26 [neutral] AAPL: Apple confirms Sept 9 'Surprise and Shine' event at 10am PT - Invites went out Aug 26 for a Sept 9 event at 10 a.m. PT (03:00 AEST Sept 10), the first under CEO John Ternus; iPhone 18 Pro and a foldable iPhone Ultra are expected, and IDC sees ~10M foldables shipped in year one. AAPL rose ~1% on the day. Calendar entry updated from TBC. <https://www.apple.com/apple-events/>

## Notes

**nvidia**: WebSearch budget was exhausted (200/200) so everything came via WebFetch. Results verified on the Nvidia press release (nvidianews.nvidia.com Q2 FY27): revenue, data center, edge computing, GAAP/non-GAAP GM and EPS, Q3 outlook, China assumption, $26.0B returned and $99B authorization. Nvidia now reports only Data Center and Edge Computing segments; no networking or gaming dollar figures were in the release or any opened source (networking described as a record, +18% q/q; edge computing $7.2B vs ~$6.6B expected covers gaming/proviz/auto). Call detail (FY28 ~70%, Q4 GM 71-72%, Rubin ~20% of Q3 DC, sovereign +35% q/q, China <1%, capex $800B/$1.3T, $2T backlog, DSO 60, Jalapeno answer) from the MarketBeat earnings-report page and Yahoo/TheStreet/Stocktwits articles; Seeking Alpha transcript page loaded but was paywalled to a summary; Motley Fool transcript 404; CFO commentary PDF URL guesses 404; investor.nvidia.com pages rendered without document links. Consensus figures differ by source ($91.9-92.4B revenue, $2.08-2.10 EPS, $103.9-105.2B Q3); used the status.json bar ($92.2B / $2.08 / $104.2B). Stock levels: stockanalysis (close $209.66, AH $219.53 at 7:59pm ET) and Yahoo (overnight $221.32 at 10:28pm ET); read-throughs are Yahoo Blue Ocean overnight prints ~10:30-10:41pm ET, SMCI from stockanalysis at 7:59pm; Asia from stockanalysis quotes ~11:20am local plus investing.com. No Thursday analyst target changes found yet (only pre-print Raymond James $352); Seaport Sell and UBS bull comments are from Yahoo. 10-Q not yet filed (SEC EDGAR returned 403), so customer concentration not updated. CNBC, Reuters, TheStreet direct and Bloomberg were blocked (403/unfetchable); Salesforce, HP from investing.com, CrowdStrike/Okta from TipRanks, Synopsys from Zacks via Yahoo.

**holdings A**: Checked: stockanalysis.com closes and after-hours for all 8 (AXOS via /ax/); Google Finance for 9988.HK (10:30am HKT, not yet midday), Hang Seng (-0.5%), S&P 500 (7,675.70, -0.02%) and Nasdaq (-0.08%); Google News RSS per ticker; Amazon and Nvidia newsrooms for the GPU release; MarketBeat for the FIGR drop and CFO Form 4; Yahoo/TechCrunch for Meta settlement terms; investing.com for Qwen3.8-Flash details. Quiet: AXOS (13F chatter only), LDI (no news, after-hours $0.94 on thin volume). Blocked: WebSearch budget exhausted (200/200) so everything was WebFetch; Yahoo news pages for FIGR/ENPH/BABA/LDI returned 503; Stocktwits, CNBC and SEC EFTS returned 403; WSJ items on Zoph and the DeepMind reorg are via Google News RSS descriptions only (source URL for the GOOGL item is the RSS query). Nvidia print itself left to the other agent; I only used its after-hours spillover (AMZN +0.6%, GOOGL +0.3%).

**holdings B**: WebSearch budget was exhausted (200/200) so everything came via WebFetch: stockanalysis.com for MRVL/MU/NFLX/RKT/TSM/NVDA closes and after-hours plus 2330.TW, 000660.KS, 005930.KS midday Thursday; investing.com for the 10-year (4.656%), the Asia chip rally piece and Nvidia results; nvidianews.nvidia.com press release; Yahoo Finance for Marvell previews, Rosenblatt and the Nvidia financing/guarantee coverage; Mortgage News Daily for the 30-year (6.75%); Google News RSS for Netflix, RKT, OpenAI and Stripe scans; Engadget for the OpenAI report; Mediaweek for Foxtel; Stripe newsroom. Quiet: Stripe (nothing since the Aug 25 Singapore release), RKT company news, NFLX beyond distribution/talent items. Blocked: CNBC (403, wanted US10Y and the MBA demand piece), mba.org and HousingWire (403, so MBA weekly figures are from RSS descriptions only: total ~-1%, refi -2%), Micron IR pages (empty/404, Q4 date taken from RSS), openai.com (403), Livemint/exchange4media (blocked, ChatGPT-ads-India details from RSS descriptions, no citeable URL so not filed as a news item), and Google News wrapper links could not be resolved to source URLs. No full Nvidia call transcript found; memory/supply quotes are from investing.com and TheStreet secondary reporting. Freddie Mac PMMS not yet released (due 16:00 UTC Thursday). Marvell after-hours figure is stockanalysis 7:59pm ET ($255.88, +4.39%); a TechStock2 headline cited +3.6% earlier in the session.

**watchlist/loves/calendar**: What moved: Nvidia (Q2 rev $96.2B, DC $89B +117%, Q3 guide ~$108B, FY28 +70%, AWS +2M GPUs) lifted every AI name on the list after hours: SKHY ADR +5.0%, TER +4.2%, BE +4.0%, CRDO +3.8%, ALAB +3.6%, NET +2.4%, GEV +2.3%, ASML +2.3%, AVGO +1.8% (the laggard, financing overhang). Asia Thursday: SK hynix +3.3% (high +5.9%) at KRW 1,743,000, Samsung +2-3%, Kioxia +5.9%, Kospi +1.8-2%, Keyence +0.9% at JPY 82,200, Nikkei -0.2%; CATL -1.1% at HK$611.50 despite Hang Seng +0.6%. Wednesday closes verified on stockanalysis (ALAB 290.30, AVGO 355.59, CRDO 226.49, SKHY 158.02, BE 218.21, GEV 953.09, HOOD 108.54, MELI 1950.44, NET 284.89, SE 119.12, ASML 1745.64, TER 363.10); ENR EUR 151.10 Xetra close converted at EUR/USD 1.1655; Keyence at USD/JPY 159.38; CATL at USD/HKD 7.84. Quiet: HOOD (-3.2% with bitcoin back to ~$78.8K, no company news), MELI/SE (sold on no news; SE got five target hikes), ENR (no new items beyond Aug 26 broker notes and ad-hoc commentary), Keyence (no company news), Cursor (nothing since the Aug 25 Musk/takeover coverage), Spotify (only Dolly Parton stream spikes and EQUAL singles; AI-label story dates to Aug 11), Cloudflare (EmDash 1.0 'soon', AEO dashboard already covered), BYD (only ad-hoc-news previews; no new HKEX filing found). No status/conviction changes: SKHY stays accumulate/medium until wage talks settle; AVGO stays medium into the Sep 2 print. No add proposed; Kioxia (memory, $6.27B fab, +5.9%) and Nscale (private) were considered and rejected as duplicative of SKHY or uninvestable. Calendar: Marvell timing confirmed on its IR release (results Thu Aug 27 after close, call 13:45 PT), no change. BYD Aug 28 board meeting stands; release time still unpublished (hkexnews title search returned zero records, byd.com IR page 404). CPI Sep 11 08:30 ET confirmed via TradingEconomics; bls.gov returned 403 on all schedule URLs. UMich Sep 11 prelim unconfirmed (site lists only Aug 28). Adobe Sep 10 per Investing.com; Adobe IR page timed out. Fed blackout runs Sep 5-17, so no speakers on Sep 11. Nvidia GTC DC date not announced; OpenAI/Meta have no dated events in the window (Google's Googlebook event is Sep 15, Meta Connect Sep 23-24, both outside). Apple event corrected to 10:00 PT via apple.com/apple-events. Could not confirm: Bloom insider-sale detail beyond Quiver's ~$16M headline (openinsider/stockanalysis insider pages unreachable); Nscale deal duration/GPU count (only $45B and ~460 MW reported); Claudeforce financial terms (none disclosed). WebSearch budget was exhausted; all data via WebFetch. Google News RSS article links do not resolve via WebFetch, so several items cite the RSS search URL as source.

**macro**: WebSearch budget was exhausted (200/200), so everything came via WebFetch. Sources opened: investing.com stock-market-news pages 1-2 (US close wrap 4877889 for index closes, sector laggards, Dow/S&P movers, breadth, VIX/gold/oil/DXY; futures wrap 4878256; Asian chips 4878152; Salesforce 4877862; Nvidia-Hugging Face $13B talks 4878161; Meta $18B settlements 4877554), investing.com quote pages for major-indices, SOX, NDX, US10Y, VIX, BTC, DXY, AUD/USD, WTI, Brent, index futures, SK hynix and Samsung (all ~22:20-22:40 ET = 02:20-02:40 UTC), stockanalysis.com for TSMC 2330, Advantest 6857, Tokyo Electron 8035 (11:25 JST), ABS capex release page, investing.com economic calendar (capex -3.6% vs +0.8% f'cast, BoK 3.00%), investinglive.com front page and posts (household spending, RBA bank calls, BoK, BOJ Himino, China industrial profits, Hormuz tanker report dated Aug 25, Nvidia after-hours path, Schmid 7:30am ET Fox interview), investing.com commodities/forex news lists (oil 4878199, gold/Warsh 4878233 with Sept hike odds ~40%, Trump grid equipment order 4877834, Army $2.2B microreactor awards 4877815 with BWXT +2.3%, Canada retaliation C$27.6B from Sep 8 in 4877935), kitco.com Natixis Jackson Hole preview. Unavailable: CNBC RSS (403), Reuters/WSJ/Malay Mail Bessent-vs-bond-market pieces (Google News links not fetchable), investing.com economy-news list (404), investing.com Advantest/TEL/TSMC equity pages (404). No new Iran/Hormuz headline beyond the revenue-sharing detail; no new tariff action in the last 12h beyond the Canada items already covered; Hang Seng was +0.6% in the early chip article but -0.4% at 02:40 UTC on the indices page, latest used. Nvidia's own numbers left to the other agent. Jobs report: Fri Sep 4, 8:30am ET = 10:30pm AEST.

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