
$15.3B ETF Inflows: SPY, GLD Lead as Semis Retreat
Single-day ETF creations reached $15.3 billion on August 7 as investors rotated from semiconductor names into broad equities and gold amid macro and geopolitical uncertainty.
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Single-day ETF creations reached $15.3 billion on August 7 as investors rotated from semiconductor names into broad equities and gold amid macro and geopolitical uncertainty.

Bank of America's closely watched Bull & Bear Indicator surged to 9.7 from 9.4 in the week ending August 5, its highest reading since 2021, prompting the firm's strategists to issue a formal sell…

Options markets price double-digit swings for AMAT, COHR, and CoreWeave as all three AI-infrastructure names report earnings within 72 hours this week.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is set to hold its cash rate at 4.35% on Tuesday while Friday's US retail shopping data completes an inflation-heavy week that sets the tone for Jackson Hole.

Iran's conditions for Hormuz reopening push a deal further away, leaving the S&P's record close and Brent's 7% weekly drop exposed to unpriced escalation risk.

Wednesday's July inflation print, Q2 results from CoreWeave and Applied Materials, and Australia's central bank decision converge in the most data-dense stretch of the 2026 northern-summer trading…

Bitcoin and Ether drifted through a range-bound weekend without a directional break, leaving the broader crypto market in wait-and-see mode as no fresh catalysts emerged.

Brazil's central bank mandates a 24-hour delay on crypto transfers above $10,000 to foreign platforms or self-custody wallets, targeting stablecoin fraud, effective January 2027.

A critical credential-file vulnerability in BTCPay Server is enabling active exploitation of merchant Lightning Network nodes, with attacks confirmed since Friday night and a v2.4.2 patch now…

Galaxy Research revised the Coldcard exploit tally Saturday to 1,719 BTC — roughly $111 million — as a five-year-old firmware flaw continues to generate new victim reports, with the revised tally…

China's producer price index rose just 3.5% in July, undershooting the 3.98% consensus estimate as oil extraction prices collapsed 11.8% month-over-month, deepening factory deflation concerns…

China's July consumer price index rose just 0.5% year-on-year, missing the 0.85% consensus and marking the weakest reading since January, deepening concerns over entrenched deflationary pressure.

Berkshire Hathaway's second-quarter net earnings more than doubled to $25.67 billion as Greg Abel accelerates capital deployment, executing the largest share buyback program in five years.

Berkshire Hathaway ended 14 consecutive quarters of net stock selling in Greg Abel's first full quarter as CEO, purchasing nearly $20 billion in equities led by a $10 billion Alphabet stake.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and the GCC condemned Iran's Saturday ADNOC tanker strike in Hormuz, invoking Resolution 2817 and demanding unconditional freedom of navigation.

With Iran's 60-day fee-free transit period ending August 16, Oman-mediated talks remain deadlocked over a 5–7% cargo levy versus a 3% counterproposal, leaving global energy markets on edge.

Vance discloses Iran privately denied plans to toll the Strait of Hormuz, even as Tehran's security chief issued sweeping conditions for reopening the waterway.

Iran's security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr on Saturday issued six sweeping demands — spanning Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq — and declared the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until…

UAE condemns IRGC missile strike on an ADNOC tanker in Hormuz as piracy — the 16th shipping attack since conflict began, with energy risk still largely unpriced.

O'Reilly Automotive's $10 billion all-cash offer for Genuine Parts' NAPA division reframes GPC's own breakup plan as a value gap the market will no longer wait for management to close.

A New Mexico court has imposed a landmark $942 million total judgment against Meta, combining a $567 million youth-harm abatement fund with a prior $375 million jury verdict, while mandating…

The Trade Desk stock collapsed 28.3% after Q2 revenue grew just 3% year over year, missing the Wall Street consensus by $37 million and triggering a sweeping wave of analyst downgrades.

Atlassian shares jumped more than 32% after the enterprise software maker reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $1.77 billion and adjusted EPS of $1.87, both well above Wall Street forecasts.

Doximity's stock nearly doubled after beating Q1 FY2027 revenue guidance and revealing AI Search unit economics that exceeded investor expectations for its healthcare SaaS platform.

SK Hynix's board approved ₩54 trillion ($38.3 billion) for new DRAM and NAND fabs in Yongin and Cheongju, locking in South Korea as the world's dominant AI memory hub through the early 2030s.

Brent crude surged nearly 4% on Thursday when Iran's parliament floated a bill to ban U.S. and Israeli ships from the Strait of Hormuz, only to retreat as the week's 7% net decline reasserted itself.

Iran demands 5–7% cargo-value transit fees through the Strait of Hormuz; Oman proposes 3%; Washington rejects mandatory tolls, leaving the chokepoint deal stalled.

Brent and WTI crude each shed roughly 9% across the trading week ending August 8, the steepest weekly decline of 2026, as structural demand erosion and surging OPEC+ supply overwhelm the market.

Silver spot jumped 5.01% on Friday, its largest single-session advance in six weeks, as a shock U.S. payrolls miss compressed the gold-silver ratio and intensified the ongoing short squeeze…

Gold's 1.77% single-session rally to a fresh record high underscores accelerating safe-haven demand, falling real yields, and record central bank buying that now extends across three consecutive…