AI chips have the intraday bid.
$SOXX is up about 5% near 1:20pm ET.
$ARM and $MU are leading the move while energy lags.
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$STRC post-depeg klines:
$100 is still overhead.
Latest price: $85.72.
Post-depeg low: $71.25 on Jun 26.
Even after the 12% July rate reset, the bounce has not held $90.
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U.S. pre-market: Nasdaq leads, chips bid.
8:15 ET: $QQQ +0.8%, $SPY +0.2%.
Semis are doing the work: $NVDA +0.8%; broader AI and crypto beta are on the card.
Claims, Williams, home sales on deck.
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Premarket bounce in semis.
$SMH and $SOXX are up about 2%. Strength is spreading beyond AI leaders into foundry, memory, equipment and analog.
Watch:
$NVDA $AMD $AVGO $TSM $ASML $MU $AMAT $LRCX $KLAC $QCOM $MRVL $ON $ADI $TXN $NXPI $TER $ENTG $COHR $ALAB
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HK close: semis held up. The tape did not.
HSI 24,030.18, -0.70%
HSCEI -1.08%
HSTECH +0.01%
SMIC and Lenovo cushioned the move. Tencent, CCB, AIA, Meituan, BYD and Kuaishou dragged.
Watch $EWH / $KWEB / $FXI
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Japan led the close; Korea stabilized after Wednesday's flush.
Nikkei 225 +1.38%. KRX: KOSPI +0.62%, KOSDAQ +1.15%.
Chips: Tokyo Electron +5%, SK Hynix +3.6%, Samsung -1.3%.
Watch $EWJ / $DXJ / $EWY
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$SKHYNIX perp funding is getting expensive.
Binance indicative funding: ~58.1 bps for the next 8h window, ~636% simple annualized. Perp is ~0.38% over index, with funding still broadly positive across venues.
Watch crowded long risk here.
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Post-close wrap 7/8:
$SPY -0.3% / $QQQ +0.3% / $IWM -0.9%.
Semis/AI and energy held up while banks/materials and crypto beta faded. After close: Levi earnings, Costco sales. Thu watch: Pepsi, oil, yields.
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AI chips are the tape's relative strength pocket.
$SOXX +2.3%. $AVGO +6.1% after Apple's $30B U.S. chip commitment, with $NVDA +3.4% green too.
Materials are still the weak side, with the sector ETF near -2.4% while the S&P 500 is near -0.3%.
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In BTC treasury credit, the preferreds are the tell.
$SATA is still much closer to par than $STRC. That shapes the common equity read: $ASST gets a cleaner funding path if $SATA holds up, while $MSTR needs confidence in $STRC to come back.
$ASST mNAV 1.31x is higher than $MSTR mNAV for a reason.
$SATA is more likely to return to par before $STRC.
Therefore, Strive is more likely to achieve a higher BTC yield this year.
Premarket semis are ugly again.
$SMH -3.9%, $SOXX -5.3%.
The selling is broad: $INTC -9.6%, $MRVL -7.4%, $LRCX -7.0%, $AMD -6.5%, $TSM -4.2%.
$NVDA is the exception for now, green while the rest of the chip tape gets hit.
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HK close: tech carried the rebound.
Hang Seng +3.0%; HSTECH about +5%; HSCEI +4.0%.
Alibaba led, with Tencent, SMIC, Xiaomi and Lenovo also bid.
Watch China/HK beta:
$EWH / $KWEB / $FXI
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Cash close: semis dragged growth lower.
$SPY -0.5% / $QQQ -1.9% / $IWM -0.9%
Samsung and DeepSeek headlines hit chip ETFs. Energy and health care cushioned the tape.
Next: Fed minutes, PepsiCo/Delta earnings, and AI hardware dip-buyers.
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Chips are the weak tape today.
$SOXX -4.7%, $SMH -3.3% after Samsung's report put fresh pressure on the AI hardware trade.
Energy is holding the other side:
$XLE +1.6% as crude firms on Hormuz shipping risk.
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Binance added $STRC to Binance Stock Trading.
This is Strategy's Variable Rate Perpetual Stretch preferred stock, not a new crypto spot token.
Trading opened July 6 at 13:30 UTC for eligible users.
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