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Weekly Digest

How the week Felt

Aug 10 – Aug 14, 2026

This was a week where the memory/AI-infra bull thesis went from strong to almost euphoric, with SanDisk's investor day acting as a match that lit the entire NAND/DRAM complex on fire and dragged KOSPI into a full bull-market reversal. CoreWeave's blowout quarter reinforced that AI capex is translating into real margins, not just revenue, keeping the broader AI trade underpinned even as skeptics (Shkreli, Fidelity's cycle-peak warning, SoftBank trimming TSMC) offered a bearish undercurrent that mostly got run over by bullish flow. Meanwhile rates traders got exactly the soft-landing data they wanted—in-line CPI, flat PPI—pushing September hike odds down toward 32% and giving no-hike sectors like XLC/XLRE a lift, even as the stubbornly high 30-year yield kept term-premium concerns alive. Geopolitics stayed stuck in a grinding, headline-whipsaw stalemate with Iran, oil bouncing between $80-90 on alternating deal-hope/deal-collapse stories that traders learned to shrug off by week's end. Overall mood: euphoric risk-on in semis/memory, cautiously optimistic on rates, and numb fatigue toward Iran headlines that no longer move markets much.

Day by Day
Monday — 2026-08-10
Micron and memory stocks rallied on JPMorgan's bullish two-year shortage call despite Apple's CXMT testing news.
Tuesday — 2026-08-11
CoreWeave and memory names surged into earnings as KOSPI's $19B leveraged-ETF retail bust story circulated.
Wednesday — 2026-08-12
CoreWeave's blowout Q2 (revenue +112%, margin inflection) sent AI-infra and memory stocks broadly higher.
Thursday — 2026-08-13
SK Hynix surged 8% on Sandisk's bullish HBF/Meta consortium news and SK Group chairman's Nvidia comments. 🟢 BUY SOXL @ $152.06 (New position (3 shares) — same-day momentum (+7.05% from open, 1.20x pace-adjusted volume) + strong bullish sentiment (0.62) + rising volume persistence) 🔴 SELL SOXL @ $151.84 (20/50 MA crossover turned bearish)
Friday — 2026-08-14
SanDisk's Investor Day (80% margins, $14B buyback) repriced NAND complex, driving KOSPI's 11.5% weekly bull-market rally.
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