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DRAM.US closed the week at $59.69, up 6.91% from the prior Friday, outpacing the S&P 500’s 0.09% gain by about 6.82 percentage points. The week opened at $56.07 on Monday and dipped as low as $54.585 during Tuesday’s session before regaining ground. Friday saw the strongest move, opening at $56.915 and rallying into the close at $59.69, near the week’s high of $59.785, with volume roughly 41.0m shares, well above the prior four sessions. The close sits just above the 20-day average of $55.943 and right around the 60-day average of $59.371.
Sector News
Memory-related headlines were heavy this week. Early in the week, reports noted that the DRAM ETF saw outflows pick up even as Micron, SK Hynix and SanDisk posted strength; the same day, CXMT’s HBM3E push was framed as a challenge to Micron and a way to play the AI memory boom through ETFs. On Wednesday, one analyst called memory stock valuations ‘very reasonable’, and the US Commerce Secretary said the US aimed to produce 40-50% of the world’s semiconductors. Into Thursday and Friday, the semiconductor complex firmed up: Micron rose over 4%, SanDisk jumped more than 10%, and Trump’s call for aggressive Fed rate cuts made the tape. Semiconductor ETFs traded in both directions, with SOXL and SOXS moving inversely through regular and overnight sessions; DRAM fell 3% on Tuesday, when some put options jumped 400%.
The Week Ahead
Macro data dominates next week. On Tuesday 9 September, the US NFIB small business optimism index is due, prior 99.8. Thursday 10 September brings the 10-year note auction, initial jobless claims, final demand PPI, core PPI, existing home sales and wholesale sales. Jobless claims are expected at 205 versus 206 prior; core PPI is seen at 0.3% m/m and 4.6% y/y, both above the previous prints. These readings will test the growth-and-inflation picture and may shape risk appetite across semiconductors and memory.
In Short
The ETF’s strong week was matched by a busy news cycle, but the latest session’s flow data show large-lot money as a net seller — $7,102.49 out versus $4,876.48 in — while small- and medium-lot flows pointed in mixed directions. That sits awkwardly against the ‘DRAM ETF outflows surge’ headline from Monday. The other side of the tension is the analyst comment that memory valuations make sense, plus the US push for domestic chip manufacturing. What to watch next: PPI and jobless claims risk tone, and whether the outflow pattern persists.
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