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Invesco QQQ Trust closed the week at $704.40, down 0.76%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.47%, leaving QQQ about 0.29 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week started at $719.61 on Monday and chopped sideways through Wednesday, when it touched the week’s high of $727.95. From Thursday, the tone turned: it slid to a low of $701.16 and settled at $704.40 on Friday, near the bottom of the weekly range. The 3.72% swing was on the wider side of normal.\n\n## NASDAQ-100 This Week\n\nThe underlying NASDAQ-100 lost 0.79%, closing at 28,957.528. It opened the week at 29,539.312 and pushed to a high of 29,928.313 on Wednesday before rolling over. Thursday brought the heaviest selling, with the index dipping to 28,825.725 intraday, before a small bounce on Friday left it at 28,957.528. The weekly amplitude was 3.73%, and the pattern closely tracked QQQ’s own path.\n\n## Leverage & Decay\n\nThis vehicle replicates one times the daily move in the NASDAQ-100, not one times the weekly move. The underlying fell 0.79% this week, implying a theoretical move of about -0.79%; the actual result was -0.76%, a gap of +0.03%. That gap comes from daily rebalancing. When the index chops back and forth, the daily reset adds a small amount of friction, while a one-way trend tends to keep it muted. This week’s up-and-down pattern kept the gap modest, but holding over time is not the same as earning one times the underlying’s cumulative return.\n\n## NASDAQ-100 News\n\nTwo threads dominated the week. The first was the Fed path: early reports suggested an October pause, but a survey later showed most economists expect another hike in December. Hotter inflation data, Middle East tensions and rising Treasury yields all pressed on tech risk appetite. The second was AI spending anxiety. Nvidia’s boss warned of an AI funding slowdown, Meta slid about 6% on AI spending fears in a single session, and hedge funds sold tech at the fastest pace since 2016. The NASDAQ-100 fell more than 2% on Thursday; chip stocks bounced in Friday’s pre-market, but the index still failed to reclaim Wednesday’s high.\n\n## The Week Ahead\n\nMonday brings the Dallas Fed manufacturing activity index, with a prior reading of 9.8. Tuesday is busier, with durable goods orders, FHFA and Case Shiller home prices, new home sales and consumer confidence. Durable goods orders were last at -0.1 and are expected at 1.5; consumer confidence was 81.9 and is expected at 81. For the NASDAQ-100, the bigger watch items are whether AI spending and chip sentiment stabilise, and whether Middle East tensions keep crude above $100 and weigh on risk appetite.\n\n## In Short\n\nThe week’s signals are pulling in different directions. The underlying and QQQ both closed slightly lower and lagged the S&P 500. AI spending concerns and December hike expectations weighed on mega-cap tech, while oil and Middle East headlines added volatility. The latest session’s large-lot flow leaned toward net selling, but that is a single-day snapshot, not a weekly trend. The next test is whether AI-related earnings and capex guidance ease the market’s worries, and whether macro data reinforce another Fed hike.\n\nThis article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.