☕️ [Task Coins Giveaway] Daily Market Talk — Apple's iPhone Duo Launches, Wall Street Shrugs

Apple's iPhone Duo — its first foldable iPhone — launched at 1am SGT, priced up to a record $3,199. $Apple(AAPL.US) barely budged. Brent crude also broke $100/barrel for the first time since July, and the 10-year Treasury auction drew its highest yield since 2007. Let's dig in 👇

💬 Apple just unveiled a record-priced $1,999+ foldable iPhone — so why did the stock barely react? Margin fears, or already priced in?

📊 Quick Recap — What Moved & Why

🇺🇸 US — Apple's iPhone Duo Launches, Wall Street Shrugs

🔑 Key Event: $Apple(AAPL.US) unveiled the iPhone Duo — its first foldable iPhone, and CEO John Ternus's first keynote — priced from $1,999 to a record $3,199. AAPL still closed almost flat, down -0.28% to $315.34, as Jefferies flagged margin trade-offs.

@koolgal : I believe John Ternus is the right person to lead Apple into the next decade — he has the engineering know-how and experience to do so.

👀 Other to Watch

• $SK Hynix(SKHY.US) → +7.05% to $198.63, extending its memory-supercycle rally.
• $Meta Platforms(META.US) → +6.55% to $653.69, still riding last week's Muse launch.
• $Qualcomm(QCOM.US) → +1.33%, still riding its $60B Amazon AI chip deal.
• $Oracle(ORCL.US) & $Adobe(ADBE.US) report earnings after today's US close (~4-5am SGT Friday) — the next test for the AI-spending and enterprise-software trades.

🇸🇬 Singapore — STI Eases as Regional Risk-Off Spreads

🔑 Key Event: $FTSE Straits Times Index(STI.SG) closed Wednesday at 5,729.63, then eased further this morning — down -0.55% to around 5,698 as of publish time (~11am SGT).

👀 Other to Watch

• The three local banks: $DBS(D05.SG) -0.61% to S$77.03, $OCBC Bank(O39.SG) flat at S$31.35, $UOB(U11.SG) -0.29% to S$41.06.

🇭🇰 HK/China — HSI Slides on Middle East Risk-Off

🔑 Key Event: $Hang Seng Index(00HSI.HK) closed Wednesday at 25,274.96, then fell -1.36% to around 24,930 this morning (~11am HKT), as the oil-driven risk-off mood hit regional equities.

👀 Other to Watch

• China's August CPI rose +0.8% YoY (from +0.5%) and PPI +3.8% YoY (from +3.5%) — a modest pickup, partly the same oil surge hitting markets today.

🌍 Other

• 🛢️ Brent settled above $100/barrel Wednesday, first time since July, after Iran said it struck US vessels and tankers in the Gulf and declared a new "sanctions zone"; Houthi forces also hit Saudi Arabia's Jazan refinery.
• 10-year Treasury yield hit 4.834% (highest since 2007) even after a tripled, $6B debt buyback — still short of what markets wanted. Fed funds futures now price ~60% odds of a hike (not a cut) at the Sept 16 meeting.

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