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🌟🌟🌟 Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's unexpectedly hawkish Jackson Hole debut has fundamentally realigned market expectations, driving Wall Street's bets for a September interest rate hike above 60%.

Just when investors were getting comfortable dreaming of aggressive rate cuts and endless liquidity, Warsh took the podium in Wyoming and turned off the music.

Warsh made one thing crystal clear: the Fed is commited to a discipline, not a decision. Translation? If the upcoming data stays hot, interest rates are going higher and White House's complaints ahead of November midterms won't stop him.

It is time to pivot from growth heavy portfolio to defensive portfolio.

A good strategy is to park some money into $iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF(SGOV.US). SGOV locks your money into Treasury Bills with maturities of 3 months or less. It also has a razor thin expense ratio of 0.07%. The primary objective is capital preservation and low cost cash yield.

I don't think President Trump will be happy with Kevin Warsh.

🌟🌟🌟The SaaS-pocalypse is officially cancelled & software stocks are being re-rated hard. This proves that AI isn't an existential executioner. AI is actually the ultimate catalyst for software stocks.

The latest market closing numbers tell the whole story of this short squeeze renaissance. 3 software stocks $Okta(OKTA.US)$Salesforce(CRM.US)& $CrowdStrike(CRWD.US)are up double digits.

The latest fiscal Q2 numbers prove that enterprise software is successfully absorbing the AI Capex boom.

The software sector isn't going obsolete. It is simply upgrading its armour.

🌟🌟🌟After $NVIDIA(NVDA.US)'s roar, what comes next? NVIDIA broke its jinx this week, not just a bounce but a strong statement. Jensen Huang with his signature leather jacket walked onto the stage, shrugged off every doubt, and NVIDIA went up like it finally remembered that it is the heartbeat of the AI revolution.

But the market never lets you finish your victory lap. After NVIDIA, 2 new characters enter the drama:

PCE - the inflation report that decides whether the market gets champagne or black coffee.

Kevin Warsh - the new Fed Chair whose comments can move sentiment faster than a GPU can process a frame.

What is the next catalyst?

If NVIDIA was the spark, PCE is the oxygen.

If NVIDIA was the roar, Warsh is the echo.

This week feels like the market is standing at the edge of a cliff - not in fear, but in anticipation.

NVIDIA went up, broke its curse and now the whole market is wondering whether the macro gods will bless the momentum or test it.

🌟🌟🌟Bitcoin didn't just move. It roared. One clean macro spark, one brutal short squeeze and suddenly the entire crypto market is staring at USD80,000.

What just happened?

This wasn't just luck. This was liquidity, policy and raw demand colliding at the same moment.

The single biggest catalyst was the US Treasury doubling long dated bond buybacks from USD 2 billion to at least USD 4 billion per operation with potential deployment of USD 950 billion from the US Treasury General Account. This pushed yields lower. Lower yields means lower opportunity cost of holding Bitcoin.

Then there is President Trump urging Congress to accelerate the Clarity Act.

Can Bitcoin go further? Yes. The key resistance zone is between USD 81,250 to USD 83,000. A good strategy to get into Bitcoin is to buy $iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF(IBIT.US). iBit is the largest spot Bitcoin ETF with assets under management of USD 47.5 billion, controlling 61% of all Bitcoin held across US spot ETFs.

It is time to get back into Bitcoin as crypto winter is over.

🌟🌟🌟I believe that it is likely that $NVIDIA(NVDA.US)wull close up 2% to 7% on Thursday 27 August, given that option market makers have compressed NVIDIA's implied move to 5.4%. This is the lowest implied earnings volatility for NVIDIA since August 2021.

By breaking its 7 day losing streak to finish up 2.2% in the pre earnings session, there is optimism in the air. This is the rational Beat-and-raise scenario with Q2 revenue clearing the USD 92.06 billion consensus while Q3 guidance smoothly advances past the USD 103.7 billion line.

Let's see whether CEO Jensen Huang with his signature black leather jacket can break the jinx and bring much needed cheer to investors like me.

🌟🌟🌟I believe that $NVIDIA(NVDA.US)will be up 2% to 7%. It is the rational Beat and Raise. Q2 revenue clears the USD 92.06 billion consensus while Q3 guidance smoothly advances past the USD 103.7 billion line.

🌟🌟🌟This week in the US market is shaping to be volatile, with a slight lean toward cautious and choppy rather than a clean bullish trend. The direction will depend on $NVIDIA(NVDA.US)earnings, Core PCE inflation and US Treasury yields - the 3 big catalysts dominating Wall Street right now.

NVIDIA Earnings on Wednesday : the AI King decides the mood. If NVIDIA beats, tech stocks will rally and S&P500 gets a boost. If NVIDIA disappoints, semiconductor stocks maybe dragged down and Nasdaq could wobble hard.

Core PCE inflation (Friday) is the Fed's favourite gauge. Markets are waiting for confirmation of a September rate cut. Cooler PCE: rate cuts more likely and will be bullish for the market. Hot PCE: rate cuts delayed and will be bearish for the market.

US Treasury Yields and Geopolitics: Long dated yields have been rising again, which have historically pressured Tech stocks. Add the unresolved US Iran tensions and oil prices stay elevated resulting in inflation worries.

My Take: Most likely outcome, the markets will be choppy, sideways with sharp swings. This is not a clean trending week. It is a reaction week.

🌟🌟🌟Buckle up! We have arrived at the most exciting week on the calendar. $NVIDIA(NVDA.US)is stepping up to the podium with its highly anticipated Q2 earnings. In another event, the world's central banking elite are packing their hiking boots for the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium where Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will be delivering a defining policy address.

What can investors expect:

Tech optimists are convinced that Wednesday will provide the ultimate fundamental validation to blast the S&P500 straight toward 8,500 by 2027.

If Jensen Huang takes the stage in his signature leather jacket and guides forward revenue into the stratosphere, the entire semiconductor sector will be ignited.

Conversely the Bears are not looking at GPUs. They are staring at the bond market. The US 30 year Treasury Bond yield is near its historic high of 5.33% in 19 years.

The Bears are betting that Kevin Warsh may give a hawkish speech with interest rates higher for longer due to stubborn inflation.

Whatever the outcome maybe, expect fireworks to tear through the trading pits this week.

🌟🌟🌟If you are looking for proof that Crypto Winter has melted, the fundamental data points to 3 catalysts:

1. Bitcoin spot price has jumped, hitting a USD 72,500 baseline.

2. The Clarity Act has gained traction in the US Congress.

3. The world's largest asset managers including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard and DTCC are actively launching institutional tokenisation infrastructure. With real world assets, corporate bonds and money market funds being absorbed in the blockchain pipeline, the technological foundation of global finance is being permanently rewritten.

$iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF(IBIT.US)is a good way to get back into the crypto market. It tracks the physical spot price of Bitcoin and its fund manager is BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world.

🌟🌟🌟As the Straits Times Index drifts lower today, do you hunt for value or flee the storm? If you are a patient long term investor, this is a great time to accumulate $STI ETF(ES3.SG). The STI isn't a speculative tech bubble. It is an index dominated by massive, cash rich banking monopolies and blue chip stocks.

The Big 3 local banks $DBS(D05.SG)$OCBC Bank(O39.SG)and $UOB(U11.SG)have fortress balance sheets. They also pay great dividends too.

Singapore remains the premier wealth sanctuary in Asia and it is backed by stable government. A good strategy is to dollar cost average STI ETF for the long term. Slow and steady wins the race.

🌟🌟🌟I will be watching $BABA-W(09988.HK)as it reports its latest earnings on Thursday August 20 2026. While Alibaba's top line cloud and ecommerce volumes are successfully expanding, massive structural investments into AI infrastructure are eating away at its immediate bottom line.

The consensus revenue estimate is RMB 268.5 Billion or USD 38.63 Billion, representing an uncharacteristically strong 11.7% increase YoY.

Consensus EPS is USD 1.94, which marks a decline of 5.8% compared to same quarter last year.

If CEO Eddie Wu can prove that cloud monetisation is finally expanding profit margins, the stock has a clear path to unlock its deeply compressed value.

I am optimistic on Alibaba because Alibaba Cloud is the undisputed digital infrastructure king of China. While massive Capex have temporarily squeezed margins, that infrastructure is the vital oxygen for China's unfolding generative AI boom. I believe that this quarter will finally prove that enterprise AI demand is translating into high margin, sticky recurring revenue.