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Looks like the apple has dropped from the tree. It was majestically high up above the other tech names while higher beta tech was being sold off.

As I mentioned, Apple is defensive tech and with a huge market cap, it is easy to park big swathes of capital rotated from the sold off higher betas and preserve them.

When sentiments become risk on again, they rotate out to higher betas again. Look at the divergence in price ever since high beta tech’s low last week.

Apple is a good company but they belong to the sunsetting mobile/ social media micro trend which defined the early 2000s. AI is the new micro trend and unless they pivot quickly, they risk becoming the next Nokia. Even Nokia has learnt something and moving into AI.

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apple beat on revenue and eps and still dropped 7.35% to 308.91, because cook called memory prices a 100 year flood and guided margins to 47-48%. i bought the beat and got handed the guidance. averaged down in the 300s anyway, the memory squeeze ends before the iphone cycle does 🥲

A shortage of Apple’s best-selling MacBook Air caused by memory chip shortages show the supply chain disruption in consumer electronics is just beginning, media report, adding Apple’s woes will ripple down its supply chain to hit partners like TSMC, Quanta, Foxconn. The story cites Bloomberg for the MacBook Air shortage news. $Taiwan Semiconductor(TSM.US) $Apple(AAPL.US)

Source: Dan Nystedt

NO $MAGS NO BAGS.....

Breaking: President Trump's account bought Amazon and Apple before he cut China tariffs and then his administration paid both companies billions in refunds

I’m eagerly anticipating SGX’s upcoming earnings. I think it will be good but the stock price may not always reflect that. It is a somewhat volatile stock.

greater china 18.8b against 19.6b expected. third time this exact line has ruined an otherwise fine quarter. at some point that stops being a surprise and becomes the base case

Friday's employment data is estimated to be weak.

The US can't afford rate hikes now. The decision-makers all know this tacitly but put on a show. The US won't voluntarily jump off a cliff unless pushed by a black swan event.

The market has risen too much, and even it is getting scared.

Let's see. A drop isn't necessarily bad. Catching colds often can boost your own immunity; if you never get sick when old, it becomes hard to save you when you do fall ill.

Haha, I see this and go heavy on my position. Have you gone heavy?

apple beat on both lines and still faded about 4% because services came in at 30.74b against 31.22b and the guide was 9 to 11 percent. the line nobody is pricing yet is management saying memory costs are pushing mac and ipad prices higher. holding all 60 shares, this is a two quarter margin story not a broken business

When only 3 mega caps work and the Nasdaq still ends July negative, that’s not strength, that’s exhaustion. The market basically said: spend billions on AI and show profits immediately or get sold. META and AAPL punished proves even giants aren’t safe. With payrolls Friday and SpaceX’s first call, we’re one weak print or bad guidance away from that narrow leadership cracking.

Its a weekly oil story. Like a gift for oil traders. You buy when market opens for week because that is when they de escalate and then sell when they start staring at each other again towards the weekend.

This is exactly what a healthy rotation looks like. MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL proved AI spend is turning into real business, so the market paid up. META and AAPL got a time-out for not showing the same returns yet. Indices still finished the week green, which means capital didn’t leave, it just got pickier. Payroll + SpaceX’s debut earnings give us two new catalysts to keep the momentum going into August.

The FOMC kept rates unchanged at 3.50–3.75%, but the 9–3 vote, with three members favoring a rate hike, suggests growing concern about persistent inflation. Despite the hawkish split, equities advanced over the week, indicating investors remained focused on earnings and economic resilience rather than immediate policy tightening. However, mixed monthly performance, particularly in technology stocks, reflects continued sector rotation and caution over the longer-term interest rate outlook.

Reward to Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet for their AI spend shows returns. Good news. But quite sad for Meta Platforms and Apple. But still believe they can improve.

Local banks set record high. And Seatrium and YZJ Shipbuilding performs better.

Three Hongkong markets rose.

But there are markets not performing well. Hope the markets will rise.