☕️ [Task Coins Giveaway] Daily Market Talk — Meta's Muse Win Powers AMD to $1 Trillion

Meta's Muse agent topped the US App Store last week, and Wall Street is reading that as one more sign AI agents may need real CPU power. Intel, AMD and Arm all rocketed Monday. Here's what moved markets 👇

💬 Muse topped the App Store last week. Is this really fueling chip demand, or just one factor among many?

📊 Quick Recap — What Moved & Why

🇺🇸 US — Meta's Muse Win Powers AMD to $1 Trillion

🔑 Key Event: Meta's Muse agent topped the US App Store last week, adding to bets that AI agents need real CPU power. $Meta Platforms(META.US) +11.43% Monday, along with $Intel(INTC.US) +12.14%, $AMD(AMD.US) +9.95%, $Arm(ARM.US) +17.16%; AMD's market cap crossed $1 trillion, the fourth US chip company to reach it.

@gedebe : Intel has woken up and is tirelessly addressing its shortcomings — I'm still buying.

👀 Other to Watch

• Amazon blocked Muse's shopping access over undisclosed integration; Shopify countered by adding Muse to Shop Pay.
• $Alphabet(GOOGL.US) was fined $463M by Ireland's privacy regulator over how it handled users' location data.
• $Sandisk(SNDK.US) officially joined the S&P 100 Monday, replacing Colgate-Palmolive.
• $Micron Tech(MU.US) Taiwan union talks broke down again Monday; a strike vote is possible, with board review set for Oct 8.

🇸🇬 Singapore — STI Edges Higher

🔑 Key Event: $FTSE Straits Times Index(STI.SG) is up +0.37% to around 5,696 this morning.

👀 Other to Watch

• $UOB(U11.SG) +1.14% led the banks on reports of private-banking expansion; $DBS(D05.SG) +0.58%, $OCBC Bank(O39.SG) flat.

🇭🇰 HK/China — Tencent Jumps 6.7% as Yunqi Summit Opens

🔑 Key Event: $TENCENT(00700.HK) jumped +6.7% this morning, riding a broader HK tech rally as A-share chip stocks surged and Monday's US chip rally spilled over. $BABA-W(09988.HK) rose +3.3% as its Yunqi Summit opened in Hangzhou today.

@Fattycat : This probe is narrower than 2021's platform crackdowns, but Meituan is far more financially sensitive to it than Alibaba.

👀 Other to Watch

• $Z.AI(02513.HK) shares closed +1.79% Monday, after apologizing for a tool that silently uploaded users' code and keys.

🌍 Global/Macro

• Xi Jinping makes a state visit to the US Sept 23-25, his first in nearly 3 years; a Trump-Xi summit follows Sept 24.
• St. Louis Fed's Musalem says more hikes may be needed; Bank of Canada's Macklem warned late action means bigger hikes later.
• US diesel hit a record $6.505/gallon; Trump wants Russian diesel supply to reach global markets to ease the price.

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