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Closing bell recap — Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Here's how this morning's pre-market movers finished 👇 $PLAB $ANF $ACTU $SMMT $NAUT $SYRE $INTU $DY $NCNO $WSM

Pre-market movers — Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Biggest gainers and losers before the bell 👇 $PLAB $ANF $ACTU $SMMT $NAUT $SYRE $INTU $DY $NCNO $WSM

Pre-market movers — Tuesday, August 25, 2026. Biggest gainers and losers before the bell 👇 $KURA $TENX $FLNC $VERI $AXTI $DKS $SLQT $LOPE $NABL $KOS

A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. Nvidia $NVDA fell 2.9% to $208.48 as traders cut risk two days ahead of the most important earnings print of the quarter. 🎯 Wall Street is looking for roughly $92.07B in revenue and $2.09 in adjusted EPS on Wednesday, up from $1.05 a year ago. Company guidance issued in May was $91B plus or minus 2%, which would be about 95% YoY growth. Analyst targets sit between $275 and $325, averaging near $305. 2. Memory Chips $MU cratered 5.9% to $909.97 and $SNDK dropped 6.5% to $1,492.56 in one of the ugliest sessions the memory trade has seen all month. 📉 The trigger came from Korea, where Samsung's record shareholder-return plan landed short of expectations and its shares fell 9%, exposing just how crowded the memory long had become. Chinese memory maker YMTC then filed for a $4.9B Shanghai IPO, putting a longer-dated supply question back on the table. 3. Iran Sanctions Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled "Operation Economic Outcast," calling it an economic D-Day. 🚨 The program opens five new categories to secondary sanctions — digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping — and targets any country or company still doing business with Tehran. Oil went the other way: Brent fell 2.5% to $92.06. $XOM slipped 0.6% and $CVX lost 1.1%. 4. US-Canada Trade Talks collapsed and 50% tariffs hit roughly $20B of Canadian goods over the weekend. ⚠️ Trump escalated Monday by threatening to double duties on Canadian cars and parts to 50% starting January 1. Canada retaliates dollar-for-dollar on September 8, targeting steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. $SPY closed down 0.29%. 5. Alibaba $BABA priced an HK$80B placement — 710 million new shares at HK$112.70, an 8.4% discount to Friday's close, raising about $10.2B. 💰 That is roughly 3.8% dilution, and 100% of net proceeds are earmarked for AI infrastructure, chips and models. Hong Kong shares fell 9.8%; the US ADR held up far better, down 0.7% to $118.47. 6. PDD Holdings $PDD posted Q2 revenue of RMB112.36B, up 8% YoY but short of the RMB115.41B consensus. Net income fell 12% to RMB27.18B (about $4B) and still beat the RMB24.40B analysts modeled — EPS landed at $2.85 versus $2.77 expected. Operating profit rose 8% to RMB27.76B. Spending on merchant support, platform governance and rural logistics is what is compressing the bottom line. Shares fell 1.5% to $87.08. 7. XPeng $XPEV was the day's worst large-cap decliner, down 8.7% to $11.13. 🔻 Q2 revenue of RMB19.74B rose 8% YoY and 51.5% sequentially, deliveries jumped 65% QoQ to 103,295 vehicles, and gross margin improved to 20.7% — but the company still lost RMB1.34B, or $0.19 per share. Q3 delivery guidance of 115,000 to 121,000 wasn't enough to hold the stock. 8. The Rest of Semis The damage was broad. $AMD fell 3.5% to $456.73, $AVGO lost 2.6% to $358.77, $INTC dropped 3.1% to $87.26, and $SMCI slid 5.6% to $35.15. Information technology was the worst of the 11 S&P sectors, down 1.3%, dragging $QQQ to a 1.0% loss as the Nasdaq Composite closed at 25,980. 9. Defensive Rotation Money didn't leave the market, it moved. 🔄 Consumer staples led all sectors, up 1.4%, and six of 11 sectors finished green. $V gained 3.1% to $382.39, $DIS added 2.6% to $110.60, and $UNH rose 2.2% to $398.77. That rotation is why the Dow closed up 0.26% at 53,417 while the Nasdaq fell 0.76%. 10. Expedia $EXPE was the standout winner, up 5.5% to $339.21 as the market kept digesting its August 5 Q2 report and a wave of target hikes. 📈 Benchmark went to $360 with a Buy, RBC lifted to $330 from $290, Wells Fargo nudged to $307, and BMO held at $285 with a Market Perform. The consensus target now sits near $314. 11. Gold and Rates Gold rose 0.76% to $4,650.64 at the US close and $GLD added 0.8% to $426.71. 🥇 The 10-year Treasury yield eased three basis points to 4.70%. Hard assets and duration both caught a bid on the same day equities dumped tech — a textbook risk-off signature. 12. Options Flow Calls outpaced puts roughly 2-to-1 market-wide despite the red screens. One contract stood out: the $XPEV October 16 $13 call traded 9,657 contracts, a bet that today's post-earnings drop reverses hard into the fall. 🔥 13. Jackson Hole The Kansas City Fed's symposium runs Thursday through Saturday in Wyoming, themed "Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy." 🏛️ It is the last major macro event before the September 16 FOMC decision, and positioning ahead of it kept $SPY and $QQQ on a short leash all session. 14. AI Capex Context for why every chip headline moves markets: the 14 largest publicly traded data center operators are on pace for roughly $750B of capex in 2026, up from just under $450B last year. 🏗️ $AMZN is guiding to about $200B, $GOOGL to $175-185B, $META to $115-135B, and $ORCL to near $50B, a 136% jump. 📡 RETAIL RADAR IS YOUR SCANNER FOR ALL STOCK MARKET NEWS

Closing bell recap — Monday, August 24, 2026. Here's how this morning's pre-market movers finished 👇 $NSSC $RUM $FWDI $CAPR $STLD $RGNX $AAOI $AXTI $COHR $SNDK

Pre-market movers — Monday, August 24, 2026. Biggest gainers and losers before the bell 👇 $NSSC $RUM $FWDI $CAPR $STLD $RGNX $AAOI $AXTI $COHR $SNDK

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$SGML - Institutional Ownership 148 institutions now hold ~48.9M shares — the latest filing added ~12.9M in one step, the biggest jump on record, up ~31% YoY. Point72, D.E. Shaw and Norges Bank are among the holders as shares closed +11.6% Friday. 📈

🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ The US imposed 50% tariffs on ~$20B of Canadian goods, and Canada says it will retaliate dollar-for-dollar with no talks scheduled. A reopened trade front with a top US partner adds fresh supply-chain risk.

$CRDO - Institutional Ownership 1,605 institutions now hold ~182M shares — the latest filing update added ~29M in one step, the largest jump since 2024, with institutional shares up ~20% YoY as the stock roughly doubled (+102%) over the past year. 👀

$OPEN - Institutional Ownership 534 institutions now hold ~728M shares — up ~79% from ~407M a year ago, with ~149M added in the latest filing, even as the stock slid ~31% over that stretch. Morgan Stanley, Vanguard and BlackRock lead the book. 👀

🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ Israel says it struck Syria's Abu al-Zuhour airbase after warning Damascus, with its defense minister citing Turkish activity deemed a threat. Escalation between two US partners is the kind of headline that moves oil and defense names into Monday.

$VRT - Institutional Ownership 3,093 institutions now hold ~417M shares — up ~40% from ~298M in April, with ~61M added in the latest filing update alone. BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street lead the book after a +110% year for the stock. 📈

$QBTS - Institutional Ownership 783 institutions now hold ~262M shares — up ~141% from ~109M a year ago, with ~53M added in the latest filing update alone. BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street lead the book. Shares jumped 8% Friday. 📈

$APLD - Institutional Ownership 891 institutions now hold ~293M shares — up ~64% from ~179M a year ago, with ~59M added in the latest filing update alone. Hood River, Vanguard, BlackRock and Jane Street are all on the book. Shares slipped 5% Friday. 👀

🚨 BREAKING: $SPY $QQQ Trump says Iran wants a deal with Washington but isn't ready to make the "right" one, and claims the US has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz. Control of the world's key oil chokepoint feeds directly into crude and risk assets.

$NBIS - Institutional Ownership 1,344 institutions now hold ~181M shares — up ~107% from ~87M a year ago, with ~61M added in the latest filing update alone. Goldman Sachs and BlackRock lead the book, and shares are up ~219% over that same stretch. 📈

$SMCI - Institutional Ownership 1,374 institutions now hold ~553M shares, up ~65% from a year ago — with ~147M added in the latest filing period alone. Shares are down ~17% over that same stretch. BlackRock, Vanguard and Jane Street are all on the list. 👀

$OKLO - Institutional Ownership 1,009 institutions now hold 115M shares, up ~198% from 38M a year ago, with ~14M added in the latest filing period alone. Shares are down ~41% over that same year. BlackRock, Van Eck and Citadel are all on the list. 👀

$SBET - Institutional Ownership 211 institutions now hold 114.9M shares, up from ~12M a year ago — with ~20M added in the latest filing period alone. BlackRock, Fidelity and Citadel are on the list even as shares sit ~64% below last August. 👀