Big tech earnings stole the spotlight this week. Big tech earnings dominated the week, with Alphabet falling 12.64% on Thursday, its worst day as a public company, and Intel dropping about 29% on Friday, its worst since 1974. The Nasdaq Composite lost 5.3% in October as investors began to worry about who pays for the AI build-out, while the Fed held at 3.75-4.00% in a 10-2 vote with two dissenters favouring a hike. Brent crude settled near $118 and the Straits Times Index closed at 5,376.74, down 5.27% for October. Here's the SG/MY playbook for the week ahead.

Chip stock selloff stole the spotlight this week. The chip stock selloff dominated the week, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index falling for an eighth straight session, its longest streak since 2008, and the Nasdaq sliding 4.5%. Yet TSMC posted a record profit up nearly 69% and ASML booked record sales, so the businesses kept growing while the share prices fell. Hot US inflation, Brent near $110 on Hormuz risks and a silent Fed added to the pressure, while Singapore's index held at 5,415.53 and September exports jumped 68.4%. Here's the SG/MY playbook for the week ahead.

STI bank selloff stole the spotlight this week. The STI bank selloff dominated the week in Singapore, with the index sliding about 4.1% to 5,401.89 as OCBC, UOB and DBS tumbled on Wednesday and Thursday. The trigger was global: the US 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.364%, a 24-year high, while Fed minutes showed most officials still expect one more hike. AI chips fell after an OpenAI revenue scare, Brent climbed to $104.72, and SpaceX's spectrum purchase knocked about 9% off the US telecom giants. Here's the SG/MY playbook for the week ahead.

September jobs report stole the spotlight this week. The September jobs report surprised the market this week, with the US adding just 29,000 jobs and Fed rate-hike odds collapsing from about 64% to around 16%. Nvidia announced a record $150 billion buyback and touched a $5.7 trillion valuation, Micron printed a $54 billion quarter, and Brent held above $102 even after the G7 released 100 million barrels of reserves. Carnival and Tesla beat, Nike missed and cut jobs, and the STI slid 1.3% to 5,634.82. Here's the SG/MY playbook for the week ahead.

10-year Treasury yield stole the spotlight this week. Oil's risk premium came roaring back this week after President Trump rejected Iran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, sending Brent toward $106 a barrel. The 10-year Treasury yield held near its highest level since the 2007-08 financial crisis, AMD's market cap crossed $1 trillion as Meta's Muse AI agent shot to No. 1 on the App Store, and Xi Jinping's Washington visit delivered a $30 billion US-China tariff-cut deal. Costco crushed its Q4 and Jefferies started Singapore's banks with Buy calls on DBS and UOB as the STI closed the week at 5,710.65. Here's the SG/MY playbook for the week ahead.

Fed rate hike stole the spotlight this week. The Fed rate hike everyone priced finally landed — 25bp to 3.75-4.00% on Wednesday, first hike in three years, with a hawkish dot plot signalling one more before year-end. Two days later the BOJ hiked to a 31-year high 1.25% but the yen still weakened past 157. Meanwhile Nvidia's Rubin NVL72 posted a 7.2x benchmark over Blackwell, FedEx crushed with revenue guide to 4-6%, and the STI held at 5,656 (-0.6% weekly) as the shock was pre-priced. Here's the post-FOMC SG/MY playbook for the next six weeks.

Nvidia earnings 2026 stole the spotlight this week. Nvidia earnings 2026 landed with a blowout: $96.2 billion in revenue (+106% YoY), data-center at $89B, and a $108B Q3 guide -- NVDA jumped 8.7% Thursday. Then Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a hawkish shock at Jackson Hole, calling core PCE at 3.7% concerning and pushing rate HIKE odds to 64%. Hot PCE (3.6% core, revised up) confirmed the setup. Gold dropped $134 in a session. Enterprise software (Salesforce, CrowdStrike, Okta) confirmed AI's second act. Here's what actually mattered for SG/MY investors -- and how to reposition into a tape that just flipped from dovish-cut to hawkish-hike in 48 hours.

Nvidia earnings stole the spotlight this week. Nvidia earnings land on Wednesday August 26 with Wall Street looking for ~$28.7B in revenue and a data-center segment near $25B. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh headlines Jackson Hole with markets desperate for September cut clarity. Gold rocketed to a fresh record $4,383 on rate-cut bets and US debt worries. Brent crude slipped to $92.20 as OPEC+ added 188k bpd for September. And Moderna-Merck's mRNA cancer trial succeeded, driving healthcare to its best week since June. Here's what actually mattered for SG/MY investors -- and how to position into a two-way Nvidia print.

CPI cools rate cut stole the spotlight this week. CPI cools rate cut hopes back into focus: July inflation dropped to 3.4% headline / 2.5% core, both a tenth below June, and the S&P 500 pushed to fresh all-time highs mid-week before closing at 7,785 for a third straight weekly gain. Cisco booked $4B of AI hyperscaler orders in a single quarter (full-year $9.3B). CoreWeave signed a fresh $21B Meta deal on top of an existing $14B and grew revenue 112% to $2.58B. Super Micro Computer printed record $11.1B Q4 revenue and guided FY27 to $65-72B -- another ~85% growth. And the Russell 2000 hit a fresh record 3,068 as small-caps finally joined the rally. Here's what actually mattered for SG/MY investors this week.

Stocks record high stole the spotlight this week. US stocks record high week: the S&P 500 closed above 7,600 as the tape spoke loudly. Palantir ripped 29% on 'otherworldly' Q2 earnings driven by AI-sovereign demand. AMD posted a record $11.5B quarter with its data-center segment more than doubling. Oil dropped 5% after President Trump called off an Iran strike and signalled fresh talks. Disney's streaming and parks engines both delivered. And the Dow closed at an all-time high of 53,178 as the Q2 earnings-growth rate tracked +47.4% -- the strongest since 2021. Here's what actually mattered for SG/MY investors this week.