Yulia Zeng

TradingKey - In early Asian trading on July 24, Japanese and South Korean stock markets opened lower and continued to decline. Influenced by the sharp overnight pullback in US stocks and escalating geopolitical risks in the Middle East, market risk-off sentiment has risen markedly.

TradingKey - The supply-demand tightness driven by AI infrastructure construction may be spreading from GPUs to the server CPU market. According to Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD) are recently in negotiations with Chinese server manufacturers and large-scale clients regarding long-term supply agreements.

TradingKey - While Elon Musk continues to emphasize that Tesla's future lies in being an artificial intelligence and robotics company, the reality remains that the firm still relies on its automotive business for cash flow. This latest quarterly earnings report reveals an increasingly apparent contradiction: while new ventures require continuous cash burn, the profitability of the traditional automotive business is weakening.

TradingKey - During the Asian trading session on July 23, Japanese and South Korean stock markets continued their rebound momentum, with SK Hynix, Samsung, and SoftBank rising by 3%-5%. The KOSPI Index closed up 4.40% at 7,096.82 points, marking its third consecutive trading day of gains.

TradingKey - Alphabet (GOOGL)(GOOG), the parent company of Google, delivered a quarterly earnings report reflecting a combination of growth and pressure. For the first time since its public listing, Google reported negative quarterly free cash flow, while management once again raised the target for full-year capital expenditures.

TradingKey - During early Asian trading on July 23, Japanese and South Korean stock markets continued the rebound momentum from the previous session. Both major indices opened higher, with the KOSPI rising 3.41% and the Nikkei 225 up more than 0.5%.

TradingKey - Against the backdrop of the ongoing global boom in AI data center construction and the acceleration of investment in power infrastructure, GE Vernova (GEV) delivered quarterly results featuring strong revenue and record-high orders. However, as profitability failed to meet market expectations, the company's share price dropped more than 10% in pre-market trading, following a previous rise of nearly 7%.

TradingKey - As tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate, the international crude oil market has once again come under intense pressure. Driven by rising geopolitical risks, global oil prices surged on the 22nd, with WTI crude futures (UKOIL-F) rising as much as 4.28% to $88.17 per barrel; Brent crude futures (USOIL-F) broke through $95 per barrel, returning to this level for the first time since June 11.

TradingKey — On July 21 local time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly disclosed that the company encountered a major security incident during its latest round of model safety evaluations and confirmed a joint investigation into the matter with Hugging Face, the world's largest AI open-source community.

TradingKey - Intel will announce its second-quarter 2026 financial results after the US market close on July 23. The importance of this earnings report has long surpassed that of a mere quarterly scorecard.

TradingKey - U.S. industrial giant 3M (MMM) delivered second-quarter results that beat market expectations and simultaneously raised its full-year earnings guidance, signaling that operational improvement momentum has further strengthened, driven by cost optimization, product upgrades, and strategic positioning in high-growth sectors.

TradingKey - Ahead of its upcoming second-quarter 2026 earnings report, Intel (INTC) has once again initiated an organizational restructuring. According to multiple media reports, Intel has notified employees in its Data Center & AI Group (DCG) that the company will implement a new round of layoffs.

TradingKey - Microsoft (MSFT) announced that it will deploy AMD's next-generation rack-scale AI system, Helios, in its Azure data centers to provide computing power support for frontier large model inference and Azure AI services. This move not only signifies a further expansion of Microsoft's partnership with AMD but also adds another top-tier global cloud service provider to the list of Helios customers, following Meta (META), OpenAI, and Oracle (ORCL).

TradingKey - AI cloud infrastructure provider IREN Limited (IREN) announced that it has signed long-term cloud service contracts totaling $2.8 billion with several AI developers and raised its year-end 2026 annualized recurring revenue (ARR) target for its AI Cloud business from $3.7 billion to over $4 billion. Boosted by the positive news, the company's stock price rose more than 9% during intraday trading on Monday, as the market once again focused on this AI computing service provider that successfully transitioned from a Bitcoin miner.

TradingKey - Recently, the AI industry chain has undergone a significant correction, with the semiconductor sector facing notable pressure. However, JPMorgan does not believe this adjustment signals the end of the AI rally. The firm’s strategy team views the current market movement as capital reallocation and valuation digestion rather than a deterioration of industry fundamentals. As earnings expectations continue to improve and market positioning scales back, chip stocks may be building momentum for the next rally.

TradingKey - Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) will release its second-quarter 2026 financial results after the U.S. market close on July 22. As one of the world's most valuable technology companies by market capitalization, Alphabet’s business spans multiple sectors including search advertising, YouTube, Google Cloud, generative AI, and autonomous driving. Its earnings performance not only impacts its own stock price but is also regarded as a crucial bellwether for the global AI investment cycle.

TradingKey - Tesla (TSLA) will release its second-quarter earnings report after the U.S. market close on July 22, Eastern Time. As one of the most closely watched tech and automotive companies this year, this report will not only test the recovery of Tesla's automotive business but also serve as a critical window for investors to reassess its AI, autonomous driving, and robotics strategies.

TradingKey - In the coming week, global markets will witness one of the most significant central bank decisions of July. The European Central Bank (ECB) will announce its latest interest rate decision, with investors closely watching whether President Christine Lagarde provides policy signals for September. Simultaneously, preliminary July PMI data will be released for the US, Japan, and the Eurozone, offering fresh clues on the global economic start to the third quarter. Meanwhile, the second-quarter earnings season for US stocks continues to progress.

TradingKey - The global new energy vehicle industry is still in a phase of rapid expansion. However, for investors, industry growth does not mean all electric vehicle companies will emerge as winners. Between these two representative EV companies, Tesla (TSLA) and Rivian (RIVN), which stock is better suited for long-term holding?

TradingKey - Nvidia's (NVDA) GPUs were once an indispensable choice for training large AI models in China, previously monopolizing over 95% of the domestic AI training chip market. However, amid intensifying geopolitical competition and the restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain, Nvidia's market share for AI chips in China's official market is plummeting toward zero.