Analysis

TradingKey - On Tuesday, August 25, Eastern Time, futures on the three major U.S. stock indexes rose across the board in pre-market trading. Selling pressure on tech stocks temporarily eased and market sentiment recovered cautiously, but investors generally remained on the sidelines ahead of Nvidia's earnings report and key inflation data to be released this week.

TradingKey - SNDK Aug 25: Q4 $8.97B (+51% seq), FY26 $20.25B (+175% YoY), DC +437%. Q1 guidance $10.30-10.80B, $44-46 EPS. New 2TB QLC 3D NAND Aug 12. HBF partnership. Chinese YMTC $4.9B IPO Aug 21. Stock $1,493 (down 6.45%), recent +35%/-9% volatility.

TradingKey - Ahead of August 25, Eastern Time, former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's July congressional trading report was officially disclosed, revealing that she initiated positions in clean energy company Bloom Energy (BE) and chip giant Intel (INTC). Boosted by the disclosure, Bloom Energy rose over 6% in pre-market trading on Tuesday, while Intel gained 4%.

TradingKey - U.S. President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure shows that he has purchased shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX), with the transaction valued at up to $50,000.

TradingKey - Marvell Technology (MRVL) will release its second-quarter fiscal 2027 financial results after the market close on August 27, Eastern Time. As of pre-market trading on August 25, Marvell's stock was trading at $235.11, up approximately 221% over the past 12 months.

TradingKey - The U.S. will release its July Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index on Wednesday, August 26 (ET). As a key inflation indicator closely watched by the Federal Reserve, this data will serve as a crucial basis for the market to gauge whether a rate hike will occur in September.

TradingKey - Apple (AAPL) is reportedly preparing to launch its first updated Mac mini in nearly two years, with the new product potentially debuting as early as the next few days—possibly even ahead of its September iPhone launch event.

TradingKey - After seven consecutive trading days of declines, Nvidia (NVDA) is set to release a crucial earnings report that will determine the direction of the AI trade.

Japanese and South Korean stock markets staged a dramatic turnaround to gain, with SoftBank surging over 2% and both SK Hynix and Kioxia reversing earlier losses.

TradingKey - On August 24 EDT, Reuters reported that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced he has issued a subpoena to OpenAI, officially launching an investigation into the breach of the open-source platform Hugging Face by the company's AI models.

Ahead of its earnings release, Nvidia has suffered a seven-day losing streak, with the key $200 round-number level facing a crucial test.

TradingKey - As of the Asian session on August 25, silver (XAGUSD) was consolidating below $70. The metal reached an intraday high of $69.94, briefly approaching the $70 psychological mark, before coming under pressure and retreating to trade near $68.20. Silver rose 6.56% last week and has gained over 18% in the past month, highlighting a significant strengthening of bullish momentum for silver amid a broader recovery in the precious metals market.

Micron shares plunged nearly 6% in a single day, triggering selling pressure, and the stock could face an 18% retest of its bottom going forward.

TradingKey - On August 25, Reuters reported that union members at South Korea's SK Hynix rejected a tentative wage deal previously reached with management by a very narrow margin on Tuesday, injecting fresh uncertainty into labor negotiations at the major global memory chipmaker. Following the news, SK Hynix shares dropped nearly 5% in intraday trading today, significantly underperforming the benchmark KOSPI index's roughly 2% decline, bringing labor talks back to the center of market attention.

Bitcoin rose over 3% today, briefly touching $80,000 to hit a more than three-month high.

TradingKey - Nvidia (NVDA) announced on Monday that the NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, built on Groq technology, has entered full mass production, with related rack systems set to launch this year. Serving as a key component of the Vera Rubin platform, the Groq 3 LPX primarily targets the fast-growing AI inference market, further refining Nvidia's computing power layout from AI model training to real-world deployment.

Zcash (ZEC) surges toward the $900 mark, hitting an 8-year high and strongly outperforming BTC.

TradingKey - On August 24, Eastern Time, the three major US stock indexes closed mixed. Markets continued to digest valuation pressures on tech stocks, wait-and-see sentiment ahead of Nvidia's (NVDA) earnings report, expanded US economic pressure on Iran, and escalating US-Canada trade tensions. Whi

Japanese and South Korean stock markets tumbled at the open, with the KOSPI plunging over 4% to fall below the 6,500-point mark and the Nikkei dropping 800 points, as across-the-board slumps in Samsung and SK Hynix triggered heavy selling pressure.

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has filed a new financial disclosure. The filing shows that Pelosi significantly increased her position in Bloom Energy (BE) shares and options.