A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
Volatility is resurfacing as a turbulent week for world markets and politics was met on Friday with a global tech outage that’s compounded a recoil in mega-cap shares, already hit by fears of new chipmaker curbs and underwhelming earnings guidance. Morning Bid: Volatility resurfaces, tech outage rankles
NVDA: Nvidia Shares Wash Out Over $200 Billion in Terrible Day to Be a Chip Stock
·        Nvidia wipes out $200 billion.
·        Trump comments hurt chip stocks.
·        Little tech advances and big tech drops.
·        Nvidia NVDA is turning into a rollercoaster stock getting notorious for outsize swings and whipsaw trading. The chip maker plunged 6.7% on Wednesday after jittery traders reeled out of the semiconductor sector on comments by Donald Trump who said that Taiwan — the world’s leading spot for chip manufacturing — should pay for its own defence. In addition, the Biden administration vowed to pursue new US export restrictions to China.
·        The stampede out of Nvidia erased more than $200 billion from its market cap, reminding investors just how dangerously volatile this beast of a public company is. Not long ago — at the end of June — Nvidia rattled markets with more than $500 billion washed out in a three-session stretch. Despite Wednesday’s slide showing how overstretched the rally is, shares of Nvidia are riding on nearly 150% in gains since the start of the year.
Currency markets move in cycles. At times conditions in the US session are with the grain. Other times only counter cycle opportunities exist. Of late it has been largely counter, with the in grain conditions arriving in Europe. Don’t waste your time trying to get in at midnight. Stick with your hours.