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Falcon's View – Week 1-5 Sept 2025

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Omar Makram
Sep 07, 2025
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Performance

• S&P 500: −0,12%

• Nasdaq 100: +0,19%

• My portfolio: −0,43%

Market pulse

A whipsaw week: markets opened lower on Tuesday (post‑Labor Day), then climbed into Friday’s jobs report. Payrolls +22k vs +75k expected and unemployment 4,3% vs 4,2% expected initially boosted stocks on rate‑cut hopes, but the “growth is slowing too much” worry took over. Result: S&P 500 finished red; Nasdaq 100 gave back gains and ended flat‑to‑slightly‑up.

Crowd vs. price

The slight pullback in prices came with a small uptick in crowd interest overall.


Holdings & Watchlist Notes

Semis (chipmakers): rotation after Broadcom

After Broadcom beat earnings and raised its outlook—and headlines said it’s working with OpenAI on a custom AI chip with a big 2026 order—investors moved money inside the chip sector. Cash flowed toward the “plumbing” of AI data centers: Broadcom’s custom chips and networking gear and Micron’s high‑speed memory (HBM/DRAM). It flowed away from general‑purpose AI GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD. Several reports also said TSMC will likely build and advanced‑package many of these custom parts (3nm + packaging), which supports demand for the foundry, too.

  • NVIDIA (NVDA): −3,93% | AMD: −7,07%

Crowd interest: ticked up in both as price fell.

  • Micron (MU): +10,39% | Broadcom (AVGO): +12,61% | TSMC: +5,43%

Crowd interest: muted (little change).


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