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U.S. stocks opened August with a strong rally as the Dow hit a record close, helped by easing U.S.-Iran tensions that pushed oil prices and Treasury yields lower.

Big Tech’s investments in Anthropic and OpenAI are skewing the appearance of corporate earnings.
Market watchers are tracking what stocks and indexes may do next after the recent Nasdaq-100 correction.
Dividend-paying stocks outperformed the S&P 500 in July, and some of those names could keep rising.
JPMorgan has several preferred stock picks as August trading begins.
Church & Dwight is being highlighted as a low-volatility consumer staples stock with attractive qualities.
Investors are watching jobs data and earnings reports closely, with attention on what NYSE insider Jay Woods sees this week.
Berkshire Hathaway shares have climbed to an eight-month high.
Analysts say the AI trade is still alive, even if it has paused for a breather, while SaaS stocks may be vulnerable.
Several major companies, including SpaceX, Palantir, Snap, and Onsemi, are in focus ahead of earnings and guidance updates.
U.S. stocks started August strongly, with the Dow reaching a record as easing Iran tensions helped push oil prices lower.

Hong Kong stocks fell as the Hang Seng Index dropped 156 points, weighed by HSBC’s post-earnings decline and weakness in Chinese banks, despite strength in some tech and pharma names.

Hong Kong stocks fell overall, with the Hang Seng Index dropping 156 points and banks leading the decline, while the tech index edged slightly higher.
Several Hong Kong property and rental market updates showed continued strength in some segments, including record or near-record rents and large luxury purchases.
Financial institutions offered mixed views on major companies: Citi said HSBC’s quarterly results were mixed, while Citi also raised Palantir’s target price after better-than-expected earnings.
Alibaba Cloud upgraded its enterprise analytics product Quick BI to an AI-native architecture, reflecting the wider shift toward AI-driven business tools.
DeepSeek V4 Flash API briefly suffered performance degradation in the morning, but service has since been restored.
China’s A-share market rose strongly, with the ChiNext Index surging 5.6% and chip-related and optical module stocks posting sharp gains.
Drug and healthcare companies were active in the latest national procurement round, with nearly 30 listed firms announcing products that may be selected.
Wu Qing said China will deepen cooperation with Hong Kong across functions, products, ecosystem, regulation, and governance to support the city’s capital market.
China released the “15th Five-Year Plan” for new power system construction, targeting higher non-fossil energy share, stronger grid capacity, and more EV charging infrastructure by 2030.
AI and technology competition is intensifying across sectors, from talent hiring and robotics to consumer electronics, semiconductors, and PCB supply chains.

TSE rebounded by 202 yen as buying returned to AI and semiconductor-related stocks, supported by a rise in U.S. high-tech shares.

Two credit unions in Niigata plan to merge by the end of 2027 to strengthen their business base amid population decline.
Tokyo stocks rebounded, rising 202 yen, as investors bought AI- and semiconductor-related shares following gains in U.S. tech stocks.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is considering a system to better track groundwater extraction, partly due to concerns over foreign acquisition of water sources.
Debate continues over whether a “secondary capital” could reshape Japan’s land use and governance, though designing the system is not easy.
The Nikkei fell sharply at one point, with the Tokyo market dropping more than 800 yen and briefly slipping below 63,000 as the stronger yen weighed on exporters.
In currency trading, the yen moved in the 157-yen range against the dollar, with investors cautious about further government intervention, limiting market movement.
NY crude oil futures fell sharply from the $80 range as fears about supply eased following developments in the U.S.-Iran situation.
Toyota raised its full-year net profit forecast to 3.2 trillion yen, helped by the weaker yen, although it still expects a decline due to Middle East tensions.
Major Japanese companies have now posted wage increases above 5% for three straight years, and the latest spring wage negotiations reached the highest raise amount since 1976.
KDDI launched a second phone-number service on au for 550 yen per month, while other stories covered railway line reductions, retail-town development, factory shutdowns, and aviation safety checks.

Bitcoin held near $64,000 even as rare U.S.-Japan yen intervention revived carry-trade fears and added volatility pressure to the crypto market.

Bitcoin is trading around $63,600 to $64,000 while investors weigh renewed fears about yen carry trades after U.S.-Japan intervention.
Bhutan’s GMC has started deploying part of its Bitcoin treasury after previously committing to a 10,000 BTC pledge.
Bitcoin’s price remains steady despite comments from Jim Cramer and other market noise, showing traders are largely unfazed.
XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD on Ethereum through a large $280 million lending pool.
A Solana governance proposal seeks to increase daily SOL token burns dramatically, from about $47,000 to roughly $650,000.
Bitcoin moved closer to $64,000 even as traders ignored Strategy’s BTC sales and Coldcard-related wallet activity.
A long-dormant Bitcoin wallet from 2013 transferred about $31 million, highlighting continued movement from old wallets.
A U.S. FBI intelligence agent was arrested in a case involving the theft of $1 million in cryptocurrency.
Trump-linked American Bitcoin president Matt Prusak has left the company to join Giga Energy.
Across the broader crypto market, Ethereum generated $1.79 billion in app fees, XRP hotfixes addressed XRPL node issues, and market forecasts remain bullish for Bitcoin and XRP by the end of 2026 to 2027.

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