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Weekly Market Assessment Brief | July 27

Key Takeaways

This week will bring the U.S. “super week.”

Market direction won’t be determined by technicals—it will be driven by macro data, tech mega-cap earnings, and fund flows. Volatility is expected to rise materially overall.

My view boils down to one sentence:

Control your position size and wait for the market to give direction.

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Macro

Key items to watch this week:

• Federal Reserve rate decision

• U.S. Q2 GDP

• Core PCE inflation data

If the data continues to cool, the market may keep pricing in rate-cut expectations; if inflation re-accelerates, high-valuation tech stocks will face renewed pressure.

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Liquidity

Market liquidity remains ample, but capital is starting to rotate between high and low exposure.

An index staying strong doesn’t mean every stock will rise.

What’s more likely next:

Index consolidation with stock-level differentiation.

Stocks that truly have fundamentals, capital, and catalysts will still attract chasing flows.

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AI Sector

This week, focus on four areas:

• AI compute

• Semiconductors

• Storage

• Power infrastructure

AI remains the market’s main theme, but capital is placing more emphasis on profitability rather than just telling a story.

Companies that genuinely benefit from AI capital expenditures are more likely to receive sustained inflows.

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Risk Factors

① The Fed releases a hawkish signal

② Core PCE comes in above market expectations

③ AI leaders’ earnings or guidance miss expectations

④ Geopolitics pushes up energy prices, causing a decline in risk appetite

Any one item exceeding expectations could amplify this week’s volatility.

There’s only one principal.

This week, it’s not about who makes the most—it’s about who makes the fewest mistakes.