#我的七夕交易分享 Stock Market Daily Summary: New High Day and Exhausted Good News

2026/08/14

📊Market Overview
· The S&P 500 closed at 7798.99 (+0.65%), rising above 7800 for the first time intraday and setting a new all-time high.
· The Nasdaq Composite closed at 26803.03 (+0.81%), nearing the 27000 mark.
· The Dow closed at 53839.99 (+0.13%), up 69.72 points, with Cisco’s sharp decline weighing on the index.
· The Russell 2000 set an intraday all-time high of 3067, with a year-to-date gain of more than 23%.
· The VIX closed at 14.63 (+0.55%); volatility rose rather than declined as the index set a new high.

🌍Macroeconomic Indicators
· July PPI rose 4.7% year over year, down from 5.5% in June and slightly better than market expectations.
· Core PPI slowed on both a month-over-month and year-over-year basis, extending the cooling signal from the previous day’s CPI.
· Rate markets priced in less than a 40% chance of a Fed rate hike in September.
· Cleveland Fed President Hammack reiterated that rates should continue to rise, with internal disagreement among officials persisting.
· WTI crude settled at $81.25, down more than 2%; Brent settled at $87.07.
· The issuance yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries reached a nearly 25-year high, with pressure on long-term financing costs persisting.

💰Fund Flows
· Cooling inflation combined with falling oil prices formed the direct catalyst for this round of new highs.
· Funds clearly shifted from high-flying AI hardware into the memory supply chain and undervalued software assets.
· Cisco was sold off after its earnings report, a typical case of profit-taking after good news had been fully priced in.
· Small-cap stocks also set new highs, indicating that liquidity is spilling over rather than concentrating in a single trade.

📈Sector Performance
· The storage and memory supply chain led gains, with SanDisk, Western Digital, SK Hynix, and Micron all surging.
· The software sector was sparked by M&A themes, as funds moved back into SaaS names that had previously suffered valuation compression.
· Networking equipment weakened, with Cisco dragging Arista(ANET) down 3.27% at the close.
· Semiconductor equipment stocks diverged, with Applied Materials meeting resistance near its 50-day moving average ahead of earnings.

⭐Key Stocks
· Workday(WDAY) closed at $206.45, surging about 18%; it was up more than 20% intraday and triggered circuit breakers three times.
· Reuters reported that Silver Lake is pursuing an acquisition of Workday, with a bid potentially reaching $43 billion; if completed, it would be one of the largest acquisitions in software industry history.
· SanDisk(SNDK) surged about 15% after unveiling its FY2028 to FY2030 long-term financial model at its Investor Day.
· SanDisk has signed agreements under its new business model with eight customers, locking in about 50% of FY2027 capacity and roughly two-thirds of FY2028 capacity.
· Micron(MU) closed at $971.82, up 6.64%; Western Digital(WDC) closed at $489.50, up 7.8%; SK Hynix(SKHY) rose about 8%.
· Cisco(CSCO) closed at $113.47, down 8.40%, with trading volume about 2.4 times its three-month average.
· Applied Materials(AMAT) shares closed down about 2.5% and fell another 3% to 5% at one point after hours.

📰Earnings Season
· Cisco’s FY26Q4 revenue was $17.3 billion, up 18% year over year, while adjusted EPS was $1.22; both exceeded expectations.
· Cisco’s hyperscaler customer AI infrastructure orders totaled $4 billion for the quarter and $9.3 billion for the full fiscal year, with FY2027 revenue contribution expected to reach about $7.5 billion.
· However, adjusted gross margin fell to 66.3% from 68.4% a year earlier, and next-quarter guidance was only 65% to 66%; the rising share of AI hardware eroding margins was the real reason for the sharp stock decline.
· Applied Materials’ FY26Q3 revenue was $9.12B, up 25% year over year, while non-GAAP EPS was $3.50; both set records and exceeded expectations.
· Applied Materials’ non-GAAP gross margin of 50.4% and operating margin of 34% both reached record highs; Q4 guidance called for revenue of $9.75 billion to $10.75 billion and EPS of $3.82 to $4.22, well above market expectations.
· Management said that, based on customer visibility, 2027 would still be a year of strong growth, but the stock nevertheless fell after hours, with its year-to-date gain approaching 100%.

🎯Today’s Summary
· The index’s new-high move was driven by inflation and oil prices, not technology stocks themselves—this is worth remembering.
· The two earnings reports from Cisco and Applied Materials, which both beat expectations yet fell, show that the gains themselves had become the biggest source of negative news.
· New highs accompanied by a rising VIX indicate that some funds are buying downside protection; volatility may increase around options expiration next week.
· The storage supply chain was the clearest fund-flow theme of the day, but note that it is based on long-term guidance rather than current-period results.

“Fundamentals determine the direction over the medium and long term, while fund flows dominate short-term rises and falls. No one can guarantee that they are completely right, so position management is the most important thing.”

Risk warning: This article is only a review record and does not constitute any investment advice.$MU ‌