‼️ 🇮🇷 Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and a lead ceasefire negotiator, warned on Sunday that the era of “proportionate responses” is over, telling the US the “rules of the game have changed” and promising “faster, heavier and more painful” retaliation against any aggression toward Iran’s interests and security. The escalation comes as US polls show Americans rating President Trump’s handling of the war poorly, while surging energy prices and political fallout have put Republicans at risk of losing control of Congress in November’s midterms.
‼️ 🇨🇳 China is injecting 300 billion yuan ($45 billion) into eight of its largest banks and insurers via special sovereign bonds—the country’s biggest financial-sector recapitalization in nearly two decades—to bolster system resilience and sustain credit growth as the economy slows. The move builds on an earlier 500 billion yuan of state capital injections since early 2025, underscoring Beijing’s stepped-up push to stabilize lenders, support lending, and rejuvenate growth in the world’s second-largest economy
‼️ U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration may never secure a negotiated deal to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, signaling it could pursue that objective through other means. Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responded that any future attack would draw a “faster, heavier and more painful” retaliation.
‼️ HSBC’s chief economist says rising U.S. yields, a weak yen and tech optimism echo the conditions preceding the 1997 Asian financial crisis, though today’s key risk is a slowdown in U.S. AI demand that could hit Asia’s electronics exports. Still, he argues the region is better insulated, with many economies now exporting capital rather than relying heavily on foreign funding.
‼️ 🇩🇪 BREAKING: The far-right Alternative for Germany decisively won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt amid growing public discontent with the political establishment, but is expected to fall short of an outright majority to form a government.
📌 Update: On Friday, 4 September, meaningful institutional and hedge-fund buying returned to semiconductors, prompting us to selectively add long exposure. After a period of consolidation, softer risk appetite and crowded-positioning unwinds, the sector appears better positioned for fresh capital to re-enter high-quality AI infrastructure names with durable earnings visibility, strong order books and exposure to compute, networking, memory and data-centre capex. Crucially, this demand emerged after a reset—not an extended upside chase—and appeared broad-based rather than concentrated in a single mega-cap. With a visible selling overhang easing and the AI-capex cycle still intact, Friday’s flow strengthened the technical and fundamental case for selective semiconductor exposure.
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