☕️ [Task Coins Giveaway] Daily Market Talk — US Jobs Blowout Pushes Rate-Hike Odds to 60%

US markets are closed today for Labor Day, so let's recap Friday's session: August non-farm payrolls blew past estimates, pushing September rate-hike odds to 60%. Tesla's Cybercab officially launched in Austin, but the quiet rollout left Wall Street wanting more. Let's dig in 👇

💬 A jobs beat this strong usually means one thing for rates — but with Friday's CPI still to come, is the Fed's decision really settled?

📊 Quick Recap — What Moved & Why

🇺🇸 US — Jobs Blowout Pushes Rate-Hike Odds to 60%

🔑 Key Event: August non-farm payrolls rose 162,000, nearly triple the ~56,000 consensus and the strongest since March. September rate-hike odds jumped to 60.3%, and the 2-year Treasury yield hit its highest since January 2025. $Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US), $S&P 500(.SPX.US) and $NASDAQ Composite Index(.IXIC.US) all closed slightly lower.

@Shyon : I think the market may be getting ahead of itself on the Fed. A weak jobs number could reinforce easing expectations, while a stronger-than-expected print could bring some of that optimism back down to earth.

👀 Other to Watch

• $Tesla(TSLA.US) → -5.92% as Cybercab's Austin debut came with no livestream, no fleet-scale numbers, and Musk absent; NHTSA opened a compliance audit on about 1,000 of the vehicles.

@koolgal : A gold car, no livestream, no regulatory green light, still Austin only — the complete absence of a public livestream turns this launch into a showcase rather than an active commercial catalyst.

• Memory chips → $Sandisk(SNDK.US) +11.90% and $Micron Tech(MU.US) +6.10% on tightening HBM supply, as Micron plans to nearly double monthly HBM output by year-end.
• $NVIDIA(NVDA.US) → +1.80% to $230.36, closing in on its all-time high of $235.74, as the Hugging Face deal kept generating headlines and Anthropic was reported to be preparing to make its IPO filing public.
• $Apple(AAPL.US) → -2.51% Friday, ahead of Thursday's iPhone launch event (1:00am SGT).
• $Marvell Tech(MRVL.US) +7.05% and $Ciena(CIEN.US) +1.12% extended the data-center networking rally on strong cloud demand.
• $Lululemon(LULU.US) → -17.38% after cutting full-year profit and sales guidance.

🇸🇬 Singapore — STI Eases After Friday's Record

🔑 Key Event: $FTSE Straits Times Index(STI.SG) closed at a record 5,801.96 Friday (intraday high 5,828.50), then eased -0.43% to around 5,777 this morning.

👀 Other to Watch

• The three local banks are pulling back modestly alongside the index after Friday's highs: $DBS(D05.SG) -0.70% to S$78.10, $OCBC Bank(O39.SG) -1.39% to S$31.82, $UOB(U11.SG) -0.71% to S$41.71.

🇭🇰 HK/China — HSI Pulls Back from Friday's Close

🔑 Key Event: $Hang Seng Index(00HSI.HK) closed at 25,650.87 Friday, then fell -0.79% to around 25,447 this morning.

👀 Other to Watch

• $XIAOMI-W(01810.HK) → -4.08% ahead of today's new product launch event.
• $BIDU-W(09888.HK) → -4.80%, reversing an initial pop after being added to Stock Connect today.
• $HUA HONG GRACE(01347.HK) → +4.83% on its debut as a new Hang Seng Index blue-chip constituent, as the index's quarterly review took effect today.

🌍 Other

• 🇺🇸 Barclays flagged that part of Friday's jobs beat came from a temporary rebound in hospitality and local education hiring, and reportedly still expects a September hike.
• 🌍 Reportedly, US-mediated Russia-Ukraine peace talks are set to resume, with an envoy heading to Moscow; separately, the US Navy reportedly sank an Iranian oil tanker for the first time.

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