Proflex Institutional Research Series
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Proflex Aug 17–21 — NVIDIA Wednesday, Warsh at Jackson Hole, Treasury Buybacks
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 17-21, 2026 NVIDIA Wednesday | Warsh at Jackson Hole | Treasury Doubles Buybacks | Iran Economic D-Day "Last week the market stopped trading earnings and started trading the currency. Gold, silver, Bitcoin and oil all went up while the S&P went down, in the same week the Treasury said it would double its bond buybacks. NVIDIA on Wednesday is the test of whether earnings can take the wheel back."— Proflex Panel The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,674, down 1.4% on...
Proflex Aug 10-14 — AI Numbers Keep Improving, SPY New Highs, Anthropic IPO Derisks Semis
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 10-14, 2026 AI Numbers Keep Improving | SPY New Highs, Tech to Follow | Anthropic IPO Derisks Semis | Iran Stalemate Drags On "The market is too pessimistic about AI at the exact moment every revenue line, every booking metric, and every utilization rate is accelerating. New highs in the S&P are not the end of the rotation: they are the beginning of it flowing back into tech." — Proflex Panel The S&P 500 closed last week at a fresh all-time high of 7,799, its...
Proflex Aug 3-7 (Special Edition) - Hike Off the Table, Semis Snap Back, AI Trade
Proflex Market Update — Week Aug 3-7, 2026 Hike Odds Collapse | Semi Liquidation Over | One Big AI Trade | CPI Wednesday Friday's July employment report did more for equities in ninety minutes than six weeks of earnings did. Employers cut 23,000 jobs in July. Private payrolls added just 30,000 while government shed 53,000. May and June were revised down by a combined 103,000. Average hourly earnings cooled to 3.2% year over year, the slowest since May 2021. That is a soft report. Stocks...
Proflex July 27-31 - The Leverage Purge, Capex Accelerates, Jobs Week
Proflex Market Update — Week July 27-31, 2026 The Leverage Purge | Capex Accelerates | 30 Year at a 2007 High | Jobs Week Markets comes back this week after one of the most violent stretches it has produced in years. What makes it unusual is where it happened.Look at the S&P and you would conclude nothing occurred. The index sits at 7,571, up about 2% on the week, with the VIX back to 16. That is a calm tape. The action was entirely underneath it, in semiconductors and the AI complex, where...
Proflex Jul 20-24 — FOMC Meet, Biggest Earnings Week, AI Spending Doubts Return
Proflex Market Update — Week July 20–24, 2026 FOMC Uncertainty | 34% of the S&P Reports | AI Doubts Return | The Semis Selloff Decoded The upcoming week is headlined by the FOMC Meet & the heaviest earnings week of the season with 34% of the S&P 500 reporting by earnings weight, and the dual Thursday release of second quarter GDP alongside June personal income and spending. Semiconductors have fallen 20% from their June 22 peak into a technical bear market, erasing $3.3 trillion of value,...
Proflex Jul 13–17 — War Reignites, Critical Earnings Week, Institutional Flows
Proflex Market Update — Week July 13 to July 17 War Reignites | Oil Near Month-High | Critical Earnings Week | Systematic Flows Turn Sellers "The macro calendar goes quiet just as the two loudest risks (war and earnings) get louder. This is a week where market direction would be primarily decided by results and the geo-political tensions" — Proflex Panel The détente is over. After two weeks in which back-and-forth strikes stayed inside both sides' red lines, the Iran conflict has re-escalated...
Proflex July 6 to July 10 — Hynix $26.5Bn IPO, Korea Circuit Breakers, Record Treasury
Proflex Market Update - Week July 6 to July 10, 2026 SK Hynix's $26.5B Blockbuster | Korea's 7th Circuit Breaker | Fed Kills the Easing Bias | Record Treasury Auctions "A US listing raised $26 billion on the same memory trade that keeps tripping Seoul's circuit breakers. When the buyer and the seller are pricing the identical asset three time zones apart, one of them is wrong." — Proflex Panel Two markets looked at the exact same AI-memory story this week and drew opposite conclusions. In New...
Proflex Jun 29–Jul 3 — Dow Record, June Jobs Surprise, Memory's US IPO
Proflex Market Update - Week June 29 to July 3, 2026 Dow-to-Tech Rotation | The 57k Jobs Puzzle | Memory Comes to Wall Street | Iran's 60-Day Clock "The Dow prints a record while the seven stocks that carried the market all year quietly bleed. That is the market finally learning to walk without a crutch." — Proflex Panel The leadership of this market changed hands last week, and almost nobody said it out loud. The Dow closed at an all-time high of 52,900 on July 2 — its first-ever close above...
Proflex Jun 22–26 — AI Unwind, Micron Record, Korea Halt
Proflex Market Update - Week Jun 22 - Jun 26, 2026 The AI Unwind | Micron’s Record Earnings | Korea’s Circuit Breaker | Strait Fragility "When the check writers crack but the chip makers print records, the market is not selling AI. It is repricing who actually gets paid.” — Proflex Panel This was the week the AI trade cracked from the inside. Not a macro shock, not a war headline. A positioning unwind. Hedge funds dumped US technology at the fastest pace in more than a decade, the Nasdaq 100...
Proflex Jun 15–19 — Record Expiry, Hawkish Fed, NVDA Bond Sale
Proflex Market Update - Week Jun 15 - Jun 19, 2026 Record $8.3T Expiry | Warsh's Hawkish Debut | Iran Truce, Reversible | Semis at the Turn "The market spent this week climbing a wall it built itself, pulling out the Fed's dovishness, the biggest options floor in history, and the geopolitical all-clear, all at once. It held. The question is what holds it up next." — Proflex Panel A new Fed chair walked in and told markets the cuts they'd been waiting for aren't coming and stocks fell, then...
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