🚀 US Market Snap 9-week Win Streak

Market Overview
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Year To Date Performances:

1. US stocks snapped a nine-week winning streak last week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged 4.18% on Friday, marking its worst single-day decline since April 2025, driven by a violent 10% rout in the iShares Semiconductor ETF as institutional investors executed aggressive profit-taking and portfolio rebalancing. While the selling was initially triggered by a lack of an upward revision in Broadcom’s AI chip forecast earlier in the week, the velocity intensified on Friday following a much stronger-than-expected nonfarm payrolls report for May—which added 172,000 jobs against the 80,000 expected—sending the 10-year Treasury yield above 4.5% and raising borrowing cost concerns for capital-intensive AI infrastructure buildouts. This macroeconomic pressure coincided with widespread technical profit-taking in over-allocated semiconductor giants like Micron (-13%), Marvell (-16%), and AMD (-11%), as asset managers harvested liquidity from high-momentum AI wins and Bitcoin to fund upcoming allocations for next week's historic $1.77 trillion SpaceX IPO. Despite the severity of the drop, which gave the S&P 500 its first negative week in ten, the underlying market mechanics point to a structured rotation rather than systemic panic, as capital remained within the equity ecosystem by shifting directly into defensive consumer staples and healthcare value plays like Colgate-Palmolive (+4%) and Coca-Cola (+3%).

2. Despite navigating steep tariffs, strict software security bans, and bipartisan legislative resistance like the Moreno-Slotkin bill, Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers are poised to establish a footprint in the United States over the next few years by utilizing domestic manufacturing partnerships and North American supply chains. While direct vehicle imports from China are economically unviable due to a 125% cumulative tariff barrier, Chinese auto juggernauts like BYD and Geely are actively eyeing joint ventures with struggling Detroit legacy automakers or the expansion of existing North American footprints—such as Geely's ownership of Volvo and Polestar in South Carolina—to localize production and sidestep trade restrictions. This commercial push intensifies as China's 2025 production of 16 million electric cars created a 20% domestic overcapacity bubble, forcing brands to aggressively expand into neighboring markets like Mexico, where Chinese cars now claim 25% of total sales, and Canada, which recently capped imports at 49,000 units annually under a low 6.1% tariff. However, the path to entering the core U.S. consumer market faces volatile geopolitical hurdles, particularly as the Trump administration threatens a 10% tariff hike on Canada and Mexico over labor disputes, while U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer actively leverages upcoming USMCA renewal negotiations to demand strict, non-negotiable domestic content requirements for any vehicle crossing North American borders duty-free.

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4. In a definitive structural shift for Berkshire Hathaway, newly appointed CEO Greg Abel deployed $16.8 billion in capital over a single weekend, signaling a stark departure from Warren Buffett’s traditional hands-off management style and long-standing technology aversion. The expansion begins with a $6.8 billion all-cash acquisition of Taylor Morrison Home Corporation—representing an $8.5 billion enterprise value—which Abel intends to actively consolidate with Clayton Homes to build a top-five national, vertically integrated homebuilding platform. Simultaneously, Abel broke Berkshire's historic tech barriers by executing a $10 billion private stock placement into Alphabet, positioning the conglomerate as a foundational anchor for Google’s $80 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout while securing Class A and Class C shares at significant discounts. By treating AI data center expansion like a capital-intensive utility bet and driving operational consolidation in the housing market, Abel is aggressively repurposing Berkshire's massive cash reserves to capture dominant positions in modern macroeconomic growth cycles.

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