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U.S. Stock, Fixed Income & Cross-Asset Opening Daily
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 — Pre-Open Briefing | Data as of: ~7:35 AM ET (second pull) | News window: Tue Sep 1, 4:00 PM ET → Wed Sep 2, 7:35 AM ET
Prepared for Institutional Investors. Not Personalized Investment Advice; Verify Independently before Acting. | Source Links and Data Notes & Conflicts provided in the companion text file (US_CrossAsset_Opening_2026-09-02_DataNotes.txt). |
1 · Pre-Open Dashboard |
| The overnight in one paragraph. The rest of the world sold its long end and the United States, for a second consecutive session, declined to join — and in the last half hour before this report was written it went further and bought its own front end. Bloomberg's sovereign board at 7:13 AM ET marks the U.S. 10-year unchanged at 4.80% against France +6 bp to 4.26%, Greece +6 bp, Italy +5 bp to 4.22%, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal +5 bp, Australia +5 bp to 5.23%, Germany +4 bp to 3.38% and the U.K. +4 bp to 5.26%; by 7:35 the American curve had gone the other way — 2Y -0.6 bp, 5Y -0.5, 7Y -0.5, 10Y -0.2, and the only cheaper point on the board the 30-year at +0.2 — which localises the entire concession to the one tenor where the supply is. What the U.S. did import overnight was the equity leg. Japan fell 2.85% to 64,325.64 on a session in which the 10-year JGB did not move at all (Bloomberg marks it 2.99%, +0 bp, at 3:59 AM ET) — Tokyo took Tuesday's medicine a day late, having closed down only 0.15% on the day the 10-year first printed 3.001% since 1996 — and Korea fell 3.99% to 6,562.72 with Samsung Electronics -4.02% and SK hynix -4.73% despite both companies' buybacks (Seoul Economic Daily). Against that, Hang Seng was flat at -0.07% and Europe is now down only 0.0-0.6%, which tells you this is a semiconductor and duration event and not a global risk event. The overnight driver was the barrel — Washington ran a second round of strikes on Iran in three days, hitting Iranian tankers for the first time in retaliation rather than for blockade enforcement — but the barrel has stopped paying: Brent is back under $95 at $94.37, down 0.30% on the day, and WTI is $89.65, down 0.63%, after Tuesday's 7.74% and 6.04%. ING's Chris Turner still frames the policy read as hawkish: “The new baseline seems to be that the Fed will, after all, hike rates in September.” The futures ranking is YM +0.02% > RTY -0.03% > ES -0.11% > NQ -0.38% — the Dow is now green — a clean growth-over-value ordering that says what damage there is sits in long-duration equity, not in the index. And the single most useful fact of the morning is the earnings scorecard: five reporters since the close, five beats, and the tape is paying for exactly one of them — GitLab +21.5% against MongoDB -12.7% (a $1.90 print on a $1.61 estimate), Credo -9.0% and Palo Alto -1.8% on a raised full-year profit guide. What this hands the 9:30 open: an implied S&P open of -13.97 points, a Dow implied open of +4.12, a Nasdaq-100 implied open of -121.97, ADP at 8:15 AM ET against a +46,000-to-+48,000 consensus as the only gap risk before the bell, and a reaction function in which beating is not enough — which is precisely the setup Broadcom walks into after tonight's close with a 7.3% implied move on a stock already 23% below its 2 June record. |
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| The 7:25 refresh halved the gap, and every leg moved the same way. This matters more than the levels, so it is printed rather than quietly folded in. Between the 7:01-7:13 pull and the 7:24-7:36 pull: the S&P's implied open went from -27.97 to -13.97 and the Dow's from -91.88 to +4.12; the Nasdaq-100's from -193.97 to -121.97; WTI from +0.11% to -0.63% and Brent from +0.43% to -0.30%, taking Brent back under $95; VIX from 16.63 (+1.77%) to 16.33 (-0.06%), i.e. from bid to flat-to-lower against Tuesday's 16.34; the 10-year from +0.8 bp to -0.2 bp and the 2-year from +0.6 bp to -0.6 bp; Stoxx 600 from -0.72% to -0.50% and the IBEX from -0.41% to -0.03%; MongoDB from -13.66% to -12.65% while GitLab extended from +19.76% to +21.53%. Nothing here changes the report's shape — the futures ranking, the earnings reaction function and the U.S.-versus-Europe duration divergence all survive, and the curve reading is sharper because the concession is now isolated to the 30-year. What it changes is the size of the trade: the overnight risk-off is being unwound before the bell, and two of the levels this report names (MongoDB's $385 and Brent's $95) have already been approached or taken. Exxon Mobil flipped from +0.17% to -0.40% as the barrel turned, which is the cleanest single confirmation that the oil leg, not the rates leg, is what reversed. |
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| Equity futures — front contract (CNBC pre-markets board, 7:25 AM ET) |
| Instrument | Level | Chg (pts) | %Chg | Implied open | Note | | S&P 500 (ES) | 7,634.50 | -8.25 | -0.11% | -13.97 | Prior settle 7,642.75; fair value +17.00 → FV close 7,648.47 | | Nasdaq-100 (NQ) | 29,015.25 | -110.25 | -0.38% | -121.97 | Prior settle 29,125.50; FV +60.00 → 29,137.22. Worst of the four | | Dow (YM) | 52,836 | +8 | +0.02% | +4.12 | Prior settle 52,828; FV +65.00 → 52,831.88. The only green implied open | | Russell 2000 (RTY) | 2,923.80 | -0.90 | -0.03% | -5.33 | Prior settle 2,924.70; FV +9.00 → 2,929.13 | | ETF proxies (7:20 AM) | — | — | SPY -0.15% / QQQ -0.37% | DIA -0.07% / IWM -0.04% | stockanalysis.com premarket board, dated 2 Sep |
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| Arithmetic check. ES: -8.25 ÷ 7,642.75 = -0.108%. NQ: -110.25 ÷ 29,125.50 = -0.379%. YM: +8 ÷ 52,828 = +0.015%. RTY: -0.90 ÷ 2,924.70 = -0.031%. Implied S&P open 7,634.50 - 7,648.47 = -13.97, i.e. a cash open near 7,617.5 against Tuesday's 7,631.47 close, or -0.18% — a wider gap than the futures' own -0.11% because fair value is positive and the futures trade below it. The Dow reverses the sign: 52,836 - 52,831.88 = +4.12, an implied cash open of 52,771.0. |
| Prior cash closes — Tuesday, September 1 (the anchor for everything below) |
| Index | Close | Chg | %Chg | | S&P 500 | 7,631.47 | -54.67 | -0.71% | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,099.77 | -271.12 | -1.03% | | Dow Jones Industrials | 52,766.88 | -419.02 | -0.79% | | Nasdaq 100 | 29,077.22 | -379.75 | -1.29% | | Russell 2000 | 2,920.13 | -36.32 | -1.23% (CNBC basis) | | PHLX Semiconductor (SOX) | 11,288.61 | -246.44 | -2.14% | | Dow Transports | 20,767.36 | -534.65 | -2.51% | | VIX | 16.34 | +1.42 | +9.52% | | Nasdaq-100 volatility (VXN) | 21.96 | +1.78 | +8.82% | | CBOE Crude Oil VIX (OVX) | 49.13 | +4.22 | +9.40% |
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| Volatility, pre-open |
| Instrument | Level | Chg vs 1 Sep close | Note | | VIX (spot) | 16.33 (7:34 AM) | -0.01 / -0.06% | Unchanged on the day, having been +1.77% at 7:12. The 16-handle persists but the bid has gone | | VIX front future (VX1) | 17.28 (7:24 AM) | +0.16% | Prior 17.2528. Spot-to-future spread 0.95, widened from 0.75 — the front curve re-steepened |
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| Rates — live pre-open vs the official 3:30 PM ET par close (full curve in Section 6) |
| Tenor | Live (CNBC, ~7:34 AM) | 1 Sep official par | Overnight chg (CNBC basis) | | 2Y | 4.388% | 4.39% | -0.6 bp | | 5Y | 4.552% | 4.55% | -0.5 bp | | 10Y | 4.794% | 4.79% | -0.2 bp | | 30Y | 5.269% | 5.27% | +0.2 bp — the only cheaper point |
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| FX and commodities (CNBC front-month / spot, ~7:24-7:36 AM ET) |
| Instrument | Level | %Chg | Note | | DXY (DX front future) | 99.740 | +0.10% | Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index +0.1% at 6:58 AM | | EUR/USD | 1.1575 | -0.15% | Bloomberg marks 1.1570, -0.2% | | USD/JPY | 159.67 | -0.31% | Yen firmer, and firmer still on the refresh; Bloomberg 159.91, yen +0.2% | | GBP/USD | 1.3481 | -0.25% | Bloomberg 1.3482, -0.3% | | USD/CHF | 0.8142 | +0.33% | The franc is the weakest G10 cross — the haven did not bid | | USD/CAD | 1.3927 | +0.24% | Canada trade standoff live (Section 2) | | WTI (CL front) | $89.65 | -0.63% | Turned negative on the refresh. 2nd month $87.21 → $2.44 backwardation | | Brent (BZ front) | $94.37 | -0.30% | Back under $95 after three higher sessions | | Natural gas (NG front) | $2.930 | +0.90% | European gas strength cited by Bloomberg as a bond driver | | Gold (Comex Dec) | $4,366.60 | -0.68% | Bloomberg spot gold $4,306.85, -0.5% — futures/spot basis | | Silver (Comex Dec) | $64.56 | -1.24% | Gold/silver ratio 67.64 from 67.25 | | Copper (Comex Dec) | $6.581 | -0.30% | Third session lower | | Platinum | $1,732.80 | -1.90% | The worst-performing metal on the board | | RBOB gasoline | $3.1465 | +0.36% | Gasoline crack $42.50, +$1.06 | | Heating oil | $4.6182 | -1.26% | Distillate crack $104.31, -$1.91 — first give-back in three sessions | | Bitcoin | $76,611.76 | -1% | Bloomberg basis, 6:58 AM. Yahoo $76,631.85, -1.61% on 24h. Ether $2,370.92, -2% |
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| Global equities overnight |
| Market | Level | %Chg | Market | Level | %Chg | | Nikkei 225 | 64,325.64 | -2.85% | Nifty 50 | 23,914.45 | -0.59% | | Topix | 4,081.60 | -2.40% | Stoxx Europe 600 | 644.20 | -0.50% | | Kospi | 6,562.72 | -3.99% | Euro Stoxx 50 | 6,348.98 | -0.31% | | Taiwan TAIEX | 46,164.72 | -1.67% | DAX | 25,814.86 | -0.60% | | Hang Seng | 25,311.21 | -0.07% | CAC 40 | 8,263.95 | -0.46% | | HSCEI | 8,450.10 | -0.15% | FTSE 100 | 10,738.30 | -0.47% | | Shanghai Composite | 3,941.39 | -0.97% | FTSE MIB | 51,746.29 | -0.33% | | ASX 200 | 8,978.40 | -0.97% | IBEX 35 / SMI | 19,817.60 / 14,300.85 | -0.03% / -0.24% |
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2 · Overnight Hot Spots — ranked by tradability at today's open |
| 1. Five reporters, five beats, and the tape paid for one. [Equities] Since Tuesday's close: MongoDB printed EPS $1.90 against $1.61 and revenue $771.8m against $735.16m (+30% y/y), raised the year, guided Q3 to $1.57-1.61 against a $1.20 consensus — and trades -12.65% at $379.28, having been -13.66% at 7:10. Credo Technology printed $1.20 against $1.17, guided Q2 revenue to $525-535m against $514.7m and put FY27 optical revenue at “at least $600m” — and trades -8.98% at $188.07, on top of Tuesday's 8.65% session loss. Palo Alto Networks issued a full-year profit outlook Bloomberg describes as exceeding Wall Street's expectations — and trades -1.75% at $355.76. Dell raised the annual revenue guide by $25bn to $192bn and trades +8.08% at $459.35. And GitLab — 24c against 18c, revenue $286.25m against $273.12m, dollar-based net retention 117%, cRPO +20% to $744.7m — trades +21.53% at $54.80, and it was the only one of the five to extend across the refresh. Four of the five beats are in software or connectivity; the one that is paid is the one with no AI-capex read-through to defend. Forward hook: Broadcom after tonight's close, 7.3% implied move (Section 13). Invalidation of the “beats get sold” frame: MongoDB closing the gap to better than -5% in the first hour — note that it has already recovered a point of it before the bell. | | 2. Washington struck Iranian tankers for the first time, and the barrel has now gone down. [Commodities / Equities / Rates] U.S. Central Command ran a second round of strikes in three days — roughly 100 targets including IRGC air-defence sites, anti-ship cruise-missile launchers and, per CENTCOM footage, 16 minelayers — and, under a new “tanker-for-tanker” policy approved by President Trump, hit Iranian government tankers anchored north of the blockade line, drones putting missiles into their engine rooms (Axios, Gulf News). Iran says two tankers struck Hormuz naval mines (CNBC). Yet Brent is -0.30% at $94.37 and WTI -0.63% at $89.65 after Tuesday's 7.74% and 6.04% — and both were positive half an hour ago. The escalation is in the price; a supply interruption is not, and the market has begun taking premium out. The tell is inside the barrel: the distillate crack has given back $1.91 to $104.31 after moving $15.40 in two sessions, while the gasoline crack added $1.06 to $42.50. Forward hook: EIA weekly petroleum at 10:30 AM ET (Section 7) — a distillate draw re-arms the crack, a build is the first genuine test of a $15 move, and on this morning's direction of travel a build is the way the tape is leaning. | | 3. The global long end sold, and the U.S. Treasury market bought. [Rates / FX] Bloomberg's board at 7:13 AM ET: France +6 bp to 4.26%, Greece +6 bp to 4.07%, Italy +5 bp to 4.22%, Spain +5 to 3.84%, Netherlands +5 to 3.47%, Portugal +5 to 3.72%, Australia +5 to 5.23%, Germany +4 to 3.38%, U.K. +4 to 5.26%, Korea +4 to 4.41% — against the U.S. at 4.80%, +0 bp. By 7:35 CNBC's live strip had the American curve richer: 2Y -0.6 bp, 5Y -0.5, 7Y -0.5, 10Y -0.2, with only the 30-year cheaper at +0.2 bp, so 2s10s is 40.6 bp and 2s30s 88.1 bp, within a basis point of Tuesday's par closes of 40 and 88. Second consecutive session of American outperformance in a global long-end rout — and Bloomberg's own headline concedes the cost: “Bessent's Bond Gains Wiped Out as Treasury Yields Jump Again.” The cross-asset detail: France is now 88 bp over Germany against Italy's 84, and Greece at 4.07% is 19 bp INSIDE France. Forward hook: the 9 September buyback operation; ADP at 8:15. Invalidation: a 10-year through 4.85% on a soft ADP. | | 4. Japan fell 2.85% on a day its bond market did nothing. [Equities / Rates] The Nikkei lost 1,889.70 points to 64,325.64 and the Topix 2.40%, with SoftBank -6.4%, Taiyo Yuden -4.6%, Fujikura -3.9%, Tokyo Electron -3.4% and Advantest -2.5% (Markets.com). But Bloomberg marks the 10-year JGB at 2.99%, +0 bp at 3:59 AM ET. On Tuesday, when the 10-year first printed 3.001% — its first 3% since 1996 — and the 2-year hit a 31-year high of 1.81%, the Nikkei fell 0.15%. Tokyo took the medicine a session late, and took it as a semiconductor trade rather than a rates trade. The BoJ decides 18 September. Forward hook: U.S. semis at the open — SOX fell 2.14% Tuesday and pre-market Micron -0.78%, Marvell -2.23%, AMD -0.72%, Intel -0.99%, Nvidia only -0.18%, every one of them improved on the refresh. | | 5. Korea was the worst market in the world and the buybacks did not hold it. [Equities] Kospi -3.99% to 6,562.72, with Samsung Electronics -4.02% to KRW 250,500 and SK hynix -4.73% to KRW 1.613m. Seoul Economic Daily's framing matters: the two companies' large-scale buybacks “have served as a floor for supply and demand” but “were not enough to absorb heavy selling by foreign and institutional investors.” This is two sessions after Taiwan's August export data showed semiconductor exports +209% year on year. The physical chip cycle and the financial chip cycle have diverged for a third consecutive session. Forward hook: the 9:30 open in SOX; 11,000 is the level that separates a de-rating from a positioning flush. | | 6. Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Hugging Face for about $14bn. [Equities] Bloomberg reports the transaction may total roughly $14 billion, per people familiar. Nvidia trades -0.18% at $217.04, so the tape is treating this as neither accretive nor a governance event — but it is the largest reported acquisition attempt in the open-model ecosystem, and it lands the same week as PwC's estimate, also via Bloomberg, that global data-centre spending reaches $31.6 trillion through 2050. Forward hook: the read-across is to the model-hosting and inference complex rather than to Nvidia itself. | | 7. Broadcom reports tonight into a $520bn hole and a 7.3% implied move. [Equities] Bloomberg: the stock is down 23% since its 2 June record close, among the 30 worst S&P 500 performers over that stretch, after June's guide of $16bn in Q3 AI semiconductor revenue against expectations above $17bn triggered a 13% single-day loss — its worst post-earnings reaction since at least 2009. Consensus tonight: EPS $2.63, up 210%, and revenue $29.4bn, up 85%. The shares trade at about 21x forward earnings against a 10-year average of 18 and 42x in December. Benchmark's Cody Acree, 28 August: “This creates a better tactical setup.” Bokeh Capital's Kim Forrest on the complex: “momentum has just gotten the snot beat out of it.” AVGO -0.19% at $368.98. Forward hook: the “or more” above Hock Tan's $100bn 2027 AI revenue figure, gross margin under memory-cost pressure, and colour on the $30bn-plus Apple custom-silicon expansion. | | 8. The Swiss franc did not bid, and that is the cleanest cross-asset tell on the board. [FX] On a morning with a second round of U.S. strikes on Iran, a 3.99% Kospi and a 2.85% Nikkei, USD/CHF is +0.33% at 0.8142 — the franc is the weakest G10 cross — while the yen strengthened 0.31% to 159.67, and the yen's gain widened across the refresh while the franc's loss narrowed. The Swiss 10-year also cheapened 3 bp to 0.41%. Havens that are also duration are being sold as duration; the yen is bid because Japan is the one place where the policy rate is going up for a reason the market believes. Forward hook: a break of 159.50 in USD/JPY restarts the intervention conversation — it is now 17 pips away; USD/CHF holding above 0.8140 means the geopolitical premium is being taken out of the franc entirely. | | 9. Congress sent the funding bill to the President and the shutdown risk came off the board. [Rates / Equities] Per Yahoo Finance's overnight summary, Congress has sent the bill averting a U.S. government shutdown to President Trump. There is no dramatic bill-market reaction to point at — but note that the 3-month is the only tenor inside a year that cheapened overnight, by 0.8 bp, while the 1-year richened 0.8. That removes one of the two fiscal tail risks the front end was carrying into September. Forward hook: signature, and whether the front-end bill curve steepens once the financing question is settled. | | 10. Trump's new Iran sanctions put China on notice; the Canada standoff stayed live; Chevron committed $7bn to Venezuela. [FX / Commodities / Equities] WSJ reports the new sanctions package targets Chinese purchasers of Iranian crude. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said talks could resume when Americans “stop throwing shade” and “start being serious,” while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the idea of a trade war (Yahoo Finance); USD/CAD +0.24% at 1.3927. Separately Bloomberg reports Chevron will spend $7bn over five years to more than double Venezuelan output. But watch what the energy complex did as the barrel turned: Chevron +0.35% at $211.79 and ConocoPhillips +0.19% are still green while Exxon Mobil flipped from +0.17% to -0.40% at $163.90 and SLB is only +0.08%. Energy's pre-market bid is now a Chevron-specific bid, not a sector bid. Forward hook: any Chinese refiner-compliance headline is a direct Brent input; XLE and VDE set all-time intraday highs Tuesday and the question is whether they can print another on a barrel that is now down. | | 11. Two data points that argue the other way. [Equities] Bloomberg carries Societe Generale's finding that corporate cash piles are back at record highs despite the AI capital-expenditure surge, and HSBC's tally that global equities have attracted about $1.1 trillion of inflows this year, the strongest since 2021. Against that, Global Gate's Patrik Lang: “Positioning is a bit stretched, and short-term indicators are at overbought levels.” Both are true and they resolve into the same trade — a market with fundamental support and stretched positioning consolidates rather than breaks. Forward hook: whether the S&P holds 7,600 on the cash open; the implied open of 7,617.5 is now 17.5 points above it, against 3.5 points half an hour ago. |
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3 · Global Markets Overnight — Asia & Europe |
| Asia closes |
| Market | Close | %Chg | Catalyst | | Nikkei 225 | 64,325.64 | -2.85% | Delayed catch-up to Tuesday's 3% JGB print; SoftBank -6.4%, Tokyo Electron -3.4%, Advantest -2.5% | | Topix | 4,081.60 | -2.40% | Broader index fell less than the tech-heavy Nikkei | | Kospi | 6,562.72 | -3.99% | Samsung -4.02%, SK hynix -4.73%; buybacks failed to absorb foreign and institutional selling | | Taiwan TAIEX | 46,164.72 | -1.67% | Semiconductor complex, three sessions after a +209% y/y chip-export print | | Hang Seng | 25,311.21 | -0.07% | Effectively flat — the divergence of the session | | HSCEI | 8,450.10 | -0.15% | Mainland-listed China names likewise unaffected | | Shanghai Composite | 3,941.39 | -0.97% | Gave back part of Tuesday's PMI-driven resilience | | ASX 200 | 8,978.40 | -0.97% | Australian 10-year +5 bp to 5.23% | | Nifty 50 | 23,914.45 | -0.59% | India 10-year +2 bp to 6.98% |
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| The Asia read. The dispersion is the message: -3.99% in Seoul, -2.85% in Tokyo, -0.07% in Hong Kong. A global risk-off event does not produce a 3.9-percentage-point spread between two North Asian markets on the same tape. What produces that spread is a memory and equipment de-rating — Samsung, SK hynix, Tokyo Electron, Advantest, Taiyo Yuden — landing on the two indices most exposed to it, while an index with almost no semiconductor weight sits still. Japan's version carries an extra wrinkle: the 10-year JGB did not move overnight (2.99%, +0 bp at 3:59 AM ET). Tokyo sold equities on a bond level, not a bond move. |
| Europe, mid-session (~7:18-7:21 AM ET) |
| Market | Level | Chg | %Chg | | Stoxx Europe 600 | 644.20 | -3.26 | -0.50% | | Euro Stoxx 50 | 6,348.98 | -20.00 | -0.31% | | DAX | 25,814.86 | -155.25 | -0.60% | | CAC 40 | 8,263.95 | -37.90 | -0.46% | | FTSE 100 | 10,738.30 | -50.98 | -0.47% | | FTSE MIB | 51,746.29 | -168.89 | -0.33% | | IBEX 35 | 19,817.60 | -6.40 | -0.03% | | SMI | 14,300.85 | -33.94 | -0.24% | | AEX | 1,099.02 | -2.90 | -0.26% |
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| Europe is narrower than it looks, and it is narrowing further: a 0.57-percentage-point spread from best (IBEX -0.03%) to worst (DAX -0.60%), with every index better than it was twenty minutes earlier. That is an orderly de-rating on rates rather than a growth scare. Bloomberg's own European headline names the driver — “European and UK Bonds Extend Losses as Gas Prices Climb” — and natural gas is +0.90% on the U.S. contract. The DAX being worst is the export-and-industrials leg of a euro that fell only 0.15%; the IBEX being flat is the periphery-bank leg of a curve where Spain cheapened 5 bp and still yields 3.84%. |
| Global 10-year sovereign board (Bloomberg, times EDT) |
| Country | Yield | 1-day | Time | Country | Yield | 1-day | Time | | United States | 4.80% | +0 bp | 7:13 | Greece | 4.07% | +6 bp | 7:13 | | Canada | 3.75% | +1 bp | 7:13 | Switzerland | 0.41% | +3 bp | 7:13 | | Germany (Bund) | 3.38% | +4 bp | 7:13 | Japan (JGB) | 2.99% | +0 bp | 3:59 | | U.K. (Gilt) | 5.26% | +4 bp | 7:13 | Australia | 5.23% | +5 bp | 2:39 | | France (OAT) | 4.26% | +6 bp | 7:13 | New Zealand | 4.76% | -2 bp | 1:29 | | Italy (BTP) | 4.22% | +5 bp | 7:13 | Singapore | 2.40% | +2 bp | 5:29 | | Spain | 3.84% | +5 bp | 7:13 | South Korea | 4.41% | +4 bp | 2:58 | | Netherlands / Portugal | 3.47% / 3.72% | +5 bp | 7:13 | India | 6.98% | +2 bp | 7:10 |
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| Spreads. BTP-Bund 84 bp (+1 d/d). OAT-Bund 88 bp (+2 d/d). Bonos-Bund 46 bp. Greece-Bund 69 bp. Two facts follow. First, France now trades 4 bp wider to Germany than Italy does — the periphery-versus-core frame is obsolete and the risk premium sits in the second-largest euro economy. Second, Greece at 4.07% yields 19 bp less than France, a completion of the convergence trade Bloomberg marked separately this morning with “Greek Stocks Crown Comeback With Promotion to Europe's Top Index.” |
Overnight data and policy. Nothing first-tier printed in Asia or Europe inside the window. The standing anchors: Tuesday's euro-area HICP at 3.3% with energy at 14.3%, which has a 25 bp ECB hike to 2.5% close to fully priced for September (LSEG); and Governor Ueda's warning on upside price risks into the 18 September BoJ decision. Bloomberg reports traders now put rate-hike odds above 50% for three major central banks this month, including nearly 70% for the Fed.
What this hands the U.S. open. By asset class: rates get an imported bear-steepening impulse the U.S. has not merely declined to accept but has traded against, which caps downside for U.S. duration and leaves the 30-year as the only exposed point into a hawkish ADP; FX gets a mildly firmer dollar with the franc — not the yen — as the funding currency; commodities get an oil complex that absorbed a second escalation and then gave back the premium. By U.S. sector: semiconductors and semi-cap equipment carry the Asia read directly; software carries the MongoDB read; energy loses its sector-wide bid as the barrel turns and keeps only a Chevron-specific one; banks and insurers get a curve that did not steepen from the back; and utilities and staples, Tuesday's leadership, get no fresh input. |
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4 · Pre-Market Movers & Single-Name Catalysts |
| CNBC extended-hours feed, session flag PRE_MKT, against the 1 September regular-session close. Names marked (7:35) were re-pulled in the refresh; the remainder are from the 7:10 AM pull and are flagged as such rather than restated as current. Volumes are from the 7:10 pull. |
Up | GitLab (GTLB) +21.53% to $54.80 (7:35) on 273,809 shares at 7:10 — Q2 beat and raise (Section 5). Not an S&P 500 member. It was +19.76% at 7:10 and +19.87% on stockanalysis.com's independent board, so the move is corroborated on two feeds and it extended across the refresh — the only one of the five reporters that did. | | Dell Technologies (DELL) +8.08% to $459.35 (7:35) on 401,497 shares. S&P 500 member. The path: up about 9% after the bell Tuesday, +7.65% at 7:10, +8.08% now — the fade stopped and partially reversed. | | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) +4.32% to $53.07 (7:35) on 403,762 shares — no company news; this is the Dell read-across, and HPE reports tonight. It closed Tuesday at $50.87 after trading as high as $53.68 intraday, so the pre-market move is a round trip of Tuesday's afternoon selling. S&P 500 member. | | NetApp (NTAP) +1.93% to $186.69 (7:35) — same read-across, also reports tonight, and it firmed on the refresh. Volume was 8,477 shares at 7:10; treat the percentage with care. S&P 500 member. | | Chevron (CVX) +0.35% to $211.79 (7:35) — the $7bn Venezuela programme (Bloomberg). S&P 500 member. Note it gave back a quarter of a point as crude turned. Apple (AAPL) +0.24% to $325.92 (7:35), ConocoPhillips (COP) +0.19% (7:35), SLB +0.08% (7:35). | | From the 7:10 pull, not refreshed: Five Below (FIVE) +0.42% (1,286 shares; not an S&P 500 member), Pfizer +0.37%, Walmart +0.30%, UnitedHealth +0.30%, Carnival +0.52%, Edison International +0.24%, Goldman Sachs +0.24%, Home Depot +0.10%. |
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Down | MongoDB (MDB) -12.65% to $379.28 (7:35) on 80,358 shares at 7:10 — a beat-and-raise sold hard (Section 5). Not an S&P 500 member. It was -13.66% at 7:10 and -14.33% on stockanalysis.com, so it has recovered roughly a point and a half of the gap before the bell and is now $5.72 below the $385 level Section 12 names as its invalidation. | | Credo Technology (CRDO) -8.98% to $188.07 (7:35) on 238,111 shares — beat and guided above, down a second session. Not an S&P 500 member. | | Snowflake (SNOW) -2.44% to $312.00 (7:35) — reports tonight, sold in sympathy with MongoDB, and the only software name that did not improve on the refresh. Not treated as an S&P 500 member here. | | Marvell Technology (MRVL) -2.23% to $205.70 (7:35) on 337,988 shares — the closest listed comparable to Credo, and named by Bloomberg as a custom-silicon competitor to Broadcom. S&P 500 member. | | ServiceNow (NOW) -2.07% to $139.94 (7:35) on 102,287 shares — no company news identified; the largest unexplained mega-cap software move on the board, and the cleanest read on whether MongoDB's reaction is company-specific or a complex-wide de-rating. S&P 500 member. | | Palo Alto Networks (PANW) -1.75% to $355.76 (7:35) on 70,658 shares — a raised full-year profit guide, down a second session, though it recovered eight-tenths of a point on the refresh. S&P 500 member. | | Oracle (ORCL) -1.15% to $139.70 (7:35) on 220,392 shares — a sixth straight leg lower into next Tuesday's print, and now below the $140 level the complex has been trading around. | | Exxon Mobil (XOM) -0.40% to $163.90 (7:35) — flipped from +0.17% as the barrel turned, and the single cleanest confirmation of the oil reversal in the equity tape. S&P 500 member. | | Semiconductors, tracking Asia but improving: Intel -0.99% to $88.09 (7:35) on 744,995 shares, Micron -0.78% to $926.13 (7:35), AMD -0.72% to $456.30 (7:35), Nvidia -0.18% to $217.04 (7:35), Broadcom -0.19% to $368.98 (7:35). Every one was between 0.3 and 0.6 percentage points worse at 7:10. Microsoft -0.47% to $498.69 (7:35). | | From the 7:10 pull, not refreshed: the neocloud and AI-financing complex as one trade — Hut 8 -2.77%, IREN -2.53%, Nebius -2.40%, CoreWeave -2.26%, Applied Digital -2.10%; crypto-levered equities on a -1% bitcoin — MicroStrategy -2.07% on 715,447 shares, Coinbase -1.61%; Moderna -1.86% (giving back part of Tuesday's 9.91%, the best S&P 500 performance of the session); CrowdStrike -1.39%, Applied Materials -1.21%, Qualcomm -1.12%, KLA -1.11%, Vertiv -1.00%, Freeport-McMoRan -0.91%, PG&E -0.85%, Fortinet -0.83%, Adobe -0.81%, Amazon -0.75%, Caterpillar -0.66%, Meta -0.54%, Alphabet -0.14%, Tesla -0.17%, Lam Research -0.10%. |
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Analyst actions — all dated 1 September (no 2 September round-up existed at 7:20 AM ET; Bloomberg was swept first) | Bank of America cut Edison International (EIX) to Neutral from Buy, target $51 from $81 — 13.3% below Tuesday's $58.80 close — and cut PG&E (PCG) to Neutral from Buy, target $13 from $24, 7.5% below the $14.06 close. Both landed the day the two names rose 8.93% and 5.92% on the California Assembly's failure to pass the wildfire bill; EIX was +0.24% and PCG -0.85% at 7:10, so neither call was being paid. | | Piper Sandler upgraded Akamai (AKAM) to Overweight, target $125. Evercore ISI upgraded Duolingo (DUOL) to Outperform, doubling the target to $210 from $105. Morgan Stanley raised Robinhood (HOOD) to Overweight, target $150 from $124. Bank of America raised Timken (TKR) to Buy, target $135 from $129. | | Deutsche Bank initiated Arista Networks (ANET) at Buy, target $220; Rosenblatt initiated Booking Holdings (BKNG) at Buy, target $245; BMO cut Xenia Hotels (XHR) to Market Perform, target $20.50 from $22. |
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Corporate actions, overnight | Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face for about $14bn (Bloomberg). Chevron will invest $7bn over five years to more than double Venezuelan production (Bloomberg). Lottomatica agreed to buy Cirsa Enterprises in an all-share deal worth about EUR 2.8bn ($3.2bn) (Bloomberg). | | Apple disclosed that new CEO John Ternus receives a fiscal-2027 package worth about $58m, with Tim Cook paid roughly $47m as executive chairman (Bloomberg). OpenAI will limit access to the cybersecurity features of its new Astra model (Yahoo Finance). WSJ reports a group of banks banding together to launch a stablecoin and, separately, that Fervo has secured its largest-ever geothermal deal. |
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| Liquidity caveat. NetApp (8,477 shares), Five Below (1,286), Cadence (1,115) and Synopsys (1,199) are quoted on volumes small enough that the percentage is indicative only. Dell, HPE, GitLab, MongoDB, Credo, Intel, MicroStrategy and Marvell all trade above 200,000 pre-market shares and are reliable. |
5 · Overnight Earnings Scorecard |
| Company | EPS vs cons. | Revenue vs cons. | Guidance | 7:35 | 7:10 | | MongoDB (MDB) non-member | $1.90 vs $1.61 | $771.8m vs $735.16m (+30% y/y) | Q3 EPS $1.57-1.61 vs $1.20; Q3 rev $756-761m vs $743.9m; FY27 EPS $6.39-6.58 | -12.65% | -13.66% | | GitLab (GTLB) non-member | $0.24 vs $0.18 | $286.25m vs $273.12m (from $235.96m) | FY27 EPS 85-87c vs 81c; Q3 EPS 19-20c vs 18c; DBNRR 117%; cRPO +20% to $744.7m | +21.53% | +19.76% | | Credo (CRDO) non-member | $1.20 vs $1.17 | — | Q2 rev $525-535m vs $514.7m; FY27 optical revenue “at least $600m” | -8.98% | -9.26% | | Palo Alto Networks (PANW) S&P 500 | $1.02 vs $0.98 (Tue AMC) | $3.41bn vs $3.35bn | FY27 $14.10-14.20bn / $4.16-4.19 vs $13.79bn / $4.11 — an outlook Bloomberg says exceeded expectations | -1.75% | -2.56% | | Dell Technologies (DELL) S&P 500 | (Tue AMC) | — | FY revenue raised $25bn to $192bn; AI-optimised server revenue $16.40bn; backlog $95bn | +8.08% | +7.65% | | Brown-Forman (BF.B) S&P 500 | Reports BMO today; no print yet | — | — | -0.27% | — |
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Read-throughs | MongoDB → the data-and-software complex. A 30% revenue grower that beat on both lines, raised the year and guided next quarter 31% above consensus EPS is down 12.7%. If that is a de-rating rather than a positioning flush, the names that trade off it are Snowflake (-2.44%, reports tonight), ServiceNow (-2.07%), Zscaler, Okta, SentinelOne and UiPath — the last four all quoted between -0.6% and -1.8% at 7:10. ServiceNow, with no news of its own and 102,287 shares traded, is the cleanest read, and it recovered two-thirds of a point on the refresh, which is evidence for the flush reading rather than the de-rating. | | Credo → Marvell and Broadcom. Credo is the pure-play AI-connectivity comparable; it beat, guided above, and is down 9.0% for a second session. Marvell -2.23% is the direct read; Broadcom -0.19% into tonight's print is the one that matters. | | Dell → HPE, NetApp and the server chain. A $25bn guide raise and a $95bn backlog is the strongest AI-demand datapoint of the week, read straight across: HPE +4.32% and NetApp +1.93%, both of which report tonight. The asymmetry is uncomfortable — both have been marked up on someone else's numbers before delivering their own, which is exactly the setup that produced Dell's own 6.80% loss into its print. | | Palo Alto → the security complex. A beat-and-raise on a stronger AI-defence demand narrative, sold for a second day, though it halved the loss across the refresh. CrowdStrike -1.39% and Fortinet -0.83% at 7:10 confirm the group is not differentiating. |
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| The aggregate scorecard. Five reporters with quantified results, five beats on the metrics disclosed, and a single positive pre-market reaction. On the four names where both the print and the reaction are measurable, the beat rate is 100% and the pay rate is 25%. That is the sharpest statement of the reaction function this reporting window has produced, and it is the frame every desk should carry into Broadcom, HPE and NetApp tonight. The refresh qualifies it in one direction only: three of the four sold names recovered ground into the bell and the one bought name extended, which is what a positioning flush looks like and not what a de-rating looks like. |
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6 · U.S. Treasury Par Curve & Rates |
| Official par curve — Tuesday, 1 September, 3:30 PM ET close |
| Tenor | 1 Sep | 31 Aug | Δ 1-day | 25 Aug | Δ 1-week | | 1 Mo | 3.85% | 3.85% | 0 bp | 3.79% | +6 bp | | 3 Mo | 3.92% | 3.91% | +1 bp | 3.86% | +6 bp | | 1 Yr | 4.18% | 4.16% | +2 bp | 4.01% | +17 bp | | 2 Yr | 4.39% | 4.34% | +5 bp | 4.17% | +22 bp | | 3 Yr | 4.46% | 4.40% | +6 bp | 4.25% | +21 bp | | 5 Yr | 4.55% | 4.49% | +6 bp | 4.35% | +20 bp | | 7 Yr | 4.66% | 4.62% | +4 bp | 4.48% | +18 bp | | 10 Yr | 4.79% | 4.75% | +4 bp | 4.64% | +15 bp | | 20 Yr | 5.27% | 5.24% | +3 bp | 5.16% | +11 bp | | 30 Yr | 5.27% | 5.25% | +2 bp | 5.17% | +10 bp |
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| Live pre-open block (CNBC, ~7:33-7:35 AM ET) — the overnight move |
| Tenor | Live | Chg vs CNBC's own prior close | Chg vs official par | At the 7:13 pull | | 3 Mo | 3.880% | +0.8 bp (from 3.872%) | -4.0 bp (construct gap, not a rally) | +0.3 bp | | 1 Yr | 4.172% | -0.8 bp (from 4.180%) | -0.8 bp | -0.3 bp | | 2 Yr | 4.388% | -0.6 bp (from 4.394%) | -0.2 bp | +0.6 bp | | 5 Yr | 4.552% | -0.5 bp (from 4.557%) | +0.2 bp | +0.5 bp | | 7 Yr | 4.664% | -0.5 bp (from 4.669%) | +0.4 bp | +0.6 bp | | 10 Yr | 4.794% | -0.2 bp (from 4.796%) | +0.4 bp | +0.8 bp | | 30 Yr | 5.269% | +0.2 bp (from 5.267%) | -0.1 bp | +0.9 bp |
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| The bill-basis warning, restated because it fires every run. Treasury's par 3-month is 3.92% against CNBC's prior close of 3.872% — a 4.8 bp construct gap between a 3:30 PM bid-side par construction and a vendor's live bill quote. Compared naively that prints a “4.0 bp overnight rally in the 3-month bill” that did not happen; on CNBC's own basis the 3-month is +0.8 bp, and it is the only tenor inside a year that cheapened. Take every bill-tenor change off the vendor basis, never off the par basis. The coupon tenors are clean at 0.2 to 0.8 bp. |
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| Spread | Live (CNBC basis) | 1 Sep official par | d/d (par) | w/w (par) | | 2s10s | 40.6 bp | 40 bp | -1 bp | -7 bp | | 3M10Y | 91.4 bp | 87 bp | +3 bp | +9 bp | | 2s30s | 88.1 bp | 88 bp | -3 bp | -12 bp |
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The read: the American curve richened while the world's cheapened, and the concession is now isolated to the 30-year. Walk the refreshed overnight strip: 3M +0.8, 1Y -0.8, 2Y -0.6, 5Y -0.5, 7Y -0.5, 10Y -0.2, 30Y +0.2. Every coupon tenor from one to ten years is richer on the day and the only cheaper point on the coupon curve is the thirty-year. That is a better description of the trade than the first pull gave, and it localises the concession to exactly the tenor where the supply sits. 2s10s widened to 40.6 bp and 2s30s to 88.1 bp, so a marginal bear steepener — but one driven by the front richening rather than the back cheapening, which is a different animal from Tuesday's belly-led bear flattener.
This is not a Fed-path repricing either way. The 2-year moved six-tenths of a basis point, and in the dovish direction, on a morning when Bloomberg reports traders pricing nearly 70% odds of a September Fed hike. Whatever is moving the American curve overnight, it is not the September meeting.
Now put it next to the world. Bloomberg's board at 7:13 has France +6, Greece +6, Italy +5, Spain +5, Netherlands +5, Portugal +5, Australia +5, Germany +4, the U.K. +4, Korea +4 — and the United States +0, with CNBC's live strip putting the U.S. slightly richer twenty minutes later. This is the second consecutive session in which the U.S. long bond has outperformed every developed peer in a global long-end selloff, and the mechanism is the one this report has been tracking: an active buyback programme whose expanded operations begin 9 September, against a ~$215bn expected September corporate calendar. Bloomberg's counterweight this morning is “Bessent's Bond Gains Wiped Out as Treasury Yields Jump Again” — the intervention bought a fortnight, not a level. ING's Chris Turner supplies the other side: “the new baseline seems to be that the Fed will, after all, hike rates in September” — which makes today's 8:15 AM ADP the only pre-open release capable of moving the 2-year more than this morning's six-tenths of a basis point.
Today's supply and Fed operations. No coupon auction was verified on Treasury's schedule for today in the sources reviewed, and no Fed speaker was verified — the honest formulation, not “none scheduled.” The Fed event that does land is the Beige Book at 2:00 PM ET, the last full-district survey before the 15-16 September FOMC, and it is a mid-session risk event for rates and for the banks. |
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7 · U.S. Macroeconomic Calendar |
| ★ TODAY — Wednesday, September 2 |
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| Time ET | Release | Period | Consensus | Prior | Sens. | What a beat / miss does | | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Applications | wk 8/28 | — | -1% | Low | Housing-finance read only; mortgage rates hit a one-year-plus high Monday | | 08:15 | ADP National Employment Report | Aug | +46,000 (Yahoo) / +47,000 (WSJ) / +48,000 (Econoday) | +44,000 | High | The morning's whole gap risk — 75 minutes before the open. A sub-zero print, after JOLTS hiring fell 278,000, puts Friday's payroll in play dovishly and would extend the front-end richening already under way, steepening 2s10s and bidding utilities and staples. Above +75,000 confirms the September hike, reverses this morning's 0.6 bp rally in the 2-year, and hurts the long-duration equity complex still leading the futures lower | | 09:00 | Labor Market Tightness Index | Aug | — | — | Medium | Secondary confirmation of the JOLTS hiring picture | | 10:00 | Factory Orders | Jul | +0.6% | -0.3% | Medium | With ISM manufacturing at 54.6 and new orders soft, a miss reopens the deceleration argument for industrials | | 10:00 | Durable Goods Orders, final | Jul | +1.1% | +1.1% (adv.) | Low | Revision only | | 10:30 | EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report | wk 8/28 | — | — | High | The most tradable release after ADP, and more so as the barrel turned. The distillate crack has moved $15.40 in two sessions and gave back $1.91 overnight; a draw re-arms refiners (MPC, PSX, VLO), a build confirms the reversal | | 14:00 | Federal Reserve Beige Book | — | — | — | Med-High | Last full twelve-district survey before the 15-16 September FOMC. The passage that matters is price pass-through: energy has moved 6.04% in one session since the survey window closed |
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| No Fed speaker verified for today in the sources reviewed. No coupon auction verified for today. |
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| Date | Time ET | Release | Period | Consensus | Sensitivity | | Thu 9/3 | 08:30 | Initial Jobless Claims | wk 8/29 | 205,000 (WSJ) | High | | Thu 9/3 | 08:30 | Advance International Trade in Goods / Trade Balance | Jul | -$90.0bn (WSJ) | Medium | | Thu 9/3 | 08:30 | Productivity and Costs (revised) | Q2 | +1.4% (WSJ) | Medium | | Thu 9/3 | 10:00 | ISM Non-Manufacturing | Aug | 54.1 (WSJ) | High | | Thu 9/3 | 10:30 | EIA Weekly Natural Gas Storage | wk 8/28 | — | Low | | Thu 9/3 | 11:30 | Weekly Economic Index | wk 8/29 | — | Low | | Fri 9/4 | 08:30 | Employment Situation | Aug | +55,000 payrolls (Bloomberg survey) | Very high | | Fri 9/4 | 10:00 | Global Supply Chain Pressure Index | Aug | — | Low | | Fri 9/4 | 12:45 | New York Fed Staff Nowcast | — | — | Low |
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| Next week (Sep 7 - Sep 11) |
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| Date | Time ET | Release | Period | Consensus | Sensitivity | | Mon 9/7 | — | Labor Day — U.S. markets closed | — | — | — | | Tue 9/8 | 11:00 | Survey of Consumer Expectations | Aug | — | Medium | | Thu 9/10 | 08:30 | Initial Jobless Claims | wk 9/5 | No verified consensus | High | | Thu 9/10 | 08:30 | Producer Price Index | Aug | No verified consensus | High | | Thu 9/10 | 10:00 | NAR Existing Home Sales / Wholesale Trade | Aug / Jul | — | Medium / Low | | Fri 9/11 | 08:30 | Consumer Price Index | Aug | No verified consensus | Very high | | Fri 9/11 | 10:00 | Michigan Consumer Survey (prelim) | Sep | — | Medium |
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| The look-ahead. The week is a funnel and today is its narrow point. ADP at 8:15 is the only release that can reprice the front end before the bell, and it arrives on a morning when the 2-year has already richened six-tenths of a basis point against a market carrying nearly 70% odds of a September hike — a small but real disagreement between the cash curve and the priced path. EIA at 10:30 is the only release that can reprice the barrel, on a morning when a second round of U.S. strikes on Iran produced a 0.30% decline in Brent — a market that has stopped paying for headlines and now wants inventories. The Beige Book at 2:00 PM is the last district-level survey before the meeting and its price-pass-through language will be read against a 6.04% one-day move in crude that post-dates most of its fieldwork. Then claims and ISM services Thursday at 205,000 and 54.1, both verified and both measurable as surprises, and the August Employment Situation Friday at +55,000, the last payroll before the FOMC and the only Very high release of the week. After that a holiday, then PPI on the 10th and CPI on the 11th — the first inflation prints capable of containing a 6.04% crude move and a euro-area energy component running at 14.3%. |
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9 · FX Market |
| CNBC spot crosses and the ICE dollar-index front future, ~7:24-7:36 AM ET, against the prior 4:00 PM ET U.S. levels. Bloomberg's 6:58 AM marks shown as the cross-check. |
| Pair | Level | Chg vs prior close | Bloomberg cross-check | Driver | | DXY (DX front future) | 99.740 | +0.10% | Dollar Spot Index +0.1% | A dollar barely participating; the escalation is not producing a dollar bid | | EUR/USD | 1.1575 | -0.15% | 1.1570, -0.2% | Bunds +4 bp and a near-fully-priced 25 bp ECB hike are not enough against a Fed at ~70% | | USD/JPY | 159.67 | -0.31% (yen firmer) | 159.91, yen +0.2% | The one currency going the right way on risk-off, and it extended on the refresh — Ueda's upside-price-risk language and the 18 Sep BoJ | | GBP/USD | 1.3481 | -0.25% | 1.3482, -0.3% | The gilt cheapened 4 bp on top of Tuesday's post-holiday move and sterling still fell — the fiscal-premium tell | | USD/CHF | 0.8142 | +0.33% | — | The franc is the weakest G10 cross this morning; Swiss 10-year +3 bp to 0.41% | | USD/CAD | 1.3927 | +0.24% | — | Carney: talks resume when Americans “stop throwing shade”; Bessent downplays a trade war | | Bitcoin (risk proxy) | $76,611.76 | -1% | Yahoo -1.61% on 24h | Bloomberg: ETF buyers returning as the $80,000 level tests the rally |
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| The take, and the contrarian cross is USD/CHF. The consensus overnight trade — the U.S. strikes Iranian tankers, Asia falls 3-4%, oil sits at $95 — should have bid the franc and the dollar together. It bid neither convincingly: the DXY is up 0.10%, the franc is the worst G10 performer, and the yen is the best and got better as the morning went on. That inversion of the normal haven ranking says the market is not trading this as a risk event at all; it is trading it as a rate-differential event, and Switzerland, with a 0.41% ten-year, is the funding currency of the moment. Translated into equities: a dollar that will not rally on geopolitics is neutral-to-mildly-supportive for the S&P 500's foreign-revenue cohort (roughly 40% of index revenue) and removes the usual translation drag from the mega-cap technology names that dominate this morning's downside. The yen's 0.31% gain is the transmission to watch: 159.50 is now 17 pips away, and an intervention headline is the single most reliable overnight generator of a gap in U.S. futures. |
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10 · Commodities |
| One consistent basis: CNBC front-month futures at ~7:24-7:25 AM ET against the prior settle, unless stated. |
| Contract | Price | Chg | %Chg | Driver | | WTI (CL front) | $89.65 | -$0.57 | -0.63% | Turned negative on the refresh, having been +0.11% at 7:02. 2nd month $87.21 → $2.44 backwardation | | Brent (BZ front) | $94.37 | -$0.28 | -0.30% | Back under $95 after three higher sessions; Bloomberg notes U.S. diesel at the highest since April | | Natural gas (NG front) | $2.930 | +$0.026 | +0.90% | European gas strength named by Bloomberg as a driver of the EU/UK bond selloff | | Gold (Comex Dec) | $4,366.60 | -$29.80 | -0.68% | Bloomberg spot $4,306.85, -0.5% — a futures-versus-spot basis, not a disagreement | | Silver (Comex Dec) | $64.56 | -$0.81 | -1.24% | Gold/silver ratio widens to 67.64 from 67.25 | | Copper (Comex Dec) | $6.581 | -$0.020 | -0.30% | A third session lower; the growth leg keeps confirming the monetary leg | | Platinum | $1,732.80 | -$33.60 | -1.90% | The worst metal on the board, and a second consecutive heavy session | | RBOB gasoline | $3.1465 | +$0.0114 | +0.36% | Crack $42.50, +$1.06 | | Heating oil | $4.6182 | -$0.0591 | -1.26% | Crack $104.31, -$1.91 | | Wheat (front) | 770.75c | -11.75c | -1.50% | 7:02 pull, not refreshed | | Corn (front) | 538.50c | -7.50c | -1.37% | 7:02 pull, not refreshed |
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The take: the escalation has stopped paying, and in the last half hour it started giving money back. Tuesday moved WTI +6.04% and Brent +7.74% on two struck supertankers. Overnight the United States struck Iranian tankers for the first time as a retaliatory act, destroyed sixteen minelayers and hit roughly a hundred targets — and the barrel went from +0.11% at 7:02 to -0.63% at 7:25, with Brent back through $95 to the downside. A market that will not extend on a second, larger escalation and then sells has fully priced headline risk and is unwinding premium, which is what makes EIA at 10:30 the highest-information event of the session after ADP.
Curve structure and positioning. October-to-November WTI backwardation of $2.44 on an $89.65 barrel is roughly 2.7% in one month — steep, and consistent with near-term scarcity rather than a structural repricing, though it has flattened from $2.55 in twenty minutes. The distillate crack at $104.31 is off $1.91 after adding $15.40 in two sessions; middle distillate is the Hormuz barrel and the give-back is the tell that the trade is crowded. The gasoline crack going the other way (+$1.06 to $42.50) is an end-of-driving-season reallocation, not a demand signal.
The metals are still trading the discount rate, not the war. Gold -0.68%, silver -1.24%, platinum -1.90%, copper -0.30% on a morning of active military escalation is the fourth consecutive session in which every hedge against a Hormuz event has lost money on a Hormuz event — although all four improved on the refresh as the front end of the U.S. curve richened, which is the mechanism this report has argued all week. The equity read-through, stated once: the energy bid narrowed to a single name as the barrel turned (CVX +0.35%, COP +0.19%, SLB +0.08%, but XOM -0.40%); miners face a fourth down session (FCX -0.91%, NEM -0.23% at 7:10); and airlines are unusually calm for a $94 Brent (DAL -0.24%, UAL +0.04%, LUV +0.05% at 7:10), which a falling barrel makes look less like a divergence and more like a market that saw this coming. |
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12 · Trading Views (desk-style; not personalized investment advice) |
| 1. Long the beat-that-was-sold, short the beat-that-was-bought-for-someone-else. Expression: long MongoDB (MDB) against short HPE, dollar-neutral. Thesis: MongoDB beat both lines, raised the year and guided Q3 EPS 31% above consensus, and is down 12.7%; HPE is up 4.32% on Dell's numbers with its own print still ahead of it tonight. Catalyst: the 9:30 auction for MDB; HPE's own results after the close. Invalidation: MDB failing to trade above $385 in the first hour — it is now $379.28, having recovered from $374.90, so the level is live and closing — or HPE holding above $53.50 into the close. Sizing: half-size; both legs carry single-name event risk within twelve hours. | | 2. Own the Broadcom event, do not own the direction. Expression: a long straddle or a call spread into tonight's print rather than a directional position. Thesis: options price a 7.3% move (Bloomberg data via Investing.com; an alternative construction gives ±8.7%), against a ten-year average peak earnings-day move of ±7.4% and a median of ±5.8% — fair-to-cheap against the mean, rich against the median — and AVGO's realised move has exceeded the implied in 10 of its last 16 reports (62%). Catalyst: results after the close; the specific line is the “or more” above Hock Tan's $100bn 2027 AI-revenue figure. Invalidation: implied vol expanding through 9% intraday makes the premium expensive. Sizing: premium at risk only. | | 3. Fade the U.S.-versus-Europe duration divergence, but respect the buyback. Expression: receive the U.S. belly (5s-10s) against a paid 10-year OAT, or long an intermediate Treasury proxy against a short euro long-end proxy. Thesis: the U.S. is flat to richer while France is +6, Greece +6, Italy +5, Germany +4 — a second consecutive session of American outperformance, now with the U.S. front end actually rallying, and the mechanism (an active buyback whose expanded operations start 9 September) is a real, dated support rather than a sentiment. Catalyst: ADP 8:15; Beige Book 2:00 PM. Invalidation: a U.S. 10-year through 4.85%, which would mean the U.S. has started importing after all. Sizing: DV01-matched, quarter risk. The refresh sharpened this one: with the concession isolated to the 30-year, receiving the belly is a cleaner expression than receiving the long end, and that is the change from the 7:10 version of this idea. | | 4. Long refiners into EIA, funded by airlines — but the entry has moved against you. Expression: long an MPC/PSX/VLO basket against short DAL/UAL/LUV, beta-neutral. Thesis: the distillate crack at $104.31 has given back $1.91 after a $15.40 two-session move, and airlines are trading within a tenth of a percent of unchanged. Catalyst: EIA at 10:30 ET. Invalidation: a distillate build, which retires the trade immediately, or Brent back under $93 — and Brent has already broken $95 to the downside, which is the first leg of that invalidation, so size this at half of what the 7:00 tape justified, or wait for the print. Sizing: half, flat by the close — an event trade with a 10:30 expiry. | | 5. Gap-fill versus gap-and-go: the level is 7,617. Expression: the S&P cash open. Thesis: the implied open of -13.97 puts cash near 7,617.5, and the gap has already halved from -27.97 in twenty-four minutes. Reference points: the prior close 7,631.47, Tuesday's low 7,611.20, and the round number 7,600 — now 17.5 points below the implied open rather than 3.5. A gap that fills back through 7,631 in the first thirty minutes on a soft ADP is the gap-fill case, and the overnight direction of travel favours it; a break of 7,600 on a hot ADP with the 2-year giving back its rally is gap-and-go. Invalidation: either level, taken with conviction. Sizing: opening-auction only. | | 6. The opening-auction note. Three S&P 500 constituents report tonight (AVGO, HPE, NTAP) and one this morning (BF.B), so the imbalance risk sits in the pre-close rather than the pre-open. The pre-open imbalance to watch is in MongoDB, GitLab and Credo, none of them index members — which means index funds are not on the other side and the prints will be genuinely two-sided. |
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The vol note, and the refresh reversed it. At 7:12 spot VIX was 16.63, up 1.77% on the day against a front future of 17.38 — a 0.75-point spread that read as a modest near-dated event premium being built. By 7:34 spot VIX was 16.33, down 0.06% — effectively unchanged against Tuesday's 16.34 — while the front future eased only to 17.28, so the spot-to-future spread widened to 0.95 and the front of the curve re-steepened. That is the opposite conclusion: the market is not pulling an event forward, it is taking overnight premium out. At 16.33 the index asks for roughly a 1.03% daily move (16.33 ÷ √252 = 1.029), still far wider than the 0.18% the futures now imply for the open. VXN at 21.96 closed Tuesday +8.82% against VIX's +9.52%, so the Nasdaq volatility premium did not widen even as the Nasdaq-100 lost 1.29% — a divergence arguing the equity-index option market does not yet believe the AI complex is de-rating. The commodity market disagrees: OVX closed at 49.13, +9.40%, and a 49-handle crude vol against a 16-handle equity vol is the widest cross-asset volatility spread on this board — and it now sits over a barrel that is falling. Levels: prior close 7,631.47; implied open ~7,617.5; Tuesday's range 7,611.20-7,663.63; the round number in play is 7,600; and the watch item is the 0.95 spot-to-future spread, with 1.00 the trigger for a genuine front-end steepening.
Not personalized investment advice. These are desk-style observations for professional investors; verify independently and size to your own mandate. |
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13 · S&P 500 Earnings Calendar |
| ★ TODAY — Wednesday, September 2 |
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| BMO (before the bell): Brown-Forman (BF.B) — no consensus verified in the reviewed sources; the class B share is carried as the index line and BF.A is deduped out. Pre-market -0.27% on a POST_MKT_PREV flag, so no live BMO reaction had printed at the time of writing. |
| AMC — Broadcom (AVGO): consensus EPS $2.63 (+210% y/y) and revenue $29.4bn (+85%), per analysts compiled by Bloomberg. Implied move 7.3% on Bloomberg options data (an alternative construction gives ±8.7%). Ten-year average peak earnings-day move ±7.4%, median ±5.8%, 95th percentile ±16.1%. Trades 21x forward against a 10-year average of 18. -0.19% at $368.98 pre-market. |
| AMC — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): earnings call 4:30 PM ET. No verified consensus in the reviewed sources; the stock is +4.32% pre-market on Dell's read-across, which is the risk. AMC — NetApp (NTAP): no verified consensus; +1.93% pre-market, on 8,477 shares at the 7:10 pull. |
| Non-members reporting today, listed so nobody mistakes their absence for an omission: Snowflake (SNOW), Five Below (FIVE), FuelCell Energy (FCEL), Daktronics (DAKT), Methode Electronics (MEI), Argan (AGX), Ollie's (OLLI), PVH, C3.ai (AI), Netskope (NTSK), Sprinklr (CXM), Trip.com (TCOM). |
| Current week (Aug 31 - Sep 4) — remaining sessions |
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| Thu 9/3. BMO: Campbell's (CPB), Toro (TTC). AMC: Lululemon Athletica (LULU). Timing bucket not published: Copart (CPRT) — an eighth consecutive capture with no before-open/after-close designation; confirm with company investor relations. |
| Fri 9/4. No S&P 500 reporter on either bucket. |
| Next week (Sep 7 - Sep 11) |
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| Mon 9/7. U.S. equity markets are closed for Labor Day. No S&P 500 reporter. |
| Tue 9/8. Timing bucket not published: Oracle (ORCL) — a third consecutive capture with no designation; confirm with investor relations. Oracle is -1.15% pre-market at $139.70 and has now broken the $140 level. |
| Wed 9/9. AMC: Cooper Companies (COO). Thu 9/10. AMC: Adobe (ADBE). Fri 9/11. BMO: Kroger (KR). |
| Changes versus the prior calendar (1 September Closing Daily). No additions and no removals. Tuesday's reporters (Palo Alto, Dell, Medtronic) have dropped out under the forward-only rule; their reactions are in Sections 2, 4 and 5. Copart's missing bucket on 3 September and Oracle's on 8 September persist and are settled publisher gaps rather than scheduling news. Dual listings deduped: Brown-Forman carried once as BF.B. |
| What the forward calendar hands the desk. Everything is in the next nine hours. Broadcom, HPE and NetApp after tonight's close put three hardware balance sheets on one tape, into a complex where SOX has fallen 2.14% and Asia has just marked Samsung down 4.02% and SK hynix 4.73%. And they land on a reaction function Section 5 has now measured: five beats, one payment. The specific asymmetry: HPE and NetApp have already been marked up 4.32% and 1.93% on Dell's numbers before delivering their own — precisely the configuration that had Dell itself down 6.80% going into a print it then beat. |
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14 · Risk Map — Today's Session |
| ★ TODAY — Event clock — Wednesday, September 2 (all times ET) |
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| Time | Event | Why it matters | | 07:00 | MBA mortgage applications | Low | | 08:15 | ADP employment, August | The gap risk. +46,000 / +47,000 / +48,000 consensus against +44,000 prior, 75 minutes before the bell | | 09:00 | Labor Market Tightness Index | Secondary labour read | | 09:30 | Cash open | Implied S&P open -13.97 points, cash near 7,617.5; the Dow's implied open is +4.12 | | 10:00 | Factory orders (Jul, +0.6% cons.); durable goods final (+1.1%) | Industrials read | | 10:30 | EIA weekly petroleum | The crack trade's expiry. Distillate crack $104.31, off $1.91, on a barrel that has turned lower | | 14:00 | Fed Beige Book | Last district survey before the 15-16 September FOMC | | 16:00 | Cash close | Full session — no half-day | | 16:05-16:30 | Broadcom, HPE, NetApp (HPE call 4:30 PM) | Three hardware prints on one tape; AVGO implied move 7.3% |
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| Crowded consensuses to stress-test, each with the number that breaks it |
| 1. “The Fed hikes in September.” Roughly 70% priced (Bloomberg), against a 2-year that richened 0.6 bp overnight. Breaks on: ADP below zero at 8:15, or Friday's payroll below +25,000 against the +55,000 consensus. | | 2. “The U.S. long end is protected by the buyback.” Two sessions of outperformance against a world selling +4 to +6 bp, and the concession now isolated to the 30-year. Breaks on: a U.S. 10-year through 4.85% while Bunds are unchanged, or a soft 9 September operation. | | 3. “Oil has more upside on escalation.” A second, larger strike round produced -0.63% in WTI and took Brent back under $95. This one is already breaking. Breaks fully on: an EIA distillate build at 10:30. | | 4. “Beats get bought.” Five beats, one payment since the close — but three of the four sold names recovered ground into the bell. Breaks on: MongoDB recovering to better than -5%, which would reframe the reaction as a positioning flush; it has already covered a point and a half of that distance. | | 5. “The AI capital-expenditure cycle is intact.” Dell's $25bn raise and $95bn backlog say yes; Credo, MongoDB, Marvell and a 3.99% Kospi say the market is not paying for it. Breaks on: Broadcom guiding fourth-quarter AI revenue above the June disappointment, tonight. | | 6. “Havens work.” Gold -0.68%, the franc the weakest G10 cross, on a morning of active strikes. Breaks on: a Hormuz closure headline, which is the one event none of this is priced for. |
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| Two-sided geopolitical tape, next 6.5 hours. Risk-negative: an Iranian retaliation against a Gulf state (Jordan, Bahrain and the UAE have already been named as targets in overnight reporting); a third tanker strike; a formal Hormuz closure attempt; a Chinese response to the new sanctions on purchasers of Iranian crude. Risk-positive: any de-escalation or talks signal; a confirmed resumption of Hormuz transits toward the pre-war run rate (flows had recovered to roughly half); a constructive Carney-Bessent headline on Canada; the President's signature on the funding bill removing the shutdown tail entirely. Structural watch: the $215bn expected September corporate issuance calendar into a global long end at 2008 highs; the 9 September expanded Treasury buyback as the only dated support under the U.S. long bond; the 18 September BoJ decision with the 10-year JGB at 2.99% and the yen at 159.67, seventeen pips from the 159.50 intervention watch level; and the divergence between a +209% Taiwanese semiconductor export print and a chip complex that has now fallen in three of four sessions on three continents. |
| What the VIX is and is not pricing. VIX 16.33 asks for about a 1.03% daily move; the futures now imply 0.18% at the open. The front VIX future at 17.28 leaves a 0.95-point contango that widened across the refresh, so the index option market is not pricing a pulled-forward event — it is taking overnight premium out ahead of an 8:15 data point. What it is therefore not pricing: a Broadcom miss transmitting through a semiconductor complex that has already lost 2.14% in a session and 4% in Seoul overnight; an ADP print far enough from +46,000 to move a 2-year that has already rallied six-tenths of a basis point in the other direction; or a Hormuz closure. And note the cross-asset disagreement, because it is the sharpest signal on the board: crude volatility closed at 49.13, up 9.40%, while equity volatility sits at 16.33 and falling. One of those two markets is wrong about how much oil matters to equities — and this morning the barrel is the one moving toward the equity view. |
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| Sources |
| Futures, index, volatility, rates, FX and commodity quotes are from the CNBC pre-markets board and the CNBC quote service (front-month contracts, extended-hours session flags, per-row ET timestamps), pulled twice and cross-checked against Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. The official Treasury par curve is the U.S. Department of the Treasury Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates for 1 September, carried from the 1 September Closing Daily; live pre-open yields are on CNBC's basis and the two are reconciled explicitly in Section 6. Global sovereign yields, the Markets Wrap, corporate news and strategist commentary are from Bloomberg, read on the US Edition; all six WSJ sections (Finance, World, Business, U.S., Economy, Tech) were read for headline sweep. Earnings figures are from company releases as reported by Benzinga, Investing.com, StockStory and The Cerbat Gem; the macro calendar from the New York Fed Economic Indicators Calendar, WSJ and Econoday/CME; pre-market movers cross-checked on stockanalysis.com; Asia detail from Seoul Economic Daily, Markets.com and KED Global; geopolitics from Axios, CNBC, Gulf News and CBS News. Both Bloomberg and WSJ were reachable this run and both were read; nothing was substituted for either. |
| Section 15 (Source Links) and Section 16 (Data Notes & Conflicts) are omitted here and provided in full in the companion text file, US_CrossAsset_Opening_2026-09-02_DataNotes.txt — including note (AA), the complete before/after table for the 7:25 refresh. |
| U.S. Stock, Fixed Income & Cross-Asset Opening Daily — Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Data as of ~7:35 AM ET (second pull). News window: Tuesday, September 1, 4:00 PM ET to Wednesday, September 2, 7:35 AM ET. Prepared for institutional investors. Not personalized investment advice; verify independently before acting. |
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