Weekend Update 7/21/2024

Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store!


A deep red week includes Taiwan worries and a global tech outage


🇹🇼 Taiwan worries. Trump foreign policy comments were skeptical on whether he would continue to defend Taiwan from China should he become president. The ambiguity spooked markets particularly Taiwan-based TSMC-dependent tech and semi names (especially #AI).

🏗️ Tech Rotation. The rotation out of tech names continued this week with Value outperforming Growth by 4.5%. The declines steepened in the 2H of the week with the overall S&P 500 ending down -2%.

️💻 Global PC outage. The week ended with a global tech outage stemming from a faulty update from #CyberSecurity company CrowdStrike. Thousands of PCs got the dreaded blue screen of death causing a massive global outage.


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