Optical and chip names owned the close, with Lumentum up 8.21% to $818.26 and Coherent, Applied Optoelectronics and Arm all gaining more than 5%. Both Petrobras lines sat at the bottom, the preferred shares down 15.6%.
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Moderna's 17.8% drop was the single biggest move at Tuesday's close, and four of the five worst performers were chip and photonics names. Spotify topped the winners.
Defense and big pharma own the top of the board at the open, led by Northrop Grumman up 5.36%, with Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck also higher. The pain is concentrated in crypto miners and optics names, where IREN leads the decline.
All three major US wireless carriers are at the bottom of the board at the open, with T-Mobile down 8.9% and AT&T and Verizon close behind. Optical names lead the other side, Applied Optoelectronics up 8.9%.
Optical and data center names filled four of the five worst spots at this close, led by Applied Optoelectronics at -14%. Accenture's 6.2% gain was the best of a far tamer upside.
Three names in our 383-stock board closed with double-digit gains, led by Accenture's 15.6% jump to $211.97, a move that size is rare for a mega-cap consultant. The downside was far tamer, with AMC's 8.2% slide the worst of it.
Bitcoin miners owned Thursday's close, led by Marathon Digital finishing 13.5% higher, with Cipher Mining and Iren both up 7% or more. Large-cap losses ran heavier than usual, with Qualcomm off 5.66% and General Motors down 4.93%.
Cipher Mining closed the session up 10.4% at $16.66, the widest gain across 111 priority names. At the other end, ON Semiconductor gave up 8.9% and Diamondback Energy 7.8%, a roughly 19-point spread between the best and worst names on the day.
Zscaler finished Monday up 16.8% at $192.17 while Coherent shed 12.5%. Four of the top five gainers are cybersecurity names, and four of the five losers are chip and infrastructure plays.
Two years into Eric Bleeker's AI Portfolio pick, Coherent has turned $10,000 into roughly $35,080, and it survived a 30% drawdown in spring 2025 to get there. Anyone who sold during that slump missed the optical transceiver demand wave that followed.
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