Aug 27, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
Nvidia's earnings are once again taking center stage as the AI market barometer, even as tech behemoths commit close to US$700 billion in AI CAPEX this year alone, increasingly funded through debt…
Patrick ChangGuest
Frankie LimHost
Roshan KanesanHost
It's now 7:08 AM, and we're gonna take a look at how global markets closed just a few hours ago.

So the US, uh, stock markets ticked down a little bit after, uh, they reported heated inflation data.

Uh, the Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index, the PCE, uh, rose 3.7% on an annual basis in July, remaining f- uh, remaining far above the Fed's, uh, target inflation level.

So, uh, the Dow Jones Index was down 0.2%, S&P 500 was down 0.02%, just a little bit there.

Now, if we look at the Asian markets, um, most of the markets under our watch are, were green, like, uh, yesterday.

So Nikkei was up 0.6%, Hang Seng Index was up 0.6%, Shanghai Composite Index up 0.6%, um, STI Index, um, didn't do very well, it was down 0.3%.
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