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AMD up six and a half percent on a sea of red.

Aug 15, 2026 · 7:03 AM CT · 2:18 · The MadBrooks Brief | Pre market | Sat, Aug 15

AMD up six and a half percent on a sea of red. That's your story this morning. AMD at five-fourteen. Momentum. Full stop. Everything else in semis is bleeding — Broadcom down nearly six percent to three-ninety-two, worst move on the board. Intel off two percent at one-oh-two-fifty. The sector is…

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AMD up six and a half percent on a sea of red. That's your story this morning.

AMD at five-fourteen. Momentum. Full stop. Everything else in semis is bleeding — Broadcom down nearly six percent to three-ninety-two, worst move on the board. Intel off two percent at one-oh-two-fifty. The sector is not having a good morning, and AMD is the one name going the other direction.

Oracle down three-point-six-five percent to one-fifty. Salesforce drops two-point-five-six to one-ninety-six. Enterprise software getting hit across the board — no single catalyst, broad pressure.

Eli Lilly down two-point-three-nine to eleven-eighty. Pharma pulling back from recent highs, nothing new structurally.

Amazon off less than one percent at two-sixty-two. Quiet. Exxon up point-nine-four to one-sixty — energy the one other pocket of green besides AMD.

Futures are soft but not alarmed. SPY down two-tenths. QQQ down fourteen basis points. VIX sitting at fourteen-twenty-five — that is not fear, that is indifference. Gold up thirty-eight basis points. Small caps are the quiet outperformer — IWM up fifty-two basis points while the Dow, SPY, and QQQ are all red. Watch that divergence.

Nothing on the economic calendar today. Clean tape from a data standpoint.

Earnings this morning — ALLR reporting against a consensus loss of twenty-five-and-a-half cents. ATHR up against a loss estimate of twelve cents. Both small-cap names, both pre-revenue expectations. Keep size in check.

The read on this session: AMD is an island. Semis are under pressure, software is soft, and the macro isn't giving anyone a reason to buy the dip. Small caps bucking the trend is worth watching — whether that holds or fades into the open will tell you a lot about risk appetite today.

Numbers don't lie. People do. Trade accordingly.

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