QQQ
ETFsTracks the Nasdaq 100 — the popular way to own US big-tech, up hardest on the day a cooler CPI helped rate-sensitive growth.
- Today+1.3%
Mirrors the Nasdaq 100: tech led on soft CPI.
- Wed−0.8%
Growth names sold on rate jitters.
- 2 wks ago+2.1%
Mega-cap AI-capex optimism.
A +1.3% day is a strong-but-normal move.
It runs as hot as the Nasdaq it tracks — ±1.3% is a good, ordinary day.
When US inflation surprises lower, what actually happens?
Across the soft-CPI surprises since 2023, the S&P rose the same session about 7 times in 10, the 10-year yield fell almost every time, and the dollar weakened. The reaction is real — and it's usually spent within a day or two as the cut-odds reprice.
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