Nvidia earnings and Jackson Hole face a bond-yield test as tariffs and AI costs pressure stocks

Today's Markets2026/08/23　·　3 min read

With regular U.S. trading closed for the weekend, investors are turning to a crowded week of catalysts: Nvidia’s earnings, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, persistent Treasury-yield pressure, a new U.S.–Canada tariff fight and rising AI-server costs.

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Stocks rebound, but yields remain the dominant pressure point

U.S. stocks recovered on Friday, with the S&P 500 up 0.4% to 7,674.37, the Dow up 517.80 points to 53,277.01 and the Nasdaq up 0.4% to 26,180.45. The rebound did not erase the week’s stress: Reuters reported the S&P 500 remained about 2% below its record high and the Philadelphia semiconductor index lost roughly 5% for the week. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.73%, the 30-year yield stayed near its highest level since 2007, and Brent crude settled at $92.67 a barrel, keeping inflation and funding costs at the center of equity valuation risk.

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Nvidia and Jackson Hole will test the AI rally’s foundations

Reuters framed the coming week as a two-part test for the stock rally: Nvidia’s August 26 earnings report and the Federal Reserve’s August 27–29 Jackson Hole symposium. Nvidia has confirmed its fiscal second-quarter call for August 26 at 5 p.m. ET, while the Fed calendar lists Chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote remarks for August 28 at 10 a.m. ET. Because Nvidia is treated as a proxy for AI chip demand, data-center spending and infrastructure financing, its outlook could move semiconductors, cloud platforms and power-linked infrastructure shares. Warsh’s speech matters because markets are pricing a roughly 35% chance of a September rate hike and 66% by December, according to Reuters, leaving high-valuation growth stocks sensitive to any hawkish signal.

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Treasury buybacks revive gold and bitcoin as dollar-debasement trades

The Treasury Department’s plan to expand long-term Treasury buybacks was intended to improve liquidity, but it also stirred debate over whether policymakers are trying to restrain borrowing costs while inflation, oil prices and federal debt remain elevated. AP reported that bitcoin rose above $77,000 on Friday, gold climbed to $4,661, and bitcoin gained more than 20% for the week. CoinGlass data cited by AP showed more than $4 billion in bearish crypto positions had been liquidated by Friday, turning a macro move into a short-squeeze rally. The common thread was investor demand for alternatives to the dollar and Treasuries when bond-market confidence looks fragile.

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U.S.–Canada tariffs create a Monday repricing risk

After last-minute talks collapsed, the United States imposed 50% tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods from Saturday, and Canada said retaliatory tariffs would begin September 8. AP reported the affected goods equal roughly 5% of Canada’s annual exports to the U.S. and span steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, electronics and other products. Ottawa said it had been prepared to remove some retaliation if Washington substantially reduced auto, steel and aluminum tariffs, but no agreement was reached. Because markets were closed over the weekend, autos, steel, machinery, retailers, logistics firms and inflation-sensitive assets face their first full repricing on Monday.

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AI-server price hikes put memory costs in focus

Weekend reports said some major Nvidia customers have been notified that complete AI-server prices could rise by more than 15%, mainly because HBM, server DRAM and other memory costs are increasing. The reported impact would affect systems shipping in early 2027, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell configurations, and it comes as earlier memory-market reporting showed AI demand keeping DRAM and NAND contract prices under upward pressure. The read-through is mixed: strong willingness to pay supports the AI-demand story, but higher system costs pressure cloud operators, server OEMs and data-center lessors, making Nvidia’s gross-margin commentary, HBM supply and customer capex plans especially important next week.

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Nvidia earnings and Jackson Hole face a bond-yield test as tariffs and AI costs pressure stocks

Stocks rebound, but yields remain the dominant pressure point

Nvidia and Jackson Hole will test the AI rally’s foundations

Treasury buybacks revive gold and bitcoin as dollar-debasement trades

U.S.–Canada tariffs create a Monday repricing risk

AI-server price hikes put memory costs in focus

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