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Advantest slid after Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Kevin Warsh warned the Fed would keep fighting inflation, CXMT swung on a second-quarter revenue beat, and China Construction Bank posted a stronger-than-expected first half of 2026 with pre-provision operating profit (PPOP) and net profit rising. Those three headlines compress three investor problems in one tape: rate-sensitivity in chip-equipment names, headline-driven volatility for Chinese tech after single-quarter beats, and the mixed quality of bank beats when investment income and cost cuts do the heavy lifting. Bloomberg’s roundup shows how a policy comment, geopolitical jitters over US-Iran tensions, and accounting lines can move flows faster than fundamentals.