【September 22 Global Market News and Data Analysis】
1. US stocks: The Nasdaq Composite rose 2.26% to a new high again; #Meta became the most popular application stock in the US as its price surged sharply. Chip, semiconductor, memory, and optical communications sectors all climbed across the board;
2. Crypto market: A strong upward move saw total market capitalization return to $3 trillion. Bitcoin broke through $87,000, and the total market cap of altcoins skyrocketed 13.5% in a week;
3. US SEC: “Innovative Exemption” — tokenized stocks may see the first batch of trading platforms arrive as early as next quarter;
4. #AMD : Market cap surpassed $1 trillion. Market attention on CPU compute demand for AI intelligent agents has reignited.

US stocks closed strongly. The Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Dow all moved higher together, with the Nasdaq setting yet another record high. The chip sector was especially notable: AMD jumped nearly 10% in a single day, with its market cap first crossing the $1 trillion threshold, becoming the fourth US semiconductor giant to reach that scale. Meta surged more than 11% after launching its AI assistant, quickly going viral; within five days, the app notched over 700,000 downloads and topped the app store rankings. The market generally believes that AI is shifting from training to inference and real-world deployment, continuously raising expectations for server CPUs and general-purpose compute demand.

Meanwhile, the crypto market moved up in parallel. #BTC climbed above $87,000. Ethereum broke through $2,800. Over the past 24 hours, total market capitalization rebounded by more than 5% and reclaimed the $3 trillion level. The Fear & Greed Index rose to a near-one-month high, with sentiment returning to the “extreme greed” zone. Worth noting is that the AI narrative is spilling over to inject shared momentum into risk assets: US stock tech and compute directions, as well as crypto assets, are rising in the same direction, reflecting investors’ enthusiastic pursuit of the “AI + emerging assets” main theme. Bitcoin spot ETF assets have returned above $100 billion, indicating that institutional allocation appetite is heating up—providing incremental capital and sentiment support for BTC’s upside. In the short term, strength may continue, but investors should still watch for the risk of pullbacks after sentiment becomes overheated.