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The optics chain gets paid at midday — semis reclaim their 50-day lines while the broad tape drifts, and Fabrinet reports into the repricing

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COHR SNDK CRDO TMICY RCAT CAVA SPY SMH

The Midday 10 Mon, Aug 17, 2026 ~60 seconds 12:30 ET

A split tape at midday: semis are being paid — Coherent +9.7% and Sandisk +9.2%, both reclaiming their 50-day averages, while the whole semi complex (SOXX, SMH, XSD, SMHX) crosses back above its own — even as Communications, Staples, and Real Estate drag and the broader index drifts underneath the leadership.

That sits on top of the morning's standing frame: both cross-asset tells were already dissenting from the tape before the bell, IEF's weekly reclaim failing at 93.04 and dollar-yen sitting within half a yen of the 159.5 wire at 159.08, with the Hormuz oil bid a third dissenting voice. Fabrinet reports after tonight's close, arriving into a chain that just repriced itself higher in real time.

US midday, intraday quotes (delayed)

  1. Coherent
  2. Sandisk
  3. Credo Technology
  4. Trend Micro
  5. Red Cat Holdings
  6. CAVA Group
  7. ETF board
  8. Semis reclaim 50-day averages
  9. Fabrinet into the close
  10. Morning themes — midday check

The ten lines

  1. 1

    UP Coherent

    COHR

    Coherent is up 9.7% by midday at 357.44, reclaiming its 50-day average intraday. The move puts it among the sharpest single-stock recoveries on the tape this session.

  2. 2

    UP Sandisk

    SNDK

    Sandisk gains 9.22% to 1792.41, also crossing back above its 50-day average intraday. Two storage and connectivity names reclaiming that line on the same session is a notable coincidence of technical repair.

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  4. 3

    UP Credo Technology

    CRDO

    Credo Technology adds 7.73% to reach 280 by midday, joining the broader semi-complex strength without a specific level catalyst in the supplied context.

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Today in line 11: what happens when the intraday tape pays a theme — four semi ETFs and Coherent's 50-day reclaim — that this morning's two cross-asset tells (IEF's failed weekly reclaim at 93.04, dollar-yen within half a yen of the 159.5 wire) were already dissenting from before the bell, and why Fabrinet's ten-for-ten print tonight, arriving into a chain that just repriced itself live, is the next referee rather than the resolution.

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Ten lines on the US midday tape, not advice — an investment diary. Published every trading day at 12:30 ET. See The Morning 10 and the Daily Pulse.