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Midday: Chip Slide Round-Trips to Flat, Oil Takes the Bid

The morning chip slide rounds back to flat; oil takes the bid

Fabless semis round-trip a 3.7% morning drop to flat, energy rides crude's 2.5% jump, metals and e-commerce are sold, bonds slip below Friday's failed line — and CrowdStrike prints a fresh 52-week high into tonight's scoring close.

In this edition

ELF VEEV CRWD PAC SHLS SE SPY GLD

The Midday 10 Mon, Aug 31, 2026 ~60 seconds 12:30 ET

A mildly negative tape by midday — but the morning's chip slide has fully round-tripped, oil holds the session's only real bid, and the selling concentrates in rate-sensitives, metals and e-commerce.

US midday, intraday quotes (delayed)

  1. e.l.f. Beauty
  2. Veeva Systems
  3. CrowdStrike
  4. Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
  5. Shoals Technologies
  6. Sea Limited & the e-commerce sell
  7. ETF board
  8. Gold and the metals complex
  9. Long bonds and dollar
  10. The morning semi-vs-software read — answered

The ten lines

  1. 1

    UP e.l.f. Beauty

    ELF

    ELF is up 4.52% to 108.81 by midday, one of the broader market's more notable outliers on a soft tape. With no single obvious catalyst, the move reads as technical or flow-driven against a generally defensive session.

  2. 2

    UP Veeva Systems

    VEEV

    VEEV adds 4.14% to 288.14, a meaningful gain for a large-cap life-sciences software name on a day when the broader Software (IGV) complex is only fractionally green. The stock is among the cleaner gainers on the midday tape.

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  4. 3

    UP CrowdStrike

    CRWD

    CRWD rises 3.84% to 226.79 — and printed a fresh 52-week high at 233.85 intraday, clearing Thursday's 229.08. It matters twice today: CrowdStrike is one of the five prints whose scoring window closes at tonight's bell, and the market paid the card to a new high before letting it settle a few points below.

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Further reading on Closelook

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.