ARKK Jumps 16% in August as Risk Basket Beats S&P 500 by 8 Points
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 14
ARKK Jumps 16% in August as Risk Basket Beats S&P 500 by 8 Points
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 14
Summary
Nine trading days into August, speculative trades have surged together: ARKK is up 16%, while IPOs, chips and software have each gained at least 9%.
An equal-weight basket of ARKK, IPO, SOXX and IGV is outperforming SPY by about 8 percentage points — its biggest early-month lead since 2015.
Nvidia has added about $600 billion in market value this month, SpaceX roughly $440 billion and Microsoft nearly $240 billion, showing the rally's scale in dollar terms.
Breadth has widened with 7 in 10 S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks higher this month, a sharp shift from July's $3.2 trillion rotation that forced investors to choose between chips and the Magnificent Seven.
History offers mixed signals: a similar May 2025 burst kept running, but January 2021 proved a fake-out, with ARKK halving over the following year.