November 28, 2025 Elev8 Model Input Scores: December 2025 The table below shows the Elev8 model’s scores for December. Near-term rotation away from Technology Sector shares was the story of November, but we are expecting some accumulation into year end as the cycle’s most important stocks like NVDA and PLTR sit at near-term oversold levels. […]
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November 23, 2025 The coming Thanksgiving week finds investors in an uneasy place: the AI trade has been shaken, but not broken, and the macro data emerging since the federal government reopened paints a picture of an economy that is cooling unevenly rather than rolling over. From a sector perspective, the key question is not
COMMENTARY: This week the S&P500 index fell almost 3% and was mainly a tech-/AI-led pullback week. The big, highly concentrated gains in AI earlier in the year left the market vulnerable to profit-taking. Also Fed-policy ambiguity and mixed economic datapoints added to risk aversion. In addition, Crypto and risk-off flows caused big moves in bitcoin
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COMMENTARY: Wall Street witnessed a balancing act this week as the S&P 500 danced along a tightrope of market sentiment—caught between profit-taking in tech, defensive sector strength, and mounting speculation on the Federal Reserve’s next move. The index was near flat, only 0.08%. With investors pausing to catch their breath after an autumn rally, the
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COMMENTARY: The S&P 500 index fell 1.6% for the week ending November 7, 2025, with the decline primarily driven by a sharp sell-off in technology and AI-related stocks, concerns over high valuations, and macroeconomic uncertainty amplified by the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, the longest in history limited the availability of official economic data, heightening investor
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November 6, 2025 Cryptocurrencies are again at a crossroads — neither in the frenzy of 2021 nor the despair of 2022, but somewhere in between. The tone across digital-asset markets has shifted toward cautious optimism, as investors weigh institutional adoption, new technology cycles, and the next wave of public-market crypto plays against lingering macro and
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COMMENTARY: In a broader continuation of the rally: the S&P500 index closed October with its sixth straight monthly gain and reached another new all‐time high. Strong corporate earnings, especially tech Mega‐cap names delivered standout results, as they reported much better‐than‐expected profit and cloud growth. Tech and AI‐related companies are continuing to benefit from heightened investment
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COMMENTARY: This week’s S&P 500 rally (+1.9%) was driven by a robust start to the Q3 Earnings Season: so far 29% of S&P 500 companies had reported earnings, with a higher-than-average percentage beating analysts’ expectation. Both the magnitude of earnings surprises and the rate of positive surprises exceeded 10-year averages. The index marked its ninth
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COMMENTARY: For the week ending October 17, 2025, the S&P 500 rose 1.7%, and all the U.S. equity sectors advanced, led by real estate, consumer discretionary, and technology. S&P 500 Index gained on improved risk sentiment as investors grew more confident after President Trump signaled that U.S.–China trade talks were back on track, easing global
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October 12, 2025 U.S. equities finished sharply lower on Friday as investors reacted to a re-escalation in trade and technology tensions between Washington and Beijing. The S&P 500 (chart below) fell roughly 2.7%, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 3.5%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 879 points (-1.9%), erasing several weeks of gains. The sell-off
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