November 16, 2025 After one of the sharpest momentum unwinds of the year to start November, investors head into next week facing an unusually wide set of possible outcomes. AI leaders, retail favorites, most-shorted names, crypto, and quantum-computing plays were among the biggest laggards again, reinforcing the sense that the momentum trade may be in […]
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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November 14, 2025 The knives are out for the AI trade in the near-term. Morgan Stanley QDS (Quantitative Derivatives Strategy) calculates that momentum unwinds typically last 25 trading days going back to 2021, so by that frame, the current selling could continue into month-end. The sharp momentum unwind has forced investors to reassess the balance
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November 12, 2025 Commodity markets have surged to multi-year highs in the near-term, signaling a broad-based reflation across the raw-materials complex. The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is up roughly 9% year-to-date and gained more than 4% in the third quarter, reflecting strength across metals and precious commodities even as energy and agricultural segments remain mixed.
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November 10, 2025 The S&P 500 has spent the beginning of September pulling back from all-time highs. The selling comes against the backdrop of strong operating results from S&P 500 constituents in the most recent quarter. We’ve distilled takeaways from FactSet’s earnings insights to give you a snapshot of sector level earnings trends underpinning 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 7, 2025 Equities are dealing with the latest bout of skepticism around the valuation and inherent promise of AI stocks. We’ve pointed out many times in this space how the bull trend that started in early 2023 was a mega cap. Growth led expansion. We’ve seen over the balance of the past 3 years
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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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November 4, 2025 After a relentless rally fueled by artificial intelligence enthusiasm, resilient corporate earnings, and a dovish monetary narrative, the mood across Wall Street has shifted toward unease. In the past week, several top banking executives, including Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick, have warned that the U.S. equity
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November 2, 2025 As the S&P 500 enters another pivotal earnings season, one sector holds the market’s fate in its hands: Technology. The Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK)—up roughly 32% year-to-date and accounting for more than 32% of the S&P 500’s total market capitalization—has been the engine of U.S. equity performance. Yet as the earnings
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