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2025 – S&P 500 Climbs on Tech‑Led Rally as Growth Sectors Surge and Defensives Lag

  The S&P 500 posted a robust 16.4% gain in 2025, supported by a soft‑landing narrative, moderating inflation, and small Fed rate cuts that helped sustain earnings growth across most sectors. Equity leadership remained narrow, with growth and capex‑levered industries tied to artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and industrial reshoring again doing the heavy lifting. High‑performing […]

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2025 – S&P 500 Climbs on Tech‑Led Rally as Growth Sectors Surge and Defensives Lag

  The S&P 500 posted a robust 16.4% gain in 2025, supported by a soft‑landing narrative, moderating inflation, and small Fed rate cuts that helped sustain earnings growth across most sectors. Equity leadership remained narrow, with growth and capex‑levered industries tied to artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and industrial reshoring again doing the heavy lifting. High‑performing

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Sector Investing in 2025: Lessons Learned and a Look Forward to 2026

December 31, 2025 Sector performance in 2025 was defined by an unusual combination of disinflation, resilient economic growth, shifting policy expectations, and the maturation of the artificial intelligence investment cycle. While headline equity indexes posted solid gains, leadership beneath the surface was far less stable. Rotations between growth and cyclicals, defensives and offensives, and inflation

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Performance Summary: Week Ending December 26th, 2025

COMMENTARY: The S&P 500 added 1.4% in the holiday‑shortened week ending December 26, extending a strong year‑end rally as investors balanced upbeat economic data with a calmer interest‑rate outlook. Fresh GDP figures showed the U.S. economy growing faster than expected, reinforcing the soft‑landing narrative that has supported markets throughout 2025. Tech remained a key driver,

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Sector Strategy Outlook:  Sector Investing in a Disinflationary Environment

With November CPI confirming a clear downshift in inflation—core inflation slowing to its weakest pace since early 2021—and multiple Fed officials openly acknowledging that policy remains restrictive, disinflation has become the dominant macro force shaping sector leadership. History suggests that periods of falling inflation do not lift all boats equally. Instead, they tend to reward

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Performance Summary: Week Ending December 19th, 2025

COMMENTARY: The S&P 500 ended the week essentially flat, up 10 basis points, as markets digested a mix of cooling inflation data and still-cautious Federal Reserve messaging. Treasury yields stabilized after recent volatility, limiting equity upside, while leadership narrowed as mega-cap technology paused following strong year-to-date gains. Portfolio rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting, and light institutional participation

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Factor Friday: Assessing Style Prospects in the Wake of Cooler Inflation

The past several weeks of data and headlines have meaningfully improved investor sentiment, not because risks have disappeared, but because the distribution of outcomes has shifted away from the most adverse scenarios. Inflation is cooling faster than expected, the labor market is softening without cracking, earnings expectations remain intact, and the Federal Reserve is increasingly

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Worldwide Wednesday: Domestic Risk-off Impulse Benefitting DM Equities

December 17, 2025 Crosscurrents have defined equity trading in November and December.  Concerns about rich valuations and circular investing in the AI trade has triggered selling in domestic Mega Cap. Growth stocks while the recent Fed rate cut has supported lagging cyclical stocks and commodities prices.  The upshot has been rotation away from domestic Growth

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Forward Prospects for Equities: Can the Fed Do Enough This Time?

December 14, 2025 U.S. equities are closing the year at an inflection point that feels deceptively calm. Markets have absorbed a December 25 bp Federal Reserve rate cut and a renewed Treasury bill purchase program designed to stabilize reserves, while risk assets have responded with improved sentiment, better breadth, and renewed inflows. On the surface,

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Performance Summary: Week Ending December 12th, 2025

COMMENTARY: The S&P 500’s 63‑bp weekly decline through 12/12/2525 reflected a rotation out of mega‑cap tech and AI‑linked names as investors reassessed stretched valuations and the profitability of large AI buildouts. This pullback came despite an otherwise supportive macro backdrop, including the Federal Reserve’s 25‑bp rate cut earlier in the month, which policymakers framed as

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