July 14, 2025 S&P futures are down 0.3% in early Monday trading after a mostly lower week for U.S. equities. Defensive sectors such as consumer staples, money center banks, software, and managed care underperformed, while AI, energy, airlines, hotels, and homebuilders led. Momentum factor names continued to lag. Asian markets were mixed overnight, while Europe […]
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July 13, 2025 As the S&P 500 consolidates just below fresh all-time highs, we are seeing some near-term buying in the Small Cap. space. The chart below shows various Russell and S&P benchmark indices by size and their performance against the broad market R3K since the April 7th low for equities. The Russell 2000 briefly
COMMENTARY: The S&P 500’s modest decline of 31 basis points for the week ending July 11, 2025, was driven by heightened trade policy uncertainty, anticipation of Q2 earnings reports, and concerns about rising inflation due to new tariffs. While the market absorbed much of the tariff news without severe disruption, sentiment turned cautious, particularly in
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July 11, 2025 Interesting things are happening now that the S&P 500 is out to new all time highs having put the global trade war correction in the rearview mirror. The bull trend that began in early 2023 lives again, but we are seeing changes in the leadership profile of the US equity market from
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July 11, 2025 S&P futures are down 0.6% Friday morning following Thursday’s gains that saw the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit new all-time highs. Most-shorted stocks extended gains as the momentum unwind continued, with year-to-date laggards like Tesla and Apple leading big tech. Cyclicals including travel, metals, apparel, builders, and banks also outperformed. Overnight, Asia
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July 10, 2025 One of the key themes to emerge since equities put in their April 7th low has been smart grid implementation. We’ve observed that among infrastructure focused funds, smart grid adjacent stocks and the GRID ETF has been YTD leadership among the funds we track (chart below). The GRID ETF (chart below) is
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July 10, 2025 U.S. equity futures edging lower Thursday morning following solid gains on Wednesday, driven by strength in big tech (particularly Nvidia), small caps, and most-shorted stocks. Sector laggards included energy, managed care, telecom, and industrials. Overnight, Asian markets mostly traded higher, with South Korea, Australia, and Greater China leading, while Japan underperformed. European
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July 9, 2025 S&P futures are up 0.1% after a mixed session Tuesday, where small caps, value, and unprofitable tech outperformed, while money center banks lagged amid early earnings previews. Treasuries are little changed, the dollar index is up 0.1%, gold is down 0.4%, Bitcoin futures are up 0.2%, and WTI crude is up 0.5%.
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July 8, 2025 Equities recently posted all-time highs as proxied by the S&P 500. Risk appetite has been strengthening; interest rates remain contained and high beta stocks are outperforming. With the Q1 equity correction now firmly in the rearview mirror, we are shifting our focus to try and ID new leadership trends at the sector,
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July 8, 2025 S&P futures are little changed following Monday’s broad decline, which saw all major U.S. indexes fall between 0.8–0.9%. Losses were led by small caps, semiconductors, housing names, and high short-interest stocks. Tesla was a notable drag on the mega-cap tech cohort. Asian markets traded mostly higher overnight, with South Korea and Hong
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