August 12, 2025 S&P futures up 0.1% after U.S. equities closed mostly lower Monday, with weakness in software, E&Ps, transports, commodity chemicals, building products, homebuilders, and industrial metals. Retail favorites, most-shorted names, and semis outperformed. Asia mostly higher overnight (Japan +2%, China up for sixth straight day); Europe flat. Treasuries little changed, gold -0.2%, Bitcoin […]
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July 31, 2025 S&P futures up 1.0% in early Thursday trading, bouncing after Wednesday’s broad-based selloff that saw ~70% of the S&P 500 close lower. Laggards included energy, copper, logistics, packaging, builders, and HPCs. Outperformers were healthcare, semicap equipment, cruise lines, casual diners, casinos, tobacco, and apparel. Asian markets mostly fell with China and Hong
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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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May 1, 2025 S&P futures are up 1.2% following a strong late-day rally Wednesday that extended the index’s winning streak to seven sessions. Big tech earnings—especially Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META)—are the major driver this morning, reinforcing optimism around AI growth and pushing the S&P 500’s Q1 blended earnings growth to 11.9%, up from 7.2%
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February 13, 2025 S&P futures little changed Thursday morning after US equities pulled back Wednesday but closed well off session lows. Bond proxies, homebuilders, energy, aluminum, trucking, and ag chemicals lagged, while drug stores, autos, managed care, biotech, China tech, airlines, and exchanges outperformed. Asian markets were mixed, with Hong Kong giving back recent gains
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S&P Futures Down 0.1%: S&P futures are down 0.1% in Friday morning trading after US equities closed higher on Thursday, with the S&P reaching another all-time high and the Nasdaq extending its gains for a fourth consecutive session. Semiconductors, China tech, industrial metals, chemicals, and autos were standouts. Asian markets surged overnight, with Hong Kong
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XLB has fallen to new lows without any signs of positive divergence or bullish reversal at the industry level.
Our new Elev8 sector selection process starts June with an overweight in XLB of 1.68% vs. the sector weight in the S&P 500. We are not quite as sanguine on XLB as that allocation suggests as we are naked the Energy sector in our model and hoping a modest overweight in XLB will hedge us
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