Market Highlights
Market highlights
2025-12-15
Wall Street traders took profits on the year’s biggest artificial intelligence winners, dragging global gauges back from the brink of record highs. Longer-dated bond yields climbed.
A disappointing sales outlook from Broadcom Inc. sent the chipmaker tumbling 11% and weighed on rivals, further fueling investor anxiety over AI wagers initially prompted by Oracle Corp. The AI bellwether’s stock drop started Thursday following a forecast for rising capital outlays and a longer timeline to a revenue payoff. The slump deepened Friday on a report of delays to some of Oracle’s data center projects. Shares of companies tied to the AI power infrastructure also slid.
The Nasdaq 100 slid 1.9% while The S&P 500 fell 1.1% after the index had notched a record close in the previous session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Russell 2000 pulled back from all-time highs.
2025-03-24
A late-session tech rally helped U.S. stocks erase earlier losses, with the S&P 500 recovering from a 1% drop amid record trading volume driven by massive options expirations. Optimism grew on signs that Trump’s upcoming tariffs may be more targeted than feared, lifting U.S. and European futures, though global sentiment remains fragile amid warnings of broader economic fallout.
2025-03-21
Market volatility resurfaced as trade war concerns overshadowed resilient U.S. housing and jobs data, with equities reversing gains ahead of Friday’s $4.5 trillion triple witching options expiry. Asian stocks stumbled following weak U.S. corporate earnings and lingering global uncertainty, while futures in Europe and the U.S. pointed to a cautious open.
2025-03-20
Stocks rallied and bond yields fell after Jerome Powell reassured markets that the Fed sees no urgent need for action despite trade tensions, describing the inflation impact of tariffs as likely "transitory." The dovish tone fueled a global rebound, lifting Asian equities and Nasdaq futures, while the dollar slipped and copper surged past $10,000 amid tariff concerns.
2025-03-19
Heavy selling resumed in Wall Street’s largest technology companies, with American shares
snapping a two-day rebound amid signs investors are paring exposure in US risk assets. European
stocks gained.
One day before a Federal Reserve decision that will be parsed for an assessment on how President
Donald Trump’s trade policies are affecting the economy, US equities slid, with megacaps hitting
the lowest since September. Nvidia Corp. sank 3.4% despite laying out plans to expand its AI reign
with robots and desktop systems. Data showing hot import prices didn’t help market sentiment
either. Treasuries edged up after a solid $13 billion sale of 20-year bonds. Gold climbed to a fresh
record
2025-03-18
US stocks climbed for a second day, extending the recovery from a sharp drop that reached 10%
last week, as industrial and energy shares rallied on economic data that while missing forecasts
was able to quell concern about an imminent recession.
More than 90% of the companies in the S&P 500 rose, overshadowing a slide in most megacaps. An
equal-weighted version of the benchmark — one that gives Target Corp. as much clout as Apple
Inc. — climbed 1.3%. While the latest economic data did little to alter traders’ bets on the Federal
Reserve outlook, mixed retail sales brought some relief that consumer spending is not collapsing.
As the chatter around tariffs subsided, equities continued to push away from technically oversold
levels
2025-03-17
Global banks appear to be giving top clients private information to win corporate-bond trading
business, according to a new study showing the $56 billion-a-day market is stacked in favor of the
most active investors with the broadest dealer networks.
The study examined the profitability of trades by insurance companies, which are whales in the
credit world. It found that those with the best access to Wall Street’s bond-trading desks often
had better outcomes than other investors ahead of market-moving events, such as mergers and
acquisitions and rating downgrades
2025-03-14
It was only three weeks ago that exuberance over Donald Trump’s blueprint for the economy had
vaulted US stocks to a record high. Today, with concern mounting over the goals and impact of his
trade war, the S&P 500 tumbled into its first 10% correction in almost two years.
Volatility surged anew across asset classes Thursday, extending a retreat from risk that has lopped
$5 trillion from the US equity benchmark and shows signs of seeping into high-yield bonds. New
salvos in President Trump’s tariff offensive spurred another race for havens in the Treasury market.
2025-03-13
Cooler-than-forecast February inflation pushed stocks higher after two days of heavy losses. A
kneejerk rally in bonds quickly reversed and yields rose across the curve amid concerns over an
escalating trade war.
Equities advanced after a selloff that put the S&P 500 on the verge of a technical correction. The
bounce was led by tech megacaps, which got heavily hit during the recent market rout. While the
surprise slowdown in consumer prices brought a degree of relief to traders, several voices on Wall
Street saw the data as the “calm before the storm” given the uncertainties around the potential
impacts of tariffs on the economy.
2025-03-12
Stocks climbed in late hours after President Donald Trump said he doesn’t see a US economic
recession, downplaying Wall Street’s jitters around his trade war.
A $600 billion exchange-traded fund tracking the S&P 500 (SPY) rose after the close of regular
trading. The WhiteHouse said 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum would take effect on Canada and
other nations, as Trump backed off a threat to impose 50% duties on the largest US trading
partner’s metals
2025-03-11
Anxiety that tariffs and government firings will torpedo growth in the world’s largest economy
extended a three-week stretch of volatility across global markets. American stocks got hammered
as Wall Street tempered bullish views while demand for recession havens boosted sovereign
bonds.
A selloff in the S&P 500’s most influential group — big tech — weighed heavily on trading. The gauge
came within a striking distance of a correction, extending its plunge from a record to 8.6%. The
Nasdaq 100 saw its worst day since 2022. A gauge of the Magnificent Seven megacaps tumbled
5.4%. Treasury yields slid on bets that an economic slowdown would force the Federal Reserve to
slash interest rates. Bitcoin slipped below $80,000.
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