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Shesa's Stock Market Weekend Updates - 2|22|26

Welcome to my weekend's updates The U.S. stock market rose slightly last week this week ending February 20, 2026. All the stock indexes ended on a positive. But technology stocks still remain under pressure. Here is how the indexes performed. •  S&P 500 : up 1.1%, closed at 6,909.51 •  Nasdaq : up 1.5%, closed at 22,886.07 (snapped 5-week losing streak) •  Dow : up 0.3%, closed at 49,625.97 This week we will see the biggest earnings of the season as Nvidia ( NVDA ) reports on Wednesday, 2/25, after the close of market. More on this later.. Tariff: Meanwhile, the  Supreme Court struck down broad tariffs (e.g., reciprocal/high global ones), leading to potential refunds and invalidation of some high rates. Trump immediately imposed a new 15% global tariff on all countries (effective soon, up to 150 days) on top of remaining tariffs.  Most relief goes to countries that previously faced the highest reciprocal rates (25–50%+): •   India: ...
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Shesa's Stock Market Weekend Updates - 2|16|26

Welcome to my weekend's update  Last week was the w orst week of 2026 for stocks, driven by the fear of AI disruption. In the whole process, technology and financial stocks were hit hardest despite good CPI inflation and solid jobs data. For the week  Dow Jones was down   -1.2% to 49,501, S&P 500 was down   -1.4% to 6,836 and  Nasdaq losing the most   -2.1% to 22,547. Please note that this is the fifth straight weekly loss for Nasdaq.  The consumer price index ( CPI ) for January came at 2.4% vs 2.5% expected, Year over year. Month over month the inflation was up 0.2% vs 0.3% expected. So, from inflation perspective, it was good numbers and market should have bounced back. We saw a small spike for the indexes after CPI report was released but again the same red color - sell on the news. I will write about the current market situation later.  Economic News last week Nonfarm payrolls (Jobs) increased by 130,000 for January vs. 70...
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Shesa's FEBRUARY 2026 Investment Blog

Welcome to Shesa’s investment Blog! U.S Stock Market Update As I wrote in my January blog, this year we may see a lot of volatility. And exactly that’s what we have been witnessing. The year started reasonably well but there were dips, again it picked up some steam towards the end of last month. January ended on a positive note for the indexes. However, February started on a rough note. But Dow Jones hit its all-time high and went past 50,000 mark for the first time in history and closed at 50,115.67 . However, despite the good results from big tech companies like META, Google, Apple, AMD the technology stocks got hammered. Microsoft and Amazon’s results were not very encouraging. Wall Street is very concerned about the tech spending . A humongous $700 billion capital expenditures are planned by the tech giants this year.  Amazon: $200 billion Alphabet: $175–185 billion Meta: $115–135 billion Microsoft: $145 billion  Oracle: $50 billion Tesla: $20 billion Such an ...
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