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Shesa's Weekend Stock Market Updates - 2|1|26

Welcome to Weekend Update Thanks to all my friends who tuned to my Radio Show today. If you missed then you can view it  in Facebook by clicking here:      https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1333186565515820 The month of January is over. The month of February is kind of neutral for the index. The Stock market remains little strange - only a few stocks keep moving up and most other keeps going down and further down. For the week,   S&P 500 was up 0.3%, Dow was down about 0.4% and Nasdaq was down -0.2%. However, for the m onth of January all the indexes were up S&P 500 +1.4% , Dow +1.7% , Nasdaq +1% . That's the good news. However, the market has been very volatile, tricky and slightly disappointing. Technology stock remained under pressure despite good earnings from META, APPL, TSLA. Microsoft disappointed. More on earnings later. The PPI report released on Friday showed uptick in inflation 3% vs. 2.7%. This was not a gr...
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U.S. Stock Market Updates - 1|25|26

The stock market remained volatile last week. On Wednesday and Thursday the market was up on the news that President Trump won’t put additional tariffs on EU due to Greenland deal. But ultimately the week ended in a negative note.  US stock indexes for the week ending January 23, 2026 (holiday-shortened, 4 trading days): • S&P 500 : down 0.5% (closed ~6,915.61) • Dow Jones : down 0.6% (closed ~49,098.71) • Nasdaq : up 0.2% (closed ~23,501.24) The market had second consecutive weekly loss for major indexes amid volatility. Intel ( INTC ) declared its Q4 results better than expected beating top and bottom line but guidance was below Wall Street expectations. This stock was on fire and has come down since then. I will be careful on this stock.  EPS : 0.15 vs. 0.8 estimated Revenue : $13.7B vs. $13.4B. Guidance: company said it expected Q1 revenue between $11.7B - $12.7B, and breakeven on EPS which were below Street expectations. My view:  The stock ran too much too ...
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Shesa'a JANUARY 2026 Investment Blog

Welcome to my New Year 2026 Blog Wishing a Happy and wonderful New Year 2026 to all my log readers. Let’s hope the market continue to grow in 2026! A recap of 2025 The year 2025 started with a small downturn but subsequently market started picking up till February 20. After that, tariff fears emerged and on April 2, 2025, Donald Trump declared his " Liberation Day " to and announced new tariffs on imports aimed at reducing trade deficits and reviving U.S. industry. That scared the stock market like hell and stocks started dropping like rocks until April 8. Subsequently, Trump declared some relaxation period for the countries to negotiate on tariff. This enlightened the market and started picking up till October 8 and we saw one of the best September (Nasdaq up 5.61%), that defied the typical “September Effect”. Historically, November happens to be one of the best month but Wall Street had some plan. The circular financing, debt financing and AI stock’s valuation issues e...
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