Shesa's Investment Blog

Welcome to my weekend report!  We saw a volatile week but overall market did well. For the week, the S&P 500  went up 2.5% ,  Nasdaq climbed 3.9% and Dow gained 1.6%. Nasdaq closed with new all-time highs. All the economic report came below expectations. However, the market Keeps going up with the hope of interest rate cuts as the future market is expecting a 96% probability of rate cut in September. This week we have some critical economic report CPI, PPI and retail sales . These data may further confirm about the interest rate cut and future direction of the stock market . It looks like we have to economies at this time, one being " AI economy" which is doing pretty well and the other one is rest of the economy which is having a lack luster performance . Hence, it all depends on where we are putting our money to work. Meanwhile, Trump fired the labor secretary last week for misleading job repots and last Friday he fired the commissioner of the Internal Reve...

 By Shesa Nayak Welcome to Shesa’s Blog U.S. Stock Market Update   The U.S. stock market (Nasdaq and S&P) rallied to multiple record highs during the month of July 2025 with the S&P 500 went up about 3% and NASDAQ up about 3.7% for the month. After making multiple highs, all of a sudden there was a jolt in the stock market last Friday attributed to terrible job reports, and Trump’s tariffs concerns of August 7 deadline potentially increasing the reciprocal tariffs. We have entered into August followed by September which happens to be the worst month of the year for the stock market, hence we must be watchful to the market situation. Q2 Earnings We saw marathon of big tech companies earnings in last couple of week. Almost every company had a beat on top and bottomline with the exception of Tesla. Apple, Amazon, Google and Netflix came with good earnings. But the star performers in the large tech sector were META and Microsoft . The earnings season will continue fo...