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Welcome to Shesa's Weekend Updates We saw a reasonably good month of August for the stock market despite the pullback at the end of last week. The  S&P 500 was  up 0.23% for the week, despite hitting a record high of 6,502 on Thursday. It was the fourth winning month in a row. The Nasdaq  was down -0.6% and DOW was down 0.2% for the week. Last Friday, t he technology stocks were hammered due to inflation fear, and that FED may not cut rates soon. Having said that, the month of August was reasonable. But now we are now in September. This month may become volatile due to low liquidity in the market because of institutional investors absence helps short sellers and hedge funds to take advantage. In addition, the September fear that market does not do well. We will have to wait for lots of data going forward that may determine market direction. Hence, it's better to be little cautions. Because September has been the WORST month for the stock market in last 5, 10, 20, 5...

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Welcome to my Weekend updates The week started with a lackluster performance by technology stocks. But last Friday, market had a strong rally, driven by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech signaling potential September rate cuts . The S&P 500 rose 1.52% to 6,466.91, the Dow surged 846.24 points to a record 45,631.74, and the Nasdaq gained 1.88% to 21,496.53. The volatility started from tech sell-offs and inflation concerns from the Philadelphia Fed Index and S&P Global PMI. Retail earnings showed some consumer strength despite a cooling labor market. The U.S. government’s 10% stake in Intel lifted some of the chip stocks. Why did stock reignited rally last Friday?  The FED Chair Jerome Powell stunned Wall Street as most of the Wall Street folks were expecting hawkish view in his Jackson Hole speech last Friday. He signaled that the Federal Reserve is ready to cut interest rates in September, stating, “The time has come for policy to adjust....

Welcome to Shesa's Weekend Updates The major stock indexes remained green territory last week, however. The Dow outperformed, up 2%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained about 1% week for the week. For the year, Dow has gained  5.6% , S&P is up  9.6%  and Nasdaq the champion with  11.97% .  Economic Reports last week Consumer price index ( CPI ): Inflation rose  2.7%  on an annualized basis in July vs. 2.8% estimated by Wall Street. So-called core CPI, which takes away food and energy prices, increased by  3.1%  year over year, slightly more than the expected 3%. This data raised hopes for a Federal Reserve rate cut next month on September 17. However, the PPI report reversed. Let's take a look. The producer price index  (PPI )  The PPI which measures final demand goods and services inflation, or the  costs for producers to make goods and services  spiked to  3.3%  in July. Wall Street was expecti...

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...