S&P 500 dropped in 6 out of the last 7 weeks. Weekly market recap, trading week 14/2025

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In this series, you can find financial markets posts with the highest number of interactions from my X platform feed over the most recent week. I am aware that not everybody uses X regularly, so I thought it could provide some value to your analysis, and investment process. These posts are also surrounded by commentary and explanations of complicated topics.

Tariff announcements spurred global recession fears and crashed the US market which experienced the worst week since the March 2020 crash. The S&P 500 has now dropped in 6 out of the last 7 weeks and is down 14% year-to-date. As a result, $10 trillion of the S&P 500's market cap has been erased since February peak. The Russell 2000 and the Nasdaq 100 entered bear markets. Premium subscribers were well aware of what could happen and it looks like the outlined scenario in the below article is unfolding.

1) Weekly performance. In the first screenshot attached, you can see last week’s performance of the major US indexes, the VIX volatility index, gold, and Bitcoin.

- S&P 500 dropped 9.1%
- Nasdaq index fell 9.9%
- Dow Jones tumbled 7.9%
- Russell 2000 (small caps) plunged 9.7%
- VIX spiked 103%
- WTI Crude Oil declined 9.6%
- Silver dropped 15%
- Gold fell 1.8%

- Bitcoin rose 1.5%

For the trading week ending April 11, key events are:

- FOMC Minutes on Wednesday

- US CPI Inflation for March on Thursday

- US PPI Inflation for March on Friday

- US Consumer Sentiment for April on Friday

- Several Fed Officials Speeches

Investors will be focusing on any news related to tariff responses and trade negotiations. Brace for another volatile week.

2) Markets experienced a record amount of stocks selling last week. Not even close.

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