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S&P 500 posted a significant reversal amid historic volatility. Weekly market recap, trading week 15/2025
Summary of the trading week using the most popular posts from the X platform
Global Markets Investor
April 13, 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.
US stocks recovered following the worst week since the 2020 crash. This was driven by a 90-day US exemption of 'reciprocal' tariffs on Wednesday except China and President Trump's readiness for negotiations. Gold and silver also massively rallied.
Last week's recap for premium subscribers was concluded with this sentence:
“As a result, the sentiment fell to near historic lows which may provide some sort of market bounce over a week or two. The market is also extremely oversold.”
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 jumped 5.6%
- Nasdaq index spiked 7.2%
- Dow Jones rallied 4.9%
- Russell 2000 (small caps) increased 1.7%
- US 10-year Treasury yield jumped 57 bps
- VIX fell 16%
- US Dollar index fell 3.0%
- WTI Crude Oil declined 0.5%
- Silver spiked 9.8%
- Gold surged 7.0%
- Bitcoin rose 0.3%
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For the trading week ending April 18, key events are:
- NY Fed Consumer Inflation Expectations on Monday
- US Retail Sales for March on Wednesday
- US Industrial Production for March on Wednesday
- Fed Chair Powell Speech on Wednesday
- US Housing starts and building permits for March on Thursday
- At least 8 Fed Officials Speeches
- ~7% of S&P 500 companies reporting Q1 2025 earnings
Investors' attention will be still on tariff headlines and the global bond market volatility. Very detailed explanation of what happened last week, more interesting data and analysis behind the paywall.
⚠️US stocks recovered following the worst week since the 2020 CRASH:
Gold and silver also massively rallied.
Tariff headlines remained in focus as the US raised its effective tariff rate on China to a record 145% while China's effective tariff rate on the US hit an all-time
— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv)
8:45 PM • Apr 11, 2025
2) This was one of the craziest weeks in the markets since the 2020 March Crash. HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
