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US stocks fell slightly last week driven by Tech. Weekly market recap, trading week 35/2025
Summary of the trading week using the most popular posts from the X platform
Global Markets Investor
August 31, 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 surrounded by extra charts, commentary and explanations of complicated topics.
US stocks finished down slightly this week but posted a modest 1-2% gain for August.
The Nasdaq lagged, and Magnificent 7 stocks underperformed the S&P 493, dragged down by today’s weakness.
Meanwhile, Gold prices closed at an all-time high while Silver prices hit the highest level in 14 years.
In case you missed it, other posts from this week are listed below.
1) Weekly performance. In the first post attached, you can see last week’s performance of the major US indexes, the VIX volatility index, 10-year Treasury yield, the US Dollar, gold, silver, WTI Crude oil and Bitcoin.
- S&P 500 decreased 0.1%
- Nasdaq index fell 0.2%
- Dow Jones declined 0.2%
- Russell 2000 (small caps) rose 0.1%
- US 10-year Treasury yield fell 3 bps
- VIX jumped 8%
- US Dollar index rose 0.1%
- WTI Crude Oil increased 0.6%
- Silver jumped 3.2%
- Gold soared 2.9%
- Bitcoin dropped 6.5%
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For the trading week ending September 5, key events are:
- US Markets Closed, Labor Day on Monday
- US ISM Manufacturing PMI for August on Tuesday
- US Job Openings for July on Wednesday
- US ISM Services PMI for August on Thursday
- US Job Cuts for August on Thursday
- US ADP Employment for August on Thursday
- US Non-Farm Payrolls for August on Friday
- At least 5 Fed speakers
All eyes on the US job market data.
⚠️US stocks finished down slightly this week but posted a modest 1-2% gain for August.
The Nasdaq lagged, and Magnificent 7 stocks underperformed the S&P 493, dragged down by today’s weakness.
Gold prices closed at an all-time high. Silver prices hit the highest level in 14
— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv)
8:27 PM • Aug 29, 2025
2) Hedge funds are dumping US equities.
