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- US stocks ended the week mixed after a powerful rebound on Friday. Weekly market recap, trading week 06/2026
US stocks ended the week mixed after a powerful rebound on Friday. Weekly market recap, trading week 06/2026
Summary of the trading week using the most popular posts from the X platform
Global Markets Investor
February 08, 2026
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DURING THE MARCH-APRIL 2025 MARKET TURMOIL, MAJOR US INDEXES FELL NEARLY 20%, WHILE THE GMI PORTFOLIO GAINED OVER 5%, FIND OUT HOW BELOW:
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.
Another volatile week is behind us with stocks ending mixed after a huge rebound on Friday.
Gold and silver also recovered some losses.
Bitcoin and the Magnificent 7 significantly underperformed.
Microsoft is down -27% from its peak, down to the lowest since April 2025 and in line with January 2024 levels.
The company has given back all relative outperformance vs the S&P500 since the ChatGPT launch in November 2022.
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 -0.1%
- Nasdaq -1.8%
- Russell 2000 (small caps) +2.1%
- Dow Jones +2.5%
- US 10-year Treasury yield -4 basis points
- Bank Index +5.1%
- VIX -18%, front month contract VIX futures +1%
- US Dollar index +0.7%
- Gold +5.0%
- Silver -1.3%
- WTI Crude Oil -2.6%
- Bitcoin -11%
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For the trading week ending February 12, key events are:
- US Retail Sales for December on Tuesday
- US Non-Farm Payrolls for January on Wednesday
- US Existing Home Sales for January on Thursday
- US CPI Inflation Rate for January on Friday
- At least 10 Fed Speakers
- ~5% of S&P 500 companies report earnings
All eyes on US job market report and CPI inflation data. Furthermore, investors will be watching Japanese election today and the country’s bond market reaction.
2) Is there more downside for US software stocks?
3) Is this why Amazon, $AMZN ( ▼ 1.22% ) , Microsoft, $MSFT ( ▲ 0.32% ) , Meta, $META ( ▼ 1.85% ) , and Google, $GOOGL ( ▼ 0.35% ), stocks are falling?
4) Retail investors are buying US equities at a record pace while hedge funds and institutional investors are selling. Leveraged ETFs are adding to the pressure.
5) Some additional posts that include interesting economic and financial markets data (such as historical Bitcoin drawdowns, US Treasury yield curve or Chinese gold demand).
