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Weekly Stock Market Recap I S&P 500 Monthly Summary July 2022

7/2/2022

 
July 29, 2022, Weekly Equity Market Recap. The U.S. equity market continued to rally with all sectors up this week on corporate earnings growth and renewed expectations the Fed has (perhaps) only one more rate hike ahead. Also, early signs in the earnings season indicate that investors are seeing slowing growth that is not as bad as feared. The Federal Reserve delivered another 75-basis-point rate hike at the July Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, while economic news demonstrated that the rate hikes are achieving their aim of slowing the economy with data released this week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis showing GDP shrinking at an annual rate of −0.9% in Q2 2022 after contracting −1.6% in Q1 2022.  Technically, two quarters of declining GDP is considered a recession, however, many are pointing to the labor market remaining unusually strong, with 2.74 million jobs added to payrolls year-to-date. 
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July 15, 2022, Weekly Equity Market Recap. US equity markets were poised to post another round of sharp losses on the week until Friday’s strong rally, leaving the US stocks in the red: The S&P 500 finished down 0.9% and the Dow was off 0.2% while the Nasdaq dropped 1.6% on the week. Equity markets dropped on news that U.S. inflation growth for June came in higher than expected with the Consumer Price Index rising 9.1% year-over-year. Investors fear that this could prompt the Fed to consider raising interest rates by as much as 1.0%, instead of the previously anticipated 0.75% increase, later this month. This also moved the benchmark U.S. Treasury yield curve (two-year vs 10-year), which is a strong historical signal of impending recessions, to its largest inversion since November 2000. However, on the final day of trading was positive after retail sales rose more than expected in June, pointing to continued strength among U.S. consumers. Elsewhere in economic releases, consumer sentiment rose slightly in July to a reading of 51.1, per the University of Michigan's latest survey.


July 8, 2022, Weekly Equity Market Recap. For the week, the Nasdaq closed up 4.6%, while the S&P 500 gained 1.9% and the Dow returning about 0.8%. Federal Chair Powell indicated either a 50 or 75 basis point interest rate hike is on the table during their late July meeting; however, most officials agreed that a 75-bp hike will be the most likely outcome. The Fed is hell bent on restraining inflation pressures which indirectly will keep financial assets down.  However, with rising rates, the US dollar ended the week higher for the 11th time in the last 14 weeks.
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July 1, 2022, Weekly Equity Market Recap. Despite Friday’s gains, all of the major equity indexes posted their fourth down week: The S&P 500 finished down 2.2%, the Dow lower by 1.3% and the Nasdaq fell by 4.1%.  S&P 500 posted a more than 16% second quarter loss, marking its biggest one-quarter fall since March 2020. The Dow Jones lost 11.3% in the second quarter, putting it down more than 15% for 2022, while the Nasdaq suffered its biggest quarterly drop since 2008, losing 22.4%. Investors remain focused on warning signs from several companies that lowered their profit guidance, adding to investor concerns that persistent inflation at decades long highs could continue to put pressure on share prices. The Institute for Supply Management showed that the month of June was weaker than expected with its index of national factory activity dropping to 53 for the month, the lowest reading since June 2020. Michael Burry of “The Big Short” recently warned that the upheaval in financial markets is only halfway through and that companies will see earnings decline next.
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