Stock Market Weekly update -Aug 17

 We moved higher for another week with the SPX closing near 6450, another all time high. The Nasdaq and DOW also made all time highs. Now we’re just waiting for the Small-caps to catch up! UNH also rallied, while AMAT dropped, and CRCL dropped for a 4th week!  Crypto rallied, then pulled back.  PPI came in much hotter than expected. The VIX dropped lower, with VIX Futures expiration set for this Wednesday.  

Stocks remain extended at these levels. We saw  market tops in July 2023, and in Jul 2024.

 

The week ahead:  Fed Minutes & Jackson Hole

Earnings season week 6:  Retailers HD, LOW, WMT, TGT, TJX, etc.


Schwab Weekly Trader's Outlook


Edward Jones recap


The 10 year Interest rate -up slightly to 4.33%

The Dollar - down a bit to 97.84 

Gold - down a bit to $3335

Oil - dropped to $63.13

Bitcoin  -up to around 124k & dropped back to 117k

 

New all time Highs:  META, RDDT, EBAY, FOXA, UBS, GS, L, RY

   -ALL time Lows:  

Pops & Drops/5 day movers:,   Pops:  OPEN, WULF,     Drops:,, 

Earnings movers:  Pops:     Drops:  CRCL, CRWV, AMAT, CSCO, CAVA


Percent of S&P 500 stocks above the 50 day Moving Average:  up from 56% to 58.8%


This week

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Earnings

PANW

HD, TOL, MDT

LOW, TJX, TGT, ADI, BIDU

WMT, ROST, INTU, 

BABA

Events



Fed minutes


Fed Jackson Hole




The indexes:  New all time highs in the S&P, NASDAQ, and the DOW! 

Somewhat neutral on the SPX at these levels, tho we could see the IWM play a bit of catch up to the other indexes. The big retailers report this week.



SPX  - moving up for a 2nd week after the drop.



Small-caps still trying to catch up to the Nov all time high!





VIX -holding near the lows. VIX Futures expiration on Wednesday

When is a good time to maybe use VIX as a hedge? When the VIX is cheap!!




Stocks last week - 




Sectors last week - 



Market concerns:   Inflation? Debt? Interest rates?  Tariffs? Wars? anything…?

Now over $37  Trillion in debt!  See Debt Clock below, or here... 

 


Options watch:   

High IV (Implied Volatility) stocks -link   

High Options volume:   (most active link, or here)

ETFs

SPY, QQQ, IWM, SMH, VIX -also SPX index

Stocks

AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, META, MSFT, NVDA, NFLX, TSLA...



More charts:     



08/03: MSFT also had a weekly tail bar




08/10 Another Tech darling? AI? Nope -just WMT

08/17 Earnings this week



7/27: CMG -dumped after earnings. Buying opportunity maybe…

8/03, 0810 -NOPE! Dropped for a 3rd week!

08/17: finally showing signs of a turnaround at a nice ‘support level’




08/10:  MRNA -once traded near $500, now $26




S&P 500 Total Percent Returns calendar  -Aug 50/50 red/green


Name


Price

04/27

06/30

Solana

SOL

192.00

149.30

149.60

Chainlink

LINK

18.35

14.48

13.28

Uniswap

UNI

9.60

5.57

6.98

Sui

SUI

3.45

3.55

2.77

Ondo

ONDO

1.32

0.95

0.75


Feb 2025:   5 Cryptos to watch in 2025



Apr 20, 2025



7/20: HERE ARE THE TOP 15 GROWTH PERFORMERS OF 2025



Links...

10yr Interest Rates
Labor Force Participation Rate
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims
ETFs performance - Ranked by  Volume
S&P 500 performance -by Sector

Top 100 Stocks to buy (Alpha) 

US 100 Tech Index

Commodities / Futures
Crypto   Crypto News   Performance

Largest Companies by Marketcap   …also

24/7 Wall St.

Fear & Greed Index 


News

S&P 500 closes lower Friday, but logs its second weekly gain

Dow Touches First Record High of the Year as UnitedHealth Group Stock Soars

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected

The Week Ahead: August 15, 2025

Powell's Jackson Hole speech, Walmart earnings: What to watch this week

July inflation data has economists on edge

Foreign holdings of US Treasuries climb to record $9.13 trillion in June

Saudi wealth fund slashes U.S. tech holdings in Q2, exits Meta, PayPal, Alibaba

Quantum Computing Stock Tumbles on Earnings. Rigetti, D-Wave, and IonQ Also Fall

Crypto/Blockchain:  Global Market Cap: now over $4.1 Trilllion 

Stablecoin issuers like Circle and Tether are gobbling up more Treasuries than most countries

CME Ethereum futures volume hits record $118 billion in July amid renewed market frenzy

Fed to scrap program devoted to policing banks on crypto, fintech activities

Coinbase completes $2.9 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Deribit

Chainlink, ICE Partner to Deliver Forex and Precious Metals Data Onchain for DeFi


2x ETFs  SOLT, XXRP


Jul 2025 -Largest Blockchains in Crypto Ranked by TVL


Jul 2025 -Top Blockchain Networks by DEX Total Value Locked


Aug 2025



Top Chains by Gross Profit in May 2025




CoinMarketCap 100 Index Constituents


Archives ..pre 202x

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