Stocks open at fresh highs as mega-cap tech nears $4T, banks flex balance-sheet strength, and cooler inflation gives the Fed cover to ease, leaving bears with less to stand on than the consumer. We’re opening the week with the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq either at or pressing into new highs. That move isn’t just […]

RoboStreet – October 23, 2025 Softer tariffs and bank strength lifted indexes toward records ahead of CPI—but key risks remain: higher-for-longer rates and rising unemployment. It was a steady-risk, higher-highs kind of week—less drama, more grind. Momentum kept nudging the indexes toward records as volatility stayed tame and investors looked past the political noise to […]

A tighter tape heads into mega-cap earnings and Friday’s CPI with 10-year near 4% and volatility cooling. Markets kick off the week with the same tug-of-war: noisy policy headlines and a temporary data blackout on one side, solid earnings power—especially from banks and the AI supply chain—on the other. Stocks have held up without help […]

RoboStreet – October 16, 2025 Tariffs and a data blackout jolt risk; JPM and TSM set the tone as VIX nears 25. Gold sits near records, oil slips, and the 10-year dips below 4%—can earnings keep the rally alive? The week began with a clean reset. After Friday’s tariff scare, Monday opened to softer rhetoric […]

From Friday’s tone-driven grind to Monday’s relief rally—and how we’re sizing into bank earnings. Markets followed through on the “buy-the-dip” instinct: tariff jitters faded, tech leadership reasserted, and the bounce broadened. By Monday’s close, the Dow added about 588 points (~1.3%), the S&P 500 rose ~1.6%, and the Nasdaq gained ~2.2%. The VIX, which finally […]

RoboStreet – October 9, 2025 Early beats (DAL, PEP), cautious Fed, tariffs in focus, gold near records, dollar softer—can the rally keep climbing without official data? The market finally exhaled. After notching fresh highs early in the week, stocks eased as the VIX hovered near 17 and indexes retested their peaks, a pause that felt […]