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This week’s markets were quiet on the surface but busy underneath, with major rotations across tech, healthcare, and consumer names. With the Fed decision just days away, it’s a good moment to step back, stay disciplined, and look for opportunity—not noise.
Thanks for reading—let’s get into it.
Market Overview — (Dec 1– 5, 2025)
Price | Weekly Change | |
|---|---|---|
S&P500 | $6,870.40 | +0.9% |
NASDAQ | $23,580.91 | +1.76% |
Dow Jones | $47,954.99 | +0.94% |
10 Year Interest Rate | 4.139% | +2.1% |
Bitcoin | $89,350.98 | -1.57% |
Gold | $4,200.83 | -0.41% |
CBOE Volatility Index | 15.45 | -13.39% |
Data is provided by Google Finance
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency and gold data as of Friday 6:00pm ET
This week the market saw a steady upward move across all three major indexes. The S&P 500 and Dow each gained close to 1%, while the Nasdaq led with a 1.76% increase as investors positioned ahead of next week’s highly anticipated Fed decision. The 10-year Treasury yield climbed more than 80 bps, driven by concerns about future inflation and the growing supply of new government debt that markets will need to absorb.
Bitcoin slipped after briefly reclaiming the $90K level last week, with institutional selling and renewed regulatory pressure from China weighing on sentiment. Gold held near the $4,200/oz range as traders waited for clarity on the Fed’s next move. Meanwhile, the VIX fell sharply—down more than 13%—reflecting a renewed sense of stability as investor sentiment improved heading into the week of the rate decision
Sector Snapshot
U.S. Stock Market Weekly Heat map
This week’s sector performance was mixed, with strength in select tech, consumer discretionary, and communication services, while healthcare, industrials, and parts of financials weighed on the market.
Tech was divided—ORCL (+7.51%), PLTR (+8.00%), and NVDA (+2.56%) outperformed, but mega-caps MSFT (–2.03%) and AAPL (–0.08%) lagged. AVGO (–3.60%) also dragged semiconductors despite gains in TSM (+0.72%), TXN (+8.76%), and ASML (+3.67%).
Consumer discretionary showed broad strength with TSLA (+5.80%), HD (+5.49%), and WMT (+4.02%) pushing higher, while AMZN (–1.94%) slipped after recent volatility.
In communication services, META (+3.78%) and several ad-tech names rallied, though NFLX (–6.97%) weighed on the sector.
Healthcare was one of the biggest laggards—LLY (–6.43%), MRK (–4.82%), and TMO (–3.31%) saw sharp declines across drugmakers and biotech.
Financials were mixed: big banks like JPM (+0.63%) and BAC (+0.47%) held up, but insurers such as BRK-B (–1.90%) and several regional banks traded lower.
Energy, materials, and utilities were mostly red this week as oil, metals, and rate-sensitive names softened.
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US Markets 🇺🇸
Salesforce raises outlook as AI demand boosts Agentforce platform
Salesforce lifted its FY2026 revenue and profit guidance on stronger demand for its AI “Agentforce” tools, with shares up ~2% in extended trading—another sign that enterprise AI spending is still growing.Dollar General hikes profit forecast as value shoppers trade down
The discount retailer raised its earnings outlook, saying its low-price strategy (about a quarter of items at or below $1) is pulling in lower-income households squeezed by tariffs and inflation.Kroger trims sales outlook as low-income customers cut back
Kroger missed Q3 sales estimates and guided 2025 same-store sales slightly below expectations, blaming softer spending from budget-conscious shoppers even as margins improve.Cloudflare outage briefly knocks major sites offline
An internal firewall change caused a ~25-minute outage that hit platforms like Coinbase and Anthropic’s Claude; Cloudflare stock fell as much as 4.5% intraday, underscoring systemic risk in core internet infrastructure.Constellation cleared to buy Calpine in $16.4B power deal
U.S. regulators approved Constellation Energy’s acquisition of Calpine, contingent on selling several gas plants, highlighting how surging demand from data centres and electrification is reshaping the U.S. power sector.
Global Markets 🌍
Asia stocks mixed as BOJ hike bets hit Nikkei while KOSPI gains
Japan’s Nikkei slipped on speculation the BOJ will hike rates this month, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged lower, and South Korea’s KOSPI rose about 0.7%, reflecting diverging views on growth and policy in North Asia.Six EU states push to soften 2035 combustion-engine ban
A bloc led by Italy and Poland is lobbying Brussels to allow hybrids and low-carbon fuels beyond 2035, arguing that a strict EV-only rule risks creating an “industrial desert” in Europe’s auto heartland.Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin eyes Hong Kong IPO at ~$3B valuation
Baidu’s semiconductor arm is preparing a Hong Kong listing after a fresh funding round, part of China’s broader push to build domestic AI-chip champions as U.S. export controls bite.UAE non-oil private sector posts fastest growth in 11 months
The UAE’s PMI rose to 54.8 in November, with new orders and employment both accelerating, underscoring how Gulf diversification—real estate, services, and trade—is offsetting softer oil revenues.
My Take for This Week 📝
This week’s action was another reminder that the market isn’t moving as one unified wave—there’s a lot of rotation happening beneath the surface. Even though the major indexes drifted higher, sector performance was all over the place: select tech names and consumer discretionary stocks pushed upward, while healthcare and parts of industrials saw heavy selling. With the Fed decision coming up next week, this kind of choppy, uneven behaviour is completely normal.
Lately, I’ve been paying closer attention to mega-caps that are lagging despite strong fundamentals—names like $AMZN ( ▼ 0.06% ) and $META ( ▲ 1.08% ) that have pulled back while money rotated into other parts of tech. When leadership rotates like this, it usually isn’t a signal that these companies are broken; it’s more often a temporary pause before capital flows back into high-quality winners. For that reason, I’m slowly building positions here, especially heading into a potentially bullish December if the Fed signals easing.
I’m continuing to buy selectively as volatility cools, and I’ll add more if the market dips again. A further 3–5% pullback wouldn’t surprise me, and historically, those are the moments long-term investors benefit most from staying disciplined—not panicking.
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