Market Moment

Glen Eagle®: America’s Women-Owned Trading Desk®  

3/17/2025

  • Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Tesla drove over half of the S&P 500's 23% gain in 2024, rising an average of 60%. This year, their 15% average decline accounts for 95% of the index's 6% drop. *1
  • US employers announced 172K job cuts in February, the highest since July 2020 and the highest February since 2009. Year-to-date layoffs total nearly 222K, the most since 2009. 2
  • The average market loss during a correction is 13%, typically recovered in about four months. After the last 15 corrections since 2008, the S&P 500 rose over 15% on average in the next 12 months. *3
  • 12% of Americans borrowed money for health care last year. Those under 50 were twice as likely (20%) to borrow compared to those aged 50-64 (9%). Of those who borrowed, 58% borrowed at least $500. 2


  1. Barrons- "The Mag 7 Stocks Have Gotten Crushed. Buy These 4 Now."
  2. MFS - "Beyond the News"
  3. Barrons - "The S&P 500 Is in a Correction. What History Says Happens Next."

*Past performance is not indicative of future performance


Economic Calendar

 

Monday:

U.S. retail sales (Feb), Retail sales minus autos (Feb), Empire State manufacturing survey (Mar), Business inventories (Jan), Home builder confidence index (Mar)


Tuesday:

Housing starts (Feb), Building permits (Feb), Import price index (Feb), Import price index minus fuel (Feb), Industrial production (Feb), Capacity utilization (Feb)


Wednesday:

FOMC interest-rate decision, Fed Chair Powell press conference


Thursday:

Initial jobless claims (Mar), Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey (Mar), Existing home sales (Feb), U.S. leading economic indicators (Feb)


Friday:

None scheduled

 

US Markets*

S&P 5,637.75 -0.04%

DOW 41,441.00 -0.17%

NASDAQ 19,729.25

+0.09%


World Markets*

FTSE 8,654.52

+0.26%

NIKKEI 37,396.52

+0.93%

HANG SENG 24,145.57 +0.77%


*values as of 9:30am EST 3/17/2025

 

Treasuries*

2 YR 4.036%

10YR 4.293%

30 YR 4.588%


 

Cryptocurrencies*

BTC-USD

82,840.23

-0.11%

ETH.CM

1,900.26

+0.68%





Currencies*

Euro $1.0904

Pound $0.7708

Yen $148.8470

 


Commodities*

Gold 2,996.20

-0.16%

WTI Crude 67.89

+1.06%

Silver 34.09

-1.00%


Upcoming Earnings Calls

 

Monday - QFIN, SAIC, TBBB, FINV, BLTE

Tuesday - BEKE, XPEV, TME, ESLT, ZTO

Wednesday - GIS, PUK, WSM, GDS, OLLI

Thursday- ACN, PDD, NKE, MU, FDX

Friday - CCL, CUK, NIO, MNSO, SHCO

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This desk commentary is for informational purposes only



Carol Ann Fernandez

Rob Michel

Grier Vacek


Glen Eagle Wealth, LLC

4422C Route 27

PO Box 399

Kingston, NJ 08528

(609) 631-8231


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