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Market Moment
Glen Eagle®: America’s Women-Owned Trading Desk®
8/4/2025
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Since 1990, the S&P 500 has dropped an average of 0.56% in August, with gains occurring just 54% of the time—making it the second worst-performing month after September, which averages a 0.84% decline. *1
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From 2000 to 2024, the average annual cost of family health insurance rose 297%, from $6,438 to $25,570. That’s an annual growth rate of 5.92%, more than double the pace of inflation. 1
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While 14% of U.S. adults own crypto, 60% say they’ll never buy it, and 55% see it as “very risky.” Among conservatives, 50% say they’ll never buy crypto, compared to 73% of liberals. 1
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Microsoft became the second $4 trillion company after NVIDIA. Nine of the world’s 10 biggest companies are now U.S.-based, and each is worth over $1 trillion. *2
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MFS - "Beyond the News"
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Bloomberg - "What Microsoft’s $4 Trillion Market Value Really Means"
*Past performance is not indicative of future performance
Economic Calendar
Monday:
Factory orders (Jun)
Tuesday:
U.S. trade deficit (Jun), S&P final U.S. services PMI (Jul), ISM services (Jul)
Wednesday:
Fed. Gov. Lisa Cook and Boston Fed President Susan Collins on panel
Thursday:
Initial jobless claims (Aug), U.S. productivity (Q2), U.S. unit-labor costs (Q2), Wholesale inventories (Jun), Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic speech, Consumer credit (Jun)
Friday:
None scheduled
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US Markets*
S&P 6,300.25 +0.57%
DOW 43,898.00 +0.43%
NASDAQ 23,079.75
+0.86%
World Markets*
FTSE 9,103.00
+0.38%
NIKKEI 40,290.70 -1.25%
HANG SENG 24,733.45 +0.92%
*values as of 9:30am EST 8/4/2025
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Treasuries*
2 YR 3.688%
10YR 4.206%
30 YR 4.804%
Cryptocurrencies*
BTC-USD
114,208.63
+0.29%
ETH.CM
3,570.76
+2.17%
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Currencies*
Euro $1.1583
Pound $0.7515
Yen $147.2020
Commodities*
Gold 3,423.70
+0.70%
WTI Crude 65.72
-2.39%
Silver 37.37
+1.19%
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Upcoming Earnings Calls
Monday - PLTR, MELI, VRTX, WMB, AXON
Tuesday - AMD, CAT, AMGN, ANET, ETN
Wednesday - MCD, NVO, DIS, UBER, SHOP
Thursday- LLY, TM, MUFG, GILD, COP
Friday - EMA, PAA, LAMR, FRHC, TEM
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Client Focused Trading® for large institutions, pensions, hedge funds, wealthy families, and private equity for over 30 years.
Glen Eagle Wealth, LLC is a member FINRA and SIPC
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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