This week: month-to-month chart, technical verify, and credit score spreads seasonality, terrible Augusts, tech funds milestone, tech weights, electrical energy breakout, defensives.
Learnings and Conclusions from this Week’s Charts:
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The S&P 500 closed up +2.2% for July (+7.8% YTD).
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(albeit it subsequently slipped -1.6% the primary day of August).
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Volatility and Credit score Spreads are seeing a seasonal upturn.
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Buyers are skewing portfolios heavier and heavier into tech shares.
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US electrical energy demand has damaged out to a brand new all-time excessive.
General, there does seem like a shift in focus from rebound to threat because the restoration from the April low runs its course and seasonal headwinds start to weigh. Quick-term technicals look a bit tenuous, stress factors proceed to construct, however medium/longer-term development indicators stay wholesome. So let’s see what occurs.
1. Glad New Month! The closed +2.2% larger in July, putting it up +7.8% YTD (or 8.6% in whole return phrases); and forward of the (+0.9% in July, 4.7% YTD; 5.8% whole return). July marked the third month again above the 10-month shifting common. All-in-all, it appears like a market in an uptrend.
Supply: Topdown Charts
2. Asset Returns Desk: US large-cap shares managed third place within the month-to-month returns desk beneath, with Frontier Markets by far the standout. On the Yr-To-Date stats, US giant caps are about mid-table (world shares nonetheless forward as the nice world rotation pushes on). General, it was a risk-on month with shares up and bonds down.
Supply: Asset Class Returns – July 2025
3. Technical Test: After a good July, August has seen an terrible begin to the brand new month with Friday wiping off a good chunk of July’s good points already. From a technical standpoint, the constructive take is that we’re simply again to short-term help, however the cautious take is that 50-day breadth is rolling over from overbought ranges (and bearish divergence) —and the selloff may have to run a bit additional to get issues to oversold situations.
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