U.S. home sales in July rose 2 percent above June’s, a 0.8-percent increase year on year, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported.
Category: TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT – Aug 26 2025
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POWELL SIGNALS AN INTEREST RATE CUT IN SEPTEMBER
Speaking on 22 August at the global central bankers’ retreat in Wyoming, Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, indicated the Fed will probably cut its key interest rate next month.
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INVESTORS REDISCOVER THE S&P 500’S OTHER 493 STOCKS
With megatech stocks coming to be seen as overvalued, investors are turning their attention away from the “Magnificent Seven” giants—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla—that have fueled U.S. equity markets’ long-running rally.
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TECH STOCKS TUMBLE ON FEARS THAT AI HAS BEEN OVERPLAYED
Tech stocks shed value last week after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report said that only 5 percent of companies that have adopted artificial intelligence (AI) have made a profitable use of it and that half of corporate AI experiments have failed.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Last week the U.S. equity markets were tanking. What brought them down the most was the fear that we have long forecast that is now just becoming part of the mainstream narrative; over-investment in the AI sector and the fear of a Dot-com Bust 2.0.