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July 3, 2025 at 1:00: p.m. EST
US equity markets are entering the long weekend in a festive mood helped by a jobs report that was better than feared and the prospect of the Big Beautiful Bill landing on President Trump’s desk before the holiday, just as he drew it up. However, Representative Hakeem Jefferies will have something to say about that, actually, 8 hours and counting of somethings. Today is an abbreviated trading session and keeping with that spirit we’re attempting to deliver a more concise message than Mr. Jefferies (for the few poor souls who are actually reading along). This has been a rather long, short, record-breaking week both on the Hill and Wall Street. For the week the S&P 500 closed up 1.7%, closing at a new all-time high. Small and midcap indices outperformed ending up >3% as investors tried to find opportunities in areas of the market that have underperformed YTD with the Russell 2k moving into the green for the year.
The six trading days between April 3rd and April 9th marked a period of unprecedented volatility in US equity markets. All five trading days landed in the top ten highest volume days in history, including three distinct record-setting days capped by a record 30.98 billion shares on April 9th as the S&P 500 rallied 9.5%. The NYSE Group handled over 1 trillion messages on multiple days, a new all-time high. This time period provided...
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