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Weekly Market Commentary: Market Pullback Highlights Economic Headwinds Despite Strong Earnings
11/10/25
Sunflower Bank Weekly Market Commentary: November 10, 2025
Each week, our Wealth Management team analyzes the U.S. stock market and bond market activity and news of the previous week, summarizing their findings into a weekly market update report. The key points of this week's commentary, "Market Pullback Highlights Economic Headwinds Despite Strong Earnings," include:
- U.S. equity markets closed lower last week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite led the decline, falling 3.1%, while the S&P 500 slipped 1.6%.
- The U.S. government shutdown has stalled the release of key economic data leading investors to assess private-sector employment reports more closely. The Challenger Job Cuts report showed U.S.-based employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October, the highest total for the month of October since 2003.
- The Institute for Supply Management reported on the U.S. manufacturing and services sectors and painted a diverging picture as manufacturing contracted at a faster pace than expected, while the much larger services sector unexpectedly re-accelerates.
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