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Weekly Market Commentary: Markets Decline Slightly in Quiet Week

05/12/25

Sunflower Bank Weekly Market Commentary: May 12, 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, "Markets Decline Slightly in Quiet Week," include:

  • Most broad equity indexes declined slightly last week after two weeks of strong gains. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both fell less than 1%.
  • Last week’s earnings and economic calendars were lighter than in recent weeks. Palantir, Constellation Energy, Marriot and Disney were among the major companies reporting earnings. The economic calendar was highlighted by the ISM Services PMI and the Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting.
  • S&P 500 aggregate earnings for 1Q25 are coming in better than expected. FactSet-consensus currently expects earnings growth of +13.4% for the quarter, up from +7.1% expected before the reporting season began.  

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