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Weekly Market Commentary: Stocks Pare Recent Gains as Trade Tensions Rise

10/14/25

Sunflower Bank Weekly Market Commentary: October 14, 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, "Stocks Pare Recent Gains as Trade Tensions Rise," include:

  • Equity markets ended the week lower as trade-related comments from President Trump on Friday sparked the largest one-day sell-off since early April. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 each declined more than -2% on the week, and the Russell 3000 fell more than -3%.
  • On Friday, President Trump threatened the implementation of additional tariffs on China. The President announced that levies on imports from China would increase by 100%, effective November 1. Trump also indicated that export controls would be placed on “any and all critical software” at that date.
  • The increase in trade tensions quashed early-week investor enthusiasm driven by the announcement of a partnership between OpenAI and semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices. The two companies announced a multi-year agreement in which OpenAI will use AMD’s GPU’s to power its next-generation AI infrastructure.

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