Investing Update: Is This Peak Bullishness?
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What a week! In the 5 trading days this week, there were 5 all-time highs for the S&P 500. Each day set a new record.
The Nasdaq also finished the week at fresh all-time highs.
YTD the S&P 500 now sits up 8.6%, the Nasdaq is up 9.3% and the Dow up 5.5%.
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Weekly Heat Map Of Stocks
This now makes 14 all-time highs in 2025 for the S&P 500.
Now I think maybe the biggest news of the week came from the equal-weighted S&P 500. It made the first new all-time high of the year.
Why is this so important? We’ve continued to hear how this market is being led by only a handful of stocks. The breadth wasn’t strong enough. It wasn’t a sustainable bull market.
The equal weight now at an all-time high debunks all of that. The broadening has occurred and now it isn’t just the leaders that are leading. You have a broadened bull market. That’s about the best market-wide momentum you will find.
62% of S&P 500 stocks are above the 200-day. That’s a new high for 2025.
85% of Nasdaq 100 stocks are trading above their 100-Day moving average. That’s the most since February 2024.
The S&P 500 now has gone 22 consecutive trading days without making a 1% move in either direction. It’s now the longest streak since October 2024.
This is what you see when you have low periods of volatility. It has been a steady march higher and with that you don’t see the whipsawing of over 1%+ moves.
Do you remember April? Those large moves in both directions happened multiple times a week. That was a different market. Times have changed.
We’ve seen an orderly march higher. It looks like that march higher will continue.