{"id":3616,"date":"2025-10-21T01:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:43:17","slug":"10-20-2025-valuengine-weekly-market-summary-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/10-20-2025-valuengine-weekly-market-summary-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/20\/2025 ValuEngine Weekly Market Summary & Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekly Market Recap \u2013 Week Ending October 17, 2025<\/span><\/h3>\n

U.S. equities ended the week on a resilient note, with broad-based gains across most sectors.\u00a0 The S&P 500 ETF (SPLG<\/strong>) rose modestly ay 0.21%, while the tech-heavy Invesco Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQM<\/strong>) added 0.31%-extending its strong year-to-date leadership. Notably, defensive and rate-sensative segments led performance this week, signaling a subtle shift in market tone as earnings season intensifies.<\/p>\n

In the below table we use major ETF’s as a proxy for some major indexes as well as each of the sector groups into which we divide the overall markets. Tracking these over time provides a more defined picture of the US markets than simply tracking major indexes.<\/p>\n

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SPLG, <\/strong>the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, parlayed Monday\u2019s euphoria into a strong week, a 1.7% gain, \u00a0with only Wednesday flat-to-slightly down alongside small gains on the remaining three days.\u00a0 Since this space expressed a positive outlook for the S&P 500 Index last week, we\u2019re happy it turned out that way.\u00a0 As usual, QQQM<\/strong>, the Invesco Nasdaq-100 ETF, fared even better with a 2.5% gain.\u00a0 Not as usual, IWM<\/strong>, iShares Russell 2000 Small Cap ETF continued its second half strength with an even higher 2.8% gain.\u00a0 Foreign developed markets standard-bearer, EFA, <\/strong>iShares MSCI EAFE Index ETF gained 1.9%.\u00a0 However, GLDM, <\/strong>SPDR Gold MiniShares overshadowed all of them with a whopping 5.4% gain.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the spectrum, emerging markets as represented by EEM<\/strong>, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF lost 0.4% while VPU<\/strong>, Vanguard Utilities ETF fell 1.8%.\u00a0 \u00a0That said, the biggest losers this week were bank stocks, especially regional bank stocks.\u00a0 As a group, they sold off sharply last week, primarily on Thursday, due to fears of bad loans after two banks,\u00a0Zions Bancorp\u00a0(ZION<\/strong>) and\u00a0Western Alliance (WAL<\/strong>), both rated 3 (<\/strong>hold) by ValuEngine, \u00a0disclosed losses and allegations of fraud related to a commercial mortgage lending, leading to fears of contagion.\u00a0 The largest Regional Banking ETF, KRE<\/strong>, SPDR KBW Regional Bank ETF is rated 1 <\/strong>(Strong Sell) by ValuEngine, although one of its larger holdings, we still have a positive rating on is CNG<\/strong>, Citizen\u2019s National Financial Group.<\/p>\n

There are a few stocks reporting the week rated 5 (Strong Buy) including NVDA<\/strong>, Nvidia and VRT<\/strong>, Vertiv Holdings, a leading digital infrastructure provider.\u00a0 4-rated (Buy) stocks also in this week\u2019s report cycle include financial companies RJF<\/strong>, Raymond James Financial and CME, <\/strong>futures exchange CME group.\u00a0 Other tech company reporters with the same ratings include Advanced Micro, AMD<\/strong>, Tesla, TSLA<\/strong>, Lam Research, (LRCX<\/strong>) and Intel (INTC<\/strong>).\u00a0 Another noteworthy reporter, leading gold miner Newmont Corp (NEM<\/strong>) is also rated 4. With more than 200 other listed companies reporting, it is going to be a busy week.<\/p>\n

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Weekly Market Recap \u2013 Week Ending October 17, 2025 U.S. equities ended the week on a resilient note, with broad-based gains across most sectors.\u00a0 The S&P 500 ETF (SPLG) rose modestly ay 0.21%, while the tech-heavy Invesco Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQM) added 0.31%-extending its strong year-to-date leadership. Notably, defensive and rate-sensative segments led performance this … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[75,2768,2766,2724,2727,1366,2776,2777,2720,1760,1761,1719,1731,2764,2718,1851,30,2582,77,2642,2006,1510,1938,2771,1748,2765,2767,2769,2290,2506,1659,63,2356,2406,2770,2772,2775,2121,2085,2277,1849,2279,1887,1814,2707,1900,2276,2278,2773,2774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.valuengine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}