Retail Sales Slump. Cold Snap and Post-holiday Blues Depress Spending.
US Morning News Call | Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index Rises 9% in February
U.S. stock market close: PPI boosts market sentiment, three major Indexes all rise, with the Nasdaq up 1.5%.
① The S&P 500 Index rose by 1%, while the Nasdaq increased by 1.5%; ② Large Technology stocks all rose, with NVIDIA up over 3%; ③ Chinese concept stocks varied, with the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index up by 1.20%; ④ Apple is reportedly continuing to work with Baidu to develop AI features for iPhone users in China in order to diversify risks.
Goldman Sachs executives: This is my last email this quarter expressing a Call for US stocks.
Scott Rubner, a strategist at Goldman Sachs and Managing Director of Global Markets, stated that the USA stock market is about to face a wave of bearish attacks. The current market is becoming increasingly crowded, and the motivation to Buy the dip is weakening, nearing negative seasonal factors. Rubner suggests paying attention to some tactical Put trade strategies.
US Morning News Call | OpenAI Lays Out Plans for GPT-5; Alibaba Stock Up 20% in February
"The shadow of Trump" looms over the Global Q4 Earnings Reports season with the high-frequency term: tariffs!
① The impact of Trump's tariff policy is significant, becoming a hot topic in the Global Earnings Reports season for Q4, mentioned by 50% of S&P 500 constituents; ② Goldman Sachs predicts that a 5 percentage point increase in tariffs could lead to a 1%-2% decline in earnings per share for the S&P 500 Index; ③ European companies are also affected, with Siemens Energy, Ahold Delhaize Group, and others expecting tariffs to result in price increases.