OVERVIEW
The Weekend Rip: March 02, 2025

It was another rough week in the markets, with bears finding many reasons why the stock market could fall and bulls lacking a catalyst. 🐻 

Let's recap and prep you for the week ahead. 📝

What Happened?

🔻 On Monday, tech stock weakness kept a lid on the major indexes. Microsoft clarified that it would spend $80 billion on AI but indicated it would slightly shift where that money was going. Berkshire built its cash balance again as operating profits soared, pushing its shares higher. And HIMS stock got hit after earnings.

🔨 On Tuesday, Home Depot earnings helped buoy consumer-related stocks, but tech weakness weighed on the broader market. Super Micro Computer met the Nasdaq’s compliance deadline, and Axon Enterprise’s President Josh Isner joined Stocktwits CEO Howard Lindzon for an exclusive post-earnings-call interview.

😬 On Wednesday, it was a volatile day amid Trump’s tariff talks and mixed earnings results. Nvidia posted another beat-and-rise quarter, but investors were unimpressed. AppLovin was hit by several short seller reports, and Trump’s tariff talks lifted domestic metal and mining stocks.

📉 On Thursday, bears pressed after Nvidia’s earnings failed to deliver the catalyst many sought. Bearish sentiment among retail investors soared this week despite the S&P 500 being less than 5% from all-time highs. Amazon entered the quantum computing race, and crypto fell even as the SEC dropped its case against Coinbase.

🐂 On Friday, cooler-than-expected inflation data helped the bulls step in near the 200-day moving average of most major indexes and stocks. Terawulf’s efforts to diversify away from Bitcoin mining helped it pop, while a specialty proper insurance provider pumped to new highs.

🤩 This week's Stocktwits Top 25 showed underperformance vs. the major indexes.

Here are the closing prices: 

Bullets From The Weekend 📰

😡 Intel delays Ohio chip plant again. The chip giant is delaying the opening of its Ohio manufacturing facility again, saying it won’t complete construction on the first plant until 2030 (instead of the initial 2026 timeline). Management says it’s important to align the start of production of its fabs with its business needs and broader market demand. Investors question whether the entire AI industry’s expectations must be tamed or if this remains an Intel execution issue story. CNBC has more.

📉 Companies are “front-loading” ahead of tariffs. The U.S. trade deficit for goods widened sharply in January as manufacturers and businesses raced to bring goods into the country to get ahead of potential tariffs. The strong import data pushed first-quarter estimates of GDP into the negative, stoking fears about the overall economy’s health. The uncertainty around tariff implementations has very real impacts on the behavior of companies and consumers, further stoking growth fears. More from Axios.

☢️ General Catalyst is considering an IPO. Blackstone broke the barrier for U.S. private equity firms going public two decades ago. Now multiple sources suggest General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO. The company is in rapid expansion mode, trying to build the diversified, fee-generating asset base that would make it attractive to Wall Street analysts and investors. The U.S. IPO market has remained subdued despite stock prices being at all-time highs, so only time will tell if the conditions are ripe enough for the company to make its attempt. Axios has more.

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