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Broad weakness reflected growing risk-off sentiment and rotation out of higher-beta and growth names.
The ruling lifted sentiment and helped reverse mid-week selling, especially in broader equity markets.
Overall, it was a downward week for U.S. equities, dominated by sector rotation away from tech/growth toward defensive/value areas, tempered by cooler inflation data that provided transient relief but did not fully reverse market stress.
Industrial, financial, and cyclicals helped support the Dow’s outperformance.
U.S. equities experienced a volatile, earnings-driven week, with leadership narrowing and small caps under pressure as investors digested earnings, inflation data, and a surprise shift in Federal Reserve leadership expectations.
Markets were volatile early in the week on trade and tariff headlines, including the U.S. threat of new tariffs on European allies
Major U.S. indexes finished slightly lower for the week after early gains.
U.S. equity markets powered through the first full trading week of 2026 with solid gains, closing out with fresh record highs in key benchmarks.
The S&P 500, Dow Jones, and Nasdaq ended lower over the week, influenced by light holiday trading and profit-taking as 2025 closed out.
US stocks turned sharply lower on Friday, with the Nasdaq leading the way lower amid a broader rotation from tech to value names.