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AI Trade Pauses as Value Stocks Surge
David Russell
November 13, 2025

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Sizing Up the Market

  • S&P 500 breaks falling trendline, stays above rising 8-, 21-day EMAs
  • Breadth improves
    • 37 index members made new 52-week highs on Wednesday, the most since 10/29
    • A/D line climbs steadily since 11/6
  • Value rotation
    • Health care, materials, energy, financials lead in last week
    • Consumer discretionary, technology, communications lag in last week
    • Dow Jones breaks out to new highs; S&P, Nasdaq-100 below October peaks
  • Intermarket:

S&P 500, daily chart with select patterns and indicators.

News & Views:

  • Bloomberg: Fed, White House to ease bank capital requirements
  • S&P Global: Short interest in tech stocks climbed in recent market pullback
  • Goldman Sachs: AI is starting to reduce employment
  • ADP: Private employers cutting jobs by 11,250/week in October
  • U.S. Treasury reports strong demand for 3-year notes
  • OPEC now sees oil surplus in 2026
    • November estimated 20,000 bpd surplus
    • October estimated deficit of 50,000 bpd
    • September estimated deficit of 700,000 bpd
  • Supreme Court sets Lisa Cook hearing for 1/21
  • White House: October CPI, jobs data likely gone forever
  • Good news in Europe?
    • France budget crisis eases as pension reform dropped
    • Italian firms see rising profits as costs ease: S&P Global
    • German inflation eases as energy costs fall
    • Sweden sees improving economy

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  • Tue 11/18: ADP weekly employment change, NAHB housing index
    • Premarket earnings: HD MDT BIDU
  • Wed 11/19: Crude-oil inventories, FOMC minutes
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About the author

David Russell is Global Head of Market Strategy at TradeStation. Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a financial journalist and analyst, his background includes equities, emerging markets, fixed-income and derivatives. He previously worked at Bloomberg News, CNBC and E*TRADE Financial. Russell systematically reviews countless global financial headlines and indicators in search of broad tradable trends that present opportunities repeatedly over time. Customers can expect him to keep them apprised of sector leadership, relative strength and the big stories – especially those overlooked by other commentators. He’s also a big fan of generating leverage with options to limit capital at risk.