{"id":65836,"date":"2025-12-04T02:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/?p=65836"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:38:40","slug":"market-trends-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2025\/12\/04\/market-trends-december-4\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Main Street&#8217; Rebounds as AI Pauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downloads are available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/MT-Public-Materials-October-2025.zip?_gl=1*k1lnlz*_gcl_au*OTA0ODYwNzkwLjE3NTYxNTQ1MzY.\">here<\/a>. TradeStation\u2019s ideas on TradingView are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/broker\/TradeStation\/publications-ideas\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sizing Up the Market<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>S&amp;P 500 challenges resistance at 6,852 from 10\/29 intraday low<\/li>\n<li>Consolidates above 6,775 (intraday high on 11\/14)<\/li>\n<li>50-day MA has slowed amid 2 months of sideways movement<\/li>\n<li>9-day rate of change rises<\/li>\n<li>Intermarket indicators show few warnings: VIX, U.S. Dollar, yields<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Risk-on&#8221; sectors take leadership: Tech, consumer discretionary, financials, energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_65840\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65840\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204-1536x734.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251204-1080x516.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>S&amp;P 500, daily chart, with select patterns and indicators.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<h2>News &amp; Views:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Airlines &amp; travel\n<ul>\n<li>DAL sees strong demand into 2026<\/li>\n<li>BA reiterates turnaround as Airbus struggles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Overseas weakness: <em>Less appeal in global stocks?<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey, Swiss inflation fall<\/li>\n<li>Mexico faces slowdown risk<\/li>\n<li>Indian rupee hits new low against U.S. dollar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Economic confusion:\n<ul>\n<li>ADP payrolls -32K, biggest drop since March 2023; small-business struggles<\/li>\n<li>But, last week&#8217;s initial jobless claims were the lowest since 4\/12<\/li>\n<li>ISM services beat estimates on strong order backlog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Groups &amp; Sectors:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Brick &amp; mortar comeback\n<ul>\n<li>AEO,\u00a0M, KSS, ZUMZ, ANF, RL climb after results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Metals leadership moves from precious to base metals\n<ul>\n<li>Copper hits high on London Metal Exchange<\/li>\n<li>STLD, NUE, AA, FCX advance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>AI trade divergence:\n<ul>\n<li>Recent gainers: TSM,\u00a0MDB,\u00a0ADI<\/li>\n<li>Fatigue?:\u00a0MSFT, CRDO, PSTG<\/li>\n<li>IREN SYM drop on capital raisings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sectors &amp; Signals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>TSLA: 8-day EMA crosses above 21-day EMA<\/li>\n<li>TSM: Bullish outside day<\/li>\n<li>CAT: Bullish outside day &amp; record closing high<\/li>\n<li>FCX potentially breaking 2-month range<\/li>\n<li>AMGN: Potential ascending triangle<\/li>\n<li>WFC: Record closing high<\/li>\n<li>Russell 2000 nears October&#8217;s record highs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Earnings tonight: HPE<\/li>\n<li>Fri 12\/5: Consumer sentiment<\/li>\n<li>Tue 12\/9: JOLTs job openings<\/li>\n<li>Wed 12\/10: Crude oil inventories, <em><strong>*FOMC + Dotplot*<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Thu 12\/11: PPI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines, banks, retailers and metals are coming to life as AI megacaps pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":63321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1276,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-trends","category-stocks","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Main Street&#039; 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