The Bespoke Report – 8/22/25 – Cut Confirmed

To read our weekly Bespoke Report newsletter and access everything else Bespoke’s research platform offers, start a two-week trial to Bespoke Premium. This week, Fed Chair Powell signaled a cut is almost a given at the next FOMC meeting. His embrace of dovish arguments on both the labor markets and inflation drove a massive rally in stocks to end the week, both in the US and Europe. Other markets are also performing well with investment grade corporate bonds trading at a record low risk premium this week. We also discuss earnings, AI stocks, custom baskets of stocks that tease out market narratives, and more in this week’s report. Give it a read!

The Bespoke Report – 8/8/25 – There Was Supposed To Be An Earth-Shattering Kaboom. Where’s The Earth-Shattering Kaboom?

To read our weekly Bespoke Report newsletter and access everything else Bespoke’s research platform offers, start a two-week trial to Bespoke Premium. This week, we look at why the market has been so bulletproof despite all the shocks it’s been given from headlines this year. From economic fundamentals to earnings data, we explain the backdrop while also surveying the historic decline in the dollar, weak commodity prices, US equity market sentiment, and some of the most interesting tidbits from earnings releases we saw this week. Give it a read!

The Bespoke Report – 1,000+ Day Bulls

To read our weekly Bespoke Report newsletter and access everything else Bespoke’s research platform offers, start a two-week trial to Bespoke Premium.  In this week’s report, we cover the bull market crossing the 1,000-day mark, underlying index technicals, how much the Fed should be cutting rates based on where inflation and employment stand, our unique Netscape vs. ChatGPT analysis, earnings season, longshot stocks, and more.