Boodle the Bull
Hello everyone!
Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the boodle blog! If this is your first visit, we welcome you to the boodle family! If you are a returning member- welcome back.
At boodle we believe that you are the most qualified person to manage and grow your money as you grow your knowledge. Investing doesn't have to be frustrating, difficult, or costly. Our goal is to act as a guide for our members and help keep them on track as they travel down the road to financial freedom and peace of mind.
In this blog, we will discuss where the market sits, 8 months into the year and where we think it may be going for the rest of the year.
With that being said, let's check out the indexes and where they stand as of July 31st 2025. The DOW has gained 3.73% for the year and shrank 1.56% for July. The S&P 500 is up 7.78% YTD and added 0,96% in July. The NASDAQ is up 9.38% for the year and added 2.53% in the month of July.
When you place those numbers in the proper context of what has happened so far this year with interest rates, the start of a second Trump term, tariffs the wars in Ukraine and Garza and so many other headlines, that it is a tribute to the strength of the U.S. economy and the hard work of the American people and businesses that we are able to show gains.
As we go to press, the government released the July jobs numbers, and they showed what some economists are saying were disappointing numbers-73,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate ticked up a bit to 4.2% . Wall Street took this news as "not good" for stocks, and the market responded by opening down as investors sold their shares. President Trump was later quoted in the financial news that he will fire Erica McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief. With less than an hour to go the market is down by over 500 points on the DOW and more than 400 points on the NASDAQ. With all of this recent "bad news", why did we title this blog "Boodle the Bull"? Because our opinion, based on our 27 years of stock market investing tells us that this "bad news" should not detract from the gains that we have enjoyed this year. At boodle, we view pullbacks as a normal function within the market and investors sell for a myriad of reasons, including fear of the market. We would ask that our members not panic, and in fact, do the opposite. Continue to dollar cost into the market using your tolerance for risk, and equity diversification. Continue to read this blog so that you remain an informed, dedicated investor. At this point in the market, we see no compelling reason to liquidate any holdings based on today's movements in the market. By the way, we just saw a report that has ordered the firing of BLS Chief Erica McEntarfer. These are amazing times to be an investor, and when you invest with boodle, it's the only way to invest. Enjoy your month of August, and we will see you back here in September. Thank you for being a boodle member- financial insight for everyday people.