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February 2025 Market Update & Economic Outlook

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February 2025 Market Intelligence Report

Markets started off the year on a positive note, with many major stock indices rising in January. The gains are likely attributable to the expectation for continued economic growth in 2025 driven by the potential for tax cuts and a lighter regulatory touch expected from the Trump administration. Notably, stock indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average (up nearly 5%) outpaced technology-heavy indexes like the Nasdaq Composite (up less than 2%) for the month, reversing a trend which saw large tech companies lead the market higher that has largely been in place since the end of 2022.1 However, market volatility heightened later in the month as news that Chinese firm DeepSeek released a new R1 version of their open-sourced large language model (LLM). The model not only performed well on benchmark tests versus US peers like OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), and Meta (LLaMA), the model was supposedly trained at a fraction of the cost of other LLMs and without the benefit of the most advanced semiconductors from firms like Nvidia (see below).

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