{"id":605684,"date":"2026-07-27T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/605684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:03:25","slug":"the-week-ahead-fed-gdp-and-big-tech-earnings-set-the-tone-for-u-s-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/605684\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead: Fed, GDP and Big Tech Earnings Set the Tone for U.S. Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly S&amp;P 500 Index (SPX)<\/p>\n<p><strong>S&amp;P 500:<\/strong> 7,411.98 (-0.61%), support at 6,968.90, the 52-week SMA at 6,906.22, 6,815.03, 6,227.97, 5,899.24, and 4,835.04, resistance at 7,429.38 and 7,620.90.<\/p>\n<p>All major indices remain above rising 52-week SMAs, confirming an intact long-term uptrend.<\/p>\n<p>Outlook<\/p>\n<p>The week\u2019s main risks are the <strong>Fed decision<\/strong>, <strong>Core PCE inflation<\/strong>, <strong>GDP<\/strong>, <strong>labor-cost data<\/strong>, and <strong>earnings from major technology and consumer companies<\/strong>. AI spending and monetization will remain important as <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>, <strong>Meta Platforms<\/strong>, <strong>Apple<\/strong>, and <strong>Amazon report<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The technical trend remains constructive, but all three indices closed lower last week and the Nasdaq posted the largest decline. The direct market forecast is for catalyst-driven trading with support levels likely to be tested if the Fed, inflation data, or earnings disappoint. A stronger tone requires the indices to hold support and begin moving back toward their listed resistance levels.<\/p>\n<p>More Information in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxempire.com\/tools\/economic-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Economic Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weekly S&amp;P 500 Index (SPX) S&amp;P 500: 7,411.98 (-0.61%), support at 6,968.90, the 52-week SMA at 6,906.22, 6,815.03,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,212,179,18,1741,1743,19,1744,17,29005,29006,29007,29008,255802,1746,992,26029,29009],"class_list":["post-605684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-dow-jones","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-fundamental","tag-home-page-1","tag-ie","tag-indices","tag-ireland","tag-james_nasdaq_news","tag-james_sp500_forecast","tag-james_stocks_forecast","tag-nasdaq-100","tag-publish-tweet","tag-sp-500","tag-stocks","tag-technical","tag-weekly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116989015246326864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}