Your Weekend Money Briefing

Two Months of Losses. Nasdaq Down Almost 10%. Buffett Says This Is When You're Supposed to Get Interested.

Four things worth knowing before markets reopen Monday. No fluff, no hedging, just what happened.

The S&P Just Closed Out Its Second Losing Month in a Row

July's in the books, and it wasn't kind. The S&P 500 posted back-to-back monthly declines. The Nasdaq is down 9.7% since June, knocking on the door of a full correction. The Dow was the only major index that actually gained ground in July — everything else lost money for the month.

Duck it — Warren Buffett's whole career is built on one idea: get interested when everyone else is scared, not when everyone else is celebrating. Two red months and a near-correction is exactly the kind of moment his playbook is written for. That doesn't mean "buy blindly." It means don't panic-sell into it either.

Check your portfolio this weekend, calmly, before Monday's open. Know what you actually own before the next headline tries to make the decision for you.

The 30-Year Treasury Yield Hit Its Highest Level in 19 Years

5.23%. That's where the 30-year sits now, a level not seen since 2007. The 10-year isn't far behind, topping 4.7% — its highest since January 2025. We've been tracking this climb all month. It's not slowing down.

This is the number quietly setting your mortgage rate, your car loan, your credit card APR. It doesn't make headlines the way a 1,100-point Dow drop does. It should.

Meta's Numbers Are Ugly. Analysts Still See 47% Upside. Explain That.

Free cash flow down 91%. Expenses up 55%. Reality Labs lost $4.6 billion. More than 20 analysts cut their forecasts this week. And yet the 12-month consensus price target still implies 47% upside from here — $793 a share.

Duck it — either Wall Street believes Meta's AI spending finally pays off big within a year, or a lot of analysts are anchored to old numbers and haven't fully updated their models yet. Both happen. Neither is a reason to trust the target blindly.

Next Week Is Already Being Called a "Mega-Week." Get Ready.

Monday kicks off a packed week of earnings and economic data. ON Semiconductor and Tyson Foods report before Monday's open, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Clorox follow after the close. That's chips, food, pharma, and household goods all reporting in the same 24 hours — a genuine cross-section of the economy.

After two red months, next week's results carry extra weight. This isn't the week to be checking your portfolio once and forgetting about it.

This is a market news summary, not investment advice. Economic and financial conditions are subject to change — please make your own decisions and consider talking to a licensed financial advisor before acting on anything here.

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