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Weekly Market Summary

Edition
6 October 2025
Closing of
Fri 03 October

Major Indexes Performance

IndexClosing PriceWeekly ChangeChange as a bar2025 editions
S&P 5006,715.79+0.01%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 5,954.50closing of Fri 14 Mar: 5,638.94closing of Fri 16 May: 5,958.38closing of Fri 06 June: 6,000.36closing of Fri 19 September: 6,664.36closing of Fri 26 September: 6,643.70closing of Fri 03 October: 6,715.79
Dow Jones46,758.28+0.51%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 43,840.91closing of Fri 14 Mar: 41,488.19closing of Fri 16 May: 42,654.74closing of Fri 06 June: 42,762.87closing of Fri 19 September: 46,315.27closing of Fri 26 September: 46,247.29closing of Fri 03 October: 46,758.28
Nasdaq22,780.51-0.28%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 18,847.28closing of Fri 14 Mar: 17,754.09closing of Fri 16 May: 19,211.10closing of Fri 06 June: 19,529.95closing of Fri 19 September: 22,631.48closing of Fri 26 September: 22,484.07closing of Fri 03 October: 22,780.51
Euro Stoxx 505,651.71+0.10%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 5,463.54closing of Fri 14 Mar: 5,401.65closing of Fri 16 May: 5,427.53closing of Fri 06 June: 5,430.17closing of Fri 19 September: 5,458.42closing of Fri 26 September: 5,499.70closing of Fri 03 October: 5,651.71
FTSE 1009,491.25+0.67%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 8,809.74closing of Fri 14 Mar: 8,635.12closing of Fri 16 May: 8,684.56closing of Fri 06 June: 8,837.91closing of Fri 19 September: 9,216.67closing of Fri 26 September: 9,284.83closing of Fri 03 October: 9,491.25
Shanghai3,933.97+1.32%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 3,320.90closing of Fri 14 Mar: 3,426.13closing of Fri 16 May: 3,367.46closing of Fri 06 June: 3,385.36closing of Fri 19 September: 3,820.09closing of Fri 26 September: 3,828.11closing of Fri 03 October: 3,933.97
MOEX Russia2,604.55-1.05%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 3,200.48closing of Fri 14 Mar: 3,249.19closing of Fri 16 May: 2,840.34closing of Fri 06 June: 2,786.16closing of Fri 19 September: 2,748.06closing of Fri 26 September: 2,725.97closing of Fri 03 October: 2,604.55

Major Commodities Performance

CommodityClosing PriceWeekly ChangeChange as a bar2025 editions
Gold3,908.90+1.05%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 2,848.50opening of Mon 17 Mar: 3,002.69closing of Fri 16 May: 3,187.20closing of Fri 06 June: 3,346.60closing of Fri 19 September: 3,775.10closing of Fri 26 September: 3,793.90closing of Fri 03 October: 3,908.90
Silver47.965+3.44%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 31.496opening of Mon 17 Mar: 34.433closing of Fri 16 May: 32.354closing of Fri 06 June: 36.139closing of Fri 19 September: 44.214closing of Fri 26 September: 46.466closing of Fri 03 October: 47.965
Brent Oil64.53+0.66%closing of Fri 28 Feb: 73.18opening of Mon 17 Mar: 71.21closing of Fri 16 May: 65.41closing of Fri 06 June: 66.47closing of Fri 19 September: 66.57closing of Fri 26 September: 69.22closing of Fri 03 October: 64.53

Economic indicators

Unemployment rate U.S
4.3%
Core CPI U.S
323.05 - YoY
PPI U.S
149.16 - YoY
Eurozone CPI Data (Consumer Inflation)
129.31
UK CPI Data (Consumer Inflation)
139.3
European Central Bank / Interest rates
2.15%

Article summaries

  1. Why banks are all-in on open source”

    Major financial institutions like Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and others are increasingly embracing open source software and code-sharing. It highlights the motivations behind this shift: cost efficiencies, simplifying internal systems, attracting developer talent, and reducing redundancy.

    For example, banks are retiring legacy systems and opening up non-proprietary components (like regulatory tools, cloud controls) to public collaboration. The article frames this as part of a broader trend in banking IT modernization and how code-sharing does not necessarily compromise competitive advantage but can enhance it through community contributions and shared infrastructure

  2. How sustainable finance creates impact: transmission mechanisms to the real economy

    How and When sustainable finance actually translates into real-world outcomes. The authors examine mechanisms through which financial institutions can influence sustainability: by changing the cost of capital (lowering costs for green projects, raising them for unsustainable ones), improving liquidity access, and encouraging firms to adopt sustainable practices.

    They argue that for sustainable finance to be meaningful, it must go beyond symbolic labeling and actively shift investment flows and corporate behavior. The paper also discusses conditions under which these mechanisms are more or less effective (e.g. regulatory environments, firm-level incentives).

  3. On the impact of publicly available news and information transfer to financial markets

    This study investigates how public news influences financial market behavior, particularly information transfer from news sentiment to stock returns. The authors build a dataset using publicly available news (via Common Crawl) and apply sentiment analysis to link news intensity and tone to price movements (via transfer entropy).

    Their findings show that news significantly contributes to return predictability and volatility dynamics, especially over short time horizons. They also note that the strength of this link tends to increase during recessionary periods—suggesting that in times of stress, markets are more sensitive to public news.

The study provides empirical support for the idea that news plays an active role in price discovery.

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