The S&P 500 breaks out to the upside during the week of 14 July 2025, driven by the June core CPI report and the start of second-quarter 2025 earnings season.

What counted as right

Status

resolved

Settled on

2025-07-17

Operationalized before evidence: an 'upside breakout' resolves TRUE if the S&P 500 posts a record closing high - above its highest close recorded before 2025-07-14 - on at least one trading day between 2025-07-14 and 2025-07-18 inclusive. Resolves FALSE if no such record close occurs in that week.

The pre-registered criterion requires a record CLOSING high above the pre-2025-07-14 record on at least one session in the 7/14-7/18 window. That condition was met on 2025-07-17 (6,297.36, +16.90 above the 6,280.46 bar) and again on 2025-07-18 (6,296.79). resolved_on is set to 2025-07-17, the first session satisfying the criterion. Two caveats logged for the scoring stage, neither of which changes the resolution: (1) the claim's causal clause - that the move would be 'driven by the June core CPI report and the start of Q2 2025 earnings season' - is NOT operationalized in the criterion, which tests only the price condition; no attempt was made here to verify causation, and the causal attribution should not be treated as scored. (2) The week's path was choppy rather than a clean breakout - the index fell on 7/15 and closed the first three sessions below the prior record before clearing it on 7/17 - but the criterion asks only whether a record close occurred on at least one day, which it did. The margin above the bar is small in percentage terms (+0.27%) but unambiguous at the precision the criterion specifies, and the 6,280.46 benchmark was verified against both 2025 and 2024 data. No conflicting evidence found.

Sources

• Video: Macro Minute: This week's June Core CPI and 2Q25 EPS season are likely the positive catalysts to push S&P 500 to upside breakout... following Bitcoin surge

  Fundstrat Direct · 2025-07-14

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