2025.4.30 U.S. Stock Market Overview

1. VIXY rose by 2.3%, closing at 63.14. It increased by 25.63% in April.

2. The three major U.S. stock indices staged a big rally: The Dow Jones, which fell over 780 points in the early session, closed up by 141.74 points; the S&P 500 index, which had fallen by 2.3% in the early session, ended slightly up, both continuing to refresh their highs since April 2. The Nasdaq, which had dropped 2.9% in the early session, closed down by less than 0.1%. In April, the S&P 500 accumulated a decline of 0.76%, and the Dow accumulated a decline of 3.17%, marking three consecutive months of decline, while the Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100 rebounded after two months of decline, increasing by 0.85% and 1.52%, respectively.

3. Tesla, which at one point fell over 7%, closed down by 3.4%; Amazon, which fell over 4% in the early session, closed down by 1.6%; Meta, which briefly dropped nearly 4.5%, closed down by nearly 1%; Alphabet closed down by 0.7%; Nvidia, which dropped over 4.5% in the early session, closed down by 0.09%; while Apple, which fell over 2% in the early session, closed up by 0.6%, and Microsoft closed up by 0.3%. In April, Tesla increased nearly 8.9%, Microsoft rose by 5.3%, Alphabet rose by 3%, Nvidia rose by 0.5%, while Meta decreased nearly 4.8%, Apple fell by 4.3%, and Amazon fell by 3.1%.

4. Chinese concept stocks experienced two consecutive declines, with the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index (HXC) closing down nearly 1%, accumulating a decline of 9.8% in April. Among popular Chinese concept stocks, JD.com fell by 0.8%, Baidu fell by 1.8%, NIO fell by 4.3%, Pony.ai fell by 5.2%, and Yum China fell by 7.3%; while Tencent ADR rose by 4.8%, Xiaomi ADR rose by 1.2%, Li Auto rose by 1.2%, and NetEase and Alibaba rose by up to 0.5%.

5. Starbucks closed down nearly 5%, as the company's global sales in the second quarter fell more than expected.

6. Bitcoin rose over 10% in April.