Stock Market Today: Mixed economic data readouts push stocks down originally appeared on TheStreet.

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Good morning. It's Aug. 15, 2025. The market is open.

The Dow (+0.10%) leads the pack this morning after a number of large institutions announced that they took positions in UnitedHealth  (UNH)  (+11%), its worst-performing member this year, sending it soaring in after hours yesterday.

Meanwhile, the other three indexes are down. (See why below).

Friday is usually a quiet one for earnings, but today, investors have had no shortage of economic data to pore over. Most of that has hit the wire now.

Rounding out some of the earlier day reports, we now have preliminary data from the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey. All figures are for August:

Consumer Sentiment Prelim: 58.6 [Prev: 61.7] [Consensus: 62]

Inflation Expectations: +4.9% [Prev: +4.5%]

Inflation expectations rose month-over-month, while perceived consumer conditions (and future expectations) decayed in the preliminary count.

Aside from the UM survey, we also scored some business inventory information:

Business Inventories: +0.2% MoM [Prev: 0%] [Cons: +0.2%]

Thus far, the data that we have seen has sent stocks tumbling. It's only the Dow (+0.10%) that's up on the day now, while the other three indexes have reversed their earlier gains.

Stocks are stagnant after the first swath of economic data reports dropped. Here are the highlights from that:

Retail Sales (Jul): +0.5% MoM; +3.9% YoY [Prev: +0.6% MoM; +3.9% YoY] [Consensus: +0.5%]

Export Prices (Jul): +0.1% MoM; +2.2% YoY [Prev: +0.5% MoM; +2.6% YoY]

Import Prices (Jul): +0.4% MoM; -0.2% YoY [Prev: -0.1% MoM; -0.5% YoY]

NY Empire State Manufacturing Index: 11.9 [Prev: 5.5]

Industrial Production (Jul): -0.1% MoM; +1.4% YoY [Prev: +0.4% MoM, +0.8% YoY]

Manufacturing Production (Jul): UNCH MoM; +1.4% YoY [Prev: +0.3% MoM; +0.8% YoY]

Retail sales rose for a second consecutive month.

More economic data is incoming. We will provide these updates as they arrive.

Bookend days are generally quiet for earnings. Today's no difference. There are 13 earnings reports today. Here are the top ten, sorted by market cap, sourced from TipRanks:

In roughly an hour, investors will get slammed with the most important economic reports of the day. Per data from TE, here are the ones to watch:

Retail Sales [Prev: +0.6% MoM; +3.9% YoY] [Consensus: +0.5%]

Export / Import Prices

Industrial Production [Prev: +0.3%] [Consensus: 0%]

Michigan Consumer Sentiment Preliminary for August [Prev: 61.7] [Consensus: 62]

Michigan Inflation Expectations [Prev: 4.5%]

Michigan 5-Yr Inflation Expectations [Prev: 3.4%]

Business Inventories [Prev: UNCH] [Consensus: +0.2%)]

Net Long-Term TIC Flows [Prev: $259.4 billion]

Foreign Bond Investment [Prev: $146.3 billion]

Overall Net Capital Flows [Prev: $311.1 billion]

Stock Market Today: Mixed economic data readouts push stocks down first appeared on TheStreet on Aug 15, 2025

This story was originally reported by TheStreet on Aug 15, 2025, where it first appeared.