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19 Aug 2025

Chinese Stocks jump to highest prices in more than a decade

Source: Barchart

19 Aug 2025

Trump with European leaders sitting around his desk is the best photo of 2025.

Source: Mike Crispi @MikeCrispi

19 Aug 2025

Just 6 companies make up 32.5% of the SP500

Source: Carbon Finance

19 Aug 2025

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sold 20 million $AAPL shares last quarter reducing its Apple position's value to just $57.4 billion, the smallest in more than 5 years 🚨🚨

Source: Barchart @Barchart, FT

19 Aug 2025

What if failure is just a step?

You do not need a perfect track record to succeed, but rather the courage to explore, learn, and try again, since even iconic entrepreneurs stumbled before building something that shaped the world. Source: agrassoblog.org

18 Aug 2025

Last week we have see an interesting sector / size /style rotation within us equities.

The chart below - courtesy of Edward Jones - shows weekly returns for various indexes following the CPI release. Lagging segments of the market appeared to receive a boost from rising expectations of rate cuts. Source: Edward Jones

18 Aug 2025

The average professional fund manager allocation toward crypto is 0.3% of AUM.

75% of Fund Managers have ZERO allocation. BofA's Hartnett: "Raise Allocations To Gold And Crypto Because Yield Curve Control Is Coming" Source: BofA

18 Aug 2025

Citizenship: Land vs. Blood

This map shows most of the world ties citizenship to bloodline, locking millions out unless their parents qualify. Only a handful of countries offer citizenship by birthplace, instantly granting nationality to anyone born on their soil. Source: @TheRabbitHole84 thru Mario Nawfal

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