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9 Oct 2025

The Ratio of the Defensive Consumer Staples ETF to the S&P 500 has moved down to the lowest level since the dot-com bubble peak in March 2000.

$XLP $SPY Source: Charlie Bilello

9 Oct 2025

Bitcoin will become a “pillar of financial security,” like gold, and be included in international monetary institutions' official reserves by 2030, per Deutsche Bank.

Source: Bitcoin news

8 Oct 2025

NVIDIA now has a greater market cap than the entire German stock market and the entire Italian stock market…

Combined. Source: Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk

8 Oct 2025

The famous circular AI economy diagram

Source: Bloomberg

8 Oct 2025

If the S&P 500 gains another 5% from here until December 31, it will exceed every single Wall Street price target for the 3rd consecutive year.

$SPX Source: Charlie Bilello

8 Oct 2025

Over the last 1 month, the US dollar has been more volatile than the S&P500.

As Goldman Sachs Brian Garrett notes, this has happened twice in the last 7 years (Dec 2023 and Jul 2025)... Source: zerohedge

8 Oct 2025

The OpenAI deal framework is very concentrated into a few companies

Source: Lance Roberts @LanceRoberts

8 Oct 2025

Carlyle Group says the US job market is absolutely finished.

Source: Bloomberg, Spencer Hakimian

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