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21 Aug 2025

Direction is more important than speed

Source: Reads with Ravi on X

21 Aug 2025

Periods of acute monetary policy uncertainty are Buy Signals.

October 1987, the Iraq-Kuwait recession, September 11th, the 2003 "jobless recovery," Covid lockdowns. These are times to buy the US stock market, not sell it. At 358, the MPU index is about as high as ever. Bullish. Source: Jeff Weniger @JeffWeniger

21 Aug 2025

People who bought Palantir last week

(Palantir has officially entered bear market territory). Source: Not Jerome Powell

21 Aug 2025

Another day of rotation out of tech

Source: Daily sp500 heat map by Finwiz

21 Aug 2025

US housing market activity is rapidly slowing down

In July, the typical home sat on the market for 43 days, the slowest July pace in 10 years. By comparison, it was just 16 days in July 2021. Additionally, pending home sales fell -1.1% MoM, to their lowest since November 2023. Despite this, prices are still rising, with the median home sales price up +1.4% YoY, to a record July high of $443,867. Many homeowners are choosing to rent or delay selling rather than accept lower offers, further limiting supply. The housing market is stalling. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

20 Aug 2025

Since the April 8 low, the SP500 has rallied by 30%.

This is powered by a 50% surge in Mag7 stocks, while the rest of the S&P 500 members gained 21%. Source: Augur Infinity on X

20 Aug 2025

So now Europe is supposed to pay for Ukraine ?

Not a big surprise to see EU defense stocks plummeting today... Source: FT

20 Aug 2025

On this day in 2004: Google went public at a valuation of $23 billion.

Today, it’s worth $2.5 trillion. Source: Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman on X

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