Who remembers the stock market "crash" of 2025?
Source: @brewmarkets
About 85% of SP500 companies are now in buyback blackout, taking away some of the important supportive flows ahead of Q2 earnings season.
Source: Markets & Mayhem, GS
The swissie has appreciated nearly 50% over the last 20 years.
A stronger CHF poses significant challenges for Swiss firms, particularly exporters, as it erodes their pricing power on the global stage. This could pressure corporate margins and economic growth in Switzerland. Note that the August 2011 high at 1.3125 is not too far away. What will the SNB do in case of breakout? Heavy use of its balance sheet (at the risk of being pointed out by Trump as a currency manipulator) and/or negative interest rates?
Top 10 largest central banks in the world
The World Rnking @worldranking_ on X
Robinhood launches layer-2 blockchain for stock trading in Europe
Robinhood is offering tokenized US stocks and ETFs on the Arbitrum blockchain to users in Europe. Robinhood’s push into real-world assets (RWAs) is gaining momentum, with the digital brokerage launching a tokenization-focused layer-2 blockchain and introducing stock token trading for users in the European Union. Built on Arbitrum, the new layer-2 network will enable the issuance of over 200 US stock and exchange-traded fund (ETF) tokens, giving European investors access to US assets, Robinhood announced on Monday. Robinhood’s stock tokens will have zero commissions and be available for trading 24 hours a day, five days a week.
#hapiness
Source: Art of Thinking @Art0fThinking
The first half year asset classes returns in one chart
Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA
Bears on oxygen... $SPY and $QQQ hit all-time highs
Source: Stocktwits
