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12 Feb 2024

Lots of talk about a bubble in AI/Mag 7...

At this point, valuations at the top are no where near as frothy as they were at the height of the Dot Com Bubble. The 5 largest stocks traded at 43x Fwd PE in March ‘00, a 59% premium to the Mag 7’s current multiple of 27x. Source: David Marlin, Goldman Sachs

12 Feb 2024

The S&P 500 is now 15% higher than where it was when the Fed started hiking rates in March 2022. $SPX

Source: Charlie Bilello

12 Feb 2024

JUST IN: The top 5 new spot Bitcoin ETFs now own a combined 195,862 BTC worth over $9.3 BILLION

Source: Bitcoin Magazine

12 Feb 2024

S&P 500 closes above 5,000 for first time ever.

It took 719 sessions for the index to set its latest 1,000-point milestone, a gain of 25%. The 50% advance from 2,000 to 3,000 needed 1,227 trading days, from 2014 to 2019, acc to data compiled by Bloomberg. To double from 1,000 in 1998, it needed 4,168 sessions to get to 2,000 in 2014. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

12 Feb 2024

🍾 S&P 500 closes over 5,000 for the first time in HISTORY

Most of the major US equity indexes moved higher over the week, with the S&P 500 Index reaching new highs and breaching the 5,000 threshold for the first time. The advance remained relatively narrow, however, with an equally weighted version of the index significantly trailing the standard market-weighted version for the fourth time in five weeks... Source hashtag#chart: Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA

9 Feb 2024

Japanese Stocks Hit 34-Year High

For the first time in 34 years, the Nikkei jumped above 37,000. The index is now about 5% away from taking out the all-time high set all the way back in December 1989. Source: barchart

9 Feb 2024

More than 70% of stocks in the index underperformed. That is a record for this century.

Source: Gavekal, The Daily Shot

9 Feb 2024

Despite the Russell 2000 remaining in a bear market, down 20% from its peak in 2021, the S&P 500 reached a new milestone by trading above 5,000 points intraday for the first time ever yesterday.

source: bloomberg

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