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22 Jan 2024

The S&P 500 is now 11% higher than where it was when the Fed started hiking rates in March 2022. $SPX

Source: Charlie Bilello

22 Jan 2024

The SP500 just snapped a 512 trading day streak without hitting a new all-time high, the 6th longest in history. Here is how the $SPX responded the 5 previous times:

Source: Barchart

22 Jan 2024

Corporate Borrowing Hits All-Time High 🚨:

Investment Grade Companies have issued more than $150 Billion worth of bonds through the first 18 days of the year, the highest amount in history at this point in the year. Source: Barchart, FT

22 Jan 2024

India is set to overtake Hong Kong to become the world's fourth-largest stock market. It may happen this week assuming current trajectories hold

Source: David Ingles, Bloomberg

22 Jan 2024

US earnings revision: a big tailwind for big tech >>> 5 out of 7 Big Tech names have seen upward earnings estimate revisions for the last quarter and this year over the past 3 months

As a group, they’ve seen average upward earnings revisions of 6.7% and 4.9% for last quarter and 2024 respectively, considerably better than the S&P (-7.1%, -1.3%). Source: DataTrek, TME

22 Jan 2024

Real estate as inflation protection in one chart, updated

Source: Michel A.Arouet

22 Jan 2024

US earnings: things get fun starting this week

Source: The Transcript, Brad Freeman / StockMarketNerd

22 Jan 2024

US presidential election update:

DeSantis drops out of Republican race

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