BREAKING: Beginning Monday, China will implement tariffs of up to 15% on $14 billion in U.S. exports, including LNG, coal, crude oil, farm equipment, and select vehicles.
Looks like China is fighting back against Trump's 10% tariffs on Chinese imports that he announced last week... Source: Financial Times
Monday and Friday have been quite bad for stocks so far in 2025.
The other three days have been solid. Source: Ryan Detrick, Carson
China's retaliatory tariff will hit the United States today.
Here is how the U.S Corporations and consumers will be impacted. Source: Unicus @UnicusResearch
Gold has been truly one of the GREATEST assets over the last few years, widely outperforming the S&P 500:
🔴 1-year performance: Gold +41% S&P 500 +21% 🔴 3-year: Gold +59% S&P 500 +34% 🔴 5-year: Gold +84% S&P 500 +80% Source. Global Markets Investor
Valuation of Public Companies with Market Caps Over $10B
The gap between European and U.S. equities continues to widen. While U.S. stocks trade at historically high valuations, their European counterparts lag significantly behind. source: A.Arouet
The US economy has been driven by a massive DEBT BUBBLE: In 2024, to generate 1 unit of GDP growth it took $3.8 of national debt...
In Q4 alone, it took $5.8 of debt to create $1 of economic growth. If not for the huge debt, the US economy would have been in a recession. Source: Global Markets Investor
GS: Short interest in $TLT is near century-highs
Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, Goldman Sachs
Fascinating
Source: @Callum_Thomas via Jan Nieuwenhuijs
