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15 Jan 2025

SP500 companies’ revenue per worker.

Source: Eugene Ng on X, BofA

15 Jan 2025

Net Worth of the World's Richest People as of January 2025.

Source: RankingRoyals @RankingRoyals on X·

15 Jan 2025

Since 1950, the S&P 500 has had an average intra-year drawdown of -13.6% but is still up 11.6% per year annualized.

No Risk, no Reward. Source: Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk

15 Jan 2025

⚠️The market is pricing in just ONE Fed rate cut for 2025. This is down from nearly 5 rate cuts expected in September.

Great Chart: @AugurInfinity, Global Markets Investor

15 Jan 2025

The first quarter of FY 2025 produced a deficit of $710.9 Billion.

That’s $200B more than the first quarter of fiscal 2024, or a 39% increase YoY. The US is now running a ~$3 TRILLION annual deficit...

15 Jan 2025

Inflation expectations have almost perfectly bottomed exactly when the Fed started to cut rates.

10-year breakeven rates are now at its highest level since October 2023. As highlighted by Tavi Costa, this is a reminder that when debt limits a monetary authorities actions, inflation becomes the path of least resistance. Source: Tavi Costa, Bloomberg

15 Jan 2025

Shocking stat of the day: The market cap of the SP500’s top 5 stocks is now equal to the size of the bottom 407 stocks.

Apple, $AAPL, Nvidia, $NVDA, Microsoft, $MSFT, Google, $GOOGL, and Amazon, $AMZN are worth now a combined $15.3 trillion. These companies have added $5 TRILLION in market value since the beginning of last year. To put this into perspective, these 5 stocks are worth now nearly as much as China and Hong Kong's stock markets COMBINED. The top 5 companies reflect a record 24% of the entire US stock market cap. Source: Compound, The Kobeissi Letter

15 Jan 2025

🚨US PPI DATA SHOULD PLEASE POWELL! December US PPI annual inflation rises 3.3%, below expectations for 3.5%.

vCore PPI inflation increased 3.5% Y/Y, compared to forecasts for a gain of 3.8%. BULLISH🚀 YoY Growth: 🇺🇸 PPI (Dec), 3.3% Vs. 3.5% Est. (prev. 3.0%) 🇺🇸 Core PPI, 3.5% Vs. 3.8% Est. (prev. 3.4%) MoM Growth: 🇺🇸 PPI (Dec), 0.2% Vs. 0.4% Est. (prev. 0.4%) 🇺🇸 Core PPI, 0.0% Vs. 0.3% Est. (prev. 0.2%)

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