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18 Sep 2024

The power of tiny gains

Source: Invest in Assets

18 Sep 2024

Visa, Mastercard, and American Express' FCF per share and share price over the last decade.

10Y Total Return CAGR: $V Visa: 19.1% $MA Mastercard: 21.4% $AXP American Express: 13.1% Source: @KoyfinCharts

18 Sep 2024

Soft landing? Hard landing? Or no landing?

Atlanta Fed Q3 Real GDP growth Nowcast model just hit 3%...

18 Sep 2024

Here’s what you actually buying when you invest $1,000 in a Nasdaq 100 ETF $QQQ:

$AAPL - Apple - $90 $MSFT - Microsoft - $83 $NVDA - Nvidia - $77 $AVGO - Broadcom - $52 $AMZN - Amazon - $51 $META - Meta - $48 $GOOGL - Google - $47 $TSLA - Tesla - $29 Remaining 92 stocks: $523 Source: The Future Investors

18 Sep 2024

#gold

Source chart: Bloomberg

18 Sep 2024

BofA: “today the average EPS growth rate among AI ETF constituents has fallen from 18% to just 5%, below the S&P 500.”

Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @MikeZaccardi via @dailychartbook

18 Sep 2024

Safe is risky. #DF24

Source: Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar on X, marketoonist.com

18 Sep 2024

Jeff Bezos letter to shareholders when Amazon stock was down ~80%

Every investor should read this: (source: Matt Allen)

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