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6 Sep 2024

From the moment Russia invaded Ukraine, Europe was supposed to halt exports to Russia

Instead, many EU countries have been sending flood of exports to Russia that's invoiced to Kyrgyzstan. Source: Robin Brooks

6 Sep 2024

This Visual Capitalist graphic shows largest export market for each G20 member, based on share of goods exported;

data sourced from @OECtoday as of 2022 Key Takeaways •U.S. and China are primary export destinations for an equal number of G20 countries (7 each) •While U.S. is China’s top export market, reverse is not true, with U.S. sending its largest share (16% of its exports) to Canada Source: Liz Ann Sonders, Visual Capitalist

6 Sep 2024

Is a massive regime change in markets taking place?

This week has again been volatile for stocks. But the big news for investors is for the first time in a few years, bonds are acting again as a hedge against stock market drawdowns. Or in other words: after a period of positive correlation which wrecked 60/40 portfolios, the stock/bond correlation is turning negative again. This is an important development. Source: Alfonso Peccatiello

6 Sep 2024

An increasing number of job cuts are also being attributed to AI in 2024 vs 2023

Source: Markets & Mayhem

6 Sep 2024

First negative outflow for Blackrock's $IBIT Bitcoin ETF since May.

Source: Koyfin

6 Sep 2024

Ahead of today's Non-Farm-Payrolls print, Atlanta Fed GDPNow is forecasting just 2.1% US GDP growth for Q3

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6 Sep 2024

The current drawdowns across the Magnificent Seven:

• $AAPL Apple: 5.0% • $META Meta: 5.2% • $AMZN Amazon: 11.9% • $MSFT Microsoft: 12.3% • $GOOGL Alphabet: 17.7% • $NVDA Nvidia: 20.3% • $TSLA Tesla: 48.6% Source: Koyfin

6 Sep 2024

Sir John Templeton has been one of the most successful investors ever.

His investing career ranged over half a century. These were the 10 Maxims he invested by: Source: @MnkeDaniel on X

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