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2 Sep 2024

Is the SP500 trading out of sync with other markets?

Source: zerohedge, Morgan Stanley

2 Sep 2024

Speculators have turned Bearish on the U.S. Dollar for the first time since February 🚨

Source: Barchart, Bloomberg

2 Sep 2024

The world's most important stock exchange and the world's most important stock index.

Source: J-C Parets

2 Sep 2024

Asset class returns as of end of August and since 2011

Source: Charlie Bilello

2 Sep 2024

Sector Heatmap Performance for August 🔥

📈 Consumer Staples were the biggest winners $XLP 📉 Energy was the biggest loser $XLE Source: Trend Spider

2 Sep 2024

The S&P 500 is up 18.4% in the first 168 trading days of 2024, the 15th best start to a year going back to 1928 and best start to a presidential election year ever.

Source: Charlie Bilello

2 Sep 2024

BREAKING: Global net gold purchases by central banks reached 483 tonnes in the first half of 2024, the most on record.

This is 5% higher than the previous record of 460 tonnes set in the first half of 2023. In Q2 2024, central banks bought 183 tonnes of gold, marking a 6% year-over-year increase. On the other hand, this was 39% lower than the 300 tonnes of purchases seen in Q1. The largest buyers were the National Bank of Poland, the Reserve Bank of India, and the Central Bank of Turkey. Why are central banks stocking up on gold? Source: The Kobeissi Letter

2 Sep 2024

BREAKING: The right-wing AfD and the anti-woke BSW emerge as clear winners in the German state elections of Saxony and Thuringia, while the globalist government parties suffer a crushing defeat.

Source: Dr. Simon Goddek on X

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