That was an enormous miss in durable goods, coming in at -6.6% vs a forecast of +0.3%.
We need to transport things in a growing economy, right? "Transportation equipment, down two of the last three months, drove the decrease, $19.6 billion or 20.5 percent to $75.8 billion. Source: Markets & Mayhem
Nasdaq has underperformed Russell 2000 for 11 of the last 12 days, erasing YTD outperformance for the big-tech index
Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com
China commodity stockpiles
Source: Robert Friedland on X, The Economist
🚨 Breaking! US GDP growth surpasses expectations, hitting 2.8% (est. 2.0%, prev. 1.4%).
GDP Annualized QoQ Contribution: Consumption 1.57 pp (prev. 0.98 pp) Government Spending 0.53 pp (prev. 0.31 pp) Investment 1.46 pp (prev. 0.77 pp) Exports 0.22 pp (prev. 0.17 pp) Imports -0.93 pp (prev. -0.82 pp) Source: MacroMicro
NEW: Fold becomes the first Bitcoin only financial services company to go public on the NASDAQ 👏
They already have 1,000 BTC on their balance sheet 🚀 Source: Bitcoin magazine
The last time Tech stocks were at these levels relative to the S&P500, Tech stocks crashed, particularly relative to the rest of the market.
Source: J-C Parets
One for the Bulls... As shown below, during this tech pullback, forward 12-months EPS in tech has actually ticked higher.
So you could argue that this is mostly a positioning and sentiment pullback, especially in tech... Source: Bloomberg, RBC
CTAs will dump stocks over the next week in EVERY SINGLE SCENARIO warns Goldman Sachs.
If the market trades lower, CTAs are projected to sell more than $7 billion worth of equities.
