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17 Jul 2024

Speakers at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville US

- Donald Trump - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Cathie Wood - Michael Saylor - Edward Snowden - Vivek Ramaswamy Source: Bitcoin Magazine

17 Jul 2024

Russell 2000 $IWM is catching up with S&P500...

Russell 2000 is now up +11.3% YTD (with 10.3ppt has come in the last 5 sessions...) versus + for S£P 500 +19.35% YTD Source: Mike Zaccardi

17 Jul 2024

iShares US Treasuries 20y+ $TLT forms a Golden Cross with an upward-sloping 200D moving average for the first time since January 2019!

The last one sent the ETF soaring by almost 50% over the next 2 months. Source: Barchart

17 Jul 2024

History was made yesterday! The Russell 2000 closed 4.4 standard deviations above its 50-day moving average.

No other major US index (Dow since 1900, S&P 500 since 1928, and Nasdaq since 1971) has ever closed at that much of an extreme. Source: Bespoke

17 Jul 2024

Some good news for Wall Street?

Donald Trump will not seek to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before the central banker’s term ends and would consider JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary if he won the Nov. 5 election, the former president told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday. JPMorgan declined to comment on Trump’s remarks. Powell’s term as chairman runs through January 2026, and his position as a Fed governor continues until 2028. The interview was conducted in late June, according to Bloomberg.

17 Jul 2024

For context, the four-day reversal in the Nasdaq 100 / Russell 2000 ratio is the greatest shift in the US Big-Tech / small cap pair since the collapse of the DotCom bubble...

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

17 Jul 2024

The dichotomy between gold (orange line( and the US 10-year real rate (the red line) is becoming massive...

Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

17 Jul 2024

BlackRock generated $4.8 billion in revenue in the quarter, an 8% increase from the same period last year.

This growth was driven by a record $10.6 trillion in assets under management, led by high ETF flows. Source: Genuine

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