** Regional Banking Crisis Alert! **
**Huntington Bank Spooks Investors Yesterday, Shares Plunged 6%** - **New Guidance:** Net interest income to fall 1% to 4% this year - **Previous Range:** -2% to +2% - **Impact:** Largest drop since March 2023 Source: The Coastal Journal
Foreign investors are piling into US markets:
Foreign holdings of US securities have hit ~$27 trillion in 2023, near the all-time highs seen in 2021. Since 2009, foreign investments in US markets have skyrocketed by 180%. This comes after the S&P 500 has gained 573% during this time materially outperforming other markets such as the EU, Canada, and Japan. Meanwhile, foreign investors’ share of the $78 trillion US equity market has risen to ~17%, an all time record. Source: Bloomberg, The Kobeissi Letter
Small cap stocks are now down on the year while Large caps are still up 12.5%. $SPY $IWM
Source: Charlie Bilello
Below is an extract of a great chart pack by Topdown Charts / Callum Thomas
https://lnkd.in/eCV4GauM Over the long-run equal-weight has beat cap-weight, but there have been significant punctuations and cycles around that trend that echo important sector themes.
In the first three weeks of May, OpenAI’s ChatGPT averaged 77 million daily visits, putting it on track to reach 2.3 billion visits last month
A new monthly record after setting its previous record of 1.8 billion visits a year ago. Source: Beth Kindig $MSFT $NVDA $GOOG $AMZN
Reminder: investing at all-time highs is safer than investing during drawdowns $SPY
Source: Mike Zaccardi
The traffic light coalition in Germany suffers a historic rout in the European elections.
German Chancellor Scholz’s SPD crashed to 14%, their worst-ever result, falling to 3rd place behind the far-right AfD, exit polls show. The other 2 parties in Scholz’s ruling alliance – the Greens and the FDP – got 12% and 5% respectively. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ
World's largest companies by market cap & the most valued companies
Source: Reza Zahiri
