Bitcoin has decoupled from its strong correlation with tech overall in the last two weeks...
Source: Bloomberg, zerohedge
This is not a Trump trade but rather a "soft landing trade" => Stocks have rallied on the prospects of a soft landing for the economy
Source: Edward Jones
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Long Magnificent 7" has been the most crowded trade among investors for 16 months straight, even after the recent drop.
This is according to 71% of 242 global fund managers polled by Bank of America. This percentage is up from 69% and 52% in June and May Source: BofA, The Kobeissi Letter
The Japanese Yen is up against the US dollar to its strongest level since mid-June.
The USD-JPY currency pair is down over 3% since Thursday after hitting a 38-year high following another round of intervention by Japan’s Ministry of Finance. Japanese authorities reportedly spent $22 billion on Thursday and Friday to prop up the yen, according to Bloomberg. This comes after Japan spent a record $62 billion to support the currency between April 26th and May 29th. Over the last 12 months, the Yen has declined by ~12% and has been the worst-performing currency of G10. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
India‘s economy is overtaking UK, the former colonial power.
And this is most likely just a start. Source: The Economist, Michel A.Arouet
US small cap funds see 2nd largest weekly inflow ever
Source: EPFR, BofA, Mike Z.
THE Qs GET CRUSHED
$QQQ Worst one-week decline in over three months. Source: Trend Spider
US National debt. A bit of maths...
The current level is almost $35 trillion. And the government has baked in minimum $2 trillion deficits going forward. There are $5 trillion in government revenues per year. 100% of government revenue is consumed by Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the debt. Interest on the debt is WAY over $1 trillion per year, more than 20% of government revenue. It takes another $2 trillion minimum per year to fund defense and all of the other departments of the government that they are unwilling to cut. There are also extra items like Ukraine and whatever the wars going on that get additional off budget funding. It should thus keep rising. Source: Wall Street Silver, ABC News
