Tech Stocks are trading at all-time highs relative to the SP500, even surpassing the peak of the Dot Com bubble...
Source: BofA, Bar chart
Cocoa is the new crypto
Source: David Ingles, Bloomberg
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After bank of japan abolished negative interest rates this week for 1st time since 2016, the volume of bonds with negative interest rates has shrunk to $300mln. At its peak, there was a volume of $18tn worth of bonds with negative rates. But this weird experiment seems to be over – for now. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
The Fed wants to loosen into what has already been the largest effective easing of financial conditions that we've seen from peak to trough...
equity markets, gold and digitalgold absolutely love it! Source: Markets & Mayhem
Turkey raises benchmark rate unexpectedly by 500bps to 50%.
But main rate still way below inflation of 67.1%. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ
If one ignores dividends gold has been able to keep up with equities since Nixon ended things in 1971.
Source: Michel A.Arouet, Bloomberg
BREAKING: Japan's core inflation accelerates to 2.8%, the first increase in 4 months.
Japan's core inflation has now been above the Bank of Japan's 2% target for 23 consecutive months. Source: Win Smart
Here are the Equally-weighted Nasdaq100 and S&P500.
If these two are above their former cycle highs, it's hard to be too bearish on this market. Source: J-C Parets
