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18 Jan 2024

What a tweet by Franklin Templeton

A $1.5T and 77-years old leading assetmanager...

18 Jan 2024

Fortune favors the patient investor. NASDAQ Returns By Year Since Inception

by Quartr

18 Jan 2024

China’s economy spooks markets, and stocks sink.

The CSI 300 has underperformed the S&P 500 by >40ppts over the year. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

18 Jan 2024

The importance about thinking long-term

by Seek Wiser

18 Jan 2024

You’d think there would be more IPOs considering how well stocks have been doing the past year+ all around the world...

Supply is clearly not an issue for tech stock market. Basically we have huge supply coming on the G7 bonds side (to finance growing budget deficits) and shrinking supply on the equity side. make your choice... Source: Topdown charts

18 Jan 2024

After 13 consecutive YoY declines, US inflation-adjusted retail sales rose 1.4% YoY in December, The first YoY increase since Oct 2022.

Nominal Retail Sales grew 4.78% over the last year, rising just above the historical average of 4.71%. Source: Charlie Bilello

17 Jan 2024

Japanese companies profits are surging

but that's not translating into rising domestic wages, keeping a lid on domestic inflationary pressures, and allowing easy monetary & FX policy to persist. The main winners are japan equity investors. Source: DB, Bob Elliott, The Daily Shot

17 Jan 2024

This scatter plot shows where growth tech valuations stand based on 2024 metrics

Source: Shay Boloor

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