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26 Jul 2024

Is there more drawdown ahead for the S&P500?

Over the last ~100 years, median year has a SPX peak to trough drawdown of 13%. Believe it or not current drawdown has only been 5%... Source: GS

26 Jul 2024

India quickly catches up to China as the world’s largest emerging market.

Indian stocks comprise nearly 20% of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, while China has dropped to a quarter from 40% in 2020. The narrowing gap has become one of the biggest issues for investors in emerging markets this year as they debate whether to put capital into an already red-hot Indian market, or into Chinese stocks that are relatively cheap, but are being hit by an econ slowdown. https://lnkd.in/ddkSqFy5 Source: FT, Charlie Bilello

26 Jul 2024

That was an enormous miss in durable goods, coming in at -6.6% vs a forecast of +0.3%.

We need to transport things in a growing economy, right? "Transportation equipment, down two of the last three months, drove the decrease, $19.6 billion or 20.5 percent to $75.8 billion. Source: Markets & Mayhem

26 Jul 2024

Nasdaq has underperformed Russell 2000 for 11 of the last 12 days, erasing YTD outperformance for the big-tech index

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

26 Jul 2024

China commodity stockpiles

Source: Robert Friedland on X, The Economist

26 Jul 2024

🚨 Breaking! US GDP growth surpasses expectations, hitting 2.8% (est. 2.0%, prev. 1.4%).

GDP Annualized QoQ Contribution: Consumption 1.57 pp (prev. 0.98 pp) Government Spending 0.53 pp (prev. 0.31 pp) Investment 1.46 pp (prev. 0.77 pp) Exports 0.22 pp (prev. 0.17 pp) Imports -0.93 pp (prev. -0.82 pp) Source: MacroMicro

25 Jul 2024

NEW: Fold becomes the first Bitcoin only financial services company to go public on the NASDAQ 👏

They already have 1,000 BTC on their balance sheet 🚀 Source: Bitcoin magazine

25 Jul 2024

Dassault Systeme on Major Support Level

Dassault Systeme (DSY FP) has consolidated 33% since its January breakout! It is now testing a major support zone between 32.23 and 34.20. Keep an eye on this critical level over the next few days. Source: Bloomberg

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