Year 3 of a bull market tends to be messy, and the current bull market is behaving as expected.
Source: Grant Hawkridge @granthawkridge
UBS Retesting Strong Demand Zone
After a 12% consolidation since the February high, UBS is reaching its January breakout level and also a major demand zone. Keep an eye on these levels for price action and potential opportunities. Source: Bloomberg
Jason Zweig on reasons to not allocate 100% to stocks:
Source: Brian Feroldi
The US National Debt is currently at $36.6T or $323K per taxpayer
source : usdebtclock.org
264 of the S&P 500’s constituents, or a little over 52% of the index, are actually still up in 2025.
The star of the S&P 500 Class of Q1 so far is CVS HealthCVS $65.81 (2.74%), which has jumped 45% since the start of the year, closely followed by Philip Morris InternationalPM $153.14 (-0.58%) and Super Micro, which is doing the absolute bare minimum to remain on the market. Uber also joins the all-star lineup, ahead of Meta, which is the best of the Big Tech stocks, evading the pain of peers Amazon (-7%), Nvidia (-14%), and Tesla (-33%), which are all down. But the one company that’s down deepest in the trenches is UGG and Hoka shoe company DeckersDECK $136.40 (1.67%), which never recovered from getting stomped after its underwhelming Q3 update. Source: Chartr
US immigration
Source:: Robin Brooks
Europe's high-debt countries - like France, Italy and Spain - cheer Germany's fiscal expansion.
They're not doing that out of the goodness of their hearts. Germany now can't possibly say no to more joint EU debt issuance. A win for high-debt countries and their muddle through... Source: Robin Brooks
⚠️The famous Trade War Cycle is back in full swing...
Source: Global Markets Investor
