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22 Oct 2024

The co-founder of the world’s largest asset manager has said the outcome of the looming US election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump 'really doesn’t matter' for financial markets.

https://lnkd.in/eZCKpyDZ Source: FT

22 Oct 2024

Tuesday humour

Source: Wall Street Silver

22 Oct 2024

A fascinating chart by James Bianco ->

The 10-year yield (blue) and Trump's Political Betting probabilities (orange). The chart starts the day Biden dropped out. Coincidence, or are these series related? If they are related, what happens to 10-year yields if the orange line (man) goes to 100 in 14 days? Source: Bianco Research

22 Oct 2024

What could be the tax effects on SP500 EPS based on a Trump or Harris win? Here's what BofA projects:

- They said a Harris administration would be a 4.7% headwind to overall S&P EPS growth and a Trump administration would be a 4% tailwind to S&P earnings. - The only caveat here is if we have a split congress. If so, Kamala may win but not be able to pass sweeping tax policies. Given current market action, it seems the market is currently pricing in those 2 scenarios: 1) Either Trump wins 2) or if Kamala does, she can’t pass her new tax policies because of a divided congress. Source: amit @amitisinvesting on X, BofA

21 Oct 2024

⁉️IS THE US DOLLAR RESERVE CURRENCY STATUS STRENGTHENING⁉️

The US Dollar share in global payments jumped to 49% in 2024 the highest since 2012. This is up from ~40% at the beginning of 2022. The Euro share has plummeted to ~21%. The US dollar fall does not look so imminent. Source: Global Markets Investor

21 Oct 2024

Japan is the perfect example of the failure of Keynesian policies.

More government spending only generates more debt and stagnation, and with years of printing, the yen keeps depreciating. Graphs JP Morgan and Bloomberg thru Daniel Lacalle on X

21 Oct 2024

The NFT bubble was as bad as the Tulips one.

They aren’t ever coming back. Imagine paying $1 million for one a few years ago Source: tealthQE4 (@QE Infinity) on X

21 Oct 2024

Global Equity Returns this year...

Source: Charlie Bilello

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