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8 Nov 2024

TRUMP LIKELY TO LET POWELL TO SERVE OUT TERM UNTIL MAY 2026

Source: CNN

8 Nov 2024

Fed cuts rates by 25bps in unanimous decision as expected. So what did the Fed do?

👉 FED LOWERS BENCHMARK RATE 25 BPS TO 4.5%-4.75% RANGE 👉 FED SAYS RISKS TO GOALS REMAIN 'ROUGHLY IN BALANCE’ 👉 FED: LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS HAVE 'GENERALLY EASED' No dissent on this rate-cut decision. 🚨 Key changes: - Most notably, removing language that Fed has "gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainable toward 2 percent". - Adding that labor market conditions have "generally eased" since earlier in the year, replacing "job gains have slowed". Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

8 Nov 2024

FLOWMAGEDDON: A Trump-inspired gusher of cash is flowing into risk-on ETFs, +$22b in one day is absurd, that is normally a good WEEK.

YTD net flows now +$856b, (55b away from annual record) and the rolling 1-year has passed $1T Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg

8 Nov 2024

Productivity

Source: SeekWiser

8 Nov 2024

Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Source: Strati Georgopoulos

8 Nov 2024

Bitcoin priced in Gold is still 23% away from the all-time high.

FOMO starts at $90K 🤑 Source: Bitcoin Archive

8 Nov 2024

Following the election, the SP500 typically rallies through inauguration day before moderating.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond, Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA, The Daily Shot

8 Nov 2024

2 months before the bear-market bottom, the Wall Street Journal felt safe enough to kick Saylor with this WRONG headline.

There were ignorant calls on 𝕏 that MicroStrategy would be liquidated, even though there were no margin calls on the debt, which were mostly long duration 5-6 year terms. Source: Bitcoin Archive

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