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As highlighted by Corporate Rebels, here’s how a firm can make work more fun and turn customers into lifelong fans: ✅ Prioritize customer service over profits to earn loyalty. ✅ Treat employees like owners and give them autonomy to keep customers happy.

While not all can be considered institutional investors, significant numbers are included - e.g Millenium, Susquehanna, Horizon Kinetics, Jane Street Group, Schonfeld, Morgan Stanley, Point72, Farallon, tc. Viewing ETF inflows solely as retail contributions seems inappropriate. Source: Ki Young Ju

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The base case shows rate cuts at every meeting remaining in 2024 starting in September. Discussions of a 50 basis point interest rate cut have even begun to emerge. This feels a lot like January 2024 when the market went from pricing-in 3 rate cuts in 2024 to 7 in a matter of weeks. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, CME

🔉 Just as Powell signals rates cuts before inflation comes down to 2%... Source: Bloomberg

The 6.8% spread is 6 standard deviations above the mean & the 3rd largest small outperformance since inception of the first small cap ETF in May 2000. $IWM $SPY Source: Charlie Bilello

David Ingles: "The 40-day correlation of $QQQ & $KWEB has turned negative. These are two behaviourally different assets FOR NOW. What might be good for one, may not necessarily boost the other. Chart underscores many global stories: difference in AI representation in each market, tech decoupling, geopolitical rifts, economies in different parts of their cycles". Source: David Ingles on X, Bloomberg

-> Many in the startup world rejoiced at Trump’s VP pick -> Vance has criticized big tech and has backed small players Major Silicon Valley investors hailed Donald Trump’s choice of Ohio senator and former venture capitalist JD Vance as his running mate, a move that puts the technology industry closer to center stage in Washington if the former president takes the White House in November. Elon Musk called the decision a “great choice” and said the lineup “resounds with victory” on X, the social platform he owns. David Sacks, an investor and Trump supporter scheduled to speak at the GOP convention on Monday night, called Vance an “American patriot” in a post. According to Tech Crunch >>> "Vance spent years as a venture capitalist before leaving the industry when elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022. After graduating from Yale Law School in 2013, Vance moved to San Francisco, where he was a principal at Mithril Capital, a fund co-founded by Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan. Mithril raised two funds, a $540 million and an $850 million vehicle in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Thiel was publicly active in politics in 2016, backing Trump’s first presidential campaign, and helped fund Vance’s Senate race, but has said he’s not planning to donate to any Republicans in the 2024 election. In 2017, Vance left Mithril and joined Steve Case’s Washington, D.C.-based Revolution as a managing director. His move came when his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, landed a role as a Supreme Court clerk. While at Revolution, Vance helped Case launch Rise of the Rest, a strategy focused on investing in startups outside the main U.S. tech hubs. At Revolution, the Republican VP nominee led deals into Michigan-based Aatmunn, a startup that develops software and wearable devices for on-the-job safety for construction workers. He also backed and served on the board of Kentucky-based AppHarvest, an indoor farming startup, that went public via a SPAC in 2021 but filed for bankruptcy protection in 2023". Source: Bloomberg, Tech Crunch