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The Yen is tumbling.
That's happening because 10-year JGB yield is being kept artificially low by BoJ. Japan has to do that because debt is 250% of GDP, so allowing 10-year JGB yield to rise freely would lead to a debt crisis. Yen weakness is the price Japan has to pay for this. Source: Robin Brooks, Bloomberg
$SPY We are halfway through 2024.
Let's see the best 10 and worst 10 performers in the S&P 500 so far: The Best 10: 1. $SMCI - Supermicro - 188.2% 2. $NVDA - Nvidia - 149.5% 3. $VST - Vistra - 123.2% 4. $CEG - Constellation Energy - 71.3% 5. $LLY - Eli Lilly - 55.3% 6. $MU - Micron - 54.1% 7. $NRG - NRG Energy - 50.6% 8. $CRWD - Crowdstrike - 50.1% 9. $ANET - Arista Networks - 48.8% 10. $TRGP - Targa Resources - 48.2% The Worst 10: 1. $WBA - Walgreens Boots -53.7% 2. $LULU - Lululemon -41.6% 3. $INTC - Intel -38.4% 4. $EPAM - Epam Systems -36.7% 5. $WBD - Warner Bros Discovery -34.6% 6. $ALB - Albemarle -33.9% 7. $GL - Globe Life -32.4% 8. $MKTX - Marketaxess -31.5% 9. $PAYC - Paycom -30.8% 10. $NKE - Nike -30.6% Source: The Future Investors
Mind the gap: The French debt ratio is almost twice as high as the German debt ratio.
Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
That was another new all-time high quarterly close for both the S&P500 and Nasdaq100
That's now 3 in a row. Source: J.C. Parets @allstarcharts
NVIDIA’s data center revenues have grown from 12% in 2017 to 78% in 2024 of total revenues.
Source: Genuine Impact
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