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24 May 2024

BREAKING 🚨: China

China sees largest bank withdrawals in history last month of just under 4 trillion yuan Source: Bloomberg, Barchart

24 May 2024

Divergence between DJ Transports and S&P500 is something to watch.

The former is seen as a reliable indicator of domestic activity Source: Lawrence McDonald, Bloomberg

24 May 2024

Wall Street pull-back yesterday is mainly explained by the PMI data.

And not because they show that the US economy remians resilient. The biggest concern was the prices print as it shows that more cost increases are coming for companies and consumers alike: - Input prices continued to rise sharply in May, the rate of inflation accelerating to register the second-largest monthly increase seen over the past eight months. - Manufacturers reported an especially steep increase, suffering the largest cost rise for one-and-a-half years amid reports of higher supplier prices for a wide variety of inputs, including metals, chemicals, plastics, and timber- based products, as well as higher energy and labor costs. - Service sector costs also rose at an increased rate, reflecting higher staffing costs in particular. - Companies again sought to pass higher costs onto customers in the form of higher selling prices, the rate of increase of which accelerated slightly compared to April. One good news though: although still elevated by pre-pandemic standards, the rate of inflation across both goods and services remained below the average recorded over the past year. Source: S&P Global, Markets & Mayhem

24 May 2024

A scary chart... the global impact on GDP of a war in Taiwan...

Source: Bloomberg, Michel A.Arouet

24 May 2024

Nvidia is bigger than entire German stock market, the entire Australian market or the entire Korean market.

Canada and Saudi are within reach. Source: Bloomberg

24 May 2024

After the hotter than expected Flash PMI prints yesterday, the market is pricing in one cut for this year to occur in November or December, and another in early 2025.

Source: Markets & Mayhem

24 May 2024

Jamie Dimon does not rule out a hard landing for the US economy

Source: CNBC

24 May 2024

Copper just had its worst 2-day decline in 13 years.

A much-needed shake out to reset the sentiment. Source: Bloomberg, Tavi Costa, Crescat Capital

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