J-C Parets on Lithium:
"Lithium is the bridge commodity - connecting cyclical reflation with structural demand. EVs, battery storage, datacenters, renewable energy - these aren't optional trends. They're structural. Lithium demand doesn't go away because the economy slows for a quarter. When capital rotates back into lithium, it tells us that the forward-looking, technology-driven demand story is aligning with the cyclical reflation story that gold and copper already flagged". Source: J-C Parets
Growth is the best long-term predictor of a stock market winner
Source: Invest In Assets 📈
Apple on the verge of forming a Golden Cross for the first time since June 2024
The last one sent $AAPL soaring 21% over the next 6 months. Source: Barchart
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According to NY Post, banking giant UBS is ramping up its threats to leave Switzerland and set up shop in the US — a radical response to Swiss regulators who have proposed onerous new capital requirements on the financial behemoth. Source : New York Post
"MAYBE WE’LL PAY OFF OUR $35 TRILLION HANDING THEM A CRYPTO CHECK, A LITTLE BITCOIN"
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The ECB has tentatively allowed a little bit of price discovery in the bond market
The French government wakes up to discover their cost of funding is higher than L'Oréal's. Source: Hanno Lustig, FT
China economic slowdown deepens in August
➡️ Retail sales rose 3.4% in August from a year earlier, missing analysts' estimates for a 3.9% growth and slowing from July's 3.7% growth. ➡️ China’s industrial output growth slipped 5.2%, the worst performance since August last year. ➡️ Fixed-asset investment, reported on a year-to-date basis, expanded just 0.5%, a sharp slowdown from the 1.6% expansion in the January to July period. ➡️ China's survey-based urban unemployment rate in August came in at 5.3%. Source: CNBC
Markets Up, Morale Down: A Summer of Disbelief by JC Parets, CMT
Throughout the summer, investors were wrong about stocks. And it was one of the greatest summers in stock market history. Below is the futures positioning among asset managers and hedge funds: the blue line represents the S&P 500, and the lighter green line shows you how underinvested they've been. They sold into the hole and never got the chance to get back in. This was a textbook V-bottom, and they're still not back in. This is one of those things that can help keep a bid underneath the market. Source: J-C Parets
