BREAKING: Apple $AAPL climbed 7% in extended trading after the company announces a $110 BILLION share buyback.
Apple reported quarterly revenue of $90.8 billion and EPS of $1.53, both of which were above expectations. However, revenue in Greater China was down by 8.1% and iPhone sales fell 10%. Apple did not provide formal guidance, but Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC’s Steve Kovach that overall sales would “grow low single digits” during the June quarter. Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Birinyi Associates. Apple is the latest tech giant to announce a massive share buyback after $META and $GOOGL. We are on track to see over $1 trillion in share buybacks this year for the first time in history. Mixed earnings but buybacks are all the market wants. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
The gains in equities & bonds during the Fed meeting were completely wiped out by the market by the end.
Nasdaq 100 closed 0.7% lower, and US 10y yields pared most of their drop. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
16 years of Mastercard vs Visa.
Both $MA (21.6%) and $V (20.9%) have remarkable CAGRs over that period. They have been pretty correlated throughout the period, taking over the world in unison. Source: Bloomberg, KoyfinCharts
Chinese Stocks enter technical bull market after rallying 20% off the Jan 22 low
Source: Barchart
Asset Managers are the most long U.S. equity Futures in AT LEAST the last 12 years 👀
Source: Barchart, JP Morgan
One of the most important chart in the asset allocation decision process:
Stocks vs. long duration US Treasuries. The trend is your friend Source: J-C Parets
The correlation between tech stocks and treasuries is now as positive as it was during the peak of the tech bubble in early 2000.
This issue strikes at the heart of conventional 60/40 portfolios, as the risk of overweighting these two asset classes has significantly increased. Source: Tavi Costa, Bloomberg, Crescat Capital
Quality is not cheap...
Source: Goldman
