Credit Card debt at all-time highs? Party on.
#visa #mastercard $V $MA Source: Trendspider
European markets have outperformed the US this year.
Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria have grown their market capitalization by 44%, 36%, and 33%, respectively. Next are Hungary, Spain, Luxembourg, Greece, and Germany. The US has been flat. Source: Global Markets Investor
Systematic US equity exposure remains low, according to data from Goldman Sachs, i,.e they will be forced buyers if the rally continues 🚀
Source: Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets on X, Goldman Sachs
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Do you remember when the vast majority of investment banks cut aggressively their year-end target on the S&P500?
This was right BEFORE one of the best month ever for the S&P 500...
⚠️Despite US stocks outperformance in May, this is one of the WORST years for the US stock market in history:
The S&P 500 has UNDERPERFORMED World stocks excluding the US by 12 percentage points year-to-date, the most in 32 YEARS. Source: Bloomberg, Global Markets Investor
Europe stocks stage world-beating rally as trade war backfires.
8 of the world's 10 best-performing stock markets are in Europe this year, w/Germany's Dax rallying >30% in Dollar terms: Peripheral markets such as Slovenia, Poland, Greece, and Hungary also performing well. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Goldman: Hedge funds net bought US Info Tech stocks for a 3rd straight week and every day this week, driven by risk-on flows with long buys outpacing short sales (1.6 to 1)
It’s worth nothing that (1) the recent streak of buying in US Info Tech came after the sector was net sold in 10 of the previous 12 weeks, and (2) this week’s notional long buying in the sector was the largest in more than 10 years (+1.6 z score), pointing to a positive turn in sentiment. Source: Goldman, Neil Sethi @neilksethi
