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14 Nov 2024

Will the "Trump trade" start top fade in December?

Goldman Sachs' trader John Flood highlighted the 2016 analogs: the 3 trades depicted below (Domestic vs. International sales, Cyclicals vs. Defensives, Small-caps vs. Large-caps) skyrocketed in November 2016 but ALL started to fade in December 2016, going nowhere in Q1 2017. Could we see something similar in December and Q1 2025 ? Source: www.zerohedge.com, Goldman Sachs

14 Nov 2024

BofA (Woodward):

"the net supply of US equities has shrunk -$473bn. The steady growth of buybacks, a key source of demand, has overwhelmed sources of new supply such as share issuance, IPOs, and stock-based compensation." So basically we have: 1) US stocks: shrinking supply, (ever-) increasing demand 2) US Treasuries: rising supply, decreasing demand Source: Neil Sethi

14 Nov 2024

The king reports earnings exactly ONE WEEK from today. $NVDA

Source: TrendSpider

11 Nov 2024

$SPY The S&P 500 had its best-performing week of 2024. Here are the top-performing stocks from last week: 👇🏻

Source: The Future Investors @ftr_investors

8 Nov 2024

FLOWMAGEDDON: A Trump-inspired gusher of cash is flowing into risk-on ETFs, +$22b in one day is absurd, that is normally a good WEEK.

YTD net flows now +$856b, (55b away from annual record) and the rolling 1-year has passed $1T Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg

8 Nov 2024

Following the election, the SP500 typically rallies through inauguration day before moderating.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond, Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA, The Daily Shot

8 Nov 2024

BlackRock had its LARGEST inflow in history with 14,588

Only 450 $BTC were mined...

7 Nov 2024

Another day, another record: The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 now account for a record 37% of the index.

This percentage officially exceeds peak levels seen during the 2000 Dot-Com bubble by 10 percentage points. Over the last decade, the market concentration has more than DOUBLED. Furthermore, the top 10 stocks alone now have a market cap of ~$18.7 TRILLION. This means that the top 10 stocks in the US now have a combined market cap that is $1 trillion higher than the entire European stock market. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

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