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25 Mar 2025

National Capitalism and the Trump Effect on Investment Pledges in the US 👇

Hyundai — $20 Billion UAE — $1.4 Trillion Saudi Arabia — $600 Billion Apple — $500 Billion Softbank, Open AI, Oracle — $100 Billion Nvidia — $100 Billion + Johnson & Johnson — $55 Billion Taiwan Semiconductor — $100 Billlion CMA CGM Group — $20 Billion Eli Lilly — $27 Billion Merck — $1 Billion GE Aerospace — $1 Billion Roughly $ 3 Trillion in new direct investment into America in the first few weeks of the Trump Administration. Source: Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11, FoxNews

25 Mar 2025

📢 Pension Funds and Target Funds could buy a combined $105 Billion of U.S. Stocks for monthly/quarterly rebalancing, according to UBS 🚀 🚀🚀

Source: Barchart

24 Mar 2025

🎈 Happy Anniversary, Dot-Com Bubble.

On this day 25 years ago — March 24, 2000 — the S&P 500 hit a peak it wouldn’t revisit until 2007. Three days later, the Nasdaq 100 reached its final all-time high… for the next 15 years.

24 Mar 2025

The army of retail investors is fighting the US stock market:

Mom-and-pop investors have bought US equities for 7 days STRAIGHT ending Wednesday. Individuals have sold stocks on net only in 7 trading sessions out of 52 in 2025. Is the army of retail investors going to win? Source: Global Markets Investor @GlobalMktObserv

24 Mar 2025

This is one of the longer periods of time that the dollar and sp500 have lost value in tandem over the past few decades.

Source: FT https://lnkd.in/ev-fwEtA

21 Mar 2025

Magnificent 7 stocks are more exposed to global growth risks than S&P 493

(but would take advantage of a weaker dollar) Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA, Goldman Sachs

20 Mar 2025

CTAs are short -$34B of US equities and long $52B of European equities.

This is the largest spread we have EVER seen. $SPY $QQQ $IWM $FEZ Source: David Marlin Marlin Capital Solutions

19 Mar 2025

Fund Managers just rotated OUT OF U.S. Stocks at the fastest pace in history

source :BofA

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