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30 Oct 2024

🚨 MARKET EUPHORIA IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT🚨

Asset managers' net long positions on the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq futures are now the second-highest in 15 YEARS. They are now only slightly below the 2021 levels seen before the 2022 bear market. Professionals are all in stocks. Source: Global Markets Investor

30 Oct 2024

The last time the S&P 500 rose more than 40% over 12 months was in 1987.

Source: The Great Martis @great_martis

30 Oct 2024

👎 BIG BREAKING >>> Super Micro Computer stock, $SMCI, falls 27% after Ernst & Young announces they refuse to audit the company going forward.

EY is "unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by management," the statement said. 🚨 $SMCI stock is imploding Source: CNBC

29 Oct 2024

Of the 100 largest companies (the S&P 100), there are 25 who are trading for more than 50x reported earnings.

Meantime, there are zero companies trading for less than 10x earnings. Source: Jeff Weniger

29 Oct 2024

US equities Bull markets go on longer than many of us think they will.

Source: Carson, RBC

28 Oct 2024

An image is worth 10,000 words...

The Trump trade visual (Republican basket index in red, Democrats basket in blue) Source: Bloomberg, GS, RBC

28 Oct 2024

European stocks are hit by a ‘Trump effect’ as odds tilt towards Republican win.

A basket of 22 European stocks exposed to US tariffs compiled by Goldman Sachs has tumbled 5% since late September as the former president’s odds of an election victory shorten. The basket, which includes Diageo, Porsche, Mercedes, Adidas or Moller Maersk is now down 11% this year, compared with an 8% rise for the broader European stock market and 22.5% for the S&P500. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

25 Oct 2024

Yesterday was the second biggest jump in Tesla $TSLA stock on record (+22%)

Only May 9, 2013 was bigger: that's when Tesla reported its first ever quarterly profit. Elon added $26BN to his net worth. Source: Bloomberg, zerohedge

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