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7 Jun 2024

What US stock market concentration? Exhibit below

courtesy of Morgan Stanley and Factset - shows the market concentration at the end of 2023 for a dozen of the largest markets around the world. The U.S. is the fourth MOST DIVERSIFIED market notwithstanding the recent increase in concentration...

6 Jun 2024

BREAKING: Nvidia stock, $NVDA, officially crosses above $1,200 for the first time in history.

Nvidia now has a market cap of $2.95 TRILLION and is just 3% away from passing Apple, $AAPL, as the largest public company in the world. To put things into perspective: the market cap per employee of Nvidia has hit almost $100,000,000. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

6 Jun 2024

Just 3 stocks - Microsoft $MSFT, Nvidia $NVDA, and Apple $AAPL - now account for 20% of the S&P 500

Source: Barchart

6 Jun 2024

* Goldman Sees ‘Wall of Money’ Fueling Stock Market’s Summer Party

Source: Carl Quintanilla, Bloomberg

6 Jun 2024

Another NVDA chart

Source: zerohedge

6 Jun 2024

It’s official: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft are now bigger than China’s entire stock market.

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

6 Jun 2024

Michael Mauboussin latest research about stock market concentration: "How much is too much?"

Please read Michael Mauboussin’s (head of Morgan Stanley’s Consilient Research) latest article in which he argues that the rising concentration in the US stock market indices is justified by the companies’ underlying fundamentals. The article can be freely accessed on the Morgan Stanley Investment Management website. Source: Consilient Research for Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Counterpoint Global

5 Jun 2024

Nvidia $NVDA hit a new all-time high today of $1,166 and has passed Apple to become the 2nd largest holding in the S&P 500.

$SPY $NVDA $AAPL Source: Charlie Bilello

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