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5 Jun 2024

Nvidia is within single digits now of becoming the world's most valuable company $NVDA

•5% away from Apple •6% away from Canada •9% away from Microsoft Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

4 Jun 2024

Best May for the S&P 500 in 15 years.

Looking at the 10 best monthly returns ever in May showed the future returns were quite impressive. When May return was above 4%, the rest of year up was double the average year (10.5% vs 4.9%) and June was up 1.0% on average vs negative. Source: Carson, Ryan Detrick

4 Jun 2024

BREAKING: Mexico's stock market ETF, $EWW, crashes 11% after as the Mexican stock market posts its worst day since 2008.

The Mexican Peso also lost 4.5% against the US Dollar in its biggest one-day drop in years. This comes after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as the next president of Mexico. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

4 Jun 2024

Interesting technical development for the uranium mining stocks with the $URA ETF trading at a 10-year high while sector leader Cameco $CCJ is trading at a new all-time-high.

Source: J-C Parets

4 Jun 2024

Low-volatility regimes can last longer than you think.

Source: Mark Ungewitter

3 Jun 2024

This is why you keep buying.

Source: Dividendology

3 Jun 2024

The $SPX is the most concentrated since 1964.

Restated, it has been 60 years since four stocks have accounted for this big a share of the $SPX. Source: Jim Bianco

3 Jun 2024

Exit polls show a clear victory for Prime Minister Modi’s party BJP + allies (called NDA = National Democratic Alliance).

The market is likely to view this very favorably, expecting another 5 years of policy stability, reforms and visibility on growth. Source: Bloomberg, David Ingles

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