Goldman Sachs has upgraded its buyback forecast for 2024, anticipating a total of $925 billion in buybacks for S&P 500 companies, marking a 13% year-over-year increase.
They also took the opportunity to introduce a prediction for 2025: $1.075 trillion in buybacks, thus surpassing the trillion-dollar mark, setting a new historical record, and representing a 16% year-over-year growth. source : GS
There are no longer any companies in the $3 trillion market cap club.
source : bespoke
It has now been over a year since the S&P 500 had a one-day drop of 2%+.
- 3rd longest streak since 2000. - The S&P went 949 trading days (3.76 years!) from 5/19/03 to 2/26/07 without a one-day drop of 2%+. Source: bespoke
Global Equity Funds have seen inflows $84 billion over the last 6 weeks, the highest amount in 2 years
source : deutsche bank, barchart
The stock market rally continues in Germany.
The Dax is heading for its 9th daily gain in a row. The rally is being driven by the Dax "Glory 5" stocks - an index consisting of SAP, Siemens, Allianz, Munich Re, and Deutsche Telekom. These 5 stocks have outperformed the Dax Price Index by almost 100%-pts over a 10 year period. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Not all Tech stocks are magnificent...
$AAPL and $TSLA the main downside outliers...
6 out of the top 20 stocks in the SP500 this year are in the Semiconductor space
Nvidia once again leading everything w/ a gain of +66%. $NVDA . Source: Charlie Bilello
High global cost of capital hurts weak global balance sheets
Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, DRC, Iran, Türkiye, Argentina account for 12% of world population (>1bn people) and they are all hit by inflation rates >30% (Argentina 250%, Türkiye 60%, DRC 50%), interest rates >20% & pressure of currencies. Source: BofA
