🚨: S&P 500 $SPY finished with its lowest volume in 18 years (excluding holiday-shortened trading days)
Source: Barchart
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...
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
Just 3 stocks - Microsoft $MSFT, Nvidia $NVDA, and Apple $AAPL - now account for 20% of the S&P 500
Source: Barchart
* Goldman Sees ‘Wall of Money’ Fueling Stock Market’s Summer Party
Source: Carl Quintanilla, Bloomberg
Another NVDA chart
Source: zerohedge
It’s official: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft are now bigger than China’s entire stock market.
Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com
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
