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18 Jan 2024

Fortune favors the patient investor. NASDAQ Returns By Year Since Inception

by Quartr

18 Jan 2024

China’s economy spooks markets, and stocks sink.

The CSI 300 has underperformed the S&P 500 by >40ppts over the year. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

18 Jan 2024

You’d think there would be more IPOs considering how well stocks have been doing the past year+ all around the world...

Supply is clearly not an issue for tech stock market. Basically we have huge supply coming on the G7 bonds side (to finance growing budget deficits) and shrinking supply on the equity side. make your choice... Source: Topdown charts

17 Jan 2024

Japanese companies profits are surging

but that's not translating into rising domestic wages, keeping a lid on domestic inflationary pressures, and allowing easy monetary & FX policy to persist. The main winners are japan equity investors. Source: DB, Bob Elliott, The Daily Shot

17 Jan 2024

The valuation gap between the S&P 500 $SPX and the rest of the world continues to widen

Source: FT, Barchart

17 Jan 2024

China stocks cbear market continues unabated

As Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index tumbled 3.06% afterweaker than expected GDP numbers were released, while China’s CSI 300 index shed 0.73%. Meanwhile, AMC Nomura Nikkei 225 ETF went limit up today after Chinese traders ignored warnings to avoid chasing gains in Japanese Stocks. This ETF trades with a 9.5% premium over its net asset value... Source: Bloomberg, Barchart

16 Jan 2024

The silent bullmarket...

Global mutual funds' active weighting of Japanese stocks has not risen in the past six months. Source: TME, Factse

16 Jan 2024

Current market mood...

Source: Michel A.Arouet

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