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10 Jul 2024

The S&P 500 is up 16.9% in 2024, the 13th best start to a year going back to 1928 and the best start to a presidential election year in history.

$SPX Source: Charlie Bilello

10 Jul 2024

A good chart on how narrow the US market has been this year:

Source: Hidden Value Gems This was actually made originally by Grant Hawkridge https://lnkd.in/e8nwsZYA

8 Jul 2024

S&P500 concentration at the highest level in at least 60 years: 5 largest stocks within S&P 500 = 28.99%

As mentioned by Jim Bianco: The risk of the current S&P500 concentration is that one day the opposite happens: five stocks could kill the index funds while everything else outperforms... "Restated, one buys an index fund to get diversification. But with record concentration, they are not getting it". Source: Bianco Research

8 Jul 2024

Almost half of the S&P500 is now essentially tech...

Source: Wisdom Tree, Mike Zaccardi

8 Jul 2024

The US equities market explained in one image

Source: Trend Spider

8 Jul 2024

Can it really be only 7 stocks if the equally-weighted index with 100 stocks in it just went out at new all-time highs?

Source: J-C Parets, https://allstarcharts.com/

5 Jul 2024

Only 22% S&P500 stocks are outperforming the S&P500 index this year

Source: Grant Hawkridge

5 Jul 2024

The sp500 ended the day at another all-time high, its 33rd of the year.

$SPX Source: Charlie Bilello

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