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16 Aug 2023

US stock market current mood in one picture

Source: Heisenberg - Mr_Derivatives

15 Aug 2023

BofA’s private clients have been dumping growth stocks while loading on Japan equities

Source: The Daily Shot, BofA

14 Aug 2023

The biggest money in investing comes from patience and time

Your biggest edge as an individual investor comes from ignoring short-term fluctuations and playing the long game. Source: Peter Mallouk, Charlie Bilello

14 Aug 2023

The power of compounding: What a difference 2% make!

Source: Michel A.Arouet, BofA

14 Aug 2023

The best performance stocks in the S&P 500 this year...

Source: Charlie Bilello

14 Aug 2023

With “risk free” rates above 5%, the typically low-growth, high-dividend payers in the sp500 are massively underperforming in 2023

The 101 non-dividend payers are up 20.4% YTD, while the 100 highest yielders in the index are down an average of 3.5% on a total return basis. Source: Bespoke

14 Aug 2023

According to Morgan Stanley research last year. $AAPL has an estimated 860 million subscriptions sold

If this is correct, Apple could raise the monthly price by $1 per month on these subscriptions and generate an incremental $10 billion per year in revenue. Apple has set themselves up with a simple pricing lever that can generate incremental high-margin returns for years ahead. Source: Morgan Stanley, Joseph Carlson

14 Aug 2023

From T.I.N.A (There is No Alternatives to risk assets) to T.A.R.A (There Are Reasonable Alternatives, i.e bonds)

Three years ago in August 2020, the S&P’s dividend yield (in red below) was 1.8%, almost 50 bps higher than the highest yield on the treasury curve. Every treasury note with a duration shorter than 5 years had a yield below 0.2% and the 1-month was almost ZERO. Fast forward to today and the S&P’s dividend yield of 1.55% is 260 bps lower than the lowest point on the treasury curve right now (the 10-year at 4.15%). And the 1-month T-bill yielding at 5.34% is 380 basis points higher than the S&P’s dividend yield. Source: Bespoke

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