The bond-stock correlation is crashing to its lowest level in months...
Source: www.zerohedge.com
Buffett's Berkshire Beats the S&P 500 in Jan 2024 by 6%
Berkshire Hathaway outperformed the S&P 500 by an impressive 6% in January 2024, marking the fourth highest monthly outperformance over the last decade. Despite Apple, which represents 50% of Berkshire's portfolio, being down more than 3% (indicated by white bars), Berkshire's value soared. In an extraordinary display in November 2018, despite Apple's plunge of over 18%, Berkshire Hathaway saw an increase of more than 4%. source : John Haslett, CA(SA), FRM, Graphite Asset Advisory
Nvidia's market cap is now over $100 billion higher than all of the companies in the S&P 500 energy sector ... combined. $NVDA $XLE
Source: Charlie Bilello
The short term gap is huge. NASDAQ futs vs US 10 year (inv), 10 min 3 mths chart.
Source: TME
Who did it better? $NVDA or $CSCO in 2000?
On this day in 1996: Apple cover story “The Fall Of An American Icon.” Source: Jon Erlichman
Expensive for a reason...
Since December 2019, the Magnificent 7 stocks collectively delivered a 28% annualized return. Of this, approximately 27% is attributable to earnings growth (21% sales growth and 6% margin expansion) with only 1% due to multiple expansion. In contrast, earnings drove only 13% of the S&P 500’s 17% annualized return since 2019. Looking forward, Goldman expect revenue growth will be the key driver of returns for the Magnificent 7 stocks. Bottom-up consensus expects the seven companies will collectively grow sales at a 12% CAGR through 2026 compared with an 3% CAGR for the remaining 493 companies in the S&P 500 index.
BREAKING: WILD morning in Chinese markets. Nearly 30% of all stocks in China have been halted as China's CSI 1000 index slides 8% in a matter of hours.
CSI 1000 was down nearly 9% at one point. The more broadly tracker indexes CSI 300, HSI, HSTECH reversed most losses in the morning Source: Bloomberg, David Ingles
Friday's market action tells a lot about what's currently going on
1) US large-caps equities index recorded strong gains ($SPX +1.07%; $NDX +1.69%) thanks to huge advance by $META (+20%) and $AMZN (+7%); 2) Underneath the surface, there is some selling taking place - the S&P 500 equally weight is DOWN -0.08% on the day. We need to see decent market breath for the equity bull market extend as the mag7 (or rather the "mag 4" as leadership is even more narrow than in 2023) will not be able to carry the market forward for ever... Source: Bloomberg
