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28 Aug 2023

25 Years of $LVMH Revenue Growth per Business Group

Visualized by Quartr

25 Aug 2023

After the outstanding Nvidia figures and outlook, analysts have raised the avg price target for the chip giant from $520 to $620

Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

25 Aug 2023

Chinese stocks slid in early Friday trading, an indication of entrenched investor pessimism even after authorities urged the nation’s top financial institutions to help stabilize a struggling market.

The CSI 300 Index of shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen dropped as much as 0.7% shortly after the opening bell, extending its slump this month to 7.7% and keeping it as one of the world’s worst performers this year. A key gauge of Hong Kong-listed Chinese firms declined a maximum 1.3%. The selling came after the China Securities Regulatory Commission used a seminar Thursday with executives from the country’s pension fund, some large banks and insurers to ask them to boost support for the market. The market’s indifference isn’t necessarily a surprise, given regulators have held similar meetings regularly in the past and they have rarely had a significant impact. Source: Bloomberg

25 Aug 2023

NASDAQ's bearish cross. The 21 day has now crossed the 50 day moving average.

NASDAQ futures putting in the biggest down candle in a long time and it looks like we have a new short term trend channel to watch. Source: TME

25 Aug 2023

The median year since 1928 has experienced a 13% intra-year drawdown in the S&P 500, making 2023 relatively mild by comparison

The 7.8% pullback in February-March is the largest thus far. Soruce: Charlie Bilello

25 Aug 2023

Strange day on Wall Street. Despite Nvidia blockbuster earnings the Nasdaq is in the red

Within $SPX the pockets of strength are in real estate, utilities, financials, healthcare, and consumer defensives. Low vol is outperforming high beta. There are rotations to safer parts of the market happening underneath the surface. Source: Markets Mayhem, Bloomberg

25 Aug 2023

A fresh increase in the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model reinforces the reasoning behind hawkish-for-longer monetary policy, which is weighing on equities and bonds

The latest model estimate shows real 3Q GDP growth of 5.9%, up from 5.8% on Aug. 16 (it was less than 4% two weeks ago). Source: J-C Gand, Atlanta Fed

24 Aug 2023

Since the COVID Crash lows in March 2020, US equity markets have more than doubled the performance of bonds

As shown below, that's the best performance ever over a similar time window, topping the strongest stocks-bonds outperformance from the tech bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Source: Bespoke, J-C Gand

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