Tencent's stock crashes 16% in minutes after Beijing released draft guidelines aimed at curbing incentives that could lead to excessive gaming and spending
Tencent is China's largest public company and the drop erased ~$55 billion of market cap. This also marks the biggest one-day drop for the company since 2008. Note that NetEase sank by as much as 28% to HK$117.30, breaking briefly below a key technical support offered by a February low at around HK$120.70. In mid-afternoon trade, NetEase shares pared losses to trade down about 20% at HK$129. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, CNBC
Tavi Costa -> Brazilian equity markets have experienced near-record foreign investments in the last month
Despite all the skepticism about $EWZ is outperforming the S&P 500 by 23 percentage points in the last 2 years. The aggregate market cap of Brazilian stocks relative to its overall money supply remains near historical lows. Source: Crescat Capital, Bloomberg
FedEx is not the market, but...
...has moved in perfect tandem with thee SPX for some time. Source: The Market Ear, Refinitiv
Steno Research -> Big miss from FedEx leading to a >10% nosedive in the stock price
FedEx is the economy and air freight was particularly disappointing here Given the strong correlation between FedEx and the cyclical economy, this speaks against expecting a strong comeback in 2024 Source: Steno Research, Macrobond, Bloomberg
BREAKING : Short Sellers
U.S. Stock Short Sellers have lost a reported $145 billion this year. Complete wipeout Source: Barchart
58% of US households own stocks, the highest percentage on record
Source: Charlie Bilello
The gap between the Magnificent 7 and the S&P 493 (remaining 493 companies) is now 63%
This year, the Magnificent7 is up a massive 75% while the remaining 493 companies are up just 12%. Combined, the S&P 500 is up ~25%, more than doubling the S&P 493's total return. In other words, the Magnificent 7 is up 3 TIMES as much as the S&P 500 and ~6 TIMES as much as the S&P 493. Just 7 weeks ago, the S&P 493 was DOWN 2% this year. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
The stock market spent 2022 steadily declining and 2023 steadily gaining, to generally wind up about where it started
Source: Peter Mallouk
