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22 Aug 2025

Belated "Nixon closing the gold window anniversary" post

SPX priced in gold (blue) v. SPX priced in USD (red) since August 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window. Source: Luke Gromen @LukeGromen

21 Aug 2025

Speculators have built the largest short small cap stock futures position in at least the last decade

Source: Barchart, Bloomberg

21 Aug 2025

People who bought Palantir last week

(Palantir has officially entered bear market territory). Source: Not Jerome Powell

21 Aug 2025

Another day of rotation out of tech

Source: Daily sp500 heat map by Finwiz

20 Aug 2025

Since the April 8 low, the SP500 has rallied by 30%.

This is powered by a 50% surge in Mag7 stocks, while the rest of the S&P 500 members gained 21%. Source: Augur Infinity on X

20 Aug 2025

On this day in 2004: Google went public at a valuation of $23 billion.

Today, it’s worth $2.5 trillion. Source: Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman on X

20 Aug 2025

Nasdaq and Bitcoin often trade in the same direction

Source: www.zerohedge.com, LSEG workspace

20 Aug 2025

Stocks and rate-cut expectations have decoupled significantly since the start of the Summer... will they start to move in sync after Jackson Hole ?

Source: zerohedge

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