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15 Jan 2025

Shocking stat of the day: The market cap of the SP500’s top 5 stocks is now equal to the size of the bottom 407 stocks.

Apple, $AAPL, Nvidia, $NVDA, Microsoft, $MSFT, Google, $GOOGL, and Amazon, $AMZN are worth now a combined $15.3 trillion. These companies have added $5 TRILLION in market value since the beginning of last year. To put this into perspective, these 5 stocks are worth now nearly as much as China and Hong Kong's stock markets COMBINED. The top 5 companies reflect a record 24% of the entire US stock market cap. Source: Compound, The Kobeissi Letter

14 Jan 2025

Did powerlines cause the Los Angeles wildfires?

Edison International stock, $EIX, the parent company of Southern CA Edison, is currently crashing. It's now down -30% since the fires began, erasing $10 BILLION of market cap. Could this be the next big bankruptcy? Source: The Kobeissi Letter

14 Jan 2025

Are Insurance stocks set to collapse?

LA wildfires have officially spread over 40,000 acres with INSURANCE LOSSES crossing $20 billion. Since the market closed on Friday, ESTIMATED DAMAGES have TRIPLED to $150 billion. Insurance, power company, and other corporate bankruptcies could emerge from this. As seen with the PG&E bankruptcy in 2019 after the Camp Fire disaster, these events can create economic ripple effects. E.g many bonds will be downgraded to "Junk" rating in the near future. Could LA wildfires cause an economic ripple effect? Source: The Kobeissi Letter

13 Jan 2025

Europeans own much less stocks than those in the US

Source: GD, Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA

10 Jan 2025

Breadth matters. And what we currently see on us equities does not look healthy.

Here is a visual of the % of stocks outperforming the S&P500: ALL TIME LOWS. In other words, concentration risk measured in this way beats 2000 lows. Source: Samantha LaDuc on X, GS

9 Jan 2025

It’s Shorts Weather

A basket of 50 heavily-shorted stocks tracked by Goldman Sachs with market caps of at least $1 billion apiece is down 3.2% on the day as of 1:30 p.m. ET, undoing what had been a very strong start to the year. source : gs, bloomberg

9 Jan 2025

Quantum computing stocks crash after AI godfather Jensen Huang exploded the quantum computing bubble with 3 lines:

"If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side. If you said 30 is probably on the late side. But if you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would believe it." Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

8 Jan 2025

Probably nothing

Source: Bianco Research L.L.C.

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