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6 May 2024

Apple has bought back $625 billion in stock over the past 10 years, which is greater than the market cap of 492 companies in the S&P 500.

$AAPL Source: Charlie Bilello

3 May 2024

Stocks, bonds and cryptos rally following soft US jobs data.

Hiring slows to 175,000 jobs in April way below the forecasted 240k. This is the lowest figure since Oct 2023’s +165k. Household survey came in below forecasts as well with unemployment rate rising to 3.9% from March's 3.8%. Wage growth slows to 0.2% MoM vs 0.3% expected. Note that 0.2% is consistent with 2% inflation. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

3 May 2024

If you had invested $10,000 into Peloton $PTON at its peak in January 2021 and held to today you'd currently have ... $174

Source: Evan, Ycharts

3 May 2024

BREAKING: Apple $AAPL climbed 7% in extended trading after the company announces a $110 BILLION share buyback.

Apple reported quarterly revenue of $90.8 billion and EPS of $1.53, both of which were above expectations. However, revenue in Greater China was down by 8.1% and iPhone sales fell 10%. Apple did not provide formal guidance, but Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC’s Steve Kovach that overall sales would “grow low single digits” during the June quarter. Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Birinyi Associates. Apple is the latest tech giant to announce a massive share buyback after $META and $GOOGL. We are on track to see over $1 trillion in share buybacks this year for the first time in history. Mixed earnings but buybacks are all the market wants. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

2 May 2024

The gains in equities & bonds during the Fed meeting were completely wiped out by the market by the end.

Nasdaq 100 closed 0.7% lower, and US 10y yields pared most of their drop. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

2 May 2024

16 years of Mastercard vs Visa.

Both $MA (21.6%) and $V (20.9%) have remarkable CAGRs over that period. They have been pretty correlated throughout the period, taking over the world in unison. Source: Bloomberg, KoyfinCharts

2 May 2024

Chinese Stocks enter technical bull market after rallying 20% off the Jan 22 low

Source: Barchart

1 May 2024

Asset Managers are the most long U.S. equity Futures in AT LEAST the last 12 years 👀

Source: Barchart, JP Morgan

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