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19 Aug 2025

Japan’s Nikkei 225 is finally breaking out to new all-time highs.

It took 35 years to surpass the 1989 highs. Source: J-C Parets

19 Aug 2025

Chinese Stocks jump to highest prices in more than a decade

Source: Barchart

19 Aug 2025

Just 6 companies make up 32.5% of the SP500

Source: Carbon Finance

19 Aug 2025

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sold 20 million $AAPL shares last quarter reducing its Apple position's value to just $57.4 billion, the smallest in more than 5 years 🚨🚨

Source: Barchart @Barchart, FT

18 Aug 2025

Last week we have see an interesting sector / size /style rotation within us equities.

The chart below - courtesy of Edward Jones - shows weekly returns for various indexes following the CPI release. Lagging segments of the market appeared to receive a boost from rising expectations of rate cuts. Source: Edward Jones

18 Aug 2025

$RSP (Equal Weight S&P 500) vs $SPY (S&P 500 Worst relative performance since the Global Financial Crisis.

Source: Trend Spider

18 Aug 2025

Fund management is a rough business... especially when you try to beat the sp500

Source: Invest in Assets

15 Aug 2025

The S&P 100 now has 27.2% of its total value in stocks that have a P/E of at least 50.

There is only one company that has a P/E below 10. Source: Jeff Weniger

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