Interesting point by HolgerZ on X. Unlike on Wall Street – big stocks in germany are still doing well, while small stocks are struggling.
This can be seen in the ratio of the Benchmark Index Dax to the Mid-Cap-Index MDax, which hit its highest level since 2011. This could be because the economy isn't doing great, and small companies are more affected by this. The Purchasing Managers' Index for Germany dropped below make-or-break 50 this week, highlighting Germany's economic challenges. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Small Cap Stocks $IWM are on track to outperform the S&P 500 $SPX in July by the biggest margin in 24 years
Source: Barchart, Bloomberg
This week equity markets continued the rotation that began earlier this month, with small-cap stocks and value and cyclical sectors all outperforming mega-cap technology and growth sectors.
Source: Edward Jones
India quickly catches up to China as the world’s largest emerging market.
Indian stocks comprise nearly 20% of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, while China has dropped to a quarter from 40% in 2020. The narrowing gap has become one of the biggest issues for investors in emerging markets this year as they debate whether to put capital into an already red-hot Indian market, or into Chinese stocks that are relatively cheap, but are being hit by an econ slowdown. https://lnkd.in/ddkSqFy5 Source: FT, Charlie Bilello
The last time Tech stocks were at these levels relative to the S&P500, Tech stocks crashed, particularly relative to the rest of the market.
Source: J-C Parets
One for the Bulls... As shown below, during this tech pullback, forward 12-months EPS in tech has actually ticked higher.
So you could argue that this is mostly a positioning and sentiment pullback, especially in tech... Source: Bloomberg, RBC
CTAs will dump stocks over the next week in EVERY SINGLE SCENARIO warns Goldman Sachs.
If the market trades lower, CTAs are projected to sell more than $7 billion worth of equities.
So far in 2024, only 29.8% of the stocks in the S&P500 are outperforming the benchmark.
Source: Koyfin
