As of January 19th, NVIDIA $NVDA and Microsoft $MSFT had accounted for about 75% of the S&P 500's gain this year, while the 20 largest stocks in the index accounted for 110% of the index's upside move
The remaining ~480 stocks were acting as a drag. Source: Bespoke
As stocks hit all-time highs, hedge funds are massively shorting stocks Goldman trading desk: "equity skeptics have piled on short bets
Per our Prime Team, shorts outpaced longs by 2:1 this past week, and 3:1 YTD. " Source: Goldman Sachs, www.zerohedge.com
India is set to overtake Hong Kong to become the world's fourth-largest stock market. It may happen this week assuming current trajectories hold
Source: David Ingles, Bloomberg
A tale of 2 markets: The sp500 closed at an all-time high. But the Russell 2000 is still in a bear market, down more than 20% from its high
That's never happened before. Source: Bloomberg, Jason Goepfert
You've probably heard Chinese stocks are cheap. This chart takes that to a whole new level.
The Hang Seng Index's P/E is now below the Nasdaq's P/B. Those two valuation ratios should not even be anywhere close one another. Source: David Ingles, Bloomberg
Another day, another loss for chinese stocks.
According to Guotai Junan Futures, there are about 30 billion yuan ($4.2 billion) of snowball derivatives products tied to the CSI 1000 Index are near levels that trigger losses at maturity, according to Guotai Junan Futures Co, as the stock rout in China's stock market pushes the derivatives to near knock-in levels. Another 60 billion yuan of the derivatives are 5%-10% away from their knock-in thresholds! Source: www.zerohedge.com
Fortune favors the patient investor. NASDAQ Returns By Year Since Inception
by Quartr
You’d think there would be more IPOs considering how well stocks have been doing the past year+ all around the world...
Supply is clearly not an issue for tech stock market. Basically we have huge supply coming on the G7 bonds side (to finance growing budget deficits) and shrinking supply on the equity side. make your choice... Source: Topdown charts
