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22 Apr 2025

The BofA Fund manager survey can be used as a great contrarian indicator.

Even BofA's Hartnett is mocking how contrarian his Fund Manager Survey has become... Source: zerohedge

22 Apr 2025

Warren Buffett looks at market cap-to-GDP as one indicator for how frothy or cheap the markets may be.

The S&P 500 recently traded around 168% market cap-to-GDP vs the global equity markets at around 90%. That suggests US stocks are .. exceptionally expensive. Chart: Goldman, Markets & Mayhem

22 Apr 2025

🚨The US stock market $SPY is now the 2nd worst out of 45 country ETFs since President Trump's term began in January.

The US is down 14% versus the average country that's up 3.7%. Germany $EWG is outperforming the US by 25 percentage points.🚨 Source: Bespoke

21 Apr 2025

Here's how every stock in the SP500 has performed so far in 2025 Wall Street 2025 Performance:

🔴 $DIA is down 8% 🔴 $SPY 500 is down 10.1% 🔴 $QQQ is down 15.6% 🔴 $IWM 2000 is down 15.7% 🟢 $VIX is up 70.9% Source: Bloomberg

18 Apr 2025

Hermes $RMS Q1 2025

"Despite a high comparison basis in the first quarter, the group achieved solid growth in sales, thanks to the trust of its customers and the commitment of the teams, whom I thank warmly." – Axel Dumas, CEO Revenue growth by business line: Source: Quartr

18 Apr 2025

$ASML CFO on the potential impact of tariffs:

—Tariffs could impact ASML across 4 critical supply chain categories —Actively working to mitigate tariff-related risks across its ecosystem —Timing & magnitude of Tariff-induced demand shocks are still too early to quantify Source: The Transcript @TheTranscript

16 Apr 2025

Here’s how Wall Street’s year end 2025 targets for the S&P 500 have changed

Source: Blossom @meetblossomapp, Yahoo Finance

15 Apr 2025

"There are three distinct categories of bear market."

- Goldman Sachs Source: Daily Chartbook @dailychartbook

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