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13 Feb 2024

Did you know that there's another group of stocks that has kept pace with the Mag 7?

The largest companies in Europe have staged a rather impressive rally over the last three years as well! Source: Markets & Mayhem

12 Feb 2024

2024 YTD S&P 500 Returns by Sector

source : pauldejong

12 Feb 2024

The 100 Most Valuable Brands in the World are Worth more than $5 Trillion

source : visualcapitalist

12 Feb 2024

Record inflow to EM equities

Emerging Market Stocks see a weekly inflow of $20.8 billion, the most in history source : BofA, barchart

12 Feb 2024

Bezos Sells $2 Billion of Amazon Shares in First Major Stock Sale Since 2021

Jeff Bezos unloaded 12 million shares of Amazon.com Inc. this week, the first time the billionaire has sold the company’s stock since 2021. The Amazon founder has sold over $30 billion in shares since records going back to 2002, including about $20 billion combined in 2020 and 2021. He has primarily been gifting stock, including shares worth roughly $230 million that were given to nonprofit organizations in November. source : yahoo!finance, bloomberg

12 Feb 2024

The rally on Wall Street has meant that US equities now have a weighting of ~70% in the popular MSCI World index.

That is a record. The risk is correspondingly high if US equities go out of fashion. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

12 Feb 2024

In the long run, stock prices go up...

Source: BofA

12 Feb 2024

The negative correlation between the us dollar with stocks (and other risk assets) has been strong for quite some time.

Meanwhile, US Dollar Index Futures are up every single week this year. Has this relationship now changed, or is the unwind about to come? Source: JC Parets

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