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25 Mar 2025

📢 Pension Funds and Target Funds could buy a combined $105 Billion of U.S. Stocks for monthly/quarterly rebalancing, according to UBS 🚀 🚀🚀

Source: Barchart

24 Mar 2025

🎈 Happy Anniversary, Dot-Com Bubble.

On this day 25 years ago — March 24, 2000 — the S&P 500 hit a peak it wouldn’t revisit until 2007. Three days later, the Nasdaq 100 reached its final all-time high… for the next 15 years.

24 Mar 2025

The army of retail investors is fighting the US stock market:

Mom-and-pop investors have bought US equities for 7 days STRAIGHT ending Wednesday. Individuals have sold stocks on net only in 7 trading sessions out of 52 in 2025. Is the army of retail investors going to win? Source: Global Markets Investor @GlobalMktObserv

24 Mar 2025

This is one of the longer periods of time that the dollar and sp500 have lost value in tandem over the past few decades.

Source: FT https://lnkd.in/ev-fwEtA

21 Mar 2025

Magnificent 7 stocks are more exposed to global growth risks than S&P 493

(but would take advantage of a weaker dollar) Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA, Goldman Sachs

20 Mar 2025

CTAs are short -$34B of US equities and long $52B of European equities.

This is the largest spread we have EVER seen. $SPY $QQQ $IWM $FEZ Source: David Marlin Marlin Capital Solutions

19 Mar 2025

Fund Managers just rotated OUT OF U.S. Stocks at the fastest pace in history

source :BofA

19 Mar 2025

How often do market corrections lead to a recession in the US?

There have been 60 S&P 500 corrections including the most recent one, according to Deutsche Bank analysis. Historically, in 12% of corrections, a recession had already begun in the previous 12 months. 32% of the time a recession took place within the next 12 months. In 56% of corrections, the US avoided an economic downturn within the next 12 months. In other words, market corrections are only accompanied by a recession ~44% of the time. Can we avoid a recession this time? Source: The Kobeissi Letter

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