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17 Dec 2024

To put things into perspective:

Chip specialist Broadcom has added $324bn to its market value in just 2 days—exceeding the entire market value of Germany's largest company, SAP, which is worth $310bn. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

17 Dec 2024

This is crazy: 11 consecutive days of more decliners than advancers in the S&P500.

First time since Sept 11, 2001 Source: zerohedge

17 Dec 2024

BREAKING 🚨: Japan

Japanese Stocks $EWJ formed a Death Cross for the first time since December 2021 ☠️ The last one saw stocks enter a bear market with a plunge of more than 30%. Source: Barchart

16 Dec 2024

US stocks now make up 65% of the global equity market, their highest weighting in history.

This is more than 11x bigger than the second largest country by market cap (Japan at 5.5%). Source; Charlie Bilello

16 Dec 2024

🚨 The S&P 500 P/E Ratios Heat Map.

What do you notice? $SPY Source: Jesse Cohen @JesseCohenInv

16 Dec 2024

European Stocks trading at an all-time record discount relative to US Stocks

Source: Barchart, Blackrock

13 Dec 2024

🚨Only 32% of the S&P 500 firms have outperformed the index year-to-date after 29% in 2023, one of the lowest readings on record.

In other words, 32% of companies gained more than 27% this year. In the past, this happened only once, in the 1998-1999 Dot-Com Bubble. Source: Global Markets Investor

13 Dec 2024

BREAKING: Corporate executives are now selling their stock at record levels, with the ratio of sellers to buyers hitting 6x.

Why are insiders cashing out? Source. The Kobeissi Letter, FT

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