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20 Aug 2024

Retail investors are all in

Retail investors' inflows into U.S. stocks jumped over the last 2 weeks to their highest levels in at least 12 months. Aggregate net retail 5-day moving average purchases have more than DOUBLED in a month and hit~$1.7 billion last week. This comes after the S&P 500 fell ~7%, providing what proved to be a buying opportunity. Following the inflows, the S&P 500 surged over 8% from its low and is now 1.5% away from a new all time high. The risk appetite for stocks is still strong. Source: FT, The Kobeissi Letter

20 Aug 2024

real price of excellence

Source: Investment Wisdom

19 Aug 2024

A person who invested $10k in the S&P 500 $SPY in 1993 would have faced:

• Asian Crisis, 1997 • Dotcom bubble, 2000 • GFC, 2007 • EU debt crisis, 2010 • Global pandemic, 2020 • Numerous recessions Yet, their initial investment would be worth $195k today (10% CAGR). Source: @KoyfinCharts

19 Aug 2024

Buffett highlights the difference between a good business and a good investment:

Source: Investment wisdom

15 Aug 2024

The natural trend of global markets is to go up

Source: BofA

15 Aug 2024

Michael Burry has made Chinese Internet Stocks his biggest holdings

His #1 holding is Alibaba which was worth $11.2 million at the end of the last quarter. Source: Barchart, CNBC

15 Aug 2024

Value investor Seth Klarman cuts his stake in Alphabet and buys Humana

Source: Bloomberg

14 Aug 2024

If you invested $1 in Altria, you would have $2.6 million today, making it the best-performing stock in history, according to research from Arizona State

Altria has generated a cumulative compound return of 265,528,900.62% since data began being recorded. Here are the others. Source: Barchart

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