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4 Jul 2024

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi has sold her Tesla, $TSLA, position worth ~$500,000.

She has also purchased an addition $1.2 million of Nvidia, $NVDA, and $5 million of Broadcom, $AVGO. Nancy Pelosi made millions buying nvidia, $NVDA, over the last two years. It appears that she is now doubling down on semiconductors stocks. Are chip stocks setting up for favorable legislation and/or US support ⁉ Source: The Kobeissi Letter

4 Jul 2024

What is the link between the Japanese index Topix and Taylor Swift?

Finally after 35 years Japan's Topix has topped its 1989 high, which on a completely unrelated note was hit a few days after the birth of Taylor Swift... Source: David Ingles, Bloomberg

4 Jul 2024

Here's the link to a great article from Sequoia which argues the tech industry needs $600B in AI revenue to justify the money spent on GPUs and data centers:

https://lnkd.in/exFU9Wdp Bottom-line >>> OpenAI is the biggest AI pure play and is at $3.4B annual run rate. This feels like a bubble unless products worth buying show up. Source: Sequoia, Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

4 Jul 2024

The last time the market was this lopsided, Lehman filed for bankruptcy

Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

4 Jul 2024

Nvidia in 2024 vs. Cisco Systems in 2000..

Nvidia recently earned the most valuable company in the world status with an EV of $3.3 trillion, a record 11.7% of total US GDP at its recent peak on June 18, more than twice as high as Cisco’s achievement in 2000. It also has an even richer multiple of 41 times revenues. Will be future growth be up to the lofty market expectations? Source: Crescat Capital, Bloomberg, Tavi Costa

4 Jul 2024

Outperformance of sp500 vs US 30-year Treasury bond is massive. What would it take to reverse the trend?

Source: Mac10

4 Jul 2024

Tesla is making the comeback of the year...

Tesla, $TSLA, is now the 12th largest public company in the world. Since the April 2024 low, Tesla stock is now up over 80% and has added $350 BILLION in market cap. The stock is also now just 1.5% away from being UP year-to-date after falling nearly 40% in the first 4 months. If $TSLA hits ~$257 per share, it will be one of the top 10 largest public companies in the world. Just 2 months ago, Tesla briefly fell off the top 20 list as worries over the EV market arose. Source: Kobeissi Letter

3 Jul 2024

$TLT, a popular bond-tracking ETF recorded a $2.7 billion inflow last Monday, the largest inflow on record.

Year-to-date, the ETF has seen inflows of $4.4 billion, on track for its largest annual inflow on record. To put this into perspective, $TLT has $54 billion in assets under management. This is all despite $TLT falling -4% YTD and -37% over the last 4 years. Source: The Kobeissi Lettr, Bloomberg

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