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20 Jun 2024

The count on this US yield curve inversion is up to 21 consecutive months, an all-time record. How long this goes, nobody knows

Source: Jeff Weniger

20 Jun 2024

For nearly a decade, this group traded in a very narrow price-to-sales range, but it's different this time???

Source: Lawrence McDonald, Bloomberg

20 Jun 2024

The US has captured one third of all global capital flows since 2020, compared to just 18% before the pandemic

Source: Barchart

20 Jun 2024

These look like trailing P/Es but the visual emains impressive

Source: Jeff Weniger

11 Jun 2024

Foreign investors are piling into US markets:

Foreign holdings of US securities have hit ~$27 trillion in 2023, near the all-time highs seen in 2021. Since 2009, foreign investments in US markets have skyrocketed by 180%. This comes after the S&P 500 has gained 573% during this time materially outperforming other markets such as the EU, Canada, and Japan. Meanwhile, foreign investors’ share of the $78 trillion US equity market has risen to ~17%, an all time record. Source: Bloomberg, The Kobeissi Letter

5 Jun 2024

India’s stock markets erase $371 billion after ruling BJP falls short of election expectations

India’s markets saw their largest one-day loss in four years after the electoral performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party fell short of expectations. The All India Market Capitalization index, tracked on the Bombay Stock index, dropped over $371 billion on June 4 alone. The losses on Tuesday meant the Sensex index erased all its gains this year in a single day, going from a 5.85% year-to-date gain on Monday to a 0.22% loss position. Source: CNBC https://lnkd.in/df_9zjkZ

5 Jun 2024

JUST IN: BlackRock and Citadel to start a new stock exchange based in Texas that is set to compete against the New York Stock Exchange

Source: Barchart

3 Jun 2024

The $SPX is the most concentrated since 1964.

Restated, it has been 60 years since four stocks have accounted for this big a share of the $SPX. Source: Jim Bianco

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