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6 Aug 2025

Update on the short squeeze...

The 100 most heavily shorted stocks in the Russell 3,000 are now up 66.5% since the 4/8 low versus 29% for all stocks and 14% for the 100 least shorted. Source: Bespoke

4 Aug 2025

The german stockmarket’s brief comeback (as a percentage of world's market cap) appears to be over – at least for now.

The surge in US big tech stocks, the underperformance of German equities, and a weakening Euro have pushed Germany’s share of global stock market capitalization down to 2.2%, from 2.4% in May. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

4 Aug 2025

Market expectations for rate cuts this year have been quite volatile

We could gain more clarity on this at the upcoming Jackson Hole Symposium (August 21-23), or soon thereafter. Source: Bloomberg. Mo El Erian

30 Jul 2025

Cattle Price jumps to new all-time 🚨📈🐮

Source: Barchart

30 Jul 2025

Bitwise says "stablecoins are going parabolic"

Source: Bitwise

29 Jul 2025

Less than 50% of european equities sectors are reporting positive YoY EPS growth

Source: MacroMicro

25 Jul 2025

$PLTR trailing P/E: 336x

Source: Trend Spider

25 Jul 2025

Penny stock trading is through the roof right now

Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA, Goldman Sachs

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