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12 May 2025

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with $11.6 Trillion in assets under management, has 1,131 funds.

BlackRock's BITCOIN ETF, $IBIT, is #9 of all funds after 16 months 👇 Source: HODL15Capital 🇺🇸 @HODL15Capital

7 May 2025

Who will be right?

BoA hedge fund clients around record low (to 2008) 4-wk net buying flows. Institutions also have been big sellers, while retail at record highs. Neil Sethi @neilksethi

7 May 2025

Here's an intraday composite of the S&P 500's action on the last eight Fed Days

Bulls will be rooting for a reversal of this trend today. Source: Bespoke

6 May 2025

German benchmark index Dax slips, as Merz falls short of majority in initial German parliament vote.

Friedrich Merz failed to be elected German chancellor Tuesday, after he fell short of securing a majority in a shock first-round parliamentary vote. Merz needed at least 316 votes to become chancellor and only 310 members of parliament voted in his favor. Germany’s Bundestag has a total of 630 members. The result marks an unanticipated setback for Merz who was widely expected to secure the necessary votes and be officially sworn in later in the day. After the result of the vote was announced the parliamentary session was halted to allow for discussion of next steps. The German Dax stock market index extended losses to trade around 1.4% lower by 10:07 a.m. London time. A second vote needs to take place within 14 days, according to the German constitution, with an absolute majority needed once again. There are also protocols in place in case the second vote also fails to elect a chancellor. Source: CNBC, Bloomberg, HolgerZ

5 May 2025

The bigger the base... 🚀

Uber remains a play an the Autonomous vehicle investment theme Source: Trend Spider NB: This is NOT an investment recommendation

5 May 2025

🔴 BREAKING 🚨: Crude Oil is on track for its lowest closing price since February 2021 📉📉

➡️ U.S. crude oil prices fall more than 4% after OPEC+ agrees to surge production in June ➡️ The eight producers in the group, led by Saudi Arabia, agreed on Saturday to increase output by another 411,000 barrels per day in June. The decision comes a month after OPEC+ surprised the market by agreeing to surge production in May by the same amount. ➡️ The June production hike is nearly triple the 140,000 bpd that Goldman Sachs had originally forecast. OPEC+ is bringing more than 800,000 bpd of additional supply to the market over the course of two months. Source: Barchart, CNBC

2 May 2025

Nasdaq $QQQ has now fully recovered from the losses sustained after Liberation Day

Source: Barchart

2 May 2025

Only Warren Buffett is getting richer right now.

Source: Dividendology

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