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12 Jun 2025

A major breakout for palladium

Source: Graddhy - Commodities TA+Cycles

12 Jun 2025

CBOE Volatility Index $VIX falls to lowest level since February

No Fear Left in the Market Source: Barchart

12 Jun 2025

Bitcoin $BTC compared to the World's Biggest Companies

Source: Visual Capitalist

12 Jun 2025

US pension fund allocation to equities relative to bonds is at an all-time high.

U.S. pension funds represent approximately 20% of the total U.S. financial markets. Source: Guilherme Tavares @i3_invest

10 Jun 2025

BREAKING: Volatility

CBOE Volatility Index has plummeted 63% over the last 9 weeks, the largest volatility crush in history Source: Barchart

2 Jun 2025

⚠️Despite US stocks outperformance in May, this is one of the WORST years for the US stock market in history:

The S&P 500 has UNDERPERFORMED World stocks excluding the US by 12 percentage points year-to-date, the most in 32 YEARS. Source: Bloomberg, Global Markets Investor

2 Jun 2025

🚨Retail investors have bought every dip this year

The S&P 500 has returned 0.36% on average following a down day, the most ever recorded. By comparison, last year it was just 0.02%. Retail investors purchased over $50 billion in US equities since the April low. Source: Yahoo Finance, Global Markets Investor

2 Jun 2025

Nvidia quarterly revenues by regions over time...

Up to 20% of Nvidia’s revenue comes from Singapore a known gateway to China and when including direct sales to China and Hong Kong, roughly one-third of its total revenue ($15 billion) may be exposed to Chinese market risk. Source: econovisuals

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