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2 Sep 2025

Revolut employees are in line for big windfalls as the UK’s most valuable fintech allows staff to sell down their holdings in the company at a $75bn valuation

Revolut told staff on Monday that they would be allowed to sell up to 20 per cent of their shares to make way for other investors, according to people with knowledge of the matter and a document seen by the Financial Times. Source: FT https://lnkd.in/eRpjTMad

2 Sep 2025

All major markets became more expensive last 12 months, US saw LEAST valuation increase MOST earnings growth

Source: Blackrock

25 Aug 2025

This is BCA's "Chart Of The Week": Has momentum turned in equities?

Two momentum signals: 1) Value vs. Growth just flipped positive for the first time since mid-2024. 2) Small vs. Large has been rising since late 2024. BCA team noted this rare alignment has historically fueled multi-quarter cyclical outperformance. Source: BCA

25 Aug 2025

Best performing SP500 stocks ytd

Source: Shiny Stocks ⚒️ @shinystocks on X

21 Aug 2025

Speculators have built the largest short small cap stock futures position in at least the last decade

Source: Barchart, Bloomberg

19 Aug 2025

The 12-month rolling sum of foreign flows into longer-term US assets reached an all-time high in June.

That's well after all the chaos in April around "Liberation Day" and all the weirdness on Russia and China. Markets just don't care. They continue to see US "exceptionalism..." Source: Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks on X

18 Aug 2025

$RSP (Equal Weight S&P 500) vs $SPY (S&P 500 Worst relative performance since the Global Financial Crisis.

Source: Trend Spider

18 Aug 2025

85% of bonds in the world are trading at less than 5% yield

Source: Apollo

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