Corporate Insiders are dumping shares at the fastest pace in AT LEAST a decade 🚨🚨🚨
Source: Barchart
Is there more drawdown ahead for the S&P500?
Over the last ~100 years, median year has a SPX peak to trough drawdown of 13%. Believe it or not current drawdown has only been 5%... Source: GS
That was an enormous miss in durable goods, coming in at -6.6% vs a forecast of +0.3%.
We need to transport things in a growing economy, right? "Transportation equipment, down two of the last three months, drove the decrease, $19.6 billion or 20.5 percent to $75.8 billion. Source: Markets & Mayhem
Nasdaq has underperformed Russell 2000 for 11 of the last 12 days, erasing YTD outperformance for the big-tech index
Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com
The Magnificent 7 dropped by more than $750 Billion yesterday
Source: Evan, Yahoo Finance
The S&P 500 yesterday ended a streak of 356 trading days going back to February 2023 without experiencing a one-day drop of 2% or more.
This was the longest streak since we went 949 trading days from May 2003-February 2007 without one! Source: Bespoke
Tesla reports disappointing earnings for second quarter as revenue rises 2%
Tesla reported weaker-than-expected earnings for the second quarter as automotive sales dropped for a second straight period. The stock slid more than 2% in extended trading. $TSLA Tesla Q2 FY24 by App Economy Insights: • Revenue +2% Y/Y to $25.5B ($0.8B beat). • Gross margin 18% (-0.2pp Y/Y). • Operating margin 6% (-3pp Y/Y). • Capex +10% Y/Y to $2.3B. • Free cash flow +34% Y/Y to $1.3B. • Non-GAAP EPS $0.52 ($0.10 miss).
The current US small caps rally seems to be mainly driven near-record exuberance in Russell 2000 ETF $IWM call options activity
(chart on the right) rather than inflows into small caps funds (chart on the left). Source: BofA, UBS
