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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

15 Aug 2025

President Trump is reportedly eyeing 11 names to replace Fed chair Powell

Full List: 1. David Zervos -- Chief Market Strategist at Jefferies 2. Kevin Warsh -- Former Federal Reserve Governor 3. Rick Rieder -- CIO for Global Fixed Income at BlackRock 4. James Bullard -- Former St. Louis Fed President 5. Michelle Bowman -- Fed Vice Chair for Supervision 6. Chris Waller -- Fed Reserve Governor 7. Philip Jefferson -- Fed Vice Chair 8. Marc Summerlin -- Former economic advisor in the George W. Bush admin 9. Lorie Logan -- Dallas Fed President 10. Kevin Hassett -- Director of the National Economic Council 11. Larry Lindsey -- Former Fed Reserve Governor Polymarket lists Waller at +250 for next Fed Chair. Source: Polymarkets, Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay

15 Aug 2025

Over the last few weeks, markets have been moving higher partly due to the fact that investors have been pricing in more rate cuts.

With July PPI and core CPI prints surprising on the upside this week, odds of rate cuts in September and beyond are moving lower. Could it trigger a decent market correction? Source image: @RealStockCats

15 Aug 2025

The S&P 100 now has 27.2% of its total value in stocks that have a P/E of at least 50.

There is only one company that has a P/E below 10. Source: Jeff Weniger

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