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23 Oct 2023

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Citigroup $C closed at its lowest price in more than 3.5 years Source: Barchart

17 Oct 2023

LVMH vs Novo Nordisk gap is getting extreme. Is there cross asset logic here, or is it just hot money switching from one ex hot asset to another "must have" asset?

Source: TME, Refinitiv

17 Oct 2023

Moderna's stock is now down 81% from its peak and below the price it was trading at when the FDA issued an EUA for its Covid-19 vaccine back in December 2020

$MRNA Source: Charlie Bilello

16 Oct 2023

Standard Chartered is ramping up its bullish Bitcoin prediction

Targeting as much as $120,000 by the end of 2024 — almost quadruple the current price — as increasingly cash-rich miners reduce sales of the token. “Increased miner profitability per BTC mined means they can sell less while maintaining cash inflows, reducing net BTC supply and pushing BTC prices higher,” Geoff Kendrick at Standard Chartered wrote Monday.

16 Oct 2023

The bull-market is one-year old and the leadership has been unusual

• Since 1980, every single end to a bear market and start of a new bull has been accompanied by a broad rally in stocks, with the Equal Weight Index and small-caps stocks outperforming the S&P 500. • This time is different: the S&P 500 is heavily influenced by the 10 largest companies, which have enjoyed outsized returns. The so-called "magnificent seven" (Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Tesla) are up 77% over the past 12 months. But the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index, which assigns the same weight to all the stocks that are included, is up a more modest 11% for the same timeframe. Small-cap stocks are up 5%. Source: Edward Jones

16 Oct 2023

Two different years

Two different reactions by growth stocks. Source: J-C Parets

12 Oct 2023

Maximum 3-month total return 60/40 nominal drawdown

Source: TME, Haver

9 Oct 2023

Relative performance of prior bull market leader vs. the next bull market leader (beginning of bull market = 100)

Source: BofA, TME

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