The S&P 500 officially posted its best day since November 2022.
Source: Bloomberg, The Kobeissi Letter
China’s imports grew faster-than-expected in July, while export growth came in below forecasts, according to customs data released Wednesday.
U.S. dollar-denominated imports rose in July by 7.2%, far more than the forecast of 3.5%, according to the poll. China’s imports from the U.S. surged by 24% year-on-year in July, according to CNBC calculations of official data. Source: CNBC
NASDAQ FUTURES CLOSE TO TRIGGERING CIRCUIT BREAKER.
The limit-down level for the current $NQ contract is at 17,265.25, or a 6.9% drop from Friday's close. This has not happened since the COVID selloff in March 2020. Source: Trend Spider
The S&P 500 is down 5.7% from its closing high on July 16, the largest drawdown of the year.
The index is still up 13% year-to-date including dividends. No risk, no reward. $SPX Source. Charlie Bilello
JUST IN: Over $2.9 trillion has been wiped out from major indices and stocks this morning due to growing fears of a global recession.
This is the worst day for stocks since March 16, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic fears. Source: Jacob King, Bloomberg
BREAKING >>> Intel stock, $INTC, crashed over 12% after-hours yesterday evening after reporting Q2 2024 earnings and suspending their dividend.
They reported EPS of $0.02, below expectations of $0.10, on revenue of $12.8 billion, below expectations of $12.9 billion. Intel also announced that they will be laying off 15,000 of their employees. A difficult quarter for Intel. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
Since its after hours low seen just 18 hours ago, Nvidia has added $380 BILLION of market cap.
In other words, Nvidia has added as much market cap as the entire value of Costco, $COST, in 18 hours. This comes after the stock erased $1 TRILLION of market cap over the last 5 weeks. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
BREAKING: The Magnificent 7 stocks have now erased a combined $2.6 TRILLION of market cap over the last 20 days.
That's an average of $125 billion of market cap PER DAY for 20 days sight. Nvidia, $NVDA, alone has erased over $1 trillion in market cap since its high seen one month ago. In other words, the Magnificent7 have lost as much value as Nvidia's ENTIRE current market cap in 20 days. That's also $200 billion more than every stock in Germany's stock market combined. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
