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19 Aug 2024

A person who invested $10k in the S&P 500 $SPY in 1993 would have faced:

• Asian Crisis, 1997 • Dotcom bubble, 2000 • GFC, 2007 • EU debt crisis, 2010 • Global pandemic, 2020 • Numerous recessions Yet, their initial investment would be worth $195k today (10% CAGR). Source: @KoyfinCharts

16 Aug 2024

The VIX is now LOWER than it was before August 1st.... what a round trip...

Source: TradingView

16 Aug 2024

After escaping a black Monday (and the 2nd largest surge in the vix ever) over a week ago, the S&P 500 $SPX is only 2.2% away from all-time highs

Source: Barchart

16 Aug 2024

BREAKING 🚨 The S&P 500 has added nearly $4 TRILLION in market cap since the August 5th bottom

That's $4 trillion in 9 trading days or $444 billion PER TRADING DAY since August 5th. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

15 Aug 2024

The $VIX has declined 58% (from 38.57 to 16.19) over the last 7 trading days, the biggest 7-day volatility crash in history.

Source: Charlie Bilello

15 Aug 2024

Torsten from Apollo: the reality is that firms on earnings calls talk less and less about recession

Source: Mike Z.

15 Aug 2024

$SBUX Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with $CMG Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol

$CMG Chipotle's stock is up 773% since Brian Niccol became CEO in March 2018 Just 9 S&P 500 stocks have performed better than $CMG since March 2018 $SBUX must have paid him the star bucks... Source: Stocktwits

13 Aug 2024

There's the rest of the market .. and then there's $NVDA

Source: Markets & Mayhem

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