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14 Jun 2024

The Magnificent 7's share of the SP500 just hit another all-time high of 32%.

This is 12 percentage points higher than at the beginning of 2023. The weight of these 7 stocks in the index has almost DOUBLED in just over 4 years. This comes as the 3 largest stocks, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia, are all officially worth over $3 trillion. Meanwhile, the technology sector just hit another all-time high relative to the S&P 500. Tech is becoming even more dominant. Source: Bloomberg, The Kobeissi Letter

11 Jun 2024

The SP500 closed the week at new all-time highs.

And a whopping 33 stocks on the NYSE closed at new highs. That's only 1.4% of stocks on the most important exchange in the world hitting new highs. Source: J.C. Parets @allstarcharts

11 Jun 2024

S&P 500 continues to hit record highs on EXTREMELY low volume.

Today was the 4th lowest volume day of the year for $SPY. Three of this year's four lowest volume days have come in the last week. All 4 of the lowest volume days have come in the last 3 weeks. Source: Barchart

11 Jun 2024

Small cap stocks are now down on the year while Large caps are still up 12.5%. $SPY $IWM

Source: Charlie Bilello

10 Jun 2024

Reminder: investing at all-time highs is safer than investing during drawdowns $SPY

Source: Mike Zaccardi

10 Jun 2024

A staggering percentage of US equity funds are underperforming the S&P 1500.

The longer the time period the higher the percentage of underperformers. Source: Charlie Bilello

7 Jun 2024

🚨: S&P 500 $SPY finished with its lowest volume in 18 years (excluding holiday-shortened trading days)

Source: Barchart

6 Jun 2024

* Goldman Sees ‘Wall of Money’ Fueling Stock Market’s Summer Party

Source: Carl Quintanilla, Bloomberg

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