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12 Jul 2024

Biden betting odds (blue line) fall after US President calls Ukraine’s Zelensky ‘President Putin’ in latest brutal gaffe, but corrects himself.

Trump odds (in red) now stand at 59% while Harris odds (in green) increased to 27% Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ, FT

12 Jul 2024

Yesterday was a big ROTATION day on US equities market with small-caps hugely outperforming large-caps

Indeed, small-cap Russell 2,000 gained 3%+ while the S&P 500 fell on the day. The only other day that happened was back on 10/10/2008... Investors probaby have these 2 charts in mind: 1) The HUGE underperformance of small caps vs large aps over the recent years; 2) History showing that Small caps outperform AFTER the first rate cut. The lower than expected US CPI iunflation number for June acted as a trigger for the rotation with hedge funds being forced to cover their long large / short small par trades. Source: Bloomberg, DB, RBC

12 Jul 2024

US manufacturing mega-boom in 2 images

Source: Science is Strategic, The Economist

12 Jul 2024

US supercore CPI is negative MoM for the 2nd month in a row

zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

11 Jul 2024

US CPI estimates by firm

TD Securities: 3.0% JP Morgan: 3.1% Wells Fargo: 3.1% Citadel: 3.1% Barclays: 3.1% CitiGroup: 3.1% Goldman Sachs: 3.2% Bank of America: 3.2% Morgan Stanley: 3.5% Previous: 3.3% Median: 3.1% Source: TrendSpider

11 Jul 2024

There is low volatility across asset classes.

Can it last? Source: Nautilus Research

11 Jul 2024

Big Tech is eating the world with Apple once again the undisputed Number 1.

Apple gained 2% after bullish Bloomberg report about the upcoming AI-enabled iPhone sales prospects. Apple is now worth almost $3.6tn in market cap, Microsoft is number 2 with $3.5tn ahead of Nvidia with $3.3tn. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

11 Jul 2024

🚨 JUST IN: A bipartisan group of Senators announce proposal that would prevent lawmakers from buying stocks and prevent spouses and dependent children from trading stocks beginning in March 2027.

Source: Barchart

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