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17 Jul 2024

The amount raised by the former president is a record second-quarter haul that almost matches the sums raised during his entire 2016 campaign, according to an analysis of federal filings

Fundraising groups aligned with Donald Trump raised more than $400mn for his presidential election campaign between April and June — a record second-quarter haul that almost matches the sums raised during his entire 2016 campaign, according to a Financial Times analysis of federal filings. The figure, which is likely to grow as more of the political action committees that help fund campaigns report this weekend, is three times the first-quarter total and roughly double their contributions from the same period of the 2020 election. The massive windfall, which puts the Republican on track to outpace his Democratic rival President Joe Biden, came from small donors furious at Trump’s criminal conviction in New York and billionaires flocking to his campaign. Source: FT Link >>> https://lnkd.in/eijfGTMR

17 Jul 2024

iShares US Treasuries 20y+ $TLT forms a Golden Cross with an upward-sloping 200D moving average for the first time since January 2019!

The last one sent the ETF soaring by almost 50% over the next 2 months. Source: Barchart

17 Jul 2024

For context, the four-day reversal in the Nasdaq 100 / Russell 2000 ratio is the greatest shift in the US Big-Tech / small cap pair since the collapse of the DotCom bubble...

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

17 Jul 2024

The dichotomy between gold (orange line( and the US 10-year real rate (the red line) is becoming massive...

Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

17 Jul 2024

Police fatally shot a man Tuesday about a mile away from the main Republican National Convention venue in Milwaukee, CNN affiliate WISN reported.

Witnesses told the station that two men were fighting in a local park when one of them pulled a knife out. Witnesses said the men were startled when officers responded and the man with the knife was shot by multiple officers, WISN reported, noting those details had not been confirmed by police. Source: CNN

16 Jul 2024

Us small caps are up 6.8% over the last 3 trading days while US Large Caps are flat.

The 6.8% spread is 6 standard deviations above the mean & the 3rd largest small outperformance since inception of the first small cap ETF in May 2000. $IWM $SPY Source: Charlie Bilello

16 Jul 2024

The power of the apostrophe

Source: Ian Bremmer on X, The Times of India

16 Jul 2024

Big money and the Valley are backing Trump

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