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15 Jan 2024

Tether $USDT's market cap dominance is 71% now.

Source: https://cryptoquant.com, Ki Young Ju

12 Jan 2024

The Fed balance sheet expanded last week by $5.7BN - the most since March's SVB crisis...

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

12 Jan 2024

Wondering by us bank stocks are doing well?

Since the introduction of the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) in March, there is a nice arbitrage opportunity for banks - watch out on the chart below the gap between the rate on the Federal Reserve’s nascent funding facility and what the central bank pays institutions parking reserves. Since March / SVB crisis, the BTFP-Fed Arb continues to offer 'free-money' to banks - and usage of the BTFP has risen by $38BN since the arb started to exist. Source: Bloomberg. www.zerohedge.com

12 Jan 2024

Less and less Americans are getting married.

This is negatively impacting family formation and leading to a slower population growth rate as a result. Source: Markets & Mayhem, Bloomberg

11 Jan 2024

On January 10, the GDPNow model nowcast of us real GDP growth in Q4 2023 is 2.2%

Source: Atlanta Fed

10 Jan 2024

Over the next several weeks, governments from the US, UK and the eurozone will start flooding the market with bonds at a clip rarely seen before

Saddled with the kind of bloated deficits that were once unthinkable, these countries — along with Japan — will sell a net $2.1 trillion of new bonds to finance their 2024 spending plans, a 7% increase from last year, according to estimates from Bloomberg Intelligence.

10 Jan 2024

FASTEST easing of Financial Conditions in HISTORY

Source: WinSmart, BofA

10 Jan 2024

The Magnificent Seven have a larger market cap than any country's entire stock market except the US

Source: Barchart

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