BREAKING 🚨 Trump–Xi Meeting: Big Moves, Bigger Signals
Fresh headlines from the Trump–Xi summit 👇 🇺🇸🤝🇨🇳 Key outcomes: - US & China will collaborate on Ukraine. - Trump to visit China (April 2026) — Xi to visit the US soon. - China to restart soybean purchases and resume rare earth exports. - Ongoing talks on Nvidia chip restrictions. - Tariffs cut: overall from 57% → 47%. - Fentanyl tariffs slashed to 10%, with a joint pledge to curb its spread. 💬 Takeaway: this marks a real thaw in U.S.–China relations — trade, tech, and geopolitics could all shift from confrontation → cautious cooperation.
I would prefer to see better participation on the upside for the Nasdaq 100 $QQQ to extend its bull market.
Things have been improving lately but the negative divergence between price action and market breadth (% of Nasdaq 100 stocks above their 50-day MA) is not the best set-up. We remain long Tech though. Source: Trend Spider
Finally some US data... And it might please the markets... The September CPI was indeed softer than expected.
CPI MoM: 0.3% vs 0.4% exp. CPI Core MoM: 0.2% vs 0.3% exp. CPI YoY: 3.0% vs 3.1% exp. CPI Core YoY: 3.0% vs 3.1% exp. It’s still the hottest YoY print since January, but overall confirms inflation is easing again. Gasoline drove most of the increase, rising 4.1%, while electricity and natural gas fell. Food prices barely moved at +0.2%, with only small upticks in bakery and beverage costs. Shelter continues to cool. Rent inflation dropped to 3.4% YoY, the lowest since 2021 and monthly rent growth was the smallest in more than two years. Shelter overall rose just 0.28% MoM, signaling that housing, one of the biggest drivers of sticky inflation, is finally loosening its grip. Core CPI rose just 0.2% MoM, bringing the annual rate down to 3.0%, its lowest since June. Airline fares and apparel climbed, but used cars, insurance, and communication costs all declined. “Supercore” services ex-shelter fell to 3.3%, the lowest since May, showing that inflation pressure in service-heavy areas like travel, insurance, and recreation is softening across the board. Source: Charlie Bilello, StockMarket.news on X
U.S. debt has surged by over $10 trillion in less than five years, largely due to massive pandemic-era spending.
Beginning in 2020, the government unleashed trillions through stimulus checks, unemployment aid, and small business loans under the CARES Act, followed by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in 2021. Although borrowing briefly slowed in 2022, new spending on infrastructure, social programs (Inflation Reduction Act), and defense reignited debt growth. Meanwhile, rising interest rates from the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight made servicing the debt far more expensive, pushing annual interest payments into the hundreds of billions. Despite strong tax revenues, the U.S. has run trillion-dollar deficits every year since 2019. Repeated debt-ceiling battles have failed to curb borrowing, as Congress consistently raises or suspends the limit. For investors, the result is a surge in Treasury supply that keeps long-term yields and borrowing costs high, while inflation expectations remain elevated—driving continued interest in gold, TIPS, and real assets as inflation hedges. Source: StockMarket.news, www.zerohedge.com
This chart shows how bank lending has quietly reshaped the credit world
Since 2015, loans to non depository financial institutions (NDFIs) basically private equity and private credit funds have skyrocketed nearly 300%, while everything else has barely moved. Consumer loans, commercial real estate, residential lending, all flat. The growth is almost entirely in one direction, banks lending to the lenders. Source: StockMarket.news
BREAKING: US national debt reaches new all-time high of $38 trillion.
Source: @CarlBMenger
Banks warning about private credit quality while funding its growth:
Wells Fargo: $60B lent to private credit BofA: $33B PNC: $30B JPM: $22B Total: Nearly $300B Weird to raise alarms about "cockroaches" when you’re the one feeding them... Source: Bloomberg, junkbondinvestor
Google Searches for Dollar "Debasement" soar to highest level in history 🚨🚨🚨
Source: Barchart
