US stocks now make up 65% of the global equity market, their highest weighting in history.
This is more than 11x bigger than the second largest country by market cap (Japan at 5.5%). Source; Charlie Bilello
U.S. now accounts for 52% of the entire G7 GDP, up 10 percentage points since 1980.
Source: Visual Capitalist
⁉️ WALMART RECESSION SIGNAL IS FLASHING RED BUT CREDIT SPREADS ARE AT THE TIGHTEST. WHO'S RIGHT ?
Walmart, $WMT, share price divided by the S&P Global Luxury Index price jumped to near the highest since the 2008 Financial Crisis. However, US corporate bond spreads stay at historically low levels. Is this indicator still valid? Source: Global Markets Investor
✔️ The move is an early sign that the US president-elect intends to resume the high-level engagement with China's leader that marked his first term.
US president-elect Donald Trump has invited President Xi Jinping to his inauguration in January, in an early sign that he intends to resume the high-level engagement with the Chinese leader that marked his first term. Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House press secretary, told Fox News on Thursday that Trump wanted to create an “open dialogue” with countries that were American adversaries, not just with allies and partners. “We saw this in his first term. He got a lot of criticism for it, but it led to peace around this world. He is willing to talk to anyone, and he will always put America’s interests first,” said Leavitt. Leavitt said it was “to be determined” if Xi would accept the invitation. The Chinese embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The invitation comes as Beijing is bracing for an escalation in the trade war that Trump launched against China in 2018. The US president-elect has already threatened to impose a 60 per cent tariff on imports from China, which would be a big increase from the levies he imposed on the country’s goods in his first term. Trump will enter office as US-China relations remain close to their worst state since the countries established diplomatic relations in 1979. Source: Financial Times, https://on.ft.com/4ir5yzY
‼️ US budget deficit hit a GIGANTIC $367 BILLION in November 2024.
This puts the total deficit for the first 2 months of the Fiscal Year 2025 to a TREMENDOUS $624 BILLION, the highest EVER. This has even surpassed the 2020 CRISIS LEVELS. Source: Global Markets Investor, The Daily Shot
US net interest expense is 15% of tax revenue, it will rise to 25% in 2035 according to the CBO...
It will get there much faster if the Fed starts hiking rates again Source: zerohedge
What can wonder what happened in the US last month?
Source: NFIB
The 20 largest US stocks represent $24 trillion in market cap
Close to the total of the 480 other stocks in the S&P 500 ($29.8T) as well as the entire U.S. economy, measured at $27T in GDP in 2023.2
