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12 Feb 2024

The rally on Wall Street has meant that US equities now have a weighting of ~70% in the popular MSCI World index.

That is a record. The risk is correspondingly high if US equities go out of fashion. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

12 Feb 2024

The us equity rally is being supported by better NTM earnings as well as multiple expansion, the latter driven mostly by Tech.

Source: Barclays, TME

12 Feb 2024

Visualizing the Rise of the U.S. as Top Crude Oil Producer 🛢️

Source: Visual Capitalist

12 Feb 2024

Deutsche Bank AG's provisions for losses in US Commercial Real Estate were more than four times bigger in the last quarter

Source: Laurentiu B., Bloomberg

9 Feb 2024

A very important chart to understand for America's future, both economically and politically.

Source: David Ditch, CBO

9 Feb 2024

Asset Managers are the most long U.S. Equity Futures in at least the last 15 years.

Source: barchart

9 Feb 2024

Big Tech of course "dwarfs" unicorn total market cap, but that 3.8T number still feels a little on the high side

Source: TME, CB Insights

8 Feb 2024

The US government sold a record $42 billion of 10-year notes Wednesday at a lower-than-anticipated yield.

The notes were awarded at 4.093%, compared with a when-issued yield of about 4.105% moments before 1 p.m. New York time, the bidding deadline. The lower yield indicates stronger demand than traders anticipated. The auction result broke a streak of tails — or a weaker result for the previous four monthly sales . source : bloomberg

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