BlackRock is eating the world. The asset manager just crossed $15tn in AUM for the first time, powered by $192bn in Q2 inflows and a record $321bn in H1. ETFs alone pulled in $178bn, revenue jumped 31%, EPS beat. Scale is becoming the ultimate moat.
Meanwhile, not only are cheap Chinese LLMs flooding the world, much more importantly China has all the energy - current and pipeline - it needs to power them
Copper refuses to confirm gold’s recent weakness.
That resilience speaks volumes.
I suspect gold is about to remind investors why this remains a well-established secular bull market.
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#Oil prices remain elevated as Strait of Hormuz tensions and low U.S. inventories raise supply concerns, keeping attention on key resistance levels for the next move.
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Morgan Stanley also expects 80GW in new compute coming online from now until 2028. That translates to $4-$8TN in capex spending in just 3 years, all of which has to be funded with debt and equity (no more positive FCF).
Global investors are selling South Korean stocks at a record pace:
Foreign investors sold -$110 billion in South Korean equities year-to-date, the largest sale at this point in the year on record.
Outflows have more than doubled since the start of May.
By comparison, the previous full-year record over the last 7 years was -$22 billion in 2021.
In June alone, foreign investors sold -$31 billion in Korean equities, the largest monthly outflow in history.
Meanwhile, domestic retail and institutional investors have purchased +$60 billion and +$15 billion of South Korean stocks since the start of May, respectively.
The foreign investor exodus from South Korea is accelerating.
#Silver continues to respect the lower boundary of a symmetrical triangle.
Holding this trendline could maintain the broader structure, while a sustained break below would weaken the technical outlook.
#Gold has rebounded after forming another rounded bottom.
A sustained move above the descending trendline would improve the short-term technical outlook.
Gold put in a higher high vs SPX, i.e. a confirmed trend change.
The linked post below caught the very lows for this ratio, plus start of gold´s big move.
Probable massive rounded bottom, now walking up the right side.
Sector rotation in the making.
Retail Kospi investors bought everything foreign investors had to sell. But the retail party is ending: retail Margin Calls are soaring, hit 5% last Friday and on Monday will be far higher. Finally, retail brokerage deposits plunge by 30trn won to lowest level since feb 20
#Gold is testing the lower boundary of a long-term ascending broadening wedge. Holding this trendline would keep the broader technical structure intact.