Semiconductor Stocks are now outperforming the rest of the Stock Market by the largest margin in history, double what it was at the Peak of the Dot Com Bubble 🚨🚨🚨
"In the period Monday open to Wednesday close the SPX has gained 45.32pts, a move entirely attributable to the Magnificent 7, which contributed +47.34pts — meaning the remaining ~495 constituents subtracted a net 2pts in aggregate." - UBS
On Friday, MU traded >900k calls … easily the most in company history and 9x normal volume, on, pretty much “no news” - closing out a +38% weekly gain and now up ~130% since late-March – adding nearly ~$500bn of market cap along the way. Micron is now a ~$840 bn market cap company – surpassing JPM (Peter Callahan)
https://t.co/we97mrHjUM
The large private credit fund that marked its NAV down from 100 to 81 in January just marked it down again, now to 77.
Are all loans down 23% YTD, or are half the loans down 46%, or are one quarter of the loans down 92%?
Which is worse?
BREAKING: Several whistleblowers say that Axios coordinated news with market insiders, leaking CME order information via phone calls up to 30 minutes before market open and close prints. Crude oil short positions were also taken just before today's Axios report on a "US-Iran deal" and "14-point deal," gaining substantially as oil dropped sharply on the news.
Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi also says Trump, Witkoff, Kushner, and their close associates profited heavily in the past hours from fake news provided to Axios.
"Funds are selling while retail is buying. The 2nd-largest hedge fund selling in tech in a decade meets the 3rd-largest retail fund flow into $QQQ."
@jasongoepfert
Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Somalia, after Chinese fishing vessels used powerful SONAR to chase Tunas.
Chinese fishing vessels loitering illegally inside Somalia's waters, are causing huge environmental damage!
Watching Democrats refuse to stand for Iryna Zarutska’s parents, who were seated 15 feet away from me…
May have been the single most radicalizing moment of my life.
I could not believe it.
I still can’t.
I cannot wrap my head around it.
Nvidia is now bigger than every international stock market in the world except Japan.
Together, the 7 largest U.S. companies (all Tech) are worth more than China, the U.K., Canada, Taiwan, France, Germany, and India ... combined.