There it is:
The worst current economic conditions index reading in U.S. history, and stocks at all time highs:
There is no question that Trump is The Manchurian Candidate. He is fully compromised.
The AI boom is becoming a debt boom and credit markets are getting nervous. Oracle’s 5y CDS trades near a record 261bps, implying a 20.4% default probability. SpaceX: 16.5%. Even Nvidia: >7%. AI-related borrowers have issued nearly $500bn of debt this year, Bloomberg reports. The question: how much future AI revenue is already being spent?
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio said the artificial intelligence bubble is nearing the point where it may burst as interest rates rise and technology companies borrow heavily to fund the AI infrastructure build out.
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Emerging markets have often come under pressure first when U.S. breadth deteriorated sharply.
Across 19 U.S. breadth extremes, MXEF fell two sessions later in 15 cases, averaging -1.91%.
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This next massive equity drawdown is gonna be so obvious in hindsight.
$VIX suppression is off the charts.
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History will say that the October 7th, 2023 attack led to oil war. Which led to global collapse. Three years later.
The whole world is paying for this war.
A global bond sell-off resumed on Wednesday, pushing long-term US borrowing costs back to their highest since 2002, as fears over inflation and high public debt burdens rattled investors https://t.co/v50FlDVUlm
BREAKING: The US 10Y Note Yield rises above 5.35% for the first time in 24 years.
That brings the total move since the pre-Iran War low to +143 basis points.
Mortgage rates are at fresh 3-year highs.
BREAKING: The S&P 500 is now worth a record $71.3 trillion, up +24% from its March 30th low.
This pushes the total market cap of the US stock market above $82 trillion.
That's ~7.5 TIMES larger than China, the world's 2nd largest stock market, and 28 times larger than Germany.
Asset owners are winning.