Showing posts with label SPX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPX. Show all posts
Saturday, July 5, 2025

SPX since August 2000 continues to underperform the pre-Reagan era by almost 20% in real terms, the Reagan bull market era by almost 68%

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SPX 8/2000-5/2025: 7.62% per annum nominal, 4.95% per annum real (inflation rate 2.54% per annum) SPX 1/1871-7/1982: 8.15% per annum nominal...

SPX vs. gold since 1913

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  Gold 1913-2025 ($20.67-$3500.05 peak on April 22, 2025): 4.689% compound annual growth rate, nominal. The S&P 500 did better than that...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

S&P 500 closes at another new high today

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Every major bank passes stress test from the US Federal Reserve

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507 banks failed in the United States 2008-2014 inclusive, costing the Deposit Insurance Fund nearly $90 billion. Many millions of homes we...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

S&P 500 closed at a record of 6,173.07 on Friday 27 June 2025

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  S&P 500 closes at a record Friday, overcoming even more trade angst
Thursday, June 26, 2025

1Q2025 real GDP revised down 0.3 to -0.5 in third and final estimate on an increase in imports front-loaded into 1Q to avoid Trump's tariffs

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 Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), a...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

I guess stocks didn't like the monthly Treasury statement indicating worsening fiscal conditions lol

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Friday, May 23, 2025

Secular real return from stocks since investing at the August 2000 high compared with investing at the September 1929 high, twenty-four years out

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 August 2000-August 2024 and September 1929-September 1953 both fall far short of 8.74% per annum real return September 1953-August 2000. Re...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We'll probably never know whether weak Russian invasion of Ukraine headlines like these at CNBC contributed to Trump's thinking that Ukraine started it

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Shrinking from calling what Russia did an invasion was a temporary flight from reality for CNBC, probably motivated by keeping people from p...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Trump's phony Liberation Day for working Americans evaporates into thin air, new 90-day pause brings 145% reciprocal tariffs on China, which tanked markets in early April, down to 30%

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Stock futures surge. Crude oil surges. US Treasury yields surge. U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrou...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Trade tariff manipulation is a stock-trading racket for them

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Tariffs were enacted April 2, then suspended April 9.   One month ago:              Yesterday:   This morning.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Over a year ago, in January 2024, Trump said Biden's stock market was his, now in April 2025 his stock market is Biden's

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  Absolute 🤡 show.      

Nosebleed valuations continue despite recent stock market declines

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 It's a long way down to normal. The 2022 lows got us back only to the 2000 high, and people thought it was the end of the world when al...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent is under fire for market manipulation because he made closed-door comments yesterday morning to big shots gathered for IMF and World Bank meetings

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 Bloomberg published the story just before noon on Tuesday reporting the closed-door meeting where Bessent said he expected the tariff stan...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Citigroup profits rise 21%, stock trading revenue rises 23%

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  CNBC : Citigroup on Tuesday posted first-quarter results that exceeded analysts’ estimates as the firm’s traders generated more revenue t...

Bank of America overall profits up 11%, stock trading revenue up 17%

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Bank of America on Tuesday posted first-quarter results that topped analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue on stronger-than-expected...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Morgan Stanley: But we'll be there for ya!

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Morgan Stanley: Expect to be ‘fooled many more times’ on tariffs

Trump tariff chaos is literally equity traders' gold

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   On again, off again, on again tariffs from The Puppet Master have enriched stock traders Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanl...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Week over week US Treasury yields in the aggregate popped 5.8% on net to an average 4.335% after declining for months from 4.5 to 4.0 and everybody's freaking out like this hasn't happened, what, six times now in the current era

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Most of the pissing and moaning is from investors who pulled the bond trigger too soon, plowed into fixed income, and got burned badly becau...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Crimes in high places: Mad King Ludwig admits he decided to pause tariffs early in the morning on Wednesday when he also posted "This is a great time to buy", which amounts to market manipulation

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    Trump was asked by a reporter on Wednesday when he decided to put a pause on the tariffs.   “I would say this morning. Over the last few...