Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in Charts Newsletter is one of most popular financial newsletters in the world. Sign up here for free right now. — The longest yield curve inversion in US history has ended at 783 consecutive days. […]
Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in Charts Newsletter is one of most popular financial newsletters in the world. Sign up here for free right now. __ The $VIX has declined 58% (from 38.57 to 16.19) over the last 7 trading […]
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Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in Charts Newsletter is one of most popular financial newsletters in the world. Sign up here for free right now. — US Small Caps ($IWM ETF) are up 10.4% over the last 4 trading days […]
Today we witnessed one of the wildest trading days in the history of markets, with all of the major secular trends of the past decade reversing course in dramatic fashion. At the top of that list: the 180 degree shift in market cap leadership. Small caps ($IWM ETF), which had been lagging large caps ($SPY […]
It’s a mega cap world. The 50 largest stocks in the S&P 500 have a median return of +13% this year while the 50 smallest stocks in the index are down 12%. Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in […]
The ratio of Growth stocks to Value stocks in the US is at its highest level March 2000, the peak of the dot-com bubble. What happened in the 7 years after that? A complete reversal, with Value outperforming Growth by an enormous margin (+85% vs. -29%). Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the […]
Over the last 16 years, US stocks have gained 502% vs. 104% for International stocks and 65% for Emerging Markets. This is by far the longest cycle of US outperformance that we’ve ever seen. Happy 4th everyone! Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes […]
Apple’s Price to Sales ratio moved above 9 this week, the highest valuation level in company history. This is 3x higher than what investors were paying for Apple shares in early 2019. Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in […]
The US Bond Market has now been in a drawdown for 47 months, by far the longest bond bear market in history. Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in Charts Newsletter is one of most popular financial newsletters in […]
The US Tech sector has trounced everything else in the last decade, up 706% versus a 237% gain for the S&P 500 (note: total returns). Its relative strength versus the broad market hit a new record high this month, surpassing the prior high from March 2000. Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the […]
The #1 story stock of the 1990s dot-com boom was Cisco Systems ($CSCO). The #1 story stock of the AI boom today is Nvidia ($NVDA). Here’s a look at how the last 5 years for Nvidia compares to Cisco’s incredible 5-year run that ended in March 2000: Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving […]
Driven by the outsized gains from the largest US companies, we’re now seeing a huge dispersion in the valuations across the S&P 500. The 50 largest companies in the index are trading at 5.6x sales while the 50 smallest are trading at 1.6x sales (median values). See video on this topic here. Join tens of […]
The top 5 holdings in the S&P 500 now make up 27% of the index, the highest concentration we’ve seen with data going back to 1980. Join tens of thousands of investors in receiving the weekly letter with the most interesting charts and themes in markets. The Week in Charts Newsletter is one of most […]
The biggest US companies have been dominating the equity market for well over a decade. As a result, the outperformance of US large caps (S&P 500) over small caps (Russell 2000) is now at its most extreme level since November 24, 1999. What happened in the 7 years following the 1999 extreme? Reversion to the […]
10 years ago Nvidia had a market cap of $10.9 billion. Since then, its market cap has increased 305x to $3.33 trillion. This week, Nvidia surpassed Apple and Microsoft to become the largest company in the world. There is no impossible in markets. Creative Planning is now offering a FREE Wealth Path Analysis to all Week in […]
Growth stock investors are partying like it’s 2000, with Growth’s outperformance versus Value at its highest level since July of that year. What happened in the 7 years following July 2000? Reversion to the mean. Growth stocks declined 27% while Value stocks gained 84%. Creative Planning is now offering a FREE Wealth Path Analysis to all Week […]
US stocks have been outperforming international stocks for 16 years running, and by a huge margin. The result: we’re now 3 standard deviations above the mean in terms of historical US outperformance, a record high. Creative Planning is now offering a FREE Wealth Path Analysis to all Week in Charts Readers. What’s included? Creative Planning is proud […]