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Stocks down yields up = bad sign — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) June 2, 2025 Hedge Funds are aggressively chasing this rally now. Last week saw the largest HF buying in US Tech in 10+ years.$QQQ $NVDA $TSLA $AVGO pic.twitter.com/Gs31OtPIBp — David Marlin (@Marlin_Capital) June 2, 2025 The FED won't cut rates, inflation expecations continue to …
The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index fell for a second straight month to its lowest level in four months. The index sank to 40.5 this month from 44.6 in April, falling short of the 45.1 forecast. The latest reading marks the 18th consecutive month the index has contracted. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) May 30, 2025 Hedge …
BREAKING 🚨: United States Credit markets are currently pricing in a 6-level credit downgrade for the United States, which would give it a rating of BBB, just a smidge above investment grade 👀 pic.twitter.com/WlwiP5IN6p — Barchart (@Barchart) May 21, 2025 Jamie Dimon says he's not a buyer of credit today. Warns of a major downturn …
Almost exactly one year ago, Jay Powell said: "I don't see the stag, nor the 'flation.'" Today, the Fed’s projections anticipate both. This is a timely reminder that we’re still grappling with a rare trifecta of macro imbalances: Inflation like the 1970s, government debt… pic.twitter.com/OKiiXDkyQp — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) May 7, 2025 When Powell …
by Mike Maharrey You often hear gold referred to as an “inflation hedge.” Jim Rickards argues that we should really consider gold the “everything hedge.” Rickards is an investment banker and a well-known commentator and market analyst. Gold has been on a tear for well over a year. To put the recent bull run into perspective, in …
🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦OVERNIGHT RUSSIAN BARRAGE LEAVES 9 DEAD, 63 INJURED IN KYIV | RESCUE EFFORTS ONGOING The devastating combined missile and drone attack that hit Ukraine's capital has resulted in confirmed civilian casualties as emergency services race to find survivors. Emergency… https://t.co/Ob61VopbPR pic.twitter.com/2NZ9yhQbHm — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 24, 2025 🇺🇦HEDGE FUNDS TO UKRAINE: TIME TO PAY …
HEDGE FUNDS SLASH MAG 7 HOLDINGS TO 2-YR LOW Hedge funds dumped over 60% of their Mag 7 exposure last week, per Morgan Stanley, ahead of earnings. BofA survey shows only 24% of investors now see Mag 7 as the most crowded trade, down from nearly 60%. Gold is now the top trade for… — …
Mark Spitznagel, founder and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, warned in commentary to MarketWatch that a historic collapse may be looming. “I expect an 80% crash when this is over. I just don’t think this is it. This is a trap,” he said on April 7, days before Trump announced a 90-day pause on …
$1 trillion hedge fund trade unravels, threatening middle class, small businesses, and retail investors… “Who’s paying attention to the MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR hedge fund trade that is unraveling, and about to hammer the middle class, retail shareholders, and small businesses. Wall Street’s favorite high-leverage game — a complex Treasury futures arbitrage — is imploding. Hedge funds …
Traders looking for the next pressure point are watching the wrong screens. The story isn’t in SPY anymore. It’s in credit. Specifically, HYG, the high-yield bond ETF, which still looks calm on the surface but is sitting on thin ice. Back in March 2020, stocks fell first. But junk bonds followed in dramatic fashion. HYG …
BREAKING: Gold has been reportedly been used to meet the largest margin calls since Covid 2020 from hedge funds this week, per Standard Chartered. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 6, 2025 BREAKING: Vanguard emails clients asking them to “resist the urge to deviate from [their] financial plan” as markets fall sharply. Vanguard is asking clients not …
Emergency overnight repurchase agreements (REPO) are $0. Very interesting. REPO is how the Federal Reserve injects liquidity into the banking system during a financial crisis. We're not seeing that. This flash crash is purely orchestrated by the banking cartel and hedge funds. https://t.co/NU4j7hm9G8 pic.twitter.com/mGTjT60V3n — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) April 4, 2025 This flash crash is happening …
Hedge funds have been hit with the biggest margin calls since Covid shut down huge parts of the global economy in 2020, after Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered a powerful rout in global financial markets. Wall Street banks have asked their hedge fund clients to stump up more money as security for their loans because the …
🚨BREAKING: Short-Term Yield 📈: Financial Stress? A sharp 📈 in 3& 6-month yields signal financial strains, similar to the 2019 repo crisis causes: •Liquidity Strains: Banks/hedge funds may face overnight funding pressures •Hedge Fund Stress: Losses or margin calls driving pic.twitter.com/HvkMtQ7zzE — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) April 1, 2025 Why are the 3 and 6 …
Wow. Hedge funds have been dumping US exposure to buy Europe hand over fist this year, per Goldman. pic.twitter.com/L0VSjzO2KE — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) March 23, 2025 It’s shocking to see hedge funds desperately dumping U.S. exposure to dive into Europe this year. The logic behind it escapes me, but the numbers tell the tale. …
SMCI’s accounting intern rich dad knows something we don’t? or is this a hedge? byu/JozefxDark inwallstreetbets
Ackman is cooking in 2025 already Fannie Mae $FNMA is up 28% today Freddie Mac $FMCC is up 21% today https://t.co/b2cpCOyyNw pic.twitter.com/6gVGIYCAPy — Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ (@burrytracker) January 14, 2025 I believe the government will release $FNMA and $FRCC within the next couple of years. This is long overdue. Trump tried to do …
Meanwhile:⁰⁰Gold keeps rising, even with the collapse in the Treasury market.⁰⁰We’ve entered a new era where gold stands out as the ultimate defensive asset and inflation hedge, in my view. Central banks are leading this transition, but I believe other institutions have yet… pic.twitter.com/pwi5TwGYaI — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) January 8, 2025 An entire generation is …
In the last two days, $NVDA, a $3 trillion market cap company, swung 6% up and 6% down like a penny stock. What does this tell us? It highlights the speculative nature of hedge funds moving in and out. Just 10 years ago, even a $100B company wouldn’t move more than 2% in either direction. …
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It is the more accurate measure of real inflation Not CPI — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) December 31, 2024 📌 Performance Investors regard gold as both a hedge against inflation and a strategic asset during geopolitical uncertainty, having proven to be the most effective safeguard against major geopolitical events since 1973👉 https://t.co/Lu9xTiGXkK h/t @SoberLook #gold #spx …
Japan will be forced to hike again. pic.twitter.com/OZoNx4M9IK — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) December 26, 2024 Translation : Urgent need for rate hikes. https://t.co/jAWawyZ51o — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 27, 2024 📊💴 Tokyo inflation accelerates, fueling rate hike expectations Tickers of interest: $JPY $NKY Full Story → https://t.co/kAUGf8Jhz6 pic.twitter.com/4nSjl8TVHp — PiQ (@PiQSuite) December 26, 2024 …
They believe that the prices of these bonds will drop, which typically happens when interest rates rise. By shorting these bonds, they’re hoping to profit if their predictions about the market come true. Largest 2-Year Treasury Short Position in History 🚨 Hedge Funds have now built the largest 2-Year Treasury short position in history pic.twitter.com/mhzOmhCWWf …
He is just kissing up to Trump now because he knows that NYC cannot afford to keep taking in more illegals Plus he wants to be on Trumps good side in case he goes to jail for pay to play and asks Trump to pardon him, just like Trump did for the former Detroit mayor. …
The latest CFTC Commitments of Traders (CoT) report shows a clear divide: asset managers have taken a long position, while hedge funds have gone short. This split highlights contrasting strategies and market outlooks. Asset managers, often focused on longer-term gains, may be betting on interest rates stabilizing or falling. Hedge funds, known for speculative moves, …
by Mike Maharrey Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson said he would pull his money out of the stock market and go into cash and gold if Kamala Harris wins the election. The Paulson and Co. founder and CEO has been called “one of the most prominent names in high finance.” He’s best known for making …
https://www.fdic.gov/system/files/2024-09/qbp.pdf Finra, a Wall Street regulator is understating Margin Debt by more than $4 TRILLION dollars, by not counting gigantic Meme Banks who make Margin Loans to Hedge Funds Most market watchers rely on the monthly margin debt figures published by Wall Street’s self-regulator, FINRA, as the reliable gauge in determining how much of securities …
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 3, 2024 ~ The Office of Financial Research (OFR), the federal agency created after the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street to defog the lenses of federal regulators to prevent a replay of that disaster, has posted frightening graphs on its website as part of its “Hedge Fund …
Stocks are not an inflation hedge. The mainstream will continue to champion stocks during the next round of inflation. Stocks did rise in the first round of inflation from early to late 1960s. And they did again this time. But they are cooked if inflation continues. The… https://t.co/bZCy6wbgdd pic.twitter.com/TV9LKdhWNO — Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA ⛏⛏ …
