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Trump openly admits he cares more about higher asset prices than regular people affording homes. Record high prices already crush young buyers and families while he pushes for more increases. Donald Trump on his housing affordability plan, in his own words:—"It's so unimportant"—"It's a big yawn"—"I don't think about Americans' financial situation"—"I don't want to …
Japan attracts steady foreign capital with less domestic leverage risk. Korea chip sector leverage creates volatility and deters foreign money.
AI capital expenditures has now hit an astounding 8% of GDP! This surpasses every single bubble in history. With most of this buildout funded through private credit & demand driven by circular financing, it's unclear what the consequences will be when the bubble finally pops. pic.twitter.com/M8DkJvCNjK — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 30, 2026 BOFA: HEDGE THE …
The market is still climbing. But underneath the surface, multiple warning signs are flashing at the same time. Here are the numbers investors are watching. 1. Margin debt hits $1.42 trillion Investors have borrowed a record $1.42 trillion to buy stocks. The bigger warning is the speed. Margin debt surged 53.7% year over year, reaching …
“Morgan Stanley caps withdrawals at private credit fund after rising pullout requests." Reuters reports Morgan Stanley’s $7B private credit fund is getting slammed with withdrawal requests again. byu/Boo_Randy_Revival ineconomy The private credit industry is facing a problem that only shows up when investors want their money back. Liquidity. Morgan Stanley has once again restricted withdrawals …
Just days after investors started questioning the entire AI trade, Micron delivered one of the most explosive earnings reports in the sector. The numbers were staggering. Fiscal Q3 2026 revenue reached $41.46 billion. That was a 346% increase from a year earlier. Non-GAAP earnings came in at $25.11 per share, crushing analyst estimates of roughly …
The private credit market just hit the moment everyone knew would eventually come. The exit door is too small. For years, private credit became one of the biggest Wall Street growth stories. Higher yields. Less public market volatility. Money pouring in from investors chasing returns. But there was always a hidden problem: These loans are …
US STOCK FUTURES SLIDE AS INVESTORS DUMP CROWDED AI STOCKS$DIA $SPY $QQQ $IWM $VIX pic.twitter.com/PVkzgXOxu7 — Investing.com (@Investingcom) June 23, 2026 🚨 THIS IS WHY EVERYTHING IS CRASHING AT THE SAME TIME TODAY. Gold, silver, and tech stocks are all down together right now, which usually signals forced selling across markets. AI SEMICONDUCTOR DELEVERAGING South …
This is the part about index investing that gets overlooked. When you buy SPY or QQQ, you are not choosing individual companies. The fund chooses for you. Because these indexes are weighted by market size, the biggest companies automatically become the biggest holdings. And that creates a strange situation. The more a stock rises, the …
The AI race has reached a strange point. Big Tech is no longer just investing in AI. It is throwing everything at it. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are expected to spend around $700 billion to $725 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026. Data centers. GPUs. Chips. Power. Everything needed to build the next generation …
Congress (House and Senate) agree on big housing bill called 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Main point: Large institutional investors (hedge funds, big companies) who already own 350 or more single-family homes cannot buy more existing ones. They still can build new homes for rent (build-to-rent). This part come from Trump push earlier in …
The SEC must delay the SpaceX IPO until investors are protected. pic.twitter.com/OkE9LqpWw8 — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 10, 2026 THE BIGGEST IPOs OF THE LAST 15 YEARS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: THEY CRUSHED THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THE HYPE. 🇺🇸 Robinhood -90%. Rivian -88%. Lyft -79%. Coinbase -57%. Facebook -54%. Median max drawdown: -54% …
Rich investors moving into gold, foreign currencies, and overseas assets while U.S. GDP growth just got revised lower again to 1.3%. Average 401(k) balances dropped again in Q1 as market volatility keeps hitting retirement accounts tied almost entirely to U.S. equities. CEO confidence is falling sharply too, with executives increasingly worried about Iran, inflation pressure, …
ARKK boss turns TDOC into top holding at 80 dollars a share, now 7… Zoom bet near 300 peak crashes to 110 under her watch… Sells almost all Nvidia at 20 in 2023, watches it rocket to 220… If she wasn't religious and a woman, she wouldn't have much attention. If Bill Hwang (Archegos) didn't …
Ram this through and watch the next rug pull leave retail holding bags while executives already cashed out in the dark. Awesome. Even less transparency for markets. All this does is incentivize investors to take on even more risk despite knowing even less about how a company is performing. This turns the market into even …
The Nasdaq is on track for its best month since 2020, even as the physical economy faces a brutal energy squeeze from the Hormuz blockade… Analysts say the $5 trillion milestone makes a stock split likely by year end, but for now the bots are the only thing keeping the market afloat… Silicon is the …
Foreign Private Investors now own more U.S. Treasuries than Foreign Central Banks for the first time in history byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts 🇺🇸 Foreigners dumped ANOTHER $200 BILLION into U.S. Treasuries in February, a new ALL-TIME RECORD at $9.49 TRILLION Japan +$14B, UK +$17B, stacking hard. China barely touched theirs. The world’s still obsessed with American debt. …
ONDON, April 19 (Reuters) – The U.S.-Iran ceasefire in early April appears to have revived so-called TINA (“There Is No Alternative”) trades, driven by peace hopes, soaring U.S. earnings growth and the relative insulation of the world’s biggest economy to an energy shock. Over the last year, investors, particularly in the United States, had sought …
First, we have our “subprime is contained” moment from the Fed. Second, the run on Blue Owl is “unprecedented.” Third, and more important than either of those, it’s **who** is doing the running. In its disclosure, the sad owl let slip the truth underneath more ridiculous spin. When investors demand 20% to 40% out of …
Asia runs on imported energy and if that flow even looks shaky, investors do not stick around to debate it, they pull first and ask questions later. This is how pressure shows up before the real economic damage hits. Investors from overseas have sold -$52 billion of Asian emerging-market equities excluding China so far in …
Wall Street crisis spreads as shadow bank blocks withdrawal Apollo and BlackRock Cap Withdrawals — $1.8 Trillion Private Credit Market Under Real Stress Apollo Global Management capped investor redemptions at one of its largest non-traded private credit funds, Apollo Debt Solutions. According to a shareholder letter, it capped redemptions at 5% of outstanding shares after …
The bond market is getting twitchy. Over the past 20 years, when credit spreads blew out but the S&P 500 wasn't even beyond a pullback yet, it was 3-for-3 in bear markets. h/t @sentimentrader pic.twitter.com/xiba9GU3z2 — Jason Goepfert (@jasongoepfert) March 17, 2026 The market is green today and nobody's talking about the sector that refused …
From the AAII Sentiment Survey: Cash Allocations is at 14.19%. Investors are holding the least cash in 4 years. This happened 3 times in the past 20 years: late-2017, Jan 2020, late-2021. Each case preceded significant market volatility and losses for $SPX pic.twitter.com/T7G2LJTuJj — Subu Trade (@SubuTrade) March 17, 2026 In bull markets, this line …
Record outflows from US financial stock funds are flashing a warning few are paying attention to. In the week ending March 11, equity funds lost $7.77 BILLION, with global financial sector funds alone shedding $2.31 BILLION, according to a Twitter analyst @DefiWimar. Meanwhile, bond funds took in $5.72 BILLION and money market funds added $6.93 …
Taiwan took the hardest hit with record -$7.9B (TSMC/semicon exodus), Korea -$1.6B, India -$1.3B. MSCI Asia Pacific cratered -6.3% in a week—worst drop outside major crises in ~6 years—erasing early-2026 momentum. Risk-off panic is driving flows to USD and safe havens as oil… — DesiTrump (@CryptoCivics) March 8, 2026 $11 billion out of developing Asia …
The dumbest call of all time was Wall Street telling investors to buy global stocks ex-U.S. ahead of this war – which everyone knew was coming. Global stocks ex-U.S. have far more risk exposure to this oil crisis than U.S. companies. But now U.S. investors have far more risk… pic.twitter.com/rrp7HR8Pot — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) March 5, …
First of all 540$ itself is a question mark — vg (@Gurumoorty) February 27, 2026
Wall Street sold $8.3 billion of stock last week, which is the second-largest weekly sale ever recorded in U.S. history, according to data from Bank of America. Retail investors stepped in and bought $1.0 billion of stock. That makes five straight weeks of buying from everyday traders. Hedge funds also added exposure. They purchased $1.2 …
By Peter Reagan As a general rule, I don’t recommend blindly following institutional investors. After all, their incentives are different from yours. They manage quarterly performance pressure. They answer to boards and beneficiaries. They navigate regulatory frameworks most of us never think about. But I also don’t ignore them. When pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and global asset managers …
Institutional investors have rarely ever been this bearish on the US Dollar: US Dollar net exposure by global fund managers is down to -35 points, the lowest in at least 14 years byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented. …