Warren Buffett In 2024:
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 2, 2024
1. Sold over $100 billion of Apple, $AAPL, stock
2. Halted Berkshire Hathaway, $BRK, stock buybacks
3. Built largest cash balance in company history, at $325 billion
4. Holds a record $288 billion of US Treasury bills
5. Now owns $93 billion more…
"During the 2023–24 respiratory virus season, influenza vaccination coverage was 80.7% among acute care hospital personnel and 45.4% among nursing home personnel. Coverage with 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccination was 15.3% among acute care hospital personnel and 10.5% among nursing…
— George Hartzman (@antzmrah) November 3, 2024
Buffett's cash hits a record $325 billion, up $48 billion this quarter, and up $168 billion (+94%) in the 9 months of 2024 https://t.co/hBJLWFjZIP pic.twitter.com/duq2X4g4cK
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 2, 2024
Market Concentration Risk Hits All-Time High ๐จ
— Barchart (@Barchart) November 2, 2024
The Top 10 S&P 500 stocks now account for a RECORD HIGH 37% of the $SPX pic.twitter.com/37Rdyu68ob
America is all-in on the stock market
— Porter Stansberry (@porterstansb) October 30, 2024
Yesterday’s report from the Conference Board showed a jump in consumer confidence to 9-month highs. A key driver of this improving consumer sentiment was rampant enthusiasm about further gains in the U.S. stock market
51.4% of consumers… pic.twitter.com/9NGXti7235
The percentage of US consumers who expect higher stock prices in a year hit a record high. Getting a bit frothy out there? pic.twitter.com/vl4rhyjUf8
— (((The Daily Shot))) (@SoberLook) October 30, 2024
Institutional investors sold US stocks at the fastest pace in 9+ years last week, according to BofA.
— David Marlin (@Marlin_Capital) October 30, 2024
It was the 2nd largest weekly net selling by institutional investors since 2008 (trailing only Sep 2015). $SPY $QQQ $IWM $MSFT $AMD $GOOG pic.twitter.com/AZ4uNYrkZt
Things not to say; https://t.co/jhDblHK1gu
— George Hartzman (@antzmrah) October 23, 2024
๐จ๐ฆ Bank of Canada cuts rates by 0.5%. The last 3 times this happened we were in a global financial crisis. pic.twitter.com/bazsgm9PLI
— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 23, 2024
It took 221 years for the US to create the first $12 trillion of national debt.
— Anthony Pompliano ๐ช (@APompliano) October 22, 2024
We added another $12 trillion of debt in the last 5 years.
Insane. pic.twitter.com/Y4CmOGI1bH
The move in bond yields after the 50bp cut is very out of the ordinary pic.twitter.com/wWHa32rR3x
— Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno) October 22, 2024
JUST IN ๐จ: Warren Buffett Indicator hits 200% for the first time in history, surpassing the Dot Com Bubble and the Global Financial Crisis pic.twitter.com/w0NV4RaMw7
— Barchart (@Barchart) October 22, 2024
Stock Market hits most overvalued level since the peak of the Dot Com Bubble ๐จ pic.twitter.com/68LJHXQtkT
— Barchart (@Barchart) October 23, 2024
China's housing market is in free fall:
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 22, 2024
Prices of newly built homes in China fell 6.1% year-over-year in September, the largest drop since 2015.
Existing home prices dropped 9.0%, the biggest decline in at least 13 years.
On top of this, existing home prices decreased in all… pic.twitter.com/ttRehGLIo1
When people talk about stock market valuations, usually they refer to earnings. Here is a different way to see the current overvaluation. As with any valuation measure, this is lousy as a timing tool. But it does inform us about how large the eventual readjustment might be. pic.twitter.com/KQaX9liJsg
— Tom McClellan (@McClellanOsc) October 21, 2024
BREAKING: According To FDIC, Bank Loan Delinquencies Are Going Parabolic pic.twitter.com/oOZQJD5TTi
— Kevin Malone (@Malone_Wealth) October 20, 2024
From the co-founder of Netscape. LLMs are like web browsers: indispensable, but largely indistinguishable from one another. https://t.co/MD6ZrBug5F
— Peter Berezin (@PeterBerezinBCA) October 20, 2024
Used Vehicles Getting Ready to Turn into Inflation Headwind, after Historic Plunge Had Powered Core CPI “Deceleration.”
— Wolf Richter (@wolfofwolfst) October 18, 2024
The used-vehicle pipeline is messed up for years to comehttps://t.co/mWzm1cTMZX pic.twitter.com/zPaAgsSMx9
BofA Small Business Checkpoint:
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT ๐ (@MikeZaccardi) October 17, 2024
Average monthly credit card balances per small business client are up more than 20% compared to 2019 average levels pic.twitter.com/0LwhiXOoX7
This is like a fuse waiting to be lit, in my view.
— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) October 15, 2024
Junk bond yields currently have the narrowest spread compared to the Fed funds rate in 34 years.
This is the lowest level since June 2007, just before the peak of the housing bubble. pic.twitter.com/mVjtLF7qss
Despite large money market inflows, household cash allocations are near record lows.
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT ๐ (@MikeZaccardi) October 11, 2024
Households hold 48% of their financial assets in equities, well above historical medians. pic.twitter.com/hKsoaniOiC
๐บ๐ธ US credit card interest rates hit 23.37% in August, a record high, according to Fed data.
— Christophe Barraud๐ข๐ณ (@C_Barraud) October 11, 2024
➡ Over the last 2 years, rates have soared by ~7ppts ⚠ pic.twitter.com/QQSvpLmNYq
๐คจ pic.twitter.com/cDCpNMEKvY
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 25, 2024
I apologize to some of you for most of you.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 19, 2024