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Q2 2025 Earnings Update: Financials Post Strong Results
July 22, 2025
Q2 earnings are heating up. Through Monday, 62 companies have reported, and the year-over-year annualized quarterly growth rate stands at 3.22%, well below recent quarters.
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Quick Comments/What We’re Reading
July 22, 2025
Today's topics include global economy is more resilient than most thought, should Powell resign?, the shadow Fed trade, can equities handle a Mag 7 slowdown?, the surge of active ETFs, 24-hour trading?, targeting transshipping, and the prospects of stablecoins
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Cartoons
July 22, 2025
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Cot Commentary: Small Caps Out of Favor
July 21, 2025
The Commitments of Traders report allows investors to gauge position changes for different groups of traders/investors.
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Quick Comments/What We’re Reading
July 21, 2025
Today's topics include the Fed's path ahead, the state of the US economy, tariffs impact on earnings, index level momentum, economic minded versus consumer minded inflation, more commentary on Powell & Fed independence, Mag 7 stocks are diverging from themselves, Japanese election outcome & trade talks, and tech disruption across industries
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July 21, 2025
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Rise of the Retail Trader Part III: Retail Versus Institutional
July 18, 2025
Quantifying retail traders' share of equity market volume reveals the group has become a dominant market force.
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Quick Comments/What We’re Reading
July 18, 2025
Today's topics include commentary on Fed independence, Waller wants to cut rates, foreign Treasury holdings moved higher in May, ETFs are booming, Chinese rare earths, debating market reactions to EU's defense spending boost plans, and crypto surges on stablecoin bill passing
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Cartoons
July 18, 2025
Charts of the Week
A Note on Copper Imports
July 18, 2025
Copper imports are being pulled forward in an attempt to front-run potential tariffs. Could this have a similar impact on GDP as gold imports did earlier this year?
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Two Postscripts From This Past Week’s CPI Report
July 18, 2025
The quality of CPI data continues to get worse and seasonality now points higher the rest of the year.