2. DBO Oil ETF-Another Chart Looking to Break Above 4 Years Sideway Pattern
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3. Post Start of War Tech Stocks Lead Sectors
The sectors you would expect to outperform in the event of war would be defensives like Utilities, Consumer Staples, and Health Care. But guess what? They’re three of the four worst-performing sectors with declines of at least 1% each! While the S&P 500 is surprisingly higher this week, the rally is primarily due to the 1%+ gain in the Technology sector. On an equal weight basis, the index is down 1.04%, and 60% of its components are down MTD.
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4. Leading Emerging Market…South Korea Volatility
5. Emerging Markets Post U.S. Military Moves
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6. Solana (SOLZ) ETF was -70% from Highs at $8
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7. Countries with the Most Gold
Yonni Cohen
8. This is Going Lower
The Irrelevant Investor
9. See Where Mexico’s Cartels Are in Control
Crime syndicates in the states of Sinaloa and Jalisco have expanded their territory
1. Energy ETF XLE Beating XLK Tech ETF on One-Year Basis
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2. AAPL Triangle Pattern on Chart -Important for Tech/Mag 7 to Break Higher.
3. VHT Vanguard Healthcare ETF Breaks Out of Long Sideways Pattern-4 Years.
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4. XLE Energy ETF Same Pattern…Breakout of 4-Years Sideways.
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5. Most Publicly Traded BDCs are Trading Below their Net Asset Value.
Financial Times
6. Iran Top 5 World Oil Producer
Chartr
7. Polymarket attracts record trading ‘world’ volumes as U.S.-Iran bets top $529 million
A prediction market about military strikes on a sovereign nation now sits alongside presidential election bets as one of the most-traded contracts the platform has ever hosted.
Polymarket has rapidly become a hub for betting on the U.S.-Iran conflict, with traders wagering on ceasefire dates, regime change and potential U.S. ground involvement.
A contract on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leaving power by March 31 drew $45 million in volume, while a long-running market on whether the U.S. would strike Iran has amassed $529 million, making it one of Polymarket’s largest ever.
Onchain analysts have flagged six wallets that made about $1.2 million by correctly betting on a Feb. 28 U.S. strike on Iran, intensifying scrutiny of potential insider trading as Polymarket promotes its markets as a source of real-time geopolitical insight.
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8. Aging Population, Booming Real Estate and Equity Markets for Boomers.
9. How Can Cuba Build So Many Hotels When Occupancy So Low? Military Owns the Real Estate in Case of Democracy. (You can’t make it up)
With Fuel Running Out, Cuba’s Tourism Is Collapsing-NYT
By Frances Robles and Vjosa IsaiThe Trump administration’s decision to cut off foreign oil to the island is devastating its tourism industry, a key source of income for a government being pushed to the edge. Cuba’s state-run hotels are managed by Gaviota, a subsidiary of the military-run conglomerate GAESA, which controls the Cuban economy. That means Cuba’s best hotels and prime real estate are in the hands of military officials, Mr. Spadoni said.
“One key misconception is: How can Cuba build so many hotels when the occupancy rate is so low?” Mr. Spadoni said. “One thing people miss is that to the Cuban military, these are real estate investments more than tourism.”
Military officials are likely taking the “long view” by wanting to be in control of valuable properties should the Communist government transition to democracy, he said.
Some new luxury hotels, like the iconic Torre K in Havana, are largely empty.
In the past 15 years, the Cuban government invested about $24 billion in hotels, said Emilio Morales, a Miami-based former marketing official for Cimex, Cuba’s retail conglomerate, who now studies Cuba’s tourism industry and is a harsh critic of its government.
“There were many hotels, and in two or three and a half years, everything shut down or kept deteriorating,” Mr. Morales said. “They didn’t invest in the other sectors that support tourism, such as the energy grid itself.”
1. War in Middle East-Volatility Index Down on 5 Day Chart.
2. Oil Move Not Large by Historical Standards.
Bespoke It’s been a large move, but today’s gain would only rank as the 80th largest one-day gain in crude oil since 1984. Given the enormity of the military action, an even larger move in crude oil wouldn’t have been a surprise.
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3. A Couple Numbers from Prof G Monday Newsletter.
-Tesla’s robotaxis have been involved in crashes at 8x the rate of human drivers. Waymo, by contrast, estimates that its vehicles get into injury-causing crashes 80% less than human drivers
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4. Bank Selloff–U.S. Banks Lent $300B to Private Equity Credit Providers.
Dave Lutz Jones Trading
A recent Moody’s report showed U.S. banks had lent nearly $300 billion to private credit providers as of June 2025. Banks loaned a further $285 billion to private equity funds and had $340 billion in unutilized bank lending commitments available
5. Meta Balance Sheet Debt Up by $60B
The Wall Street Journal
6. Record Buying to Record Selling in Small Cap
7. Mecahnical Contracting vs AI…..FIX Comfort Systems USA HVAC Company (FIX) 5 year Chart +2134% vs. NVDA +1184%
Google – Morningstar
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8. Demographics is Destiny…We need Population Growth in U.S.
The Wall Street Journal
9. 2025 Russia Gained Less than 1% of Ukraine Territory….Russian Killed or Wounded 400-450k
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10. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) has a Budget that Would Rank in Top 10 as a Country in World.
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It adds emotion where it’s not always needed. The emotion is an amplifier, but it often causes division and defensiveness.
If you have confidence in your standing and your idea, then sarcasm is simply getting in the way, because it undermines both.
3. Cybersecurity ETF CIBR -20%…Close to Liberation Day Lows
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4. XLF Financials ETF Closes Below 200-Day First Time Since Liberation Day Sell Off
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5. Net Outflows Crypto ETFs
Marketwatch “By Gordon Gottsegen U.S.-based spot ETFs have sold a net of $2.6 billion so far in 2026. This contrasts with net buying of $4.3 billion in the same period of 2025. This is a $6.9 billion buying gap from 2025,” Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, told MarketWatch.
MarketWatch
By this time last year, bitcoin ETFs had added $4.3 billion to the crypto market. This year, they’re pulling liquidity away. Photo: CryptoQuant
6. Big Names Below All-Time Highs
Charlie Bilello
7. The Weight Loss Winner Is…..LLY +220% vs. NVO -44% 3-Year Chart
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8. AI Cash Burn $218B
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9. I Asked Perplexity About Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for Mag 7
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10. Share of U.S. Adults Using Each Social Media Platform-Ed Elson
