1. Bonds Negatively Correlated with Stocks Again
From Dave Lutz Jones Trading
As the S&P 500 Index lost about 6% across the first three trading days of August, the Treasury market posted gains of almost 2%. That enabled investors with 60% of their assets in stocks and 40% in bonds — a once time-honored strategy for building a diversified portfolio with less volatility — to outperform one that merely held equities.
2. Fed Fund Futures Pricing in 100 Basis Points in Cuts 2024
3. Vanguard REIT Index Now Positive for the Year
4. AI Weight in S&P
MarketEar Blog
https://themarketear.com/newsfeed
5. S&P Earnings Expanding Beyond Mag 7
6. Most Neglected Stocks and Most Crowded Stocks in Each Sector
From Spilled Coffee Blog
This is the list of the most neglected stock within each sector:
These are the most crowded stock with each sector:
Source: Daily Chartbook
7. Top100 Interval Funds Annualized Growth Rate of 39%
8. More Data Centers in U.S. than Rest of World Combined
Torsten Slok, Ph.D.Chief Economist, PartnerApollo Global Management
There are more than 5000 data centers in the US. In Germany there are 521 and in China 449, see chart below.
9. The U.S. Only Imports Half of What Europe Does
Barrons
https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-companies-tik-tok-huawei-7e9c6444?mod=past_editions
10. David Brooks “Mental Diet”
From Farnam Street Blog
When people worry about your mental diet, they tend to fret about the junk you’re pouring into your brain—the trashy videos, the cheap horror movies, the degrading reality TV, and … I’m not so worried about the dangers of mental junk food. That’s because I’ve found that many of the true intellectuals I’ve met take pleasure in mental junk food too. Having a taste for trashy rom-coms hasn’t rotted their brain or made them incapable of writing great history or doing deep physics. No, my worry is that, you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the “theory of maximum taste.” This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you spend your time only with run-of-the-mill stuff. The theory of maximum taste says that each person’s mind is defined by its upper limit—the best that it habitually consumes and is capable of consuming.”
— David Brooks (lightly edited for clarity)