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Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse collapses prove my point
Departures from GICS will raise weighting of Apple and Microsoft in S&P 500 IT sector to nearly 50%
CFTC examines impact of popular short-term derivatives
ETFs focused on US regional banks hit with steep declines
It’s SPIVA scorecard time
Reclassification of stocks such as Meta and Exxon did not happen across all index providers
And share compensation expense
Options at warp speed
Plus, US stocks are expensive
Volmageddon 2.0, pöstpöned
Messy methodologies
S&P 500 earnings already down about 5% at midpoint in reporting season
Aggregate forecasts for earnings often exclude extraordinary items, making the market look cheaper than it is
High flyers shed $4.9tn last year and some are still falling in 2023
‘Even a respected king has to pass the crown eventually’
Back-to-back calendar year losses are rare but can happen
Featuring Lloyd Blankfein cameo appearance
Concerns grow over market swings as ‘zero-day’ S&P 500 contract volumes surge
Reversion-to-the-mean machine
US equities drop and oil prices stabilise as outlook for world’s second-biggest economy becomes muddy
Pomo is the new FOMO
US and European indices climb more than 10% but inflation and recession fears stalk markets
And why are spreads ignoring the yield curve?
Traders say the performance of put options this year calls into question their value
. . . in a world of bears
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