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Hedge funds cautiously bullish; mutual funds rebalancing

...gold has the potential to bring one’s portfolio closer to the efficient frontier. That can no longer be said of nominal risk-free bonds.

Due to the ferocity of this down-trade (-4.5% from Tuesday high to the overnight low), we have already achieved DOUBLE the median downside trade typically experienced for the 2w window post Op-Ex...

Most market participants saw this as an all clear signal from the Fed and promptly sent financials surging...

... Or so it would seem, with stock markets discovering that, yes, they too can go down – as US infection numbers continue to go up and up.

Are we seeing the comeback of credit default swaps?

Another one bites the dust. 

The real question is what Q2 GDP will be, and more importantly whether Q3 GDP for a quarter that begins in less than a week, will show the dramatic improvement already priced into stocks.

...but if they sell off – and, there are myriad reasons why giants sell off, as all prior giants have found out – the impact of these five companies is going to be proportional to their giant size.

Disney noted that it is delaying the reopening because local governments had put the kibosh on the company's plans...

"The market really got the shivers over the prospect of a big increase in Covid and maybe starting to see places that were opening up have to close up."

Weeks after Alibaba founder Jack Ma stepped down from SoftBank's board, the founder and embattled chairman of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, is returning the favor.

"We thought that Wirecard was a trustworthy company..." 

 

"The United States is defending a lot of countries that are delinquent in what they are supposed to be paying."

George Floyd’s death sparked the flame of outrage over racial injustice and police brutality, but political correctness is creating a raging inferno that threatens to engulf the nation...

The US is already the most obese nation in the world, and thanks to the "Quarantine 15" it is about to get even fatter.

Investors will "have to consider how the FX market would react to a protracted phase of uncertainty if the outcome was unclear."

Credit Suisse isn't going to jeopardize a potentially profitable new business just to build some goodwill with SoftBank

Sell! Sell! Sell! 

Senior editor Ash Bennington joins managing editor Roger Hirst to analyze the anatomy of bubbles, propelled by emotional mania, and how that is relevant to…