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An employee in her 20s wrote that rather than missing out on the rally, she would “risk complete collapse,” adding that she had used 150 percent margin financing to fully leverage into stocks.
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Former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein has won the Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District over Rep. Thomas Massie..
...0-DTE traders putting lipstick on pigs as bond bulls bail...
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‘America’s local communities should never be left vulnerable to foreign influence operations masquerading as cultural exchange,’ Rep. Chip Roy said.
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"... prosecute parents of juveniles breaking curfew"...
The United States has imposed significant pressure on Cuba’s communist regime in recent months.
CNN footage captures pop-up gun training on Tehran streets...
As we see it, young people today have three primary paths to choose from...
Democrats say this will put sick children with no proof of citizenship at risk, but didn't they insist a few months ago that there "are no undocumented migrants" receiving taxpayer funded healthcare...?
While announcing the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul justified the need for legislation, citing the safety of local citizens.
Last week, Trump slammed Iranian Kurds for "stealing" US weapons & failing to deliver them to "protesters"...
“We’ll have an announcement,” Witt said. “I wish I could say more..."
Case fatality rates from past outbreaks caused by the virus have ranged from 30-50%...
Lacking serious reform of the system from Congress, it seems that consumers are taking matters into their own hands... The implications for Obamacare are profound...
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...what could go wrong?
"The bull capitulation is almost complete, and early June is now ripe for profit-taking, with bond yields set to determine the degree of pullback "
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India’s airlines have asked state-run oil refiners to hold off on hiking jet fuel prices for domestic flights until the conflict in the Middle East ends, in a bid to alleviate their rising cost pressures and mounting losses.
KOSPI became the ultimate AI melt-up trade, but the same reflexive flows that fueled the vertical squeeze are now starting to wobble as rates rise, vols stay extreme, and foreign selling accelerates. The problem for bulls is that KOSPI has effectively become SOX on steroids, meaning this unwind could quickly turn into one of the market’s most important stress signals for the broader AI trade.
The AI melt-up is finally starting to crack. Momentum is suffering its worst unwind since 2022 just as semis roll over, volume anomalies flash dot-com style warnings, and one of the market’s most crowded trades starts losing momentum fast.
We have spent days warning about euphoric sentiment and stretched positioning. But the latest charts just landed, and they point in a very uncomfortable direction for bears: positioning may not actually be as extreme as feared. Does it kill the pullback thesis? No. But it definitely weakens conviction.
Gold has gone nowhere for months. Vols have collapsed, specs remain heavily depressed, and the market has largely stopped caring just as gold approaches the major $4400 area and the huge divergence versus the Japanese long end quietly starts reopening upside squeeze potential again.
European equities remain trapped in broad ranges while defense stocks struggle despite exploding spending ambitions, banks have stalled after the rerating, and industrials are now getting aggressively sold again. European volatility continues trading stubbornly stressed relative to VIX, quietly signaling that markets still do not trust the Europe comeback narrative.
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