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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 19h

S&P 500 Equity Risk Premium (Earnings Yield - Treasury Yields) is at its lowest level in over 20 years! Bonds becoming increasingly attractive.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Money getting scared and flowing into cash equivalents… human nature never changes!

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Over 70% of S&P 500 stocks are down -10% or more from their 52-week high

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The AI construction spend won’t stop.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly HALF of S&P 500 stocks are currently above their 200-day moving averages. Yet the index is 1% from all-time highs. The last time that happened was March 2000.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit the highest level since 2004 The 10-year yield just hit its highest level since 2007 apan’s 10-year yield just hit its highest since 1996 and France’s 10-year yield hits an 18-year high!

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The cost of hiring a Very Large Crude Carrier from the Persian Gulf to Asia has risen to a record high of $1.1 million a day. Global shortage of oil tankers, driving freight rates to unprecedented levels. #oil #shipping #energy

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A lot of people are bearish into this rally!

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

With earnings having outpaced the stock, Nvidia is now trading at its cheapest valuation in over a decade.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Venezuelan crude is flowing into the US at the highest rate since mid-2017, with imports surging to nearly 800,000 barrels a day last week.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Foreigners are now 60% allocated to U.S. Equities, the highest level in history

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Home Sellers outnumber Home Buyers by 58%, the largest gap ever recorded (Boomers are trying to sell; young people can’t afford a 7% mortgage rate)

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Google Searches for "Can't Afford Home" soar to highest level in history

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hedge funds have aggressively reduced leverage (sold) in recent weeks

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Average token spend continues to drop as people switch to open-models more and more. Will the trillions in investment have profits on the other side of it?

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinese oil is trading at a premium… the lack of Chinese demand is part of what kept a lid on prices earlier this year. Chinese demand is back and gas prices are heading 🆙

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy LDW! Our top charts of the week are out, to get you back up to speed… Number 1? Japan's 10-Year Yield hits 3% for the first time since 1996.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nike (NKE) is on track for its worst year since Michael Jordan's 1993 retirement.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was one of the most popular economic indicators in the 2010s. Everyone seems to have decided it’s no longer important… Maybe the US is immune now, but China is clearly slowing.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Historic dispersion! The stock within the S&P 500 are moving in complete opposite directions of one another. When this flips we are either exploding higher or crashing…

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

VIX put/call ratio… everyone is shorting volatilit. The VIX is a classic coiled spring.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Japanese machine orders for industrial robots are up 25% y/y

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Institutional Asset Managers own A LOT of stocks here. The NAAIM Exposure Index is now over 100 - historically a signal of an overheated market.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In 1981, the typical U.S. homebuyer was 31. Today they're 59!

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

No that’s not a crypto currency, that's the ETF that tracks the cost to ship oil via tanker!

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Junk credit (CCC-rated bonds) have weakened throughout the past few months and have completely diverged from stocks. Warning sign! ⚠️

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Inflation data is out PCE 0.2% MoM, Exp. 0.1% PCE Core 0.2% MoM, Exp. 0.2% PCE 3.7% YoY, Exp. 3.6% PCE Core 3.3%, Exp. 3.3%

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The S&P 500's assumed long-term EPS growth rate is sky-high at 25.0% 25.0% for multiple straight years…

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In mid-term election years since 1990, the equal-weigh S&P 500 has tended to peak in mid-August before a -7-8% pullback into mid-October… Time to be cautious?

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bitcoin surges like we have seen in recent days have tended to occur EARLY in rallies. Bitcoin & Gold > Stocks Our latest weekend note, is now up… easymarkets.substack.com/p/goldbitcoi...

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A record share of Americans say higher prices are hurting their finances, worse than the 1974 and 1980 oil shocks

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

European Banks have outperformed the Mag-7 since '22

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Over the last year, India's stock market has lagged emerging markets by 44.9%. That is the worst underperformance since 1996.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Biggest Nasdaq short of all time?

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the most well tenured sentiment measures on wall street hasn’t had this much optimism in 30 years.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The VIX Volatility Index just touched its lowest point this year, despite seasonal trends pointing higher.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The S&P 500 fell 28.5% from the Dot Com Bubble peak on 3/24/2000 through September 2001. Had you owned the S&P 500 Equal Weight during that stretch, you would have been in the green by 1%.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Bank of America’s Bull-Bear Indicator just reached one of the strongest stock market sell signals this century.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Convertible bonds global issuance from Tech companies has surged. (CFOs issue converts when they think their stock is expensive!)

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Tech sector forward P/E ratio (~20x) is near its lowest level of the year and below the 10-year average of 23x.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yesterday over 4 million S&P call options were bought, the highest level ever recorded

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hedge Funds bought Tech Stocks last week at the fastest pace since December 2022

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Last week saw the 2nd largest Hedge Fund de-grossing of the last decade. Forget will known as the Leopold Liquiidation!

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level in 40 years

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No hike but 9-3 with dissents for the voting is a pretty hawkish outcome. September is very much on the table.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The odds of a rate hike today have climbed to 36%. We are in the camp that Warsh will NOT hike.

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Easy Markets @easymarkets.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

While AI stocks crash lower, Sovereign bond yields are quietly at their highest levels since before the financial crisis.

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