Gold & Crypto Rip As US Stocks Shrug Off Shanghai Money-Drop

One of these things is not like the others…

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Chynaaah crushed it this week as Beijing unleashed the bazooka to Make China Wealthy Again after one of our best-timed calls ever…

One week later: best week for China since 2008 https://t.co/wcppwoz2rd pic.twitter.com/lCinp26fyB

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 27, 2024

European equities benefited more from the apparent liquidity-gasm coming from the east, but US equities were mixed on the week with Small Caps actually ending lower and Nasdaq managing only a 1% gain (well offthe 2.5% gains at the peak mid-week)…

Not exactly the kind of week the bull shad hoped for when China dropped their Headlines.

Mag7 stocks ended the week unchanged…

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China Internet stocks soared 32% MTD, while Mag7 stocks are up just 3%…

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‘Most Shorted’ stocks managed decent gains on the week (thanks to Thursday and Friday)…

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Growth and Value were equally (mildly) impressed this week

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Fed rate-cut expectations chopped around but were basically unchanged on the week (thanks to a dovish shift today)…

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Treasury yields were mixed on the week and only modestly changed close-to-close on the week with the short-end outperforming (2Y -3bps, 30Y +1bps)…

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The yield curve steepened notably to start the week, then flattened aggressively yesterday, bouncing back off unchanged on the week today…

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The dollar weakened for the 4th straight week, closing at its lowest since Dec 2023…

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Gold rallied for the 3rd straight week, breaking to new record highs before today’s sell-off…

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Bitcoin also rallied the 3rd straight week, breaking above $66,000 today…

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Ethereum rallied off January lows and broke above $2700 this week…

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Despite all the stimmies and WW3 risk, oil prices were lower on the week (of course)…

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Finally, macro growth data is surprising to the upside, and macro inflation data is surprising to the downside…

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Does that look like an environment that needed a 50bps rate-cut? Or that needs 75-100bps more by the end of the year?

Perhaps this is why gold and crypto is rallying hard…

Source: Bloomberg

US Sovereign risk exploding higher… did The Fed cut rates to rescue the Treasury?