Top Gun FP Client Note: Europe Leads




Michael Burry’s bear case is based on the premise that the AI hyperscalers are under-depreciating their capital spending in order to keep reported GAAP profits artificially high. There is also the suggestion that much of this CapEx will be malinvestment…
The catalyst for Wednesday’s selloff was a hotter than expected April CPI Report. Overall inflation came in at +4.2% year over year and +0.8% month over month. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, was +3.0% year over year and +0.9% month over month.
The stock market is certainly acting well. This morning KB Homes (KBH) announced another ugly quarter. New home sales were down 21% from last August and the median price was 7.5% lower. The S&P is up 6 points to 1531…
Most analysts have been characterizing the current rotation in markets as from Growth to Value. However, while on Monday the S&P 500 Value ETF (IVE, -0.02%) outperformed the S&P 500 Growth ETF (IVW, -1.95%), on Tuesday growth (-0.43%) outperformed value (-1.35%). This calls into question the Growth to Value narrative.
Tech stocks have been performing extremely well at year end, with the Nasdaq up for the 6th consecutive day today – S&P Tech (XLK) is up 4.24% over the same period. I sense some window dressing here as portfolio managers dress…
I really thought the riots in Egypt would be the negative catalyst that would set off that correction, but the market shrugged it off after a day. – Mark Tepper, Managing Partner, Strategic Wealth Partners January Manufacturing ISM came in…