Ryan Mumy and Justin Greenhill cover the trends shaping markets right now, including:
In this episode:
- Corporate profit margins hitting a new high, fueled by a record wave of capital spending
- Nvidia's profit margins pushing past 60% while its valuation multiple keeps compressing
- The federal deficit and interest payments closing in on levels last seen decades ago
- Bond yields reacting sharply to the new Fed chair's first months in office
- Consumer spending stalling out even as corporate spending hits new highs
- Monthly retirement account inflows reaching a 25 year high
- The market sitting right at the edge of a shift into negative gamma
- Asian investors funneling record capital back into their home markets
- Oil prices holding steady despite a shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz
- Gold, silver, and Bitcoin reacting to the latest moves in the debasement trade