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This is why international equity diversification is worth it.
A globally diversified portfolio will still lean heavily U.S. (about 60% by market weight), which is not the same thing as being all-in only on America.
What else is happening in financial markets:
📩 The Young Investor
Meanwhile, international stocks continue crushing it this year
European stocks in aggregate are breaking out of a 25-year stagnation.
EM stocks are outperforming too.
Both are beating the S&P 500 by 15%+ YTD.
Its been a long, long time since this happened.
The market is pricing in more soft talk > hard tariffs.
No escalation. No new taxes.
Which explains the V-shaped rally in stocks. One of the strongest post-20% drawdowns in the last century.
Today, the S&P 500 is 3% from an all-time high.
Its incredible how fast markets move, especially when the narrative flips.
What happened? It seems it was the 🌮
TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out.
#markets #stocks #investing
"The hardest day to invest is always today"
Great article by Ted Seides @ Capital Allocators
Investors are in a weird place where:
- U.S. investors are overexposed to the U.S.
- Some Global investors are all-in the U.S.
- Some Global investors are still stuck in home country bias planet.
And everyone thinks they’re diversified.
#investing #stocks #markets #diversification
It was all priced in 🤣
Get the narrative unpacked and catch up on more:
S&P 500 just erased a 15% YTD decline in 6 weeks
First time since 1982 we've seen this kind of reversal
I had my spreadsheet open ready to "buy the dip"
Then Trump folded on tariffs like a house of cards 🫠
The market doesn't care about your perfect entry point
#TimingIsFutile #stocks
Worsening job market for recent college graduates.
What’s driving this trend? Is ai playing role by killing some entry level jobs?
Chart: The Atlantic
Wow! End of an era for the investing world
#markets #investing #berkshire
Europeans traveling to the US dropped pretty hard in April.
#bullish 😅
Great chart from BCA Research.
#markets #investing #tradewar
The S&P just had its best two-week stretch in years.
So why does everything feel so bad?
According to economists:
Maybe consumers are pulling forward spending to stay ahead of tariffs or inflation.
Maybe it’s just lag?
Maybe this, maybe that... 🤣
#markets #stocks #investors
🤣🤣 it’s gold
Me trying to make sense of the market in 2025 🤣
Me trying to make sense of trade war, stocks recovering, soft data, hard data, vibecession in 2025...
Me trying to make sense of trade war, stocks recovering, soft data, hard data, vibecession in 2025...
Me trying to make sense of trade war, soft data, hard data, vibecession, stocks recovering, (maybe Fed cuts?) and earnings in 2025
#markets #stocks #investors #investing
Podcasts are screaming recession:
@weisenthal.bsky.social @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social
The SP500? Grinding higher like it didn’t get the memo
One of the best 2-week stretches in yrs
The disconnect is getting harder to ignore
Feels like 2020 all over again #markets
Is this the bottom?
Maybe. Stocks have stopped going down.
Maybe not.
I unpack it all in 5 mins:👇
www.theyounginvestor.co/p/weekly-mar...
Then came the pivot:
✅ Powell is “safe”
✅ Tariffs on China “likely to come down substantially”
By Wednesday, we got a huge rally.
📈 More stocks rose than on all but 7 trading days in nearly 100 years.
Monday was a mess:
- CEOs warning of a slowdown
- Survey data turning ugly
- No trade deals, not even with allies
- Trump threatening to fire Powell (again)
Markets panicked. Investors ran for cover.
The week started like a #recession.
It ended like a bull market. Full of breadth thrust porn.
WTF just happened?
#markets #investing #stocks #investors
I once trusted an advisor who said, “It’s year nine of a bull market. "Now is the time for active management.”
Sounded wise.
Then 2020 hit.
My “conservative” portfolio dropped 30%. just like the market.
Paid extra for underperformance.
Lesson learned.👇
www.theyounginvestor.co/p/is-now-the...
Why do we always hear the active management pitch in shaky markets?
Because uncertainty sells.
The game isn’t just about returns, it’s about making you feel like you have to do something.
Wall Street knows your fear is profitable.
Wall Street LOVES to say it’s time to get “active.”
Especially in uncertain times like today, you here stuff like:
"regime shift" "sea change"
Be careful. You sure it’s not just time to get played?
#markets #investing #advisors #wealth
Starting off another week winning in #markets #stocks 🧨🎊
I'm definitely gonna get tired of winning.
