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We're now at a 52% drawdown from the October 6th all-time high with a 31% drop year to date.
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We had a surprise underdog victory in the special election in New Jersey's 11th District. Leftist Analilia Mejia defeated AIPAC candidate & former Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way as well the favorite & the primary target of AIPAC, former representative Tom Malinowski.
In a three-way format that's becoming increasingly common in Democratic competitions, one candidate accepted piles of Jewish money to support Israel, one candidate came out against Israel, and another offered both support & mild criticism while striking a moderate tone.
In Israel lobby politics, the latter is treated exactly the same as outright opposition. They expect 100% compliance on votes & rhetoric or they're intolerant of you.
Malinowski dominated the prediction markets until the very end. Believing the leftist had little chance in this very wealthy city of executives & professionals (97th percentile), the Israel lobby focused their ire & surreptitious spending on Malinowski. (They set up cutout organizations with generic political names like "Americans for New Jersey" and attack their opponents on everything but foreign policy).
This has backfired on them as their candidate failed to reach 10,000 votes while two they don't like topped 16,000.
Mejia beat Malinowski by only 108 votes at last counting. Mejia will have to run again in the June primary if she intends to retain her new seat.
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Honestly, basically every credit spread has been declining...
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The $VIX fell 8.21% over the day.
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$JETS is up on the back of a sector-wide tailwind, particularly in budget airlines like $ALGT and $ULCC. It is just now reaching the levels it fell from during the March 2020 COVID collapse.
Southwest ($LUV), the largest holding, saw 300% year over year leap in EPSβgood for a 33.3% gain over the past three months.
13.4% of the holdings in $JETS have seen insider buying in the past six months.
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$PAVE has appreciated against $IFRA for most of its history. $PAVE is the more pure infrastructure play, but $IFRA has the higher yield, as you'd expect from the make-up.
Since 10/1, $PAVE is up 15.5% and $IFRA gained 11.5%. As anticipated, $PAVE gained 3-4% on $IFRA over the roughly four-month period.
We noted both would benefit from industrial construction, data center construction, and building out chip manufacturing capacity, as trillions of dollars have been allocated by Congress to do. Here's a quick differentiation between the two ETFs from last time:
There are two key American ETFs for infrastructure: (1) the Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF ($PAVE), which is largely industrial, construction, and raw materials companies, and (2) the iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF ($IFRA), which has those but also includes companies in utilities & energy.
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Breadth has been catching up. This was essentially required to preserve the bull run. Of late, midcaps have been most impressive.
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What we've seen so far is curve steepening, rates path repricing due to softer macro, and mild de-risking. The 2s-10s curve is at its steepest in four years.
This has been caused by the two-year note's yield drifting back down to 3.5% while the ten-year note remains anchored in the low-to-mid 4s.
Upcoming inflation and payroll data are likely to resolve this one way or the other. Until then, it may not be a bad idea to store spare capital in something like $SHY.
You didn't think this was financial advice, did you? No, it's not financial advice...
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The NASDAQ 100 ($QQQ) led the market today with 0.77% gain, followed by the Russell 2K ($IWM) at +0.7%. The S&P 500 ($SPY) advanced 0.48%, and the Dow Jones Industrial ($DJI) lagged, coming in nearly flat with a gain of 0.04%.
Technology ($XLK) and Basic Materials ($XLB) led sectors, adding 1.57% and 1.3%. Consumer Discretionary ($XLY), Consumer Staples ($XLP), Financials ($XLF), and Healthcare ($XLV) were all in the red with the latter worst off (-0.88%).
Semiconductors ($SOXX) and mining ($XME) broadly led the rally with gains of 1.22% and 2.42% respectively. Gold miners ($GDX) and silver miners ($SIL) specifically rose 5.65% and 5.81%.
$AMD gained 3.63%, $NVDA 2.5%, $AMAT 2.5%, and $NXPI 2.05%. $ASML was up a more modest 1.17%. $MSFT gained 3.11%. $CDE saw a 7.42% jump, $HL was up 5.14%, $FCX was up 4.84%, and $NEM gained 4.69%.
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