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US large-cap equity benchmark that Reddit joins on August 18 and against which new additions were said to trail by about 2% three months after inclusion.
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A 30-year yield above 5.33% and Iran-driven oil prices are overwhelming good numbers from good companies. Walmart down 9% and Micron down 20% from its highs tell the same story.
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A Conference Board study of Russell 3000 and S&P 500 plans finds broad ESG labels falling while governance, social, cash flow and expense measures rise. Financial metrics still hold 70% to 75%.
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AI-related capital spending added 1.1 points to US GDP growth in the first half of 2025, more than the consumer. That puts a handful of build plans inside every operator's baseline.
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The asset manager tells allocators the slide from $126,200 was leverage clearing rather than a change in the investment case. Its own ETF took $78.9 million of outflows in a week.
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A Cboe paper says a 0.94% index slip paid 9.4% on a 10x short perpetual future and 404% on an at-the-money 0DTE put. The CFTC's Kalshi approval makes that distinction a regulatory question.
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Over the decade the figure was 13%. The defensible part of an advisory business is tax, income and estate work, and the fee schedule should say so out loud.
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Russell Reynolds counted 34% of first-half 2026 S&P 500 CEO appointments going to someone who had already led a public company, up from 22%. Each one closes a promotion chain.
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Hypatia's WCEO beat the S&P 500 by more than seven points this year and now has a three-year record. It still trails its own small-cap benchmark, and it still cannot get on the platforms.
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One analyst argues dealer gamma has pinned the S&P 500 and pressed the VIX down to 14.3. VIX options expire Wednesday morning, and the flows doing the pinning expire with them.
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The S&P 500 and Dow set records on AI earnings, but one stock moved roughly sixteen times as far as the index that day. That ratio is the story.
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Average S&P 500 chief executive pay rose 21% to a record $22.8 million last year while the average US wage rose 3%. Say on Pay approval went up anyway.
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The 11% pop in extended trading is index trackers filling an order. The stock is still down 31% for the year, and the reason it fell has not been fixed.
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HIP-3 open interest is past $4 billion, and roughly a fifth of it sits in two contracts on one South Korean memory maker. Concentration, not tokenization, is the story.
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Since 1950 the S&P 500 has spent 93% of trading days below a prior peak, in an average 11% drawdown. Highs are the exception, and that should be said out loud before the next one breaks.
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Casey's, Couche-Tard and Murphy USA are all up at least 24% this year on a defensive label. The earnings driver is a closed Strait of Hormuz, which is the opposite of defensive.
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J.P. Morgan puts the required index-fund purchase at 16.7 million shares, close to three normal sessions of volume. The business and the buying are on separate tracks.
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