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23:06
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
STOCKS
SPY
XLY
IWM
Biotech stocks
▾
HIGH
Hold 70% stocks, not bonds.
Cramer says he is betting people will live longer and therefore wants investors to keep a high stock allocation even into their 60s and 70s. He thinks bonds will not deliver the returns people want, so he prefers roughly 70% in stocks, reducing later only to 30% or 20% depending on personal situation.
STOCKS LONG
Use low-fee S&P 500 for 529.
For long-term retirement money currently sitting in a money market account, Cramer says not to put it all to work at once. He advises deploying one-twelfth per month, doubling to one-sixth after a really bad month, and keeping the long-term money in stocks rather than bonds over time.
SPY LONG
Rotate cyclicals and secular by economy.
Cramer explains the hedge fund playbook of rotating between cyclical and secular growth depending on the economy. When the economy slows, cyclicals get crushed and investors should favor secular growth names; when the economy heats up, cyclicals are favored and secular growth names lag.
XLY WATCH
Young investors should own high-risk stocks.
For a young investor, Cramer recommends taking more risk than his usual advice because the investor has a full life to recover. He specifically points to smaller-cap stocks, biotechs, and companies on the ground floor of AI rather than loading up on older companies.
IWM LONG
Biotech stocks LONG
AIQ LONG
Overweight electrification, clean energy, infrastructure.
Jeff Marks says the club is diversified but if there is a mega theme they like, such as electrification, clean energy, or infrastructure, they are not opposed to investing more heavily in that space because these are multi-year trends seeing huge investment flows.
PAVE LONG
Electrification LONG
ICLN LONG
Avoid single/multifamily REITs now.
Cramer says higher interest rates make mortgages less affordable for families and that single-family and multifamily REITs will be under pressure. He says this is one reason he is not recommending any of those stocks.
XLRE AVOID
HIGH
22:09
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
SOXX
NVDA
▾
HIGH
Nvidia reversal versus SOX may continue.
Nvidia has begun to reverse last year's underperformance: over the last month the SOX index is down about 5% while Nvidia is up 4-5%, and that relative reversal may continue because Nvidia is starting its next product cycle, which tends to be good for the stock.
SOXX WATCH
Nvidia earnings strong; Rubin cycle starting.
Nvidia's upcoming earnings should be very good as it enters the Rubin cycle; management has already given growth color through this year and next, with the $1 trillion over three years implying close to $500 billion in data center revenue next year, and build plans make higher numbers plausible. He also wants confirmation that gross margins can hold in the mid-70s despite memory and wafer pricing pressure.
NVDA LONG
HIGH
21:10
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
TLT
Healthcare Innovation
AIQ 1ST
XLP 1ST
XLV 1ST
▾
HIGH
Treasury buyback only temporarily suppressed yields
The Treasury buyback announcement only briefly suppressed yields; investors see it as a hand on a beach ball, and once that support is removed yields move back up. Middle East conflict, higher oil prices, and weak monetary/fiscal credibility keep upward pressure on Treasury yields near term, leaving the Treasury in a tough position.
TLT WATCH
Diversify AI trade into healthcare innovation
AI should be treated as a multifaceted trade rather than a monolith. Instead of concentrating only in hyperscalers and AI infrastructure producers, Bowman favors moving toward end users of AI models, especially healthcare innovation companies using AI to forecast health events and discover antibodies, which can improve profitability.
Healthcare Innovation LONG
AIQ AVOID
Position defensively in staples and healthcare
By the end of the year, headline inflation is likely to outpace wage growth for the first time in four years, causing slower consumption; therefore clients are positioned more defensively in consumer staples and health care, which tend to do well in a slowing economy.
XLP LONG
XLV LONG
HIGH
20:37
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
SPY 1ST
Off-price retail
HD
LOW
WMT
▾
HIGH
Bullish trend intact on strong earnings.
The market's bullish trend remains in place despite recent volatility because earnings have been fantastic, with 88% of companies beating top-line estimates, signaling the economy is doing well.
SPY LONG
Off-price retail gains from choosy consumers.
Consumers are pulling back and becoming more choosy about spending, which is driving a shift toward off-price retail from an equity standpoint as the holiday season approaches.
Off-price retail LONG
Bullish Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart.
Home Depot, Lowe's, and Walmart remain favorites in a more selective consumer environment, offering exposure to retailers that can handle a choosy holiday shopper.
HD LONG
LOW LONG
WMT LONG
HIGH
20:21
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
SPY 1ST
HPE
AVGO
ANET
MRVL
▾
HIGH
Market ends higher on strong earnings.
Next week's events are not a market determinant because earnings are doing the work; this year's equity gains are driven by spectacular earnings growth that is already predetermined, and she expects the market to end higher, potentially around 8000, once Q3 earnings arrive.
SPY LONG
Nvidia call moves many AI stocks.
Nvidia's guidance is the key AI macro event: Jensen Huang acts as the 'AI Fed chair,' and what Nvidia says about 2027 and 2028 will cause dozens of hundred-billion-dollar AI-exposed large caps to trade up or down; confirming tone is enough after this year's multiple contraction. He names Dell, HPE, Arista Networks, Marvell, Broadcom, Micron, AMD, GE Vernova, Eaton and Vertiv as vulnerable to the Nvidia call.
HPE WATCH
AVGO WATCH
ANET WATCH
MRVL WATCH
MU WATCH
AMD WATCH
VRT WATCH
GEV WATCH
ETN WATCH
DELL WATCH
Nvidia is safe bet into earnings.
She expects Nvidia to post great results and is not in the camp looking for disappointment, but thinks the stock's reaction to the print will be more informative than the numbers because it reveals how optimistic and positioned investors already are.
NVDA LONG
HIGH
20:19
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
NVDA
AI/data center bottleneck trade
TLT 1ST
SPY
▾
HIGH
Nvidia event re-injects AI demand confidence.
Next week is a clearing event for the AI trade: Nvidia's Jensen Huang is expected to re-inject confidence that relentless AI demand is still taking place regardless of current data center concerns, which should support Nvidia and the AI trade after it stalled.
NVDA LONG
Data center opposition threatens AI bottleneck trade.
Growing political opposition and potential moratoriums on data centers in Ohio, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania are causing investors to pause in AI/data center trades. If data centers cannot be built, the entire AI bottleneck trade does not look as durable.
AI/data center bottleneck trade WATCH
Treasury buyback signals value; yields lower.
The Treasury buyback was a wise signal of value, not manipulation, because the Treasury indicated it sees Treasury securities as attractive even when investor nerves are unrelated to the assets. Lee assumes the buyback will work and yields should begin to move lower, with Jackson Hole potentially quelling the risk premium built into yields.
TLT LONG
Stocks rangebound into Jackson Hole.
The stock market will be rangebound this week because the Jackson Hole speech on Friday is the seminal event for understanding Fed Chairman Warsh's thinking, making it a waiting/calibration week rather than a directional break.
SPY WATCH
HIGH
20:17
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
XBI 1ST
LLY 1ST
XLF 1ST
KBE 1ST
NVO 1ST
▾
HIGH
Big Pharma faces oversight discount risk.
If Democrats take at least one chamber, they will use private-sector oversight as a second track, targeting companies with Trump ties and voter backlash. Big Pharma is directly in that Venn diagram, and Democrats are likely to call CEOs from companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly that signed drug pricing deals with the administration, so investors should put a discount into these stocks now.
XBI AVOID
LLY AVOID
NVO AVOID
Banks and fintech face oversight risk.
Some financial services companies, particularly banks and fintech, fall in the same Venn diagram of close administration ties or self-protective contributions plus visceral voter reaction, making them likely targets for Democratic private-sector oversight and stock-price discounts.
XLF AVOID
KBE AVOID
FINTECH AVOID
HIGH
20:15
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
NVDA
AVGO
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HIGH
Nvidia's bigger off-balance-sheet AI financing backstops less.
Nvidia is pursuing a similar off-balance-sheet AI financing plan on a larger target of more than $500 billion, but it is standing further back and backstopping only up to 25% of deals. That gives Nvidia a different risk profile: bigger financing ambitions with a smaller guaranteed slice.
NVDA WATCH
Broadcom's off-balance-sheet AI chip financing grows.
Broadcom is in talks to raise more than $60 billion, potentially up to $100 billion, in off-balance-sheet debt through a special purpose vehicle to finance AI chips for Anthropic and other customers. The SPV buys chips and leases them back, and Broadcom guarantees part of the debt and the chip value if deals go bad. Bank of America estimates the exposure could reach roughly $370 billion by 2029 but calls likely losses manageable. This is a major AI chip financing setup that supports demand while creating contingent balance-sheet risk.
AVGO WATCH
HIGH
16:43
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
BTC
Crypto-oriented assets
UHS 1ST
▾
HIGH
Bitcoin breakout may reflect bond credibility concerns.
Bitcoin has broken out of a multi-month tight trading range and is up nearly 20% in two days; the likely driver may be a U.S. debt-credibility story pushing investors toward Bitcoin or gold, though catalysts remain hard to identify definitively.
BTC WATCH
Bought crypto assets as inflation hedge.
Ben Narasin shifted from avoiding crypto as purely speculative in 2014 to buying a variety of crypto-oriented assets over the past year because he is very, very concerned about inflation, citing an ice cream scoop rising from $1 to $8 as evidence of eroding purchasing power.
Crypto-oriented assets LONG
Talkspace AI offers safe mental-health growth.
Talkspace is the largest in-network mental health provider with access to 220 million Americans including Medicare, and its AI companion T is purpose-built to be safe: trained on 8 billion words of consented, de-identified therapy data, with clinician oversight and suicide/risk algorithms. With millions already using chatbots for mental health, this gives the platform a differentiated, safe growth path inside Universal Health Services.
UHS LONG
HIGH
16:37
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
Trading cards
Cooper Flagg 1-of-1 NBA debut card
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MED
Internet and big investors drive trading cards.
The trading card market has kept exploding after the COVID-era boom because the internet made the hobby more versatile and opened many ways to participate, attracting large investors alongside smaller collectors.
Trading cards LONG
Rare Flagg card could appreciate further.
The one-of-one Cooper Flagg NBA debut card could appreciate further if Flagg's career develops, similar to how early Jordan rookie cards gained value; Williams is taking the sale decision slowly and holding for now.
Cooper Flagg 1-of-1 NBA debut card WATCH
MED
16:37
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
COIN 1ST
CRCL 1ST
MSTR
BTC 1ST
▾
HIGH
Crypto stocks rally with Bitcoin, regulatory catalyst
As Bitcoin soared, crypto equities Coinbase, Circle and Strategy also rallied for double-digit weekly gains. The more crypto-friendly regulatory narrative around the CLARITY Act gave investors another reason to buy crypto stocks.
COIN LONG
CRCL LONG
MSTR LONG
Macro, short squeeze, ETF demand boost Bitcoin
Bitcoin's rally was a macro move amplified by a massive short squeeze and helped by crypto-specific regulatory headlines. Treasury yields pulled back and the dollar weakened, easing pressure on risk assets and improving liquidity expectations for scarce assets like Bitcoin. The breakout then triggered roughly $2.7 billion in leveraged short liquidations, renewed spot ETF demand added buying, and the White House/crypto industry push for the CLARITY Act gave investors another reason to buy.
BTC LONG
HIGH
16:36
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
TLT FLIP
▾
HIGH
Avoid long-term Treasuries; supply and uncertainty dominate
Rosenberg argues the recent rise in long-term Treasury yields is not about fiscal policy or the $40 trillion debt; it reflects the war risk premium, a new Fed chair who has not credibly answered how inflation gets to 2%, and especially a surge in long-dated issuance by AI hyperscalers that are now free cash flow negative and competing for long-end funding. Therefore investors do not want to own duration under that uncertainty, and the Treasury buyback plan likely will not bring longer-term yields down.
TLT AVOID
HIGH
16:35
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
IEF 1ST
▾
HIGH
Treasury buybacks cap long-end yields.
Zervos argues the Treasury Department's debt buyback program is a tactical Operation Twist-style move that has been hugely successful when the Fed used it, and that the Treasury holds all the firepower. He expects the buybacks to cap the upper end of the two-year 10-year Treasury yield range near 4.81% and says traditional bond vigilantes will not win battles against the Treasury.
IEF LONG
HIGH
16:22
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
Off-price retail
HD
LOW
WMT
BTC 1ST
▾
HIGH
Movement toward off-price retail equities
Consumers are finally starting to pull back and get more choosy about spending, so from an equity point of view the market is moving toward off-price retail as price becomes more prominent.
Off-price retail LONG
Favor Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart
Michael Zakura remains bullish on Home Depot, Lowe's, and Walmart because he still loves these names as consumers become choosier and more price-focused heading into the holiday season.
HD LONG
LOW LONG
WMT LONG
Bitcoin technical trend solidly positive
Frank Capilleri says Bitcoin's technical trend is solidly positive, based on patterns after prior sizable drawdowns from all-time highs in 2019 and 2025; with Bitcoin still more than 50% below its high, he sees momentum returning.
BTC LONG
HIGH
14:35
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
BNO
DIESEL 1ST
WTI
▾
HIGH
Brent baseline mid-$90s on Hormuz disruptions
Helima Croft argues crude oil prices remain elevated because Iranian escalation risk is still clear despite 'open for business' rhetoric, and ongoing Strait of Hormuz disruption is removing about 8 million barrels per day. She puts Brent's baseline in the mid-$90s, though she does not expect a breakout to 2022 levels.
BNO LONG
Diesel tight, historic highs, no spare refining
Helima Croft says diesel is the energy market to pay closest attention to: diesel prices are at historic highs, there is no spare refining capacity for diesel, refineries are running flat out, Middle East refineries have been targeted by Iran, and Ukraine continues hitting Russian refineries.
DIESEL LONG
China resuming oil buying would raise prices
Helima Croft views China's sharp reduction in crude imports as a key economic support for global oil markets. She warns that if the US goes after China more aggressively for military support to Iran and China starts buying crude again in large quantities, that would send oil prices higher.
WTI WATCH
HIGH
14:22
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
TLT 1ST
▾
MED
Treasury buybacks support long-term Treasury bonds.
The Treasury is increasing buybacks of longer-term debt, and with the Fed handing off duration positioning to the Treasury, Secretary Bessent is signaling he will buy 30-year paper at 5.2%-plus yields; this Treasury buying supports longer-term Treasuries.
TLT LONG
MED
13:28
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
WTI
10-Year Treasury Note
Off-the-run Treasuries
TLT
▾
HIGH
Crude's rise keeps Treasury yields elevated.
Rick Santelli argues the main force keeping Treasury yields elevated is Middle East oil risk rather than domestic economic strength; the 10-year yield has been directly correlated with crude since before the conflict began, and this week’s more than $5 rise in crude is what is preventing Treasury yields from falling even though yields are lower on the week. He notes that when crude oil pops, the Treasury complex stops buying and yields go back up.
WTI WATCH
10-Year Treasury Note WATCH
Buyback timing hurt Treasury market credibility.
Steve Liesman argues the Treasury's expanded buybacks were substantively welcome because the market had hoped for more off-the-run purchase support, but the execution was flawed: announcing two weeks after refunding and on the morning of a $20 billion auction broke Treasury's regular-and-predictable framework and made the Treasury Secretary look like a hedge fund manager rather than a debt issuer treating its customers well.
Off-the-run Treasuries WATCH
Buyback expansion is small and justified.
Rick Santelli contends the buyback controversy is overblown: the $25-40 billion of long-end buybacks is tiny relative to the $6.7 trillion Fed balance sheet, the 30-year bond is not the benchmark and is very illiquid, and long-end liquidity has been made thinner by hedge funds running a sell-long/buy-short curve trade. He sees the Treasury's buyback tweaks as fine and not a big deal, with buybacks already ongoing for two years.
TLT WATCH
HIGH
12:58
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
Manhattan rental market
Manhattan luxury rental market
▾
HIGH
Manhattan rents likely keep rising
Manhattan rents are at record highs and Robert Frank expects them to keep rising because demand from tech and finance workers, including AI hiring, remains strong while supply is constrained by rent freezes on rent-stabilized units. Landlords offset frozen units by raising market-rate rents, and high financing, labor, and material costs limit new construction.
Manhattan rental market LONG
Luxury Manhattan rents surging on wealthy demand
The high-end Manhattan luxury rental segment is the strongest mover: top-decile rents are up 35% year over year and six-figure monthly rentals are increasing, because wealthy households are choosing to rent rather than buy, partly due to the pied-à-terre tax making second-home ownership more expensive and less predictable.
Manhattan luxury rental market LONG
HIGH
12:32
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
HD 1ST
Luxury and premium retail
AMZN
LOW
WMT
▾
HIGH
Big-box retailers stay strong into holidays.
Despite big-box retailers beating quarterly estimates and then seeing their stocks retreat on soft outlooks, Zakkour remains bullish on Home Depot, Lowe's, and Walmart. He expects all three to come through the cautious consumer environment fine and have strong holiday seasons because they will be beneficiaries of consumers shifting spending away from premium and luxury toward value.
HD LONG
LOW LONG
WMT LONG
Luxury and premium retail face consumer headwinds.
Zakkour is more worried about the premium and luxury side because consumers are not going to trade up in this market. That implies luxury and premium retailers face a more difficult holiday period as spending rotates toward value and off-price.
Luxury and premium retail AVOID
Walmart and Amazon lead integrated retail.
Walmart and Amazon represent the gold standards of the integrated online-offline new retail model because of their supply chains, media businesses, proprietary infrastructure, and IT stacks. This structural edge supports a long-term positive view on both companies.
AMZN LONG
Consumer trade-down benefits off-price discounters.
As consumers get choosier and pull back, spending is rotating toward off-price and discount retail. Zakkour expects dollar stores, discounters, and TJ Maxx-type retailers to have a great quarter and holiday season as shoppers trade down from premium and luxury.
TJX LONG
DG LONG
HIGH
12:13
Aug 21
Aug 21
CNBC
1d
U.S. IPO market
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MED
IPO wealth creation is coming big.
Narasin expects the U.S. to enter the largest creation of wealth across many people through IPOs this year and next, even as California is actively trying to drive those IPO-wealth creators out of the state.
U.S. IPO market LONG
MED
23:58
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
MU
WMT
ARLO 1ST
NKE
ACI
▾
HIGH
Micron radically undervalued; memory demand strong.
AI has changed memory demand from a historic boom-bust business to secular demand. Customers want more than Micron can supply, with more than 16 take-or-pay strategic customer agreements and about $22 billion in deposits, and Sanjay sees no end to supply catching up with demand, with 2027 even tighter than 2026.
MU LONG
Walmart signals consumer slowdown; stock overheated.
Walmart's earnings miss and 9% stock decline reflect $4 gasoline and Walmart's willingness to sacrifice short-term margin to gain market share. Cramer views Walmart as a thermometer showing a slowing US consumer, and he believes the stock was too high coming into the print even though the long-term business remains strong.
WMT WATCH
Arlo profitable; stock now attractive.
Arlo Technologies has become profitable while growing subscribers and profits, yet the stock is down about 30% from last summer's high. At these lower levels, Cramer says it is not a bad idea.
ARLO LONG
Nike has too many problems; avoid.
Nike has too many things going wrong and the whole athletic/retail industry is slowing. Cramer says nothing is working for Nike right now, making the stock unattractive despite the caller's view that quality and value could fix it.
NKE AVOID
Albertsons-Kroger merger revival is best shot.
Albertsons is cheap and trades at less than seven times earnings with a 5.7% yield, but Cramer says it is cheap because it deserves to be cheap after weak results and share losses. He argues the blocked Kroger merger should be attempted again under the Trump administration because consolidation is Albertsons' best shot at staying competitive, making ACI and KR an event-driven setup.
ACI WATCH
KR WATCH
Buy Coca-Cola; avoid Celsius.
Cramer does not want Celsius here and instead prefers quality Coca-Cola as the winner in beverages.
KO LONG
CELH AVOID
Buy Bitcoin; avoid derivatives.
Cramer says to buy Bitcoin directly rather than buying derivatives, which he considers too dangerous.
BTC LONG
HIGH
23:35
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
MU
▾
HIGH
AI structurally raises memory demand
There is no AI without memory. AI systems across data centers, phones, PCs, and self-driving cars require more memory, higher-performance memory, and lower-power memory, which has changed the value equation for memory and made it a key enabler of customer growth.
MU LONG
HIGH
22:00
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
SPY
Nasdaq-100 Equal Weight Index
TLT FLIP
GLD
BTC
▾
HIGH
Treasury intervention supports stocks to new highs.
The Treasury intervention is a game changer and hugely reflationary, addressing liquidity concerns. Breadth improvement and ongoing skepticism support stocks reaching new highs as soon as next week, though rates and crude are temporary headwinds.
SPY LONG
Nasdaq-100 Equal Weight Index LONG
Treasury intervention supports long-end Treasuries.
The velocity of the long-end rate breakout had gotten out of hand, and the Treasury is stepping in to help liquidity with an implied Treasury put around 4.75% on the 10-year and 5.30% on the 30-year, supporting the long end.
TLT LONG
Reflationary liquidity trade lifted gold and Bitcoin.
The Treasury move is a reflationary liquidity trade, and gold and bitcoin surged near term as beneficiaries of that reflation and liquidity impulse.
GLD LONG
BTC LONG
Treasury move should weaken the dollar.
A lower dollar would help reduce debt-to-GDP and support the U.S. position. Treasury stepping in for liquidity should allow the dollar to go meaningfully lower while growth remains pretty decent.
DXY SHORT
Health care is breaking out; long sector.
Health care broke out of a nearly three-year downtrend. Drug pricing and ACA subsidy concerns have turned, biotech is surging, deals are happening across biotech, pharma, and HMOs, and GLP-1 helps pharma stocks.
XLV LONG
Energy is a short-term long sector.
Energy is a short-term long. Crude is expected to revisit $100, with oil moving through Red Sea and Gulf of Oman pipelines and some Strait traffic being circumvented, keeping energy supportive for alpha over the next few months.
XLE LONG
Materials benefit from ongoing commodity surge.
Materials should benefit from a commodity surge that started yesterday and is likely an ongoing theme over the next few months.
XLB LONG
Crude has final push to $100-$110.
Crude is set for one final push up to around $100-$110 near term as Red Sea and Gulf of Oman pipeline routes are used, before ending the year down near the lows. Energy is currently a short-term long.
WTI LONG
HIGH
21:49
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
TLT 1ST
Microsoft corporate bonds
▾
HIGH
Treasury intervention cannot durably hold rates down.
U.S. debt has roughly doubled over the past ten years while the economy grew in almost every quarter, and immigration policy acts as a brake on long-term U.S. growth. Since 30-year bonds are a bet on long-term U.S. growth and prosperity, these accumulating fiscal and growth drags make long-dated Treasuries unattractive.
TLT AVOID
Microsoft credit stronger than U.S. Treasuries.
Microsoft has a higher investment-grade credit rating than the United States and is well situated in the economy and AI, and Luck agrees the U.S. balance sheet would look much worse as a company. With heavy Treasury issuance and rising private-sector issuance pressuring the Treasury market, high-quality corporate credit such as Microsoft is a better long-term credit exposure.
Microsoft corporate bonds LONG
HIGH
21:18
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
Longer-term Treasury yields
US inflation expectations
▾
HIGH
Longer-term yields face upward pressure.
George argues that since the last FOMC press conference, markets are driving yields higher as they sort through Fed communication, persistent inflation, and war risks. She adds that the federal deficit is unsustainable and there is no plan to address it, so until that changes, longer-term Treasury yields will remain under upward pressure.
Longer-term Treasury yields LONG
Inflation expectations are drifting higher.
George warns that while the Fed has taken comfort in anchored inflation expectations, those expectations can drift and have already drifted higher. She says the Fed risks public confidence and credibility if it does not address elevated inflation, supporting a higher inflation-expectations environment.
US inflation expectations LONG
HIGH
20:22
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
TLT FLIP
WMT FLIP
▾
HIGH
New Fed chair adds Treasury term premium
A new Fed chair has created uncertainty because the market is still learning his reaction function; this has injected significant term premium into the Treasury market, contributing to higher yields and a difficult rate environment.
TLT SHORT
Walmart squeezed by fuel cost pressures
Walmart expects to absorb about $2 billion of incremental fuel costs this year, and sustained higher oil prices could push consumer prices higher; the company has limited ability to absorb these costs, making them a problem for Walmart and its customers.
WMT AVOID
HIGH
20:16
Aug 20
Aug 20
19:10
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
SPY
MRNA 1ST
XLV 1ST
AI 1ST
TLT 1ST
▾
HIGH
Healthcare and AI offer exciting market opportunities.
The current market environment is exceptionally target-rich and exciting, with strong opportunities in healthcare, specifically citing Moderna, as well as AI beneficiaries, which could drive the broader market up another 5 to 10% this year.
SPY LONG
MRNA LONG
XLV LONG
AI LONG
Buy the 10-year Treasury at 5% yield.
The starting yield on a Treasury is a highly reliable predictor of total return if held to maturity, so buying the 10-year Treasury at a 5% yield locks in a nearly guaranteed 5% return, offering certainty that equities cannot provide.
TLT LONG
Equities are preferable to 5% bond yields.
Although 5% yields on 10-year Treasuries or 5-year corporate bonds offer portfolio stability, equities are more attractive because a 19x P/E multiple provides a corresponding 5% earnings yield combined with the upside of strong economic and profit growth.
Equities LONG
HIGH
19:10
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
BTC
DXY 1ST
▾
HIGH
Bitcoin hedges dollar weakness and fiscal dominance
The Treasury's increased reliance on short-term T-bills is reigniting fiscal dominance fears, making high rates increasingly expensive and likely forcing lower real rates and a structurally weaker dollar; Bitcoin is one of the best hedges for that dynamic because its only persistent 15-year correlation has been a negative one with the dollar.
BTC LONG
DXY SHORT
HIGH
19:07
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
TLT 1ST
Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bonds
▾
HIGH
Financial repression will hurt Treasury bondholders
The U.S. has deferred its debt problem so long that the fiscal position is nearly insoluble, with entitlements consuming over two-thirds of the budget. Daniels expects politicians to eventually inflate away part of the debt and continue financial repression by artificially lowering interest rates, which will hurt savers and fixed-income holders; therefore nominal Treasury bonds are unattractive.
TLT AVOID
Treasury buyback won't cap long-term yields
He dismisses the Treasury's debt buyback program as looking like panic and says it won't make much real difference, likely just buying time ahead of the election; investors should not expect it to keep long-term Treasury yields down or support long-duration bonds.
Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bonds WATCH
HIGH
17:44
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
BTC
COIN
▾
HIGH
Bitcoin is entering a new bull market.
The crypto spot market is likely on the cusp of a new bull run because the recent bear market has lasted about 370 to 380 days, which matches historical bear market durations, the upcoming September 15th Clarity Act vote could provide regulatory clarity, and the fourth quarter traditionally performs well following Bitcoin halving cycles.
BTC LONG
Coinbase has successfully diversified its revenue streams.
Coinbase is well-positioned because it has successfully diversified its revenue streams during the crypto bear market, with only about 12% of revenue now coming from Bitcoin spot trading, while growth is accelerating in crypto derivatives, prediction markets, stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets, and AI-driven agentic finance.
COIN LONG
HIGH
16:22
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
Longer-dated U.S. Treasury securities
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HIGH
Treasury buybacks will push long yields down
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant says the Treasury will increase buybacks of longer-dated Treasury securities, potentially more than $4 billion per issue, in order to drive yields down. He believes markets are missing underlying factors and that the Treasury will make a market in these securities.
Longer-dated U.S. Treasury securities LONG
HIGH
16:17
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
MU
000660.KS
005930.KS
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HIGH
Memory buildout risks a market glut.
Katie Tarasov warns the memory industry is a boom-and-bust cycle, and with Micron's two new Boise fabs, SK hynix's South Korea and Indiana packaging expansion, and Samsung also building out, the market could see a memory glut that erases the wealth benefits from the current boom.
MU WATCH
000660.KS WATCH
005930.KS WATCH
HIGH
15:37
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
30-year U.S. Treasuries
TLT 1ST
FXY
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HIGH
Treasury buybacks support long-dated bonds.
Bessent says the Treasury increased buybacks of longer-dated securities because August trading in that area is thin and the 30-year point has very poor liquidity; he believes yields do not reflect underlying fundamentals and the buyback could exceed $4 billion per issue, signaling direct support for long-dated Treasury prices.
30-year U.S. Treasuries LONG
Peak deficit supports U.S. Treasuries.
Bessent says the administration is shifting to fiscal consolidation and there is a very good chance peak deficit has already occurred; temporary tariff refunds will not repeat, 2026 tariff income should be roughly stable, and the fraud task force could save several hundred billion, improving deficit fundamentals that underpin U.S. Treasuries.
TLT LONG
Yen intervention signal worth monitoring.
Bessent suggests investors should question why the U.S. joined Japan's yen intervention and says he has asymmetric information; this flags the yen intervention as an important, possibly underappreciated setup to monitor.
FXY WATCH
HIGH
15:16
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
MU
SMH 1ST
▾
HIGH
Micron's R&D edge supports leadership.
Micron is committing $10 billion to Micron Research Labs and kept investing in leading-edge research even during the 2023 downturn. Mehrotra says this gives Micron the best technology and product portfolio in the industry and positions Boise as a hub for leading-edge memory manufacturing.
MU LONG
Memory is strategic AI infrastructure.
Memory is no longer a component or commodity; it is strategic infrastructure for AI. AI needs greater amounts of memory, faster memory, and lower-power memory to get smarter and scale, driving demand across the memory hierarchy from high-bandwidth memory to DRAM to SSDs.
SMH LONG
HIGH
14:08
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
DE 1ST
WMT 1ST
AAP 1ST
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MED
Deere up on strong results, guidance.
Deere shares are rising more than 3% after the company reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for the latest quarter and raised its forecast.
DE LONG
Walmart pressured by weak same-store sales.
Walmart shares are sliding more than 8% because investors are focused on a smaller-than-expected increase in same-store sales, even though quarterly revenue beat forecasts and the company raised its full-year earnings outlook.
WMT AVOID
Advance Auto pressured by weak comps.
Advance Auto Parts is tumbling about 17% because comparable store sales unexpectedly fell, despite earnings beating analyst estimates.
AAP AVOID
MED
13:28
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
KBE 1ST
Tokenization
COIN
BTC 1ST
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HIGH
Clarity Act passage boosts banks and crypto.
The Clarity Act is coming up for a full Senate vote on September 15 and Armstrong expects it to pass with more than 60 votes. He says the bipartisan bill is good for banks, giving them 13 new powers to grow their business, and good for crypto companies and approximately 50 million U.S. crypto owners, cementing durable crypto regulatory clarity.
KBE LONG
Regulators are enabling U.S. tokenization.
SEC Chair Atkins and CFTC Chair Selig are continuing to publish clear crypto guidance and rules under their existing authority regardless of the Clarity Act. The SEC just clarified how crypto projects can raise money and is working on an innovation exemption for crypto securities and tokenized equities, opening a U.S. regulatory path for tokenization.
Tokenization LONG
Coinbase launching tokenized equities next week.
During the spot crypto bear market, Coinbase has diversified its revenue so that only about 12% of revenue now comes from Bitcoin spot trading. Other growth areas include crypto derivatives, prediction markets, stablecoin payments, and tokenization of real-world assets, making Coinbase less dependent on spot trading.
COIN LONG
Next crypto bull market may be starting.
Armstrong says there is a good chance crypto is on the cusp of the next bull market for spot trading. Prior crypto bear markets lasted about 370-380 days and this one is reaching that point; the September 15 Clarity Act vote is a catalyst; and October through December tend to be strong Bitcoin months after the halving cycle.
BTC LONG
HIGH
12:29
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
10-Year U.S. Treasury
US20Y
U.S. Treasury bills
TLT
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MED
Treasury buybacks could lower long-term yields.
The Treasury's unscheduled doubling of off-the-run purchases to at least $4 billion per operation can pull older long-dated bonds off dealer balance sheets, let dealers rotate into on-the-run 10-, 20-, and 30-year issues, and could lower long-term Treasury yields over time.
10-Year U.S. Treasury LONG
US20Y LONG
Short-term bills increase rate sensitivity.
Greater Treasury reliance on short-term bills to fund the buybacks makes government debt much more sensitive to Federal Reserve rate increases; it is like financing a 30-year mortgage with a six-month ARM and would raise the pressure on Chair Warsh if the Fed needs to hike.
U.S. Treasury bills WATCH
Treasury buybacks could lower long-term yields.
The Treasury's surprise, activist approach raises questions about whether investors can trust the Treasury to be reliable and predictable; the $40 trillion debt complex is a confidence game, and without real fiscal reforms the intervention may fail to durably lower long-term yields.
TLT LONG
MED
11:01
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
TLT
WTI
▾
MED
Higher long-end yields are attracting incremental demand.
The recent selloff in long-end Treasuries is driven by an expansion in term premium due to geopolitical risks and Fed uncertainty, rather than rising inflation expectations. However, these higher yields are now attracting incremental buyer demand and positive flows into fixed income, as investors find the levels attractive against a backdrop of strong US economic growth and solid corporate earnings.
TLT WATCH
Geopolitical risks are driving oil prices higher.
Geopolitical tensions, including conflict in the Middle East and potential strait closures, have shifted the balance of risks around inflation, causing oil prices to climb higher and indicating the market is not yet clear of these upside inflation risks.
WTI WATCH
MED
07:00
Aug 20
Aug 20
CNBC
2d
XLY 1ST
▾
MED
Labor market supports consumer discretionary spending
Consumer discretionary spending remains strong because the labor market is improving and wage growth is accelerating, especially for lower-income households, where wage growth is the strongest since March 2023. That labor market support is likely to keep supporting the consumer even as inflation-weary shoppers adapt by trading down.
XLY LONG
MED
23:08
Aug 19
Aug 19
CNBC
3d
NVDA
PG
TAN 1ST
ENPH
MAGS
▾
HIGH
Nvidia beats estimates and stays cheap
NVIDIA repeatedly looks expensive on forward earnings but then crushes estimates, so in hindsight the stock was remarkably cheap; this pattern has been the secret to NVIDIA since 2012.
NVDA LONG
P&G rallies may be rotation, not fundamentals
Procter & Gamble and other consumer packaged goods stocks can rally because they are recession stocks or because of sector rotation, not necessarily because of company fundamentals; investors should not assume a fundamental win and should be cautious.
PG WATCH
Residential solar was financing-driven, rate-sensitive
Residential solar stocks were really a financing story: when long-term interest rates stayed elevated, customers could not afford systems without borrowing, so the group and names like Enphase got crushed.
TAN AVOID
ENPH AVOID
Two-thirds index, one-third Mag Seven stocks
For a retiree whose manager has lagged, he recommends two-thirds in an S&P 500 index fund and one-third in six to ten individual stocks, with two or three overweight positions mostly in Magnificent Seven names.
MAGS LONG
S&P 500 index funds best core holding
A hot wave of IPOs and SPACs floods the stock market with new supply, and active managers often sell existing holdings to participate; historically this supply glut weighs on the broader market after initial euphoria.
SPY LONG
Total stock fund slightly beats S&P
John Bogle personally advised Cramer to use Vanguard's total stock market fund in his 401k because over the long term it should slightly outperform the S&P 500 by diversifying away from large caps and including young growth stocks.
VTI LONG
HIGH
20:44
Aug 19
Aug 19
CNBC
3d
MRNA 1ST
WMT
MRK 1ST
▾
HIGH
mRNA cancer vaccine data boosts MRK/MRNA.
The first-ever Phase 3 trial of an mRNA-based personalized cancer vaccine combined with Merck's Keytruda reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence and spread versus Keytruda alone. Analysts say the results boost confidence that the shot could work across multiple cancer types and become a multi-billion-dollar product for both Merck and Moderna.
MRNA LONG
MRK LONG
Walmart healthy; retail outperformance spread narrows.
July retail sales weakness was likely caused by Prime Day-related sales being pulled forward into June. Walmart still looks fine and healthy, but the spread between Walmart and the rest of retail is probably narrowing this quarter, implying less relative outperformance even if Walmart remains healthy.
WMT WATCH
HIGH
19:59
Aug 19
Aug 19
19:48
Aug 19
Aug 19
CNBC
3d
BTC
Artificial Intelligence
SPY
TLT 1ST
Crypto (digital assets)
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HIGH
Bitcoin reserve is working well.
The U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve makes Bitcoin a permanent U.S. Treasury asset, and Trump says that has turned out incredibly well; he also says further Bitcoin accumulation has been discussed and could be recommended.
BTC LONG
America leads AI by wide margin.
America is leading artificial intelligence by a wide margin, and the administration wants regulation that preserves that lead; Trump describes AI as bigger than the internet and tied to a massive domestic construction and power plant buildout.
Artificial Intelligence LONG
US stock market remains in record uptrend.
U.S. financial markets are hitting records because of pro-investment policies and inflows; the stock market has had 80 all-time-high days and 401(k)s are at record levels.
SPY LONG
Treasury yields should fall.
Trump argues interest rates are artificially high and should fall as the economy strengthens; he says the bond market has stabilized, every point of interest is $600 billion, and rates should not rise on good numbers.
TLT LONG
US crypto leadership is booming.
The September 15 Clarity Act vote is the most important next step to make crypto regulatory progress durable; the bill is bipartisan, some big banks oppose it while others endorse it, and passage would lock in U.S. crypto leadership for decades.
Crypto (digital assets) LONG
Oil may drop sharply on Iran deal.
On Iran, Trump says the Strait of Hormuz naval blockade has been effective, U.S. supply alternatives and record pipeline building reduce Hormuz importance, and oil prices will either drop sharply if a deal occurs or current policy continues.
WTI WATCH
AI compute is strategic commodity.
America must dominate compute, which he calls the most important commodity of the day and digital oil, to win the AI race; the world will run on American technology and U.S. markets must lead these markets.
AI compute / data center infrastructure LONG
US IPO market is booming.
The SEC is making IPOs great again by cutting red tape; the IPO market is booming with 583 companies going public since inauguration, up 75%, and raising $28 billion, nearly four times the prior administration's final period.
US IPO market LONG
Tokenization opens private assets to investors.
Tokenization is expanding ownership of American assets globally, and the opportunity goes beyond public markets to private companies; too much economic value is created before ordinary investors can participate, and American investors should not be last to benefit.
Tokenized assets / real-world assets LONG
US dollar and tokenized equity adoption growing.
Stablecoin adoption is increasing distribution of the U.S. dollar and Treasuries globally because of the Genius Act, and tokenization of equities will distribute U.S. equities globally; adoption of U.S.-issued assets and the U.S. dollar is hitting all-time highs.
USD LONG
Tokenized US equities LONG
HIGH
19:16
Aug 19
Aug 19
CNBC
3d
SPY 1ST
▾
HIGH
Fewer Fed meetings add volatility, hurt equities.
JJ Kinahan argues that cutting Fed meetings from eight to six would not itself be a major issue, but if fewer meetings also mean less information and fewer press conferences, it would add market volatility and gamma, create wilder speculation between meetings, and be unhealthy for the broader market longer term.
SPY AVOID
HIGH
18:36
Aug 19
Aug 19
CNBC
3d
US Long-dated Treasuries
▾
HIGH
Buybacks cannot stop structurally higher long rates.
Treasury buybacks can manage the shape of the curve day to day, but they cannot change the underlying fundamentals. As long as the US is in a huge AI boom and a huge government borrowing boom, interest rates will be high somewhere, probably everywhere, in the curve; the fundamentals are higher long rates. Real rates, not inflation breakevens, are driving the rise because AI capital spending and government borrowing are voracious demand for capital that crowds out other uses.
US Long-dated Treasuries SHORT
HIGH
18:36
Aug 19
Aug 19
CNBC
3d
DTCR
▾
MED
Data center buildout faces regulatory backlash.
Texas is experiencing a wave of hyperscale data center development, especially in rural unincorporated areas with no zoning or services, and local backlash is building; Governor Abbott has paused new data center grid approvals and she is pushing for a special session to impose community protections, creating regulatory and political risk for data center buildout.
DTCR WATCH
MED
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