Foreign stocks $VEU matching for their best start to a year in the last 20

Defensive sectors in the red

GS: Boosting Q4 GDP Tracking to +1.7%

YTD: $SPY +0.3% $RSP +5.9% $MDY $IWM $IJR +8% $VEU +9.5% US large-cap growth -5% $GLD +15% $IBIT -23%

$GS is flat on the year (largest DJIA weight) $CAT +28% (price only through yesterday) @stockcharts $MSFT -16%... 2nd-worst Dow stock YTD.. $CRM worst @stockcharts

$NVDA scoots positive YTD... the only green one among the Mag 7 $CAT +34% in 2026 so far @finviz_com

Mag 7 ex $TSLA trades under 24x earnings @fundstrat @fs_insights fsinsight.com/macro-...

I love Fidelity! Better customer service than Vanguard, better tools. I'm a fan of the Freedom INDEX funds too.

Nasdaq Comp working on its worst month since last March.... infamous Feb 19 is tomorrow too... More on that tk from me on @stockcharts today

#natgas a 2-handle for the first time in 4 months

Q4 GDP on Friday... market thinks +3.3% q/q saar @kalshi kalshi.com/markets/k...

Dramatic Increase in the Number of Unicorns. Torsten at Apollo #IPO

>1/3 consumers expect to pay down debt w/ refund 32% don't expect a refund... people enjoy being pessimistic these days BofA

oof... Tax refunds up just 1% vs. 2025 through 2/13 IRS reports avg return amt up 11% y/y BofA

Staples flows coming loose... Staples reversal: 2nd largest outflows from Staples stocks following recent record inflows... BofA

Supermarket inflation 2.9% YoY in February so far, +41% on the 6yr stack BofA Nielsen data

What matters today: Most CPI-based measures of underlying inflation remain above 2% BofA casting shade on Truflation

$JPM vs $WMT ... best day since the 2024 election yesterday More from me (on the latter): articles.stockcharts... @stockcharts

BlackRock's Big Calls Feb 2026

Costco stuns with its Nike sneaker drop that was popular with Generation X and Z $COST $NKE @jeffmacke @seekingalpha

Staples P/E highest since Big Mac and Sammy were hitting dingers. @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

ETF bull market continues.. GS via @soberlook @wallsthorizon thedailyshot.com/sub...

4 sectors well in the red YTD @Koyfincharts

Dow up 10 straight months Bloomberg

VIX dips below 20... a vol below the 'danger zone,' which I will detail later today on @stockcharts $NVDA #Fed #tariffs

Nice gains in Europe today

Europe STOXX 600 more record highs

$SPY $QQQ +0.6% $IWM +0.5% Gold, silver, bitcoin up

$XRT Retail ETF flat-ish since September... little consumer names' earnings incoming More from me on @stockcharts articles.stockcharts...

GS Mfg Survey Tracker.. will S&P Global Flash PMIs for Feb print nicely (after the solid ISM Mfg PMI in January)? More tk on this topic from @wallsthorizon tomorrow @ChristineLShort

VA & TX leading in data center expansion

31 Trading Days Into 2026: Staples Among the Winners, Mega-Cap Tech Lags I offer a mid-Q1 sector review on @stockcharts articles.stockcharts...

Live Cattle... record high... +20% since Thanksgiving

Eggs -88% YoY (wholesale price per dozen) @teconomics

$NVDA $META +1.5% AH

$AMZN breaks its losing streak $WMT whacked

6.04% mortgage rates, down from 6.97% a year ago

Median age of IPOs... waiting and waiting

Another rotation trade... Japan, Brazil down... China, India up

$MDLZ $HSY $KHC $GIS $MKC $SJM $CPB $CAG ... middle-of-the-grocery-store stocks slammed as CAGNY progresses @finviz_com @wallsthorizon @christinelshort

$XLF vs $WMT ... best day in a year... a cyclical bounceback... or dead cat bank bounce? @stockcharts

$WMT dumping, $XLP worst of the 11 S&P 500 sector ETFs today @stockcharts articles.stockcharts...

Trillion-Dollar Walmart Hits New Highs Ahead of Earnings: What It Means for the Market $WMT $XLP $SPY (of course, worst day since last August today) My Tuesday technical take on @stockcharts articles.stockcharts... Daily Chartbook @pdunuwila

Dollar down a bit from the morning high $DXY @teconomics

Older Americans are now spending slightly more time on their phones than younger cohorts Well, when you're sitting in a 3000 sq ft McMansion with a $3 million nest egg, what else are you going to do? @sherwoodmedia @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

Foreigners bought more US assets in 2025 than 2024. Merrill CIO

This winter has not been a monolith @wsj @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

GS Core Inflation Tracker dead-on-balls 2% (it's an industry term)

GS Social Media Economic Sentiment Index is steadily positive