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Markets & the Economy: Topping Out or Running Hot?

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The market’s rising on an array of classic favorable drivers: Fast-rising earnings forecasts, semiconductor leadership, lots of independent movement among stocks and drum tight credit spreads.

When does a pileup of positives become too much of a good thing?

Add it to the ETF Line Up

New Launches: (week ending 6/12) a few highlights…

  • SPCL~ Defiance Daily 2x Space ETF; 1st and only US ETF w 2x Space X exposure on IPO day
  • MUZ~ Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MU ETF
  • QTUP~ Defiance Long Pure Quantum ETF
  • AQLG~ HCM Large Cap Growth ETF
  • GEQ~ Cambria Global EW 2 ETF

New Filings:

Hedgeye filing for a Hedged Bitcoin ETF~ HBIT; invests in Bitcoin ETF along w call options to manage downside risk and generate income

Roundhill with a LLM ETF filing

6 new ETFs filed: AI, Memory, EM and GPUs

Screenshot of 6 new ETFs filed: AI, Memory, EM and GPUs

ETF Check Up:

ETF Buzz…

Screenshot of line chart of total fund assets in the largest S&P 500 tracker funds

Nice look at the additions to the SP500 by year and the avg age of the Co’s…Last year the avg co. that got added was 23yrs old!

Screenshot of bar chart of avg age of SPX addition

A NEW KING: Vanguard has officially overtaken BlackRock in US ETF Assets w $4.39T vs $4.36T…ending a 23yr reign since BLK knocked off State Street in 2003 who was king 10yrs before that

Screenshot of a line chart comparing BlackRock's and Vanguard's share of US ETF assets