US stocks shrugged off early weakness driven by the right-regime-shift in European elections, treading water on Monday, at least on the surface, following Friday's strong Payrolls report and ahead of a big macro Wednesday, featuring both the May CPI reading and the scheduled June FOMC meeting.
Small Caps had a wild day, swinging from considerable losses at the cash open to modest gains by the close. All the majors ended slightly higher on the day (with a new ATH for the S&P 500...
Goldman's trading desk notes that overall activity levels are up +13% vs. the trailing 2 weeks with market volumes down -11% vs the 10dma. Our floor tilts +2% better to buy, largely driven by LOs as they continue to show up on the bid in our flows
JPM's forecast of gloom ensured the new ATH...
AAPL's big AI announcement at its WWDC was a bit of a flop...
Source: Bloomberg
For some context...
MAG7 stocks went sideways again (admittedly at record highs)...
Source: Bloomberg
Treasury yields modestly extended Friday's payrolls spike higher with the long-end underperforming (30Y +4bps, 2Y unch on the day) which eft the yield curve (2s30s) unch from pre-payrolls...
Source: Bloomberg
The dollar ended marginally higher, but gave back most of the day's overnight gains during the US day session...
Source: Bloomberg
Despite the dollar's modest gains, gold recovered some of Friday's losses...
Source: Bloomberg
Bitcoin surged up above $70,000, but then was summarily slapped back down to unchanged...
Source: Bloomberg
Crude prices extended their most recent gains, with WTI rising to $78...
Source: Bloomberg
Finally, as we noted earlier, while the indices looks calm, under the surface things are not going great at all...
Source: Bloomberg
This is the biggest gap between the equal- and cap-weighted S&P indices since the peak in 2008/9.
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