{"id":1478948,"date":"2024-07-23T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478948"},"modified":"2024-07-23T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"small-caps-surge-on-short-squeeze-sloppy-surveys-eth-outperforms-btc-as-etfs-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/small-caps-surge-on-short-squeeze-sloppy-surveys-eth-outperforms-btc-as-etfs-launch\/1478948\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Caps Surge On Short-Squeeze, Sloppy-Surveys; ETH Outperforms BTC As ETFs Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Small Caps Surge On Short-Squeeze, Sloppy-Surveys; ETH Outperforms BTC As ETFs Launch<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>An ugly day for macro with hard data (US home sales) and soft data (regional Fed surveys) all puking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm2EFE_2.jpg?itok=ZtUupGbi\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;was just the bad news needed to spark good news in STIRs as rate-cut expectations rebounded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmE12E_0.jpg?itok=HCANRPwN\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>After yesterday&#8217;s big exciting &#8220;everything&#8217;s awesome&#8221; day, stocks, broadly-speaking did nothing today<\/strong> though as only Small Caps showed any willingness to move. Late-day selling pressure did not help, pulling everything but Small Caps into the red with Nasdaq the biggest loser&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-07-23_13-00-11.jpg?itok=8E-9QLML\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but that looked like yet another big short-squeeze&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmA530.jpg?itok=JWJCV7Yz\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The NDX\/RTY unwind resumed today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmE5E5.jpg?itok=zN36RaZ8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MAG7 stocks went nowhere ahead of GOOGL\/TSLA earnings after the bell&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm9A63.jpg?itok=q-iKISkO\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Treasuries were mixed today with the short-end outperforming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm670F.jpg?itok=rXaCi_u9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;which dragged the yield curve (2s30s) almost to being dis-inverted&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm63E.jpg?itok=sW8IPHxU\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethereum outperformed Bitcoin on the day as ETH ETFs were launched&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm922F.jpg?itok=PtWPzUmd\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This followed a huge net inflow day yesterday into BTC ETFs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm16B0.jpg?itok=wJiZcE2s\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was 3% lower back to $66k&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm4FAE_0.jpg?itok=_tyk-eJx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;as ETH ETF $ Volume soared to $1BN&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm2C4F.jpg?itok=QC8fJrRx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which kept ETH around $3500 by the close&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm9D4B.jpg?itok=Tjp3zlQs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gold managed modest gains on the day, finding support at $2400&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmC106.jpg?itok=FC_2jxCo\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crude prices extended losses as CTAs pressed through technical levels but WTI found support at $76.69 intraday (its 200DMA) and bounced modestly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmBA96.jpg?itok=U-MDOQby\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, prediction markets have Trump still dominating Harris for the win in November&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm47AB.jpg?itok=qRRIGbuW\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for now she remains below Biden&#8217;s pre-debate levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 07\/23\/2024 &#8211; 16:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/small-caps-soar-short-squeeze-sloppy-surveys-crypto-crude-crack\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/small-caps-soar-short-squeeze-sloppy-surveys-crypto-crude-crack<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Caps Surge On Short-Squeeze, Sloppy-Surveys; ETH Outperforms BTC As ETFs Launch An ugly day for macro with hard data (US home sales) and soft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1478949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6cK0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/bfm2EFE_2-XytKFd.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}