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Bitcoin rose 13.7% over three sessions to Monday, to 86,587. It is still −1.0% year to date, and 30.6% below its 52-week high. Ethereum did more over the same three days, +14.9%, and is −6.4% on the year. A hard move inside a flat year. bitcoin:native ethereum:native #Bitcoin #Ether
View original →Taiwan's TAIEX is up 64.8% year to date and sits at rank 2 of 1,305 daily observations, within 0.1% of its highest reading in our series. MSCI Emerging Markets +23.5% and rank 18. MSCI Asia ex Japan +25.6% and rank 20. $EWT $EEM #Taiwan
View original →Singapore's Straits Times is up 21.8% year to date and sits in the 98th percentile of its five-year range, 2.4% below its 52-week high. Among the Asian indices we track, only Taiwan has done more this year at +59.8%. $EWS $EWT #Singapore
View original →#ES_F (DEC26) starts within previous day range. Starting Initial Balance with break of previous day close 7007 and heading to overnight low 7692. https://t.co/IcJJI7PMF7
View original →#Cocoa in 2026: −53% into the 6 April low +113% off that low −0.1% year to date Speculative accounts have been net short every week since 7 January. Latest: −16,467 contracts, the 8th percentile of 1,044 weeks. Legacy non-commercial, not managed money. $CC $DBA https://t.co/t1cRzOolLB
View original →"Technology," depending on where you look Year to date: Taiwan TAIEX +59.5% S&P 500 Semiconductors +33.3% S&P 500 Info Tech +23.2% STOXX 600 Technology +18.9% Nasdaq 100 +16.3% Hang Seng Tech −21.7% Hang Seng Tech is 35% below its October 2025 high. Taiwan is 3% below its own. $KWEB $SMH $EWT #HangSeng #TAIEX
View original →#EmergingMarkets equities, year to date: Taiwan +60.7% Korea +58.7% Singapore +24.9% MSCI EM +22.9% Hang Seng +0.1% CSI 300 −1.8% India −8.5% Hang Seng Tech −17.2% Indonesia −23.3% The EM index number hides an 84-point spread. $EEM $EWY $EWT $INDA https://t.co/XbHaMHCgr6
View original →"Asian equities" stopped being one trade this year. 🇰🇷 Korea +61% 🇹🇼 Taiwan +60% 🇯🇵 Japan +32% 🇸🇬 Singapore +23% 🇨🇳 China −0.4% 🇮🇳 India −7.5% 🇭🇰 HK Tech −17% 🇮🇩 Indonesia −25% 86 % points between best and worst. Same region, same eight months. $EWY $EWT $EWJ $INDA $EEM https://t.co/6xHAngxoOI
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