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Our 2026 Outlook...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH 2026 started on a particularly sad note, leaving us to share the pain of parents, sisters, brothers, family members and members of the Crans Montana community who were struck by the catastrophe of the bar “Constellation” caused by a criminal, motivated by the sole pursuit of profits at the expense of all other considerations. Th
Marc Bentin
3 days ago12 min read


EU Gets a 1, 2 and 3 Punch...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH The EU Commission was dealt a 1, 2 and 3 punch last week. - First, it had to backtrack under the economic pressure of a collapsing car industry, on its ban of fossil fueled cars by 2035 . This was by itself a monumental policy inflection imposed on the EU green (and as such incredibly self-harming) agenda compounding the product
Marc Bentin
Dec 22, 202511 min read


EU Goes Autocratic...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH Over the past week, US stocks dropped marginally and international bond yields grinded higher despite the expected decision of the Federal Reserve to cut Fed Funds by 25bps and the decision to bring back QE and start a monthly purchase of T-bills of USD40bn “…for the purpose of maintaining an ample supply of reserves over time”,
Marc Bentin
Dec 15, 20258 min read


Europe is Losing It...and Much More
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH US stocks ticked higher for another week, led by strength in tech and utilities, leaving stocks very close to record highs, despite the recent bout of volatility. On the economic side, US consumer spending stalled in September (following a downwardly revised 0.2% advance in August), , suggesting Americans were already stretched
Marc Bentin
Dec 8, 20259 min read


Equity Selloff Triggers Dovish Fed Talk and BIS Warns...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH US stocks rallied last week on a healthy dose of Fed put as the probability of the Federal Reserve cutting rates this month rose to 83% (from 25%) on dovish Fed talk. This revived expectations for a Santa Claus rally. Credit spreads also improved. While the Nasdaq surged 5.7% on the week week, outpacing slightly the SP500 and m
Marc Bentin
Dec 1, 20258 min read


Fed Rate Cuts Hope (re) Emerge...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH US stocks saw additional broad-based weakness last week despite a “goldilocks” Nvidia report and anecdotal evidence that the Job market remained resilient last September. Global liquidity conditions and risk appetite were also impaired by a sharp decline in JPY and Japanese bond markets, in response to Japan’s new Prime Minister
Marc Bentin
Nov 24, 20257 min read


ORCL,MSTR & OWL Concerns...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH Last week unwound in a similar way as the week before with a miraculous squeeze that took the markets away from a technical danger zone despite a week marked by building economic and financial troubles. Indicators of risk appetite left scars for the week, with bitcoins ignoring Friday’s equity markets squeeze, and shedding -14
Marc Bentin
Nov 17, 20257 min read


Closer to 1927 than 2007...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH US stocks suffered a mild correction last week (despite a nice late Friday afternoon rally that took all major indices away from near term technical danger zones), still with some bellwether tech names suffering a notable correction as question marks were raised on the sustainability of the AI (especially for Meta and Open AI),
Marc Bentin
Nov 10, 20257 min read


Whistling Past The Graveyard...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH Over the past wee, the SP500 added 0.7%, driven by the overall performance of the AI and MAG7 segment while semis surged 3.6%. That said, the equally weighed SP500 dropped -1.7% on the week, trending lower, showing the narrow nature of the outperformance as the same time as Nvidia became the first USD5trn market cap company. At
Marc Bentin
Nov 3, 20258 min read


More AI Gains...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH Major equity markets delivered additional gains last week, supported by more short squeezes, following the publication of a relatively tame US inflation report on Friday and the perspective of the Fed cutting rates this week while favorable prospects for a US-China truce ahead of the coming meeting between US President Trump and
Marc Bentin
Oct 27, 20258 min read


Grinding Higher...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH US stocks closed the week with additional gains despite kind of freaking out on Thursday after Zions and Western Alliance Bancorp plunged, falling victims of fraud on loans to funds invested in distressed commercial mortgages. Earlier on Tuesday, J. Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan) had warned about “cockroaches” in the credit market dur
Marc Bentin
Oct 19, 20257 min read


Some Strains in the AI Capex Spending Binge...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin, Bentinpartner GmbH US stocks suffered a 2% to 3% selloff last week with concerns of the past couple weeks crystalizing that the AI world is moving to a new era of corporate entanglement with Open AI investing tens of billions in AMD in exchange for promises to buy mountains of AMD chips, after Nvidia invested billions in Open AI as well… Some incr
Marc Bentin
Oct 12, 20257 min read


Is Private Equity the New Subprime?
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Oct 5, 20257 min read


A Two-Tiered Economy...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Sep 21, 20259 min read


US Stocks buoyed by Weak Economic Data...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Sep 14, 20259 min read


The "untold" Story of China...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Sep 7, 20258 min read


Ending ‘Goldilocks summer’ ?
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Aug 31, 202511 min read


J. Powell Announces A Fed Pivot...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Aug 25, 20257 min read


Hard to Scare...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Jul 13, 20257 min read


From WW3 to Gold Crosses in One Week...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Please find below our latest Weekly Trend Report . Have a nice start of the week. Marc Bentin,...
Marc Bentin
Jun 30, 20257 min read
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