Michael Hartnett's Trades For 2025: "Go BIG In '25", And Here's How
This article is so good
it's for premium members only.
Does that sound like you?
PREMIUM
ONLY $30/MONTH
BILLED ANNUALLY OR $35 MONTHLY
All BASIC features, plus:
- Premium Articles: Dive into subscriber-only content, market analysis, and insights that keep you ahead of the game.
- Access to our Private X Account, The Market Ear analysis, and Newsquawk
- Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy an uninterrupted browsing experience.
PROFESSIONAL
ONLY $125/MONTH
BILLED ANNUALLY OR $150 MONTHLY
All PREMIUM features, plus:
- Research Catalog: Access to our constantly updated research database, via a private Dropbox account (including hedge fund letters, research reports and analyses from all the top Wall Street banks)
It was a November to remember in the equity market, with some of the most speculative assets generating the most outsized returns in the weeks following Trump's election, among them Bitcoin (+31%), spec tech (ARKK +23% even as the AI complex went nowhere), US banks (+14%), and small caps (+10%); it was much less pleasant month for some recent winners such as a gold miners (-8%), and as for chronic losers, it was just pain piling on more pain, with China (-6%), and renewables (-10%) continuing to sink fast. The catalyst: a financial world turned upside thanks to Trump and thanks to what BofA's CIO Michael Hartnett calls "big policies, big moves, big tails."
Looking ahead, Hartnett sees more of the same: the acceleration of big policies, big moves, big tails means that investment backdrop heading into '25 is one of big US-RoW economic decoupling between aggressive US growth/trade policies set to exacerbate US boom/global bust...