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🟡 Central banks have bought 9,744 tonnes of gold since 2010.

From 1983 to 2009 they were net sellers, offloading 7,766 tonnes. Sales were heaviest from the late 1990s through the 2000s, reaching about 660 tonnes in 2005. In 2010 central banks turned net buyers for the first time since 1988 🔄

Purchases ran between roughly 380 and 650 tonnes a year through the 2010s and fell to about 255 tonnes in 2020. They then passed 1,000 tonnes in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024 📈 2025 came in near 860 tonnes.

🏦 Sixteen years of buying have more than offset 27 years of selling, so official gold holdings are now higher than in 1983.

Source: World Gold Council

#gold #centralbanks #goldreserves #worldgoldcouncil #macro randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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4 hours ago

📊 Anthropic’s extreme AI scenario puts US GDP at $44.4T in 2030.

The Anthropic Economic Institute models US output in 2030 against a no-AI baseline, at 2025 price levels. In the modest scenario GDP reaches $34.1T, 1.6% above baseline. The substantial scenario lands at $36.3T, an 8.3% uplift. The extreme scenario adds 32.4%, for $44.4T 📈

The task mix changes across the three cases. In the modest case, gains come mostly from productivity, with a thin layer of automated and augmented tasks. In the extreme case, automated tasks make up the largest block 🤖

The spread between the modest and extreme outcomes is $10.3T, about 30% of the modest-scenario economy.

Source: Anthropic Economic Institute

#randgroupresearch #AI #USEconomy #GDP #GlobalMacro by @randtrades

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7 hours ago

Investor cash allocations are down to 14.8% 📉

Combined portfolio allocation to cash was near 35% in 1987 and peaked around 37% in 1990. The next highs came during market stress: about 33% in 2002 and close to 36% in 2008.

Since 2009 the level has drifted lower. Cash fell to roughly 15% in 2017. It then rebounded to about 21% and 20% in later spikes. The latest reading of 14.8% is level with the 2017 low, the bottom of the series since 1987.

Low cash means investors are close to fully invested, with less money left on the sidelines to buy a dip 💵

📊 Source: Topdown Charts

#investing #assetallocation #markets #globalmacro #randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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10 hours ago

📉 Tech job postings now ask for fewer skills and more years of experience.

The number of skills required per posting peaked near 29.7 in late 2024 and fell to about 21.6 by July 2026, with most of the drop during 2025. Required experience moved the other way: from roughly 4.45 years in mid-2023 to about 4.85 years in July 2026, after a sharp jump in early 2024. The two lines crossed around mid-2025.

Both series control for seniority, so the change holds within the same job level. 💼 In tech hiring, years in a role now carry more weight than the length of a skills list.

📊 Source: Tech job postings data

#techjobs #labormarket #hiring #techcareers #randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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The top 1% now holds a larger share of US household wealth than the middle class 📊

In Q2 1993, the middle class held 36.6% of all US household wealth and the top 1% held 17.2%. By 2023 the top 1% had climbed to 26.5% 📈, while the middle class had fallen to 25.9% 📉

The steepest decline for the middle class came between 2003 and 2008, when its share dropped from about 34.9% to 29.7%. The top 1% gained most in the same period, rising from 18.7% to 22.4%.

2023 is the first point in this series where the top 1% sits above the middle class 🇺🇸

Source: Federal Reserve

#randgroupresearch #wealthinequality #federalreserve #useconomy #globalmacro by @randtrades

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🇨🇳 China has 39 nuclear reactors under construction, almost as many as the next 15 countries combined.

⚛️ As of July 8, 2026, 80 reactors are under construction across 16 countries. China accounts for nearly half of them. India follows with 8 and Russia with 7. Egypt, Turkiye and South Korea have 4 each. Bangladesh, Japan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom have 2 each, and six countries are building a single unit.

📈 Reactors under construction today are the nuclear capacity that comes online in the next few years, and most of it is being built in China.

📊 Source: World Nuclear Association

#nuclearenergy #china #energy #uranium #randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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SpaceX makes up 51.5% of Harvard’s disclosed stock portfolio 🚀

📊 Harvard’s Q2 2026 13F filing shows a single position holding more than half of its reported equity allocation. TSMC follows at 7.9%, then Cerebras at 5.9% and Amazon at 5%. Alphabet, Nvidia and the iShares Gold Trust (IAU) each account for 4%, while Microsoft, Broadcom and Meta sit at 3% apiece. All remaining positions add up to 8.9%.

🎓 Outside SpaceX, no holding reaches 8% of the portfolio, so the reported allocation depends heavily on one stock.

Source: Harvard 13F filing

#Harvard #SpaceX #13F #Endowment #randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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Robinhood Chain tokenized stock DEXs cleared $10.4B in daily volume between Aug 22 and Sep 20.

Volume stayed under $250M a day until late August, then climbed above $750M on Sep 2 and Sep 3. It peaked at $1.16B on Sep 4.

The next day it fell by more than half. Through mid-September it mostly held between $250M and $500M, and by Sep 20 it was back under $250M.

After the spike, most days stayed above $250M, a level the market had not reached before Aug 29.

Source: Token Terminal

#tokenizedstocks #robinhood #DEX #onchain #randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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13 days ago

Nasdaq Basic reaches its destinations through a single integration point: the Pyth Data Marketplace.

The flow runs in one direction. Nasdaq Basic is the source and Pyth Data Marketplace is the integration layer. From there, the data goes to four destination groups: trading apps, fintech platforms, blockchain apps and institutions.

Each destination connects to the marketplace instead of building its own link to the source feed. For a developer or an institution, one integration covers access to Nasdaq Basic.

Source: Pyth Network

#randgroupresearch #pythnetwork #nasdaq #marketdata #onchaindata by @randtrades

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13 days ago

BNB Chain leads tokenized stock growth with $1.1B in market cap added.

Tokenized stocks have added $3.06B in market cap across five chains, all time. BNB Chain accounts for $1.1B, about a third of the total. Ethereum ($756.6M) and Solana ($716.8M) come in second and third, close to each other.

Avalanche added $279.4M and Arbitrum One $203.2M. Together they make up less than a sixth of the total.

About 84% of the market cap added is concentrated on BNB Chain, Ethereum and Solana, so that is where the tokenized equity market is being built.

Source: Token Terminal

#tokenizedstocks #RWA #tokenization #BNBChain #onchainfinance randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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13 days ago

Stablecoins are back near their all-time high.

Total stablecoin supply stands at $306b as of September 22, 2026, according to DefiLlama. The peak this cycle was around $315b earlier this year.

The last cycle topped at roughly $187b in spring 2022. The collapse of Terra’s UST cut that sharply, and supply kept shrinking until late 2023, when it bottomed near $124b. Since then it has grown about 2.5x.

Stablecoin supply is one of the clearest measures of how much dollar liquidity sits on-chain, ready to move into crypto markets.

Source: DefiLlama

#stablecoins #crypto #defi #onchain #randgroupresearch by @randtrades

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13 days ago

The dollar’s share of global reserves is falling fast 📉

For years, the U.S. dollar dominated global foreign currency reserves.

Now that share has dropped to around 38% when gold is included in the comparison.

The decline has accelerated sharply since 2024, extending a much longer trend of diversification away from the dollar.

Central banks are holding more gold and spreading reserves across a wider range of assets.

The dollar is still the world’s dominant currency, but its share of the reserve pie is clearly shrinking.

#finance #investing #markets #economy #usdollar globalreserves dedollarization gold by @randtrades

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18 days ago