Gunjan Banerji

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Writing about money and investing at @WSJ, Contributor @CNBC. Dancer. New Yorker. Reach me at gunjan.banerji@wsj.com On instagram @ gunjansb. Views are my own.

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1	Feb 5, '23	NEW: 25-year-old day trader Omar Ghias amassed $1.5 million during the pandemic stock market boom He lost it all, and is now working at a deli in Las Vegas, making $14 + tips w	217×	2.3M	4.6k	740	752
2	Oct 2, '23	Bofa has a chart of rates going back to 3000 B.C. Says rates are coming off "5000-year lows"	176×	1.9M	2.3k	445	492
3	May 29, '23	Blackjack players lost nearly $1 billion to casinos in Vegas last year --the second-highest loss on record after 2007 --Nevada Gaming Control Board	84.9×	905k	1.4k	188	142
4	Dec 11, '23	Options selling is booming like never before Assets in derivative income funds jumped to a record 64 billion--that's a 50% jump from last year and the highest level in records	59.1×	630k	867	179	202
5	Oct 12, '24	GDP grew 7.6% over Trump’s four years in office. It has grown 11.8% so far during Biden’s tenure At this point, it looks as if GDP under Biden will post the strongest growth of a p	47.3×	504k	5.7k	2.2k	500
6	Aug 19, '23	Kroger is now the biggest sushi seller in America--its sushi sales are up 70% over the past year “When customers think of sushi, we want them to think of Kroger" @_jaewonkang	37.5×	400k	400	72	19
7	Dec 31, '22	One of the coolest parts of 2022 was seeing @WSJ reporting on GME come to life in the @netflix doc EAT THE RICH Big thank you to everyone who watched and shared their feedback🙏	34.5×	368k	379	14	25
8	Aug 11, '25	This bull market is built differently. A new generation of "buy the dip" investors, who were told to fear crashes but instead learned to love vol, is propping it up These bullish i	31.3×	334k	1.7k	115	325
9	Dec 23, '22	"As painful as 2022 has been for investors, it can get a lot worse" - @bespokeinvest The S&P 500's bear markets over the past century	30.7×	328k	1.2k	310	223
10	Jan 22, '23	Individual investors have been doubling down on Tesla stock They have spent more money on TSLA in the past six months than in the 5 years prior—in Jan, net purchases hit a one-day	28.6×	305k	615	104	39
11	Oct 15, '24	A PM just said to me: "Tesla stock could fall 80% and we would still not buy it. If it fell 90%, we'd do some work on it."	26.4×	281k	787	48	92
12	May 8, '23	The Nasdaq Composite entered a new bull market today, up 20% from its low It was in a bear for 143 trading days, the longest bear market since 2008 --Dow Jones Market Data	24.7×	264k	587	115	37
13	Sep 26, '23	Thrilled that WSJ's first Netflix documentary, EAT THE RICH, has been nominated for an Emmy award in the business and documentary category Such a fun project to work on with the @W	24.1×	257k	368	42	34
14	May 21, '23	JPM now has more than 13% of the nation’s deposits and 21% of all credit card spending That’s a bigger share than any other bank, and it keeps growing @DaveCBenoit	23.8×	254k	596	199	68
15	Mar 15, '23	ARKK recorded a $397 million inflow on Tuesday alone--the single largest single-day inflow since April 2021 @WSJmarkets	23.7×	253k	278	61	17
16	Apr 3, '23	Around 17% of people who bought new cars this year have an auto loan payment of $1000 or more--the highest share on record @WSJmarkets @BenEisen	21.5×	229k	387	121	15
17	Jun 20, '24	Where did all the bears go? Short interest tied to SPY and QQQ is hovering at the lowest levels since at least 2018 ---JPM	20.5×	218k	484	136	77
18	May 19, '23	Where all the money has gone this year --Goldman	20.2×	216k	514	142	62
19	Dec 26, '23	SPY has drawn around $40 billion in inflows in December, on track for the biggest monthly haul since it began trading in 1993	18.7×	199k	432	133	64
20	Jan 27, '23	The Nasdaq Comp is up 10.6% this month, on pace for its best start to the year since 2001--Dow Jones Market Data	18.3×	195k	430	67	19
21	Sep 24, '25	Bank of America: “The S&P 500 trades like it’s the new risk-free rate… Perhaps we should anchor to today’s multiples as the new normal rather than expecting mean reversion to a	18.2×	194k	651	67	120
22	Mar 11, '24	India accounted for a staggering 78% of equity options contracts traded worldwide in 2023 @MeghaMandavia @WSJheard	17.8×	190k	505	131	97
23	Jan 20, '23	I asked @WallStCynic and @GerberKawasaki what would make them change their stance on Tesla. Chanos: “I think if we saw earnings re-accelerate, we would rethink our position” Gerber	15.5×	165k	291	20	8
24	Jun 26, '23	Implied correlation for S&P 500 stocks has fallen to close to a record low --DB	15.4×	164k	351	73	47
25	Nov 8, '23	Short interest in the ~Magnificent Seven~ is at an all time low --BofA	14.9×	159k	550	143	48
26	Apr 8, '25	10-year yields are now above where they were ahead of Liberation Day At 4.226% this morning	14.5×	155k	613	98	45
27	Dec 20, '22	Is the “Santa Claus Rally” starting?	13.7×	146k	311	10	3
28	Oct 21, '25	Goldman: "We don’t think the AI investment boom is too big. At just under 1% of GDP, the level of spending remains well below the 2-5% peaks of past general purpose technology buil	12.7×	135k	1.5k	294	607
29	May 25, '23	NVDA is up 30% premarket and on track to gain more than $200 billion in market value, would be the largest one-day gain for any company on record --Dow Jones Market Data	12.5×	133k	259	61	16
30	Jul 10, '23	"Only 23% of stocks outperformed the S&P 500 in May, the lowest of any month in our data history since 1986" --bofa	12×	127k	493	121	66
31	Dec 27, '22	Tesla is no longer one of the 10 biggest companies in the U.S. by market cap after its 11% slide today--Dow Jones Market Data	11.9×	127k	269	32	4
32	Jul 28, '23	"If we consider the 8 hiking cycles which ended in recession, the typical gap between the start of Fed hikes and the onset of recession was just over 2 years" --Deutsche Bank	11.6×	124k	431	127	97
33	Oct 10, '25	Fidelity's retail investors overwhelmingly buying the dip in NVDA, S&P 500, big tech	11×	118k	382	44	59
34	Feb 21, '23	U.S. credit default spreads reached their highest levels since the 2011 debt limit episode --Goldman	10.9×	116k	405	121	44
35	May 5, '23	Apple's buyback program is equal to 3.4% of its market cap and is larger than the total market cap of 420 constituents of the S&P 500 -- @bespokeinvest	10.8×	115k	495	78	21
36	Apr 9, '25	Hard to sleep when the 10-year yield is going crazy like this	10.6×	113k	1.5k	85	47
37	Feb 6, '23	My first @WSJ Exchange weekend cover	10.2×	109k	486	32	9
38	Mar 3, '23	Individual investors have spent a net $13.6 billion on TSLA shares in 2023, approaching the record sum of nearly $17 billion for all of last year “The aggregate retail inflows	10.2×	108k	279	61	20
39	Jul 11, '24	The Russell 2000 outperformed the Nasdaq by 5.5 percentage points --largest spread on record	10×	107k	418	77	50
40	Feb 5, '23	As his stock gains swelled, so did his spending + partying He footed the bill for friends to stay in Vegas and rented a black Lambo that he raced through the Strip He ramped up spo	9.3×	99k	290	19	6
41	Apr 17, '24	The equity risk premium on the S&P 500--the gap between the earnings yield and that of 10-year Treasurys--has hit a 22 year low	9.2×	98k	330	81	59
42	Feb 25, '24	Traders spent $20 BILLION in options on Nvidia over the last week—more than the other six stocks in Mag 7 combined	9.2×	98k	327	73	37
43	Jun 16, '24	Pensions piled into private equity. Now they can't get out Nearly half of PE investors surveyed by Coller Capital earlier this year said they had money tied up in zombie funds—PE f	8.8×	93k	358	82	67
44	May 12, '23	You can thank AI for the stock-market gains this year Without AI-related stocks, the S&P 500 would be down 2% this year, not up 8% --SocGen	8.7×	93k	316	71	26
45	May 6, '23	Warren Buffett is asked about Berkshire’s concentration in Apple stock: “Apple is a better business than any we own”	8.4×	90k	301	43	6
46	Dec 19, '23	Investors haven't been this bullish on bonds in 15 years --according to the BofA fund manager survey	8.4×	89k	362	94	54
47	Sep 15, '23	Where investors have put their cash this year (hint: not stocks) via Goldman	8.2×	88k	318	82	29
48	Feb 27, '24	One out of every three companies in the Russell 2000 index is unprofitable --BofA	8.2×	87k	277	75	43
49	Jun 25, '20	"Looking across categories of card spending, we find that the level of spending in restaurants three weeks ago was the strongest predictor of the rise in new virus cases over the s	7.8×	0	1.2k	647	91
50	Aug 18, '25	I think a lot of people still think of 2021 as the peak in speculative activity in markets A look under the hood shows that things have only gotten crazier since, and people are em	7.3×	78k	355	46	68
51	Feb 28, '24	"The S&P 500 is statistically expensive on 19 of 20 metrics and is trading at a 95th percentile price to trailing earnings ratio based on data back to 1900" --BofA	6.9×	74k	327	68	52
52	Apr 23, '25	The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy @WSJmarkets	6.8×	72k	289	58	56
53	Jul 22, '25	Top retail buys at Interactive Brokers	6.8×	72k	344	36	60
54	Jan 28, '25	Many individual investors bought the dip in NVDA and other AI stocks Buy vs. sell orders on Fidelity today	6.7×	72k	290	29	37
55	Jun 21, '24	"Net call volumes in [mega-cap growth] & Tech surged this week to record highs, going above even pandemic boom levels, and completely disconnecting from those in the rest of th	6.6×	71k	255	85	56
56	Sep 29, '22	U.S. pension plans are also facing margin calls Pensions managed by consulting firm and insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson have posted tens of millions of dollars in collater	6.6×	0	1.3k	385	129
57	Jul 16, '22	Equity futures positioning for asset managers and leveraged funds is now the most short on RECORD -DB	6.5×	0	1.3k	334	132
58	Feb 24, '22	The last time the Nasdaq Composite was down more than 3% but closed up by more than 3% was November 13, 2008 --Dow Jones Market Data The Nasdaq was down 3.45% at its low today	6.4×	0	1.6k	256	85
59	Jul 10, '24	Net bullish positioning in equity futures among asset managers and leveraged funds has touched the highest level in a decade --JPMorgan	6.3×	67k	388	180	88
60	Apr 22, '22	U.S. equity funds have recorded $30 billion of outflows over past two weeks, the largest since March 2020 market crash -Deutsche Bank	5.9×	0	1.3k	343	123
61	Mar 5, '24	Why is everyone going out of their way to highlight that we are not in a bubble?	5.9×	63k	312	26	9
62	Jun 15, '24	It's been 329 days since the S&P 500 recorded a decline of 2% or more--the longest stretch since February 2018 @LizThomasStrat	5.3×	57k	289	60	56
63	Aug 2, '23	More than 40% of companies in the Russell 2000 have negative earnings --Apollo's Torsten Slok	4.8×	52k	344	102	23
64	Feb 22, '24	Nvidia gained $277 billion in market value today, more than what Qualcomm is currently worth and the largest one-day gain on record for a company --Dow Jones Market Data	4.8×	51k	269	49	12
65	Apr 10, '23	"S&P 500 market cap is up ...so far in 2023 but 92% of that rise has come from just 7 large cap stocks and AAPL has account for nearly one-quarter of it" --Citi	4.6×	49k	255	58	11
66	Feb 4, '24	The S&P is up 38.4% so far during this bull market The average bull market gain is 114%, median is 76% --@bespokeinvest	4.3×	46k	298	55	41
67	Nov 17, '18	appears to have lost all client money on short options strategies on energy markets. I’m sorry this wave “capsized” the boat, he says, apologizing. James Cordier to 290 clients her	4.1×	0	491	228	39
68	May 3, '25	Warren Buffett at his annual meeting, answering the first question of the day: “We should be looking to trade with the rest of the world,” Buffett said. “We should do what we do be	3.8×	41k	575	74	34
69	Dec 30, '21	One of the biggest shifts in markets this year has been the explosion of options trading And for the first time ever, daily options volume in 2021 will surpass stocks Options ADV:	3.4×	0	652	178	74
70	Jul 21, '22	Call open interest tied to the VIX jumping to or above 40 is at a record - JPM	3.2×	0	636	133	88
71	Jun 2, '22	Call options trading among retail investors has fallen to lowest level since Dec '19, completely reversing the surge in activity since the pandemic began -JPM	3.1×	0	679	137	76
72	Jan 21, '22	The Nasdaq fell 3% from its intraday high to its low today. "This is actually the first time the Nasdaq has erased an intraday gain of 1%+ and closed lower by 1%+ on back to back d	3.1×	0	820	127	31
73	Jan 24, '21	This is pretty wild. Last year, in RECORD year for options, about 30 million contracts traded daily. This year, it’s been more than 40 million a day to kick off the year #Optio	3.0×	0	565	154	61
74	May 3, '25	Buffett on the recent stock market volatility: "It's really nothing," Buffett said. "This has not been a dramatic bear market or anything of the sort."	2.9×	30k	293	44	14
75	Jul 7, '24	Entered and cashed in my first World Series of Poker tournament over the holiday, the $800 buy-in Independence Day event Had so much fun playing	2.4×	26k	312	2	3
76	Mar 17, '24	Mom’s response to my #0dte trading story	2.3×	25k	339	11	6
77	Nov 30, '22	The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20.4% over the past two months--largest two-month percentage gain since July 1938	2.3×	0	552	102	24
78	Oct 16, '20	The wealthiest 1% own the most stock, accounting for 53% of ALL household stock ownership-Goldman The top 1% by wealth bought $1.5 trillion of equities during the past 30 years T	2.2×	0	333	155	44
79	Dec 6, '21	Put options volume across all symbols jumped to the highest level on RECORD Friday, with almost 27m contracts trading -Cboe data Puts outpaced calls for the first time this year an	2.1×	0	438	114	28
80	Aug 9, '20	4.8 million millennials lost jobs since the pandemic hit, more than the two prior generations “It’s 2008 all over again.” Covid’s financial fallout is a second blow to millenni	2.0×	0	351	184	14
81	Dec 6, '21	Almost a third of the stocks in the Nasdaq Comp are down 50% from highs -SocGen	1.8×	0	398	108	28
82	Jun 8, '21	NEW: Traders spent $11.6 billion on options premium for AMC last week--more than on SPY, QQQ and Tesla COMBINED “These traditional relationships between volatility and stocks h	1.8×	0	319	95	25
83	Feb 15, '21	Robinhood app downloads have coincided with stimulus checks---and lots of market volatility, via bofa	1.7×	0	373	92	33
84	Jan 29, '21	BREAKING--Our EXCLUSIVE interview with DeepF---ingValue, Roaring Kitty, for @WSJ He says he's just a normal guy. “I didn’t expect this" @JAVerlaine @WSJmarkets	1.6×	0	333	65	31
85	Jun 3, '21	AMC plans to sell 11.5 million shares and cautions investors: "Our current market prices reflect market and trading dynamics unrelated to our underlying business, or macro or indus	1.6×	0	262	66	10
86	May 1, '25	Feels like this stock rally is making a lot of people really nervous	1.5×	16k	270	13	7
87	Jun 25, '20	"Interestingly, we also find that higher spending in supermarkets predicts slower spread of the virus, hinting that high levels of supermarket spending are indicative of more caref	1.4×	0	307	109	8
88	Nov 2, '22	Individual investors recently increased the share of cash in their portfolios to ~25%, the highest level since March 2020 @WSJmarkets	1.4×	0	306	87	18
89	Nov 7, '22	Housing "affordability is deteriorating faster than at any point in our data history, and with the recent runup in mortgage rates, the pace of that deterioration just took another	1.4×	0	282	94	27
90	Aug 11, '22	The SEC is investigating Melvin Capital Management after its losses during the meme mania last year The regulator is asking about Melvin's risk controls and disclosures	1.4×	0	331	80	1
91	Jun 2, '21	GME is the biggest holding in the iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF. AMC is third and catching up quickly	1.4×	0	289	49	16
92	Aug 14, '22	Retail options activity is at the highest level since April, according to UBS	1.4×	0	315	54	28
93	Sep 26, '21	NEW: The average daily notional traded in the options market is on track to surpass stock trading in 2021 for the first time EVER ~$432 bn notional in options traded daily ~$404 bn	1.4×	0	271	70	23
94	Dec 22, '21	The Russell 2000 is averaging a 1.8% daily move this month, on pace for the most volatile December since 2008 --Dow Jones Market Data	1.4×	0	340	61	18
95	Jan 15, '21	$642 billion worth of single stock options traded on Jan 8, the highest single day notional EVER -according to GS #OptionsTrading	1.3×	0	278	76	24
96	Nov 3, '21	AMC and Avis are now the biggest holdings in the iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF #valueinvesting $CAR	1.3×	0	267	48	16
97	Dec 16, '21	The S&P 500 is down 0.8% but eight out of 11 sectors are green	1.1×	0	301	40	10
98	Oct 25, '21	Some news! So excited to share that I'll be joining @CNBC as a contributor--so you may see me on the📺talking about my @WSJmarkets stories!!	1.0×	0	286	10	0
99	Jun 5, '22	Personal news: my best friend got married and we crushed the baraat dance	0.9×	0	295	10	14
100	Oct 7, '22	Very excited for this!	0.9×	0	277	3	0

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