🚨 THIS IS VERY, VERY BAD!!



Look at Bank of America’s chart.

That’s how outflows from US financial stock funds are BREAKING RECORDS.

And if you think it won’t affect any asset you hold

YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG!

Financials are not just “another sector.”

Financials are the BASE of the whole market.

When money starts leaving banks, brokers, lenders, and insurers this hard, the market is usually telling you that funding stress is getting worse under the surface.

In the week ending March 11, US equity funds lost $7.77 BILLION, while global financial sector funds alone lost $2.31 BILLION.

At the same time, bond funds still took in $5.72 BILLION and money market funds took in $6.93 BILLION.

Read that again.

Money is leaving stocks.
Money is leaving financials.
Money is going into bonds and cash.

That one fact explains a lot.

Because if oil was overreacting and this was just a fake war scare, you would not see money leaving the financial sector like this.

You would see dip buying.

Instead, you are seeing a DEFENSIVE rotation.

And that matters because financials usually crack BEFORE the rest of the market fully understands what’s happening.

MarketWatch says XLF is already down 13.3% from its January 6 high, and its correlation with the S&P 500 has fallen from 0.97 to 0.74 this year.

That’s a very clear sign that the sector is losing support while the broader market still tries to pretend everything is normal.

Now do the math.

The US stock market is worth about $69 TRILLION.

That means:

- 1% of the whole market = $690 BILLION
- 5% of the whole market = $3.45 TRILLION
- 10% of the whole market = $6.9 TRILLION

So when financials, which are the core of the system, start seeing record outflows while oil is already pricing a much bigger shock, the downside can get VERY big, VERY fast.

And here’s why this fits the oil story perfectly.

Higher oil means higher inflation pressure.
Higher inflation pressure means heavier yields.
Heavier yields mean tighter funding.
And tighter funding is EXACTLY what hurts financials first.

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