Despite a new round of tariffs and rebound month for $USD, the World Index makes another all-time high (chart) - #Bullish - but which stocks are leading or lagging the World Index? 🏆 Leading & Emerging Trends This week's leaderboard is topped by Swiss engineering giant $ABB. Mega tech stocks like $NVDA and $MSFT continue to dominate the leaders while we have new theme coming from Asian capital markets and exchanges, including the Singapore Exchange. Meanwhile Samsung features in the emerging trends following strong sales while SoftBank also ranks on this list, capitalising on the AI mega-trend. Other emerging trends include mining stocks like PT Merdeka Copper Gold $MDKA and Impala Platinum Holdings $IMP. 📉 Weakening and Bearish Trends Berkshire Hathaway $BRK-B tops the weakening trends, followed by Mastercard $MA. Notable weakening trend themes include insurance stocks like Chubb $CB and recruitment tech stocks like $ADP and Paychex $PAYX. Bearish trends remain the biggest group with notable names including Procter & Gamble $PG, Home Depot $HD, $ASML (a recent European darling), Novo Nordisk $NOVO-B and Astra Zeneca $AZN. Chiming with this list, the biggest theme among bearish trends are consumer and pharmaceuticals, i.e. quality defensives. 📫 Subscribe We publish a weekly report on the world's leading, emerging, weakening and bearish trends, sent out every Monday before the US market opens. It's free to read so why not sign-up: