🚨 Germany’s biggest carmaker is in trouble.
Volkswagen is staring at a potential €11 billion cash shortfall next year — a gap big enough to derail its investment plans and EV transition. Half-year profits are down 33%, and cash flow has turned negative (€1.4 billion). What’s driving the crisis? 🇨🇳 Weak sales in China 🇺🇸 Tariffs from the U.S. ⚙️ Fierce competition from fast-moving Chinese EV makers Now, cuts are hitting everywhere — marketing, sales, and even R&D. The company may be forced to sell assets just to fund new models and technologies. Executives are calling it “particularly fatal” — hitting right as Volkswagen tries to shift from combustion engines to electric. The once-unshakable German auto powerhouse is learning the hard way: 🔋 The EV race isn’t just about innovation — it’s about survival. Source: https://lnkd.in/gC5NC2YH, Bild
$7,000,000,000,000 sitting in money markets.
As rates come down that $7T will go somewhere. Where? • Gold • Bitcoin • Real Estate • Stocks Source: Grant Cardone
JP Morgan: “After taking 12 years to double from $1,000 to $2,000 (2008–2020), gold doubled again in just 5 years, crossing $4,000 this month.
The move from $3,000 to $4,000 took ~200 days — and from $3,300 to $4,300 only ~60.” Source: The Market Ear, JPM
$500 billion dollars of annual trade is being paused because of a $75,000 commercial?
Source: Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian
Yesterday we saw another $3 billion FED pump into the banking system.
The use of the facility is now a daily occurrence; the regional banking sector obviously has a liquidity issue. That's a total of $21 billion in 4 weeks. Source: The Great Martin on X
🚨 Is Quantitative Tightening (QT) about to end?
GoldmanSachs, JPMorgan, and BofA now see the Fed flipping course as liquidity gets dangerously tight. 💧 Bank reserves have dropped below $3 trillion again, a critical threshold for financial stability. 🏦 The reverse repo balance, which acted as a key liquidity buffer for the past 4 years, is now basically zero. That’s a big deal. With more Treasury bill settlements coming — and no reverse repo cushion left — the Fed may soon have no choice but to end QT and pivot back toward liquidity support. Both Goldman and JPMorgan have moved up their forecasts: they now expect the Fed to halt balance sheet runoff this month, well ahead of earlier expectations. Why? Because dollar funding costs are rising, and the system is flashing early signs of liquidity stress. 🧩 QT may have done its job. Now the Fed’s next move could be about stabilizing, not draining. Source: www.zerohedge.com
Big Move in AI + Mobility!
On Thursday, $NVIDIA dropped a game-changing announcement — it’s partnering with Uber Technologies to push the frontier of autonomous driving. Here’s what’s exciting 👇 🚗 Uber brings massive real-world driving data from millions of trips. 🧠 NVIDIA brings its Cosmos World foundational model — built to power self-driving intelligence. ⚡ Development will run on NVIDIA DGX Cloud, supercharging the entire training pipeline. The market noticed: Uber’s stock jumped after the news, as investors saw this as a strong move to cement Uber’s edge in next-gen transportation tech..
Don't tell your favorite bear, but November is the best month for stocks since 1950
It is the second best month the past 20 years, best month the past decade, and third best in a post-election year. Source: Ryan Detrick, CMT @RyanDetrick
