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11 Feb 2025

Meta's Record Run

The shares are coming off a rally of 16 straight sessions, the longest streak of any current Nasdaq 100 Index company going back to 1990. The stock added more than 17% over the surge, bringing its market capitalization above $1.8 trillion. source : bloomberg

11 Feb 2025

Visualizing the Growth of U.S. Consumer Debt

🚨 The Kaplan Group analyzed the State Level Household Debt Statistics from 2003 to 2023, sourced from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Data were retrieved for auto loans, mortgages, credit cards, and student loans since 2003. The evolution of each of these elements over the last 20 years was calculated. For inflation, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was utilized. 👉 Key Takeaways - Student loan debt is five times larger than it was 20 years ago - Credit card debt has shown minimal growth since 2023; from 2010 to 2016, it was even lower than in 2003 - The total amount of debt has grown by 81.5% since 2003 Source: Visual Capitalist, Voronoi

11 Feb 2025

US innovation & entrepreneurial spirit versus overregulation, left redistribution mindset and lack of innovation.

EU is straight on its way to become an open-air museum. Source: Michel A.Arouet, Augur infinity

11 Feb 2025

GS: "DeepSeek Monday" more about a rotation in the AI trade, rather than outright negative

(i) border security (Canada, Colombia, Mexico); (ii) geopolitics (steel & aluminum); (iii) fairness (reciprocal tariffs & currency manipulation). China is the only country to be tariffed - and will get tariffed more - as it hits all of these...

11 Feb 2025

A nice one by Robin Brooks on X: There's 3 drivers of Trump tariffs:

(i) border security (Canada, Colombia, Mexico); (ii) geopolitics (steel & aluminum); (iii) fairness (reciprocal tariffs & currency manipulation). China is the only country to be tariffed - and will get tariffed more - as it hits all of these...

11 Feb 2025

RIP to Penny?

President Donald Trump has directed the US Treasury to stop minting new pennies citing the rising costs,. In 2024 every penny which represents 1 cent costed 3.69 cents to make. source : evan

11 Feb 2025

Israel continues to be a leader this bull market.

That's another new all-time weekly closing high for the Tel Aviv 125 Index. Source: J.C. Parets @allstarcharts

11 Feb 2025

‼️ 🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI. 👀

A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Musk's attorney, Marc Toberoff, said he submitted the bid to OpenAI’s board on Monday, according to the report. "It's time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," the WSJ cited Musk as saying in a statement provided by Toberoff. "We will make sure that happens." SOURCE: REUTERS, WSJ

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