US credit card interest rates hit 23.4% in August, a new record.
Over the last 2 years, rates have soared by 7 percentage points. US consumers now have a record $1.36 trillion in credit card debt and other revolving credit meaning they pay a massive $318 billion annual interest. To put this into perspective, Americans paid just half of that in 2019 at ~$160 billion. Meanwhile, credit card serious delinquency rates are at 7%, the highest level since 2011. Source: The Kobeissi Letter
NEARSHORING... 🚨FOXCONN TO BUILD WORLD’S LARGEST NVIDIA SUPERCHIP PLANT IN MEXICO
Foxconn announced plans to construct the world’s largest manufacturing facility for assembling Nvidia’s GB200 superchips in Mexico, key to Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell computing platform. The Taiwanese tech giant is capitalizing on the surging demand for AI servers. Foxconn execs revealed the plant's "enormous" capacity, with the company already investing over $500 million in Mexico. Source: Reuters, Mario Nawfal on X
Blackrock consolidated equity portfolio
Source: Finlab
Miami tops a global list of cities most at risk of a housing bubble.
The annual UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index for 2024, which analyzes residential property prices in 25 major cities worldwide, revealed that Miami’s soaring housing market had the highest bubble risk with an index score of 1.79 — beating Tokyo and Zurich for the top spot. Source: Chartr, UBS
Hang Seng Index capped its best 3-week stretch since 1975
Source: Bloomberg, David Ingles on X
BREAKING: Polymarket’s prediction markets now show Donald Trump nearly 9 percentage points ahead of Kamala Harris.
This is nearly his largest lead since Kamala Harris entered the election. Source: The Kobeissi Letter on X
Gold as the ultimate store of value?
Over the last decade, gold prices have more than DOUBLED, marking one of the best rallies in modern history. Over the last 5 years alone, gold is up 76% and on track to be the best-performing asset class of the year, excluding bitcoin. So why gold keeps rising? Ever-rising debt and money debasement seem to be the main culprits. Since the pandemic, US national #debt has soared by $12 trillion while the US dollar lost ~25% of its value. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, BofA
Half the gains since China's bazooka wiped out in an hour as authorities disappoint markets; Hong Kong stocks plunge more than 6%.
The rally in Chinese markets lost steam on Tuesday after a briefing from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission provided few details on further stimulus. While mainland China’s CSI 300 skyrocketed over 10% at the open Tuesday in its return from the Golden Week holiday, the index pared gains to a 5% rise later in the session. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index briefly plummeted over 10%, before recovering slightly to a smaller loss of 6.4%. Zheng Shanjie, chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, on Tuesday pledged a raft of actions to bolster the country’s economy during a highly-anticipated press conference. But he stopped short of announcing any new major stimulus plans, underwhelming investors and weakening the rally in the mainland Chinese markets. China will speed up special purpose bond issuance to local governments to support regional economic growth, the senior NDRC official said. Zheng said ultra-long special sovereign bonds, totaling 1 trillion yuan, have been fully deployed to fund local projects, and he vowed that China will continue to issue ultra-long special treasury bonds next year. The central government will release a 100 billion yuan investment plan for next year by the end of this month, ahead of schedule, a senior official added. Zheng also promised that more measures are coming that aims to support the property market and boost domestic spending. Source: CNBC, zerohedge
