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21 Jan 2025

The fastest growing jobs 2025-2030

1 big data specialist 2 fintech engineers 3 AI and ML specialists 4 software and app devs 5 security management 6 data warehousing 7 autonomous and EV eng 8 UI/UX designers 9 delivery services 10 IoT specialist WEF25 Source: Vala Afshar

21 Jan 2025

Why America is in an alcohol recession - by The Hustle

Beer, wine, and spirit sales have trended upward for years. But the industry now faces new threats. Among these threats: the demographic factor. For middle-aged and older Americans, alcohol consumption hasn’t declined much. But Gallup discovered that 59% of 18-to-34 year olds (Gen Z and younger millennials) self-identified as alcohol drinkers, down from 72% of 18-to-34 year olds in the early 2000s. (This decline has coincided with a doubling of the share of Americans who smoke marijuana, with young people being the most likely to toke up.) Source: The Hustle

21 Jan 2025

Congress Trade: Representative Nancy Pelosi Just Disclosed New Stock Trades

Representative Nancy Pelosi just filed new stock trades, which we received from a Stock Act disclosure: Nvidia $NVDA: (3 separate transactions) 1) - Exercised 500 call options purchased 11/22/23 (50,000 shares) at a strike price of $12 with an expiration date of 12/20/24 for between $500K-$1M 2) Sold 10K shares for between $1M-$5M 3) - Bought between $250K-$500K worth of Nvidia stock Amazon $AMZN: Purchased 50 call options with a strike price of $150 and an expiration date of 1/16/26 for between $250K-$500K Google $GOOGL: Purchased 50 call options with a strike price of $150 and an expiration date of 1/16/26 for between $250K-$500K Apple $AAPL: Sold 31,600 shares for between $5M to $25M Palo Alto $PANW: Exercised 140 call options purchased 2/12/24 & 2/21/24 (14,000 shares) at a strike price of $100 with an expiration for 12/20/24 for between $1M-$5M Tempus AI $TEM: Purchased 50 call options with a strike price of $20 and an expiration date of 1/16/26 for between $50K-$100K Vistra Corp $VST: Purchased 50 call options with a strike price of $50 and an expiration date of 1/16/26 for between $500K-$1M source :evan, nasdaq

21 Jan 2025

He's back. Get used to the roller coaster!

source : bloomberg

21 Jan 2025

This is also why US dominance and exceptionalism is here to stay...

Computing power is the new gold and almost 50% of the world’s data centers are in the us. Source: Visual Capitalist

21 Jan 2025

Fixed income: Credit is still the place to be

Spreads are as tight as they've been this entire bull market: Source: J-C Parets

21 Jan 2025

This is from where Trump 2.0 is starting...

US stocks now make up 65% of the global equity market, their highest weighting in history. This is more than 11x bigger than the second largest country by market cap (Japan at 5.6%). With his MAGA, can US weight % of the global equity market hit even higher level??? Source chart: Charlie Bilello

21 Jan 2025

Trump is inheriting a Federal Reserve w/ not only unprecedented losses of $218 billion, but it's still losing money;

the Fed won't send the Treasury a dime for the entirety of Trump's term; that's never happened since the inception of the Fed - another challenge for Trump... Source: E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni

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