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15 Aug 2024

BREAKING: US crude oil production has officially hit a record 13.4 million barrels per day.

Daily oil production has increased by 22% over the last 4 years. Since 2008, production has skyrocketed 350% from ~3.8 million barrels per day. The US is now the world’s largest oil producer exceeding Russia's output by ~35% and Saudi Arabia by ~38%. The US is dominating global oil production. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, The Daily Shot

15 Aug 2024

Torsten from Apollo: the reality is that firms on earnings calls talk less and less about recession

Source: Mike Z.

15 Aug 2024

US July CPI inflation expectations:

1. Kalshi: 2.9% 2. TD Securities: 2.9% 3. UBS: 2.9% 4. Goldman Sachs: 2.9% 5. Citigroup: 3.0% 6. Morgan Stanley: 3.0% 7. Bank of America: 3.0% 8. Barclays: 3.0% The median July CPI expectation shows headline inflation at 3.0% and Core CPI inflation at 3.2%. If today CPI inflation comes in at 2.9% or lower, it will mark the first month with inflation under 3.0% since March 2021. Today's CPI report could solidify a hashtag#fed September rate cut. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

15 Aug 2024

Temu overtook eBay to become the 2nd most-visited e-commerce website in the world

Source: SimilarWeb, Juozas Kaziukėnas on X

15 Aug 2024

$SBUX Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with $CMG Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol

$CMG Chipotle's stock is up 773% since Brian Niccol became CEO in March 2018 Just 9 S&P 500 stocks have performed better than $CMG since March 2018 $SBUX must have paid him the star bucks... Source: Stocktwits

15 Aug 2024

Top monetary assets worldwide

Source: Porkopolis Economics

15 Aug 2024

Value investor Seth Klarman cuts his stake in Alphabet and buys Humana

Source: Bloomberg

15 Aug 2024

Bank of America survey shows continued optimism on Big Techs

Source: Bloomberg

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