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5 Feb 2024

Playing Monopoly

It's getting harder and harder to own anything... source : wallstreetsilver, david henning

5 Feb 2024

Happy 20th birthday, Facebook

To this day, Facebook has never seen a year-over-year drop in active users and once it happens, we won't know, because the company announced that it won't be reporting Facebook user numbers going forward. Instead, the company will focus on metrics that are more relevant to its advertising business, such as changes in ad impressions and the average price per ad at the regional level. source : statista

5 Feb 2024

Earnings for the Week of February 5, 2024

source : earnings whispers

5 Feb 2024

US Earnings season UPDATE

Q4 GAAP EPS +16% higher than a year ago after 46% of S&P 500 companies have reported. Note that Beats are rewarded like never before. We have seen sharp moves for positive surprises led by large cap constituents. Source. Factset, TME

5 Feb 2024

A Los Angeles office building just sold for 52% less than its price five years ago.

The office building was originally purchased in 2018 for $92.5 million. Now, it sold for $44.7 million even after over $11 million in renovations. Just weeks ago, the Aon Center in downtown LA sold for $147.8 million, 45% less than its previous purchase price in 2014. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

5 Feb 2024

Evergrande, which has now been ordered to liquidate, has an astonishing $300 billion in liabilities.

That places it near the very top of the all-time list of corporate bankruptcies. A lot of Evergrande's liabilities are down payments that Chinese homebuyers made on apartments that remain unbuilt. But even just looking at the bonds and loans outstanding, the amount is greater than $80 billion. Source: TME, Axios

5 Feb 2024

China 10Y yield moves below 2.47%, breaking Covid19 lockdown lows.

China 10Y yield moves below 2.47%, breaking Covid19 lockdown lows. With local equity market imploding and real estate in freefall, fears of a Japanese style deflationary spiral are growing. Should China devalue the renminbi ? Chart vy Sylvain Baude, CFA, Bloomberg

5 Feb 2024

BREAKING: WILD morning in Chinese markets. Nearly 30% of all stocks in China have been halted as China's CSI 1000 index slides 8% in a matter of hours.

CSI 1000 was down nearly 9% at one point. The more broadly tracker indexes CSI 300, HSI, HSTECH reversed most losses in the morning Source: Bloomberg, David Ingles

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