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23 Jan 2024

Low-Cost carriers are world's least-polluting airlines

The low-cost business model that democratized air travel in recent decades has now become an unlikely template for reducing pollution. That’s because budget airlines’ obsession with lowering weight in order to save fuel also happens to produce the best emissions metrics in the skies.

Source Bloomberg, Envest Global

23 Jan 2024

Japan is expected to be short 11 million workers by 2040

Source: Win Smart, FT

23 Jan 2024

The world's top 5 stock markets by market-cap. It has been a one-man show by the US

Note that India is moving into 4th position Source: Bloomberg, Michel A.Arouet

23 Jan 2024

India’s stock market has overtaken Hong Kong’s for the 1st time in another feat for the South Asian nation whose growth prospects & policy reforms have made it an investor darling

Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

23 Jan 2024

As of January 19th, NVIDIA $NVDA and Microsoft $MSFT had accounted for about 75% of the S&P 500's gain this year, while the 20 largest stocks in the index accounted for 110% of the index's upside move

The remaining ~480 stocks were acting as a drag. Source: Bespoke

23 Jan 2024

Thought of the day

Source: Asif MajidAsif Majid

23 Jan 2024

Only a tiny fraction of the world owns bitcoin, and after the halving in April, only 1.3125/21M btc will be left to be mined

Source: Walker

23 Jan 2024

The put/call ratio is as low as at the DotCom peak

Source: The Daily Shot, WinSmart

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