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11 Sep 2023

Japan's 10-year yield surged this morning to 0.70%, its highest level in almost a decade, following weekend comments by Bank of Japan (boj) Governor Kazuo Ueda

Ueda said the central bank’s lifting of its negative interest rate policy will become an option if wages and prices rise, revealing his thinking during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun. Ueda said that “there are various options” including lifting the negative interest rate policy once the central bank is confident that Japan has achieved sustainable price increases accompanied by rising wages. The negative interest rate policy is a pillar of the Bank of Japan’s large-scale monetary easing measures. While an easy monetary policy environment will be maintained for the time being, signs of factors could emerge that would allow a decision to be made by the end of the year, he indicated. This is the first time Ueda has given an exclusive interview to any media organization since taking office in April. Source: The Japan News, Tavi Costa, Bloomberg

11 Sep 2023

Out of 28,114 publicly-listed U.S. companies analyzed over the last century, the 25 best stocks have created nearly a third of all shareholder wealth

Put another way, as Visual Capitalist detail below, just 0.1% of stocks have added over $17.6 trillion to investors’ wallets. This graphic, using data from Henrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University, show the best stocks of the last century.

11 Sep 2023

One of the reasons we are not in recession yet. Despite rate hikes US corporate net interest payments are going down so far👇

Source: Michel A. Arouet

11 Sep 2023

Comparing the market capitalization of Big Tech stocks to the GDP of nations, Apple and Microsoft emerge as giants. They would rank 8th and 9th respectively if they were countries

$AAPL $MSFT $GOOGL $AMZN $NVDA $TSLA $META Source: Beth Kindig

11 Sep 2023

Nalanda Capital's approach to investing

Source: What I learned about investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad Illustration: Vishal Khandelval

11 Sep 2023

The Bitcoin Supply Formula

Source: documenting bitcoin

11 Sep 2023

Over 80% of all US money created (US Dollars printed) took place between 2020 and 2023

Source: Win Smart

11 Sep 2023

Investing Mindset

Source: Mind Matters Money

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