Straight from the Desk

Syz the moment

Live feeds, charts, breaking stories, all day long.

10 Feb 2025

BREAKING: Beginning Monday, China will implement tariffs of up to 15% on $14 billion in U.S. exports, including LNG, coal, crude oil, farm equipment, and select vehicles.

Looks like China is fighting back against Trump's 10% tariffs on Chinese imports that he announced last week... Source: Financial Times

10 Feb 2025

China's retaliatory tariff will hit the United States today.

Here is how the U.S Corporations and consumers will be impacted. Source: Unicus @UnicusResearch

5 Feb 2025

Xi’s Reply to Trump Tariffs Shows China Has More to Lose - Bloomberg

https://lnkd.in/ez4qCpZa Source: Bloomberg thru C.Barraud

5 Feb 2025

BREAKING: China has opened antitrust investigations into Nvidia and Google just hours after imposing 10%-15% tariffs on some US imports, per FT.

China is reportedly looking for new trade war leverage against President Trump. Source: FT

4 Feb 2025

Visualizing the Rise in Global Coal Consumption ⚡️

Source: Elements

31 Jan 2025

Apple Slides After iPhone Sales Miss, China Revenues Unexpectedly Tumble

The one - very big - fly in the ointment was the usual suspect: China, where revenues unexpectedly tumbled, sliding a whopping 11%, and badly missing estimates of a $21.57BN print Greater China rev. $18.51 billion, -11% y/y, estimate $21.57 billion Source: zerohedge.com

27 Jan 2025

Chinese debt pile is GIGANTIC: China's total debt to GDP rose to a RECORD of ~370%.

The share has DOUBLED over the last 14 years. This does not include shadow banking (outside traditional banking sector). China has a massive debt problem and it will not go away soon. Source: Apollo, Bloomberg, Global Markets Investor

27 Jan 2025

DEEPSEEK OVERTAKES CHATGPT IN APP STORE RANKINGS IN THE U.S.

👉 Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has reportedly surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Apple’s App Store rankings just a week after launch. 👉DeepSeek popularity stems from its competitive pricing, and its superior performance, reportedly achieving a higher success rate in coding tasks and outpacing OpenAI in benchmarks. Source: @spectatorindex MoneyControl thru Mario Nawfal on X

Thinking out loud

Sign up for our weekly email highlighting the most popular posts.

Follow us

Thinking out loud

Investing with intelligence

Our latest research, commentary and market outlooks