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4 Oct 2023

Reminiscence of 1987 crash?

Carl Quintanilla posted: “When I started in the business in 1987,” reminisces Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers, “bonds were mired in a bear market for most of the year while stocks rallied sharply. Until, of course, that reversed ..” John Authers Comparison for bond yields bear a scarily unwelcome resemblance to 36 years ago -> Source chart: Bloomberg

3 Oct 2023

New home buyers in the US

Source: Michel A. Gayed

2 Oct 2023

Bloomberg on the status of US "excess pandemic savings."

Source: Bloomberg

2 Oct 2023

Tesla dominance in the US electric vehicle market

Source: Vital Knowledge Media

2 Oct 2023

The longest time period chart on US interest rates you will ever find...

Source: BofA

27 Sep 2023

Wealth by wealth category, average wealth per US household, in Q2, 2023 (wealth = assets minus debts)

The top 50% (= 65 million households) are between fairly well off to immensely rich. Source: www.wolfstreet.com

26 Sep 2023

$AMZN Amazon to invest up to $4B in AI startup Anthropic

💰 Largest investment ever for AWS. 🔎 Google previously invested $300M. 🤖 Anthropic's Claude LLM-based chatbots rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT. The generativeAI battle is heating up. Source: App Economy Insights

26 Sep 2023

💰According to Forbes, 70% of today’s billionaires are self-made

🤑The best examples are founders of companies that we all use today - Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Brin and Page(Google), Jeff Bezos (Amazon). Source: Genuine Impact

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