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DDRuirong
01-23
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@Tiger_story:Bulls and Bears on Wall Street: A Chronological Odyssey of Market Swings
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01-23
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@Tiger_Earnings:đ„Stock Prediction: How will Netflix close Wednesday 24/01 following their earnings?
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01-23
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@koolgal:Coinbase is down! Is it time to buy Coinbase?
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01-23
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DDRuirong
2023-03-16
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Credit Suisse Is In Crisis. What Went Wrong?
DDRuirong
2023-03-15
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Wall Street Ends Green As Inflation Cools, Bank Jitters Ebb
DDRuirong
2023-03-04
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DDRuirong
2023-03-04
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SGX Weekly Review: Chinaâs Factory Activity, UOB, Meta Platforms and Raffles Medical Group
DDRuirong
2023-03-03
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Broadcom Stock Moves Higher After Earnings, Forecast Beat
DDRuirong
2023-02-18
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Top Calls on Wall Street: DraftKings, Virgin Galactic, Coinbase and More
DDRuirong
2023-02-17
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What Recession? Strong Economy Buoys U.S. Stocks, Though Fed Casts Shadow
DDRuirong
2022-12-21
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@TigerEvents:Join Tiger's Football Season, share the prizes worth up to US$200,000
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2022-12-21
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2022-12-21
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@OptionsTracker:Hot stocks covered call reference [December 21]
DDRuirong
2022-08-14
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Inflation Surge Cools in July. Should You Still Play Defense with Your Portfolio?
DDRuirong
2022-08-07
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Dow Edges Into Positive Territory As Stocks Erase Early Losses
DDRuirong
2022-06-10
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@Smartkarma:Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD US): Subsiding COVID to Drive Mid-Teens Sales Growth in 2022
DDRuirong
2022-05-26
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@GabrielleSusan:Snap : Its crash is just an opportunity
DDRuirong
2022-05-07
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DDRuirong
2022-02-27
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Buffett Full Annual LetterïŒApple is One of âFour Giantsâ Driving the Conglomerateâs Value
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Picture a vibrant Wall Street where market trends emulate the behaviors of two powerful animals: the bullish charge and the bearish retreat.A look at bear and bull markets through historyThe Bull Market: An 18th Century AscentIn the 18th century, traders discerned a correlation between rising markets and increased profits, birthing the term \"bull market.\" Bulls, with their upward-thrusting horns, became the symbol of the ascending surge in stock prices.Fast forward to the roaring twentiesâa golden era for","listText":"Witness history! <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/.SPX\">$S&P 500(.SPX)$</a> hits record high, U.S. stock market officially enters bull market on last Friday.In the vivid tapestry of the stock market, the terms \"bull market\" and \"bear market\" trace their roots to a fascinating origin. 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Guess how will <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/NFLX\">$Netflix(NFLX)$</a> close Wednesday 24/01 following their earnings?? If you get the correct answer, you may divide 1000 Tiger Coins with other Tigers.<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/NFLX\">$Netflix(NFLX)$</a> will post its fourth quarter 2023 financial results and business outlook post-market on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. Netflix's Q4 revenue is expected to be $8.698 billion, with an adjusted net profit of $988.462 million and an adjusted EPS of $2.195, according to Bloomberg's consensus expectation. For more information about Netflix Earnings Preview, please click <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/NW/1175121625\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix Earnings Preview: A Strong Subscriber Increase in 4Q; Ad-Based Plan Bring Dividends<</a>","listText":"Click to vote. Guess how will <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/NFLX\">$Netflix(NFLX)$</a> close Wednesday 24/01 following their earnings?? If you get the correct answer, you may divide 1000 Tiger Coins with other Tigers.<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/NFLX\">$Netflix(NFLX)$</a> will post its fourth quarter 2023 financial results and business outlook post-market on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. Netflix's Q4 revenue is expected to be $8.698 billion, with an adjusted net profit of $988.462 million and an adjusted EPS of $2.195, according to Bloomberg's consensus expectation. For more information about Netflix Earnings Preview, please click <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/NW/1175121625\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix Earnings Preview: A Strong Subscriber Increase in 4Q; Ad-Based Plan Bring Dividends<</a>","text":"Click to vote. Guess how will $Netflix(NFLX)$ close Wednesday 24/01 following their earnings?? If you get the correct answer, you may divide 1000 Tiger Coins with other Tigers.$Netflix(NFLX)$ will post its fourth quarter 2023 financial results and business outlook post-market on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. Netflix's Q4 revenue is expected to be $8.698 billion, with an adjusted net profit of $988.462 million and an adjusted EPS of $2.195, according to Bloomberg's consensus expectation. 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Is it time to buy Coinbase? ","htmlText":"đđđ<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/COIN\">$Coinbase Global, Inc.(COIN)$ </a><v-v data-views=\"0\"></v-v> is down 8.8% in the past 5 days in the aftermath of Bitcoin ETFs approval by SEC. After a phenomenal year in 2023 in which Coinbase jumped a whopping 391%, Coinbase is now down 20% since the start of 2024. It could be the case of Buy the Rumour, Sell the News. There was much hype and excitement prior to the Bitcoin approval that drovr Coinbase and other crypto stocks like <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/MARA\">$Marathon Digital Holdings Inc(MARA)$ </a> <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/RIOT\">$Riot Blockchain, Inc.(RIOT)$ </a> which went up like a rocket to the moon. Bitcoin surged past USD 45,000 but has since dropped to USD 41,621.62 currently. The fortune of Co","listText":"đđđ<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/COIN\">$Coinbase Global, Inc.(COIN)$ </a><v-v data-views=\"0\"></v-v> is down 8.8% in the past 5 days in the aftermath of Bitcoin ETFs approval by SEC. After a phenomenal year in 2023 in which Coinbase jumped a whopping 391%, Coinbase is now down 20% since the start of 2024. It could be the case of Buy the Rumour, Sell the News. There was much hype and excitement prior to the Bitcoin approval that drovr Coinbase and other crypto stocks like <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/MARA\">$Marathon Digital Holdings Inc(MARA)$ </a> <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/RIOT\">$Riot Blockchain, Inc.(RIOT)$ </a> which went up like a rocket to the moon. Bitcoin surged past USD 45,000 but has since dropped to USD 41,621.62 currently. The fortune of Co","text":"đđđ$Coinbase Global, Inc.(COIN)$ is down 8.8% in the past 5 days in the aftermath of Bitcoin ETFs approval by SEC. After a phenomenal year in 2023 in which Coinbase jumped a whopping 391%, Coinbase is now down 20% since the start of 2024. It could be the case of Buy the Rumour, Sell the News. There was much hype and excitement prior to the Bitcoin approval that drovr Coinbase and other crypto stocks like $Marathon Digital Holdings Inc(MARA)$ $Riot Blockchain, Inc.(RIOT)$ which went up like a rocket to the moon. Bitcoin surged past USD 45,000 but has since dropped to USD 41,621.62 currently. 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What Went Wrong?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1178433847","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discreti","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discretion and dull reliability. That only makes the scandals, public legal battles and mounting losses at Credit Suisse Group AG more striking and hard to comprehend. In mid-March, unease about the bankâs mounting problems snowballed and its shares slumped, forcing management to appeal to Swiss banking authorities for a public vote of confidence.</p><h3>1. What went wrong?</h3><p>Credit Suisseâs failings have included a criminal conviction for allowing drug dealers to launder money in Bulgaria, entanglement in a Mozambique corruption case, a spying scandal involving a former employee and an executive and a massive leak of client data to the media. Its association with disgraced financier Lex Greensill and failed New York-based investment firm Archegos Capital Management compounded the sense of an institution that didnât have a firm grip on its affairs. Many fed up clients have voted with their feet, leading to unprecedented client outflows in late 2022.</p><h3><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/737c0d8e279f497c6082a3207a7417a8\" tg-width=\"718\" tg-height=\"426\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>2. What triggered the latest share slump?</h3><p>Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Koerner launched a massive outreach to woo back nervous clients and their cash. The effort appeared to be paying off by January, with it reported ânet positiveâ deposits. However, on March 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission queried the bankâs annual report, forcing it to delay its publication. Panic spread after regional US lender Silicon Valley Bank failed, the victim in part of risky investments and rising global interest rates that eroded the value of its bond holdings. Investors began ditching anything that smelled of banking risk and deposit flight.</p><h3>3. How bad did the situation get?</h3><p>On March 15, Credit Suisse stock slumped anew when the chairman of its largest shareholder, Saudi National Bank, ruled out investing any more in the company. This prompted Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss central bank for a public statement of support. The cost of insuring the bankâs bonds against default for one year surged to levels not seen for major international banks since the financial crisis of 2008. As other banks sought to hedge their counterparty risk for transactions with Credit Suisse, quoted prices for a one-year credit default swap jumped from 836 basis points, indicating a probability of defaulting of 10%, on March 14 to higher than 3,000 basis points. Few actual trades were executed, however, as liquidity in the market dried up. In another sign of stress, Credit Suisseâs additional tier 1 bonds â which are subordinate to all other ranks of debt and may be written down if capital falls below a predetermined level â were trading below 80% of face value, a level typically signaling distress. Even bonds coming due in April traded at prices well below face value.</p><h3>4. Is this another Lehman Brothers moment?</h3><p>The Wall Street giant, whose failure in 2008 triggered the global financial crisis, succumbed when funding dried up and other banks stopped dealing with it. Unlike Lehman and SVB, Credit Suisse has substantial liquid assets to call upon and access to central bank lending facilities and is less sensitive than many rivals to sharp moves in interest rates. It has rebuilt its cushion against more deposit withdrawals since the worst wave of outflows in October. It also has enough money-like liquid assets to pay back half of all its liabilities in deposits and loans from other banks, according to Bloomberg Opinion banking columnist Paul J. Davies. Koerner said the firmâs liquidity coverage ratio showed it can handle over a month of heavy outflows in a period of stress.</p><h3>5. What else is Koerner doing to turn things around?</h3><p>His three-year recovery plan involves 9,000 job cuts, dismantling the investment banking behemoth assembled over five decades and returning Credit Suisse to its origins as banker to the worldâs ultra-wealthy. That means spinning off First Boston, an American investment bank it acquired in 1990 with a view to listing it in 2025, and selling parts of its securitized products unit to Apollo Global Management Inc. That process is now at risk of becoming bogged down in a broader financial-sector selloff following the collapse of SVB and two other US banks.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse Is In Crisis. 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What Went Wrong?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-03-16 07:13 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/credit-suisse-what-s-going-on-and-why-is-cs-stock-falling><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discretion and dull reliability. That only makes the scandals, public legal battles and mounting losses at ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/credit-suisse-what-s-going-on-and-why-is-cs-stock-falling\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/credit-suisse-what-s-going-on-and-why-is-cs-stock-falling","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1178433847","content_text":"Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discretion and dull reliability. That only makes the scandals, public legal battles and mounting losses at Credit Suisse Group AG more striking and hard to comprehend. In mid-March, unease about the bankâs mounting problems snowballed and its shares slumped, forcing management to appeal to Swiss banking authorities for a public vote of confidence.1. What went wrong?Credit Suisseâs failings have included a criminal conviction for allowing drug dealers to launder money in Bulgaria, entanglement in a Mozambique corruption case, a spying scandal involving a former employee and an executive and a massive leak of client data to the media. Its association with disgraced financier Lex Greensill and failed New York-based investment firm Archegos Capital Management compounded the sense of an institution that didnât have a firm grip on its affairs. Many fed up clients have voted with their feet, leading to unprecedented client outflows in late 2022.2. What triggered the latest share slump?Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Koerner launched a massive outreach to woo back nervous clients and their cash. The effort appeared to be paying off by January, with it reported ânet positiveâ deposits. However, on March 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission queried the bankâs annual report, forcing it to delay its publication. Panic spread after regional US lender Silicon Valley Bank failed, the victim in part of risky investments and rising global interest rates that eroded the value of its bond holdings. Investors began ditching anything that smelled of banking risk and deposit flight.3. How bad did the situation get?On March 15, Credit Suisse stock slumped anew when the chairman of its largest shareholder, Saudi National Bank, ruled out investing any more in the company. This prompted Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss central bank for a public statement of support. The cost of insuring the bankâs bonds against default for one year surged to levels not seen for major international banks since the financial crisis of 2008. As other banks sought to hedge their counterparty risk for transactions with Credit Suisse, quoted prices for a one-year credit default swap jumped from 836 basis points, indicating a probability of defaulting of 10%, on March 14 to higher than 3,000 basis points. Few actual trades were executed, however, as liquidity in the market dried up. In another sign of stress, Credit Suisseâs additional tier 1 bonds â which are subordinate to all other ranks of debt and may be written down if capital falls below a predetermined level â were trading below 80% of face value, a level typically signaling distress. Even bonds coming due in April traded at prices well below face value.4. Is this another Lehman Brothers moment?The Wall Street giant, whose failure in 2008 triggered the global financial crisis, succumbed when funding dried up and other banks stopped dealing with it. Unlike Lehman and SVB, Credit Suisse has substantial liquid assets to call upon and access to central bank lending facilities and is less sensitive than many rivals to sharp moves in interest rates. It has rebuilt its cushion against more deposit withdrawals since the worst wave of outflows in October. It also has enough money-like liquid assets to pay back half of all its liabilities in deposits and loans from other banks, according to Bloomberg Opinion banking columnist Paul J. Davies. Koerner said the firmâs liquidity coverage ratio showed it can handle over a month of heavy outflows in a period of stress.5. What else is Koerner doing to turn things around?His three-year recovery plan involves 9,000 job cuts, dismantling the investment banking behemoth assembled over five decades and returning Credit Suisse to its origins as banker to the worldâs ultra-wealthy. That means spinning off First Boston, an American investment bank it acquired in 1990 with a view to listing it in 2025, and selling parts of its securitized products unit to Apollo Global Management Inc. That process is now at risk of becoming bogged down in a broader financial-sector selloff following the collapse of SVB and two other US banks.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":351,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9949423410,"gmtCreate":1678839980531,"gmtModify":1678839985173,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Gigi Gigi bib","listText":"Gigi Gigi bib","text":"Gigi Gigi bib","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":14,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9949423410","repostId":"1109251500","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1109251500","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1678835043,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109251500?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-03-15 07:04","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Wall Street Ends Green As Inflation Cools, Bank Jitters Ebb","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109251500","media":"Reuters","summary":"(Reuters) - U.S. stocks bounced back on Tuesday as largely on-target inflation data and easing jitte","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>(Reuters) - U.S. stocks bounced back on Tuesday as largely on-target inflation data and easing jitters over contagion in the banking sector cooled expectations regarding the size of the rate hike at the Federal Reserve's policy meeting next week.</p><p>All three major U.S. stock indexes closed sharply higher, with the S&P 500 and the Dow gaining more than 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq surging more than 2%, after several sessions of risk-off turmoil driven by the fallout surrounding the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.</p><p>Financial stocks clawed back some losses, with the S&P 500 Banks index coming back from its steepest one-day sell-off since June 2020.</p><p>The KBW Regional Banking index rose 2.1%.</p><p>Bank contagion fears were allayed on Tuesday as U.S. President Joe Biden and other global policymakers vowed the crisis would be contained.</p><p>"The market is having an opportunity to digest some of the news over the last couple of days," said Matthew Keator, managing partner in the Keator Group, a wealth management firm in Lenox, Massachusetts. "(Investors) are seeing a coordinated effort with various government agencies, and with hindsight, theyâre feeling as if things have contained themselves a bit."</p><p>The Labor Department's CPI report showed consumer prices cooled in February, largely in line with market expectations, with headline and core measures notching welcome annual declines.</p><p>Even so, inflation has a considerable way to go before approaching the central bank's average annual 2% target.</p><p>But signs of economic softness, combined with the regional banking scare, have increased the odds that the Federal Reserve will implement a modest, 25 basis-point hike to its key interest rate at the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting on March 22.</p><p>Financial markets have now priced in a 74.5% likelihood that the central bank will raise the Fed funds target rate by an additional 25 basis points at the conclusion of its two-day monetary meeting later this month, with a growing minority - 25.5% - seeing the potential of no rate hike at all, according to CME's FedWatch tool.</p><p>"Part of the stabilization today is folks feeling as if the Fed might back off from some of the hawkish expectations that followed Chairman Powell's comments last week," Keator added.</p><p>"If the Fed isn't careful, they could create some unintended shocks to the system," he said.</p><p>Shock waves following the closure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which prompted Biden to vow he would contain the crisis and ensure the safety of the U.S. banking system, continued to reverberate throughout the sector.</p><p>The S&P 500 banking index reclaimed territory, rising 2.6% after Monday's plunge, its biggest one-day drop since June 2020.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 336.26 points, or 1.06%, to 32,155.4, the S&P 500 gained 64.8 points, or 1.68%, to 3,920.56 and the Nasdaq Composite added 239.31 points, or 2.14%, to 11,428.15.</p><p>All 11 major sectors in the S&P 500 ended the trading day higher, with communication services enjoying the largest percentage advance.</p><p>Shares of First Republic Bank and Western Alliance Bancorp surged by 27.0% and 14.4%, respectively, in a reversal of the previous session's rout.</p><p>Meta Platforms Inc announced 10,000 job cuts in its second round of layoffs. Its stock advanced 7.3%.</p><p>Ride-hailing app rivals Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc rose 5.0% and 0.6%, respectively, after a California state court revived a ballot measure allowing the companies to treat drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.</p><p>United Airlines Holdings Inc fell 5.4% after the commercial carrier unexpectedly forecast a current quarter loss.</p><p>AMC Entertainment Holdings slid 15.0% between multiple trading halts after its shareholders voted in favor of converting preferred stock into common shares.</p><p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 2.60-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.83-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 3 new 52-week highs and 15 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 23 new highs and 195 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 13.84 billion shares, compared with the 11.64 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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"(Investors) are seeing a coordinated effort with various government agencies, and with hindsight, theyâre feeling as if things have contained themselves a bit."</p><p>The Labor Department's CPI report showed consumer prices cooled in February, largely in line with market expectations, with headline and core measures notching welcome annual declines.</p><p>Even so, inflation has a considerable way to go before approaching the central bank's average annual 2% target.</p><p>But signs of economic softness, combined with the regional banking scare, have increased the odds that the Federal Reserve will implement a modest, 25 basis-point hike to its key interest rate at the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting on March 22.</p><p>Financial markets have now priced in a 74.5% likelihood that the central bank will raise the Fed funds target rate by an additional 25 basis points at the conclusion of its two-day monetary meeting later this month, with a growing minority - 25.5% - seeing the potential of no rate hike at all, according to CME's FedWatch tool.</p><p>"Part of the stabilization today is folks feeling as if the Fed might back off from some of the hawkish expectations that followed Chairman Powell's comments last week," Keator added.</p><p>"If the Fed isn't careful, they could create some unintended shocks to the system," he said.</p><p>Shock waves following the closure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which prompted Biden to vow he would contain the crisis and ensure the safety of the U.S. banking system, continued to reverberate throughout the sector.</p><p>The S&P 500 banking index reclaimed territory, rising 2.6% after Monday's plunge, its biggest one-day drop since June 2020.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 336.26 points, or 1.06%, to 32,155.4, the S&P 500 gained 64.8 points, or 1.68%, to 3,920.56 and the Nasdaq Composite added 239.31 points, or 2.14%, to 11,428.15.</p><p>All 11 major sectors in the S&P 500 ended the trading day higher, with communication services enjoying the largest percentage advance.</p><p>Shares of First Republic Bank and Western Alliance Bancorp surged by 27.0% and 14.4%, respectively, in a reversal of the previous session's rout.</p><p>Meta Platforms Inc announced 10,000 job cuts in its second round of layoffs. Its stock advanced 7.3%.</p><p>Ride-hailing app rivals Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc rose 5.0% and 0.6%, respectively, after a California state court revived a ballot measure allowing the companies to treat drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.</p><p>United Airlines Holdings Inc fell 5.4% after the commercial carrier unexpectedly forecast a current quarter loss.</p><p>AMC Entertainment Holdings slid 15.0% between multiple trading halts after its shareholders voted in favor of converting preferred stock into common shares.</p><p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 2.60-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.83-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 3 new 52-week highs and 15 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 23 new highs and 195 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 13.84 billion shares, compared with the 11.64 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"éçŒæŻ",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109251500","content_text":"(Reuters) - U.S. stocks bounced back on Tuesday as largely on-target inflation data and easing jitters over contagion in the banking sector cooled expectations regarding the size of the rate hike at the Federal Reserve's policy meeting next week.All three major U.S. stock indexes closed sharply higher, with the S&P 500 and the Dow gaining more than 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq surging more than 2%, after several sessions of risk-off turmoil driven by the fallout surrounding the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.Financial stocks clawed back some losses, with the S&P 500 Banks index coming back from its steepest one-day sell-off since June 2020.The KBW Regional Banking index rose 2.1%.Bank contagion fears were allayed on Tuesday as U.S. President Joe Biden and other global policymakers vowed the crisis would be contained.\"The market is having an opportunity to digest some of the news over the last couple of days,\" said Matthew Keator, managing partner in the Keator Group, a wealth management firm in Lenox, Massachusetts. \"(Investors) are seeing a coordinated effort with various government agencies, and with hindsight, theyâre feeling as if things have contained themselves a bit.\"The Labor Department's CPI report showed consumer prices cooled in February, largely in line with market expectations, with headline and core measures notching welcome annual declines.Even so, inflation has a considerable way to go before approaching the central bank's average annual 2% target.But signs of economic softness, combined with the regional banking scare, have increased the odds that the Federal Reserve will implement a modest, 25 basis-point hike to its key interest rate at the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting on March 22.Financial markets have now priced in a 74.5% likelihood that the central bank will raise the Fed funds target rate by an additional 25 basis points at the conclusion of its two-day monetary meeting later this month, with a growing minority - 25.5% - seeing the potential of no rate hike at all, according to CME's FedWatch tool.\"Part of the stabilization today is folks feeling as if the Fed might back off from some of the hawkish expectations that followed Chairman Powell's comments last week,\" Keator added.\"If the Fed isn't careful, they could create some unintended shocks to the system,\" he said.Shock waves following the closure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which prompted Biden to vow he would contain the crisis and ensure the safety of the U.S. banking system, continued to reverberate throughout the sector.The S&P 500 banking index reclaimed territory, rising 2.6% after Monday's plunge, its biggest one-day drop since June 2020.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 336.26 points, or 1.06%, to 32,155.4, the S&P 500 gained 64.8 points, or 1.68%, to 3,920.56 and the Nasdaq Composite added 239.31 points, or 2.14%, to 11,428.15.All 11 major sectors in the S&P 500 ended the trading day higher, with communication services enjoying the largest percentage advance.Shares of First Republic Bank and Western Alliance Bancorp surged by 27.0% and 14.4%, respectively, in a reversal of the previous session's rout.Meta Platforms Inc announced 10,000 job cuts in its second round of layoffs. Its stock advanced 7.3%.Ride-hailing app rivals Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc rose 5.0% and 0.6%, respectively, after a California state court revived a ballot measure allowing the companies to treat drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.United Airlines Holdings Inc fell 5.4% after the commercial carrier unexpectedly forecast a current quarter loss.AMC Entertainment Holdings slid 15.0% between multiple trading halts after its shareholders voted in favor of converting preferred stock into common shares.Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 2.60-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.83-to-1 ratio favored advancers.The S&P 500 posted 3 new 52-week highs and 15 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 23 new highs and 195 new lows.Volume on U.S. exchanges was 13.84 billion shares, compared with the 11.64 billion average over the last 20 trading 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this nearly S$5 billion acquisition to accelerate its retail banking business growth in the ASEAN region.</p><p>The acquisition covered four countries â Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.</p><p>UOB had already announced the completion of its acquisition in both Malaysia and Thailand on 1 November last year.</p><p>The bank had originally planned for the acquisitions of Vietnam and Indonesia to be completed by the end of 2023.</p><p>Around 575 Citigroup-related staff were also transferred to UOB Vietnam, and the consumer business comprises the American bankâs unsecured and secured lending portfolios, wealth management, and retail deposit businesses.</p><p>With the addition of both Malaysia and Thailand, UOB has expanded its retail customer base to almost seven million within the ASEAN region.</p><p>Once all the acquisitions are completed, the lender expects to double its existing retail base and add 5,000 staff to its team.</p><p>In line with the completion of the Vietnamese acquisition, UOB has also announced senior appointments to drive its business there.</p><p>Mr Fred Lim will head the retail transformation, channels and digitalisation division along with business banking in UOB Vietnam while Mr Paul Kim will serve as the head of personal financial services.</p><p><b>Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META)</b></p><p>Meta Platforms is moving away from being a pure social media and communications company.</p><p>The company announced that it will create a new product group focused on generative artificial intelligence (AI).</p><p>Generative AI comprises a set of machine learning techniques that will allow computers to generate text, pictures or other media that resembles human output.</p><p>This new unit will combine several teams across Meta Platforms and be headed by current Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.</p><p>CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded excited when he touted the promise of generative AI as he is confident that this new team can build âcreative and expressiveâ tools to be used in Metaâs products WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.</p><p>This announcement came after Meta Platforms announced that it had developed its in-house large language model called LLaMA.</p><p>Technology companies have been racing with one another to come up with new AI models after the success of ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI in which <b>Microsoft</b>(NASDAQ: MSFT) took a stake.</p><p>Meanwhile, <b>Alphabetâs</b>(NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google is also working on a chatbox named Bard, while <b>Snap</b>(NYSE: SNAP) has incorporated a ChatGPT bot into its Snapchat app.</p><p><b>Raffles Medical Group (SGX: BSL)</b></p><p>Raffles Medical Group, or RMG, has announced an impressive set of earnings for 2022.</p><p>The integrated healthcare player saw its revenue inch up by 5.9% year on year to S$766.5 million.</p><p>Operating profit shot up 61.4% year on year to S$195.8 million while net profit surged by 70.5% year on year to S$143.5 million.</p><p>On top of this good result, 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congestion in major cities has increased as more people go about their business, while restaurant and mall spending both rose.This is good news for companies that have suffered from snarled supply chains as China remained shut off from the world for most of last year.The reopening and increase in factory activity should also benefit China-based REITs such as CapitaLand China Trust(SGX: AU8U).Meanwhile, companies such as Nike(NYSE: NKE) and Starbucks(NASDAQ: SBUX) that earn a chunk of their revenue from China should also be rejoicing.United Overseas Bank Ltd (SGX: U11)United Overseas Bank, or UOB, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Citigroupâs(NYSE: C) consumer banking business in Vietnam on 1 March.It is yet another milestone for the bank after the announcement of this nearly S$5 billion acquisition to accelerate its retail banking business growth in the ASEAN region.The acquisition covered four countries â Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.UOB had already announced the completion of its acquisition in both Malaysia and Thailand on 1 November last year.The bank had originally planned for the acquisitions of Vietnam and Indonesia to be completed by the end of 2023.Around 575 Citigroup-related staff were also transferred to UOB Vietnam, and the consumer business comprises the American bankâs unsecured and secured lending portfolios, wealth management, and retail deposit businesses.With the addition of both Malaysia and Thailand, UOB has expanded its retail customer base to almost seven million within the ASEAN region.Once all the acquisitions are completed, the lender expects to double its existing retail base and add 5,000 staff to its team.In line with the completion of the Vietnamese acquisition, UOB has also announced senior appointments to drive its business there.Mr Fred Lim will head the retail transformation, channels and digitalisation division along with business banking in UOB Vietnam while Mr Paul Kim will serve as the head of personal financial services.Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META)Meta Platforms is moving away from being a pure social media and communications company.The company announced that it will create a new product group focused on generative artificial intelligence (AI).Generative AI comprises a set of machine learning techniques that will allow computers to generate text, pictures or other media that resembles human output.This new unit will combine several teams across Meta Platforms and be headed by current Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded excited when he touted the promise of generative AI as he is confident that this new team can build âcreative and expressiveâ tools to be used in Metaâs products WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.This announcement came after Meta Platforms announced that it had developed its in-house large language model called LLaMA.Technology companies have been racing with one another to come up with new AI models after the success of ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI in which Microsoft(NASDAQ: MSFT) took a stake.Meanwhile, Alphabetâs(NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google is also working on a chatbox named Bard, while Snap(NYSE: SNAP) has incorporated a ChatGPT bot into its Snapchat app.Raffles Medical Group (SGX: BSL)Raffles Medical Group, or RMG, has announced an impressive set of earnings for 2022.The integrated healthcare player saw its revenue inch up by 5.9% year on year to S$766.5 million.Operating profit shot up 61.4% year on year to S$195.8 million while net profit surged by 70.5% year on year to S$143.5 million.On top of this good result, the group also generated a positive free cash flow of S$170.9 million, 59.3% higher than the prior yearâs S$107.3 million.In line with the robust results, RMG has declared a first and final dividend of S$0.038, 35% higher than the S$0.028 paid out in 2021.The better performance came about as borders reopened and the group saw a return of foreign patients seeking medical treatment in Singapore.RMGâs 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After adjusting for stock-based compensation and other costs, Broadcom reported earnings of $10.33 a share, up from $8.39 a share in the same quarter last year.</p><p>Analysts on average were expecting adjusted earnings of $10.17 a share on revenue of $8.9 billion, according to FactSet. Shares rose more than 1% in after-hours trading immediately following the release of the results, after a 0.9% in the regular session to close at $598.65.</p><p>Broadcom's stock has held up better than others in the semiconductor sector, which has been bedeviled by a shortage of chips suddenly turning into a glut in the past year. Broadcom showed that it was not immune to those issues in its last quarterly report, though, as the San Jose, Calif.-based chip maker reported a limited outlook and refused to comment on the rest of the year or update analysts on its product backlog.</p><p>Broadcom "is not immune from cyclical headwinds," Raymond James analysts cautioned in initiating coverage of semiconductor companies this week. "In particular, it has 30% exposure to enterprise (including semis and software) and 20% to wireless (mostly Apple <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(AAPL)$</a>), where we see potential demand slowdown. Upside appears modest, even in a soft-landing scenario."</p><p>In Thursday's report, Broadcom guided for second-quarter revenue of roughly $8.7 billion, while analysts on average were expecting $8.58 billion, according to FactSet. Executives again avoided a full annual forecast, with Chief Executive Hock Tan sticking with his approach of just projecting "growth."</p><p>"Broadcom's first quarter performance reflects continued strength in infrastructure demand across all our end markets," Tan said in a statement. "Looking ahead, we are confident our growth will be driven by sustained leadership in next generation technologies across all of our core markets, and strong partnerships with our customers."</p><p>Tan's yearslong attempt to diversify the company beyond semiconductors has helped avoid the doldrums of the chip sector in this time. Broadcom also sells networking equipment and enterprise-scale storage systems, along with a software division formed through the acquisitions of CA Inc and Symantec, with VMware Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VMW\">$(VMW)$</a>expected to join by October.</p><p>Broadcom's chip division -- which includes the networking and storage businesses -- is its largest, reporting $7.11 billion in sales for the fiscal first quarter Thursday, up from $5.87 billion a year ago and beating the average analyst estimate of $7.01 billion, according to FactSet. The software business reported sales of $1.81 billion, down from $1.83 billion a year ago and missing the average analyst estimate of $1.85 billion, per FactSet.</p><p>Broadcom shares have gained 1.9% in the past 2 months, as the S&P 500 index has dropped 9.9% and the PHLX Semiconductor index has declined 12.4%.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Broadcom Stock Moves Higher After Earnings, Forecast Beat</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nBroadcom Stock Moves Higher After Earnings, Forecast Beat\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2023-03-03 07:32</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>Broadcom Inc. continued to produce better results and forecast better near-term sales than Wall Street expects without providing guidance for the long term Thursday, and shares rose in extended trading.</p><p>Broadcom <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AVGO\">$(AVGO)$</a> reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $3.77 billion, or $8.80 a share, on sales of $8.91 billion, up from $7.71 billion a year ago. After adjusting for stock-based compensation and other costs, Broadcom reported earnings of $10.33 a share, up from $8.39 a share in the same quarter last year.</p><p>Analysts on average were expecting adjusted earnings of $10.17 a share on revenue of $8.9 billion, according to FactSet. Shares rose more than 1% in after-hours trading immediately following the release of the results, after a 0.9% in the regular session to close at $598.65.</p><p>Broadcom's stock has held up better than others in the semiconductor sector, which has been bedeviled by a shortage of chips suddenly turning into a glut in the past year. Broadcom showed that it was not immune to those issues in its last quarterly report, though, as the San Jose, Calif.-based chip maker reported a limited outlook and refused to comment on the rest of the year or update analysts on its product backlog.</p><p>Broadcom "is not immune from cyclical headwinds," Raymond James analysts cautioned in initiating coverage of semiconductor companies this week. "In particular, it has 30% exposure to enterprise (including semis and software) and 20% to wireless (mostly Apple <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(AAPL)$</a>), where we see potential demand slowdown. Upside appears modest, even in a soft-landing scenario."</p><p>In Thursday's report, Broadcom guided for second-quarter revenue of roughly $8.7 billion, while analysts on average were expecting $8.58 billion, according to FactSet. Executives again avoided a full annual forecast, with Chief Executive Hock Tan sticking with his approach of just projecting "growth."</p><p>"Broadcom's first quarter performance reflects continued strength in infrastructure demand across all our end markets," Tan said in a statement. "Looking ahead, we are confident our growth will be driven by sustained leadership in next generation technologies across all of our core markets, and strong partnerships with our customers."</p><p>Tan's yearslong attempt to diversify the company beyond semiconductors has helped avoid the doldrums of the chip sector in this time. Broadcom also sells networking equipment and enterprise-scale storage systems, along with a software division formed through the acquisitions of CA Inc and Symantec, with VMware Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VMW\">$(VMW)$</a>expected to join by October.</p><p>Broadcom's chip division -- which includes the networking and storage businesses -- is its largest, reporting $7.11 billion in sales for the fiscal first quarter Thursday, up from $5.87 billion a year ago and beating the average analyst estimate of $7.01 billion, according to FactSet. The software business reported sales of $1.81 billion, down from $1.83 billion a year ago and missing the average analyst estimate of $1.85 billion, per FactSet.</p><p>Broadcom shares have gained 1.9% in the past 2 months, as the S&P 500 index has dropped 9.9% and the PHLX Semiconductor index has declined 12.4%.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2316998348","content_text":"Broadcom Inc. continued to produce better results and forecast better near-term sales than Wall Street expects without providing guidance for the long term Thursday, and shares rose in extended trading.Broadcom $(AVGO)$ reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $3.77 billion, or $8.80 a share, on sales of $8.91 billion, up from $7.71 billion a year ago. After adjusting for stock-based compensation and other costs, Broadcom reported earnings of $10.33 a share, up from $8.39 a share in the same quarter last year.Analysts on average were expecting adjusted earnings of $10.17 a share on revenue of $8.9 billion, according to FactSet. Shares rose more than 1% in after-hours trading immediately following the release of the results, after a 0.9% in the regular session to close at $598.65.Broadcom's stock has held up better than others in the semiconductor sector, which has been bedeviled by a shortage of chips suddenly turning into a glut in the past year. Broadcom showed that it was not immune to those issues in its last quarterly report, though, as the San Jose, Calif.-based chip maker reported a limited outlook and refused to comment on the rest of the year or update analysts on its product backlog.Broadcom \"is not immune from cyclical headwinds,\" Raymond James analysts cautioned in initiating coverage of semiconductor companies this week. \"In particular, it has 30% exposure to enterprise (including semis and software) and 20% to wireless (mostly Apple $(AAPL)$), where we see potential demand slowdown. Upside appears modest, even in a soft-landing scenario.\"In Thursday's report, Broadcom guided for second-quarter revenue of roughly $8.7 billion, while analysts on average were expecting $8.58 billion, according to FactSet. Executives again avoided a full annual forecast, with Chief Executive Hock Tan sticking with his approach of just projecting \"growth.\"\"Broadcom's first quarter performance reflects continued strength in infrastructure demand across all our end markets,\" Tan said in a statement. \"Looking ahead, we are confident our growth will be driven by sustained leadership in next generation technologies across all of our core markets, and strong partnerships with our customers.\"Tan's yearslong attempt to diversify the company beyond semiconductors has helped avoid the doldrums of the chip sector in this time. Broadcom also sells networking equipment and enterprise-scale storage systems, along with a software division formed through the acquisitions of CA Inc and Symantec, with VMware Inc. $(VMW)$expected to join by October.Broadcom's chip division -- which includes the networking and storage businesses -- is its largest, reporting $7.11 billion in sales for the fiscal first quarter Thursday, up from $5.87 billion a year ago and beating the average analyst estimate of $7.01 billion, according to FactSet. The software business reported sales of $1.81 billion, down from $1.83 billion a year ago and missing the average analyst estimate of $1.85 billion, per FactSet.Broadcom shares have gained 1.9% in the past 2 months, as the S&P 500 index has dropped 9.9% and the PHLX Semiconductor index has declined 12.4%.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":399,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9954758696,"gmtCreate":1676673624815,"gmtModify":1676673628819,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ugg gig","listText":"Ugg gig","text":"Ugg gig","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9954758696","repostId":"1184653577","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1184653577","pubTimestamp":1676645670,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1184653577?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-02-17 22:54","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Top Calls on Wall Street: DraftKings, Virgin Galactic, Coinbase and More","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1184653577","media":"TheFly","summary":"Top 5 Upgrades:BofA upgraded Roku (ROKU) to Buy from Underperform with a price target of $85, up fro","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2><b>Top 5 Upgrades:</b></h2><ul><li>BofA upgraded <b>Roku</b> (ROKU) to Buy from Underperform with a price target of $85, up from $45. The company is performing better than the broader advertising market, which remains weak, as ad spending across some verticals is bottoming out, the analyst tells investors.</li><li>Citi upgraded <b>TechnipFMC</b> (FTI) to Buy from Neutral with an $18 price target after taking over coverage of the name. The company's pricing leverage is improving given a consolidating sector and success of its integrated model and standardization strategy, the analyst tells investors.</li><li>BTIG upgraded <b>DraftKings</b> (DKNG) to Buy from Neutral with a $24 price target. A divergence in player adoption and marketing cost trends has driven upside versus EBITDA expectations for DraftKings throughout 2022, and this pattern will persist in 2023, the analyst said.</li><li>Wolfe Research upgraded <b>Virgin Galactic</b> (SPCE) to Peer Perform from Underperform without a price target. With WhiteKightTwo's return to flight, Virgin Galactic shares will "likely link to a positive event path" through June, the analyst tells investors.</li><li>Compass Point upgraded <b>Coinbase</b> (COIN) to Buy from Neutral with a price target of $100, up from $75, after updating estimates ahead of the company's Q4 earnings report due on February 21. The firm believes Coinbase is well positioned to gain market share when the crypto bull market returns.</li></ul><h2><b>Top 5 Downgrades:</b></h2><ul><li>Evercore ISI downgraded <b>Canada Goose</b> (GOOS) to In Line from Outperform with a price target of $20, down from $25. The analyst views the company's new long-term financial targets, which promise to nearly triple sales to $3B in five years while taking EBIT margin from 19% currently to 30%, as "needlessly aggressive."</li><li>Raymond James downgraded<b> Axon</b> (AXON) to Outperform from Strong Buy with a $223 price target. Shares are up 130% from their lows in May 2022, and while execution has been nearly flawless during this period, the inevitability of mean reversion, decelerating growth off of a larger base and less room for multiple expansion leave the firm searching for a near-term positive catalyst.</li><li>Stifel downgraded <b>Texas Roadhouse</b> (TXRH) to Hold from Buy with a price target of $105, down from $110. The analyst remains confident in the company's 2023 sales outlook and long-term unit growth prospects, but is less confident there is meaningful upside to its 2023 earnings per share estimate.</li><li>B. Riley downgraded <b>Universal Electronics</b> (UEIC) to Neutral from Buy with a price target of $22, down from $29, following the Q4 miss. The company's legacy home entertainment segment has substantially accelerated the pace of decline, thereby deferring the growing home automation, security and hospitality segment's ability to begin to offset that decline, the analyst tells investors. The stock was also downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Rosenblatt.</li><li>Credit Suisse downgraded <b>XP Inc.</b> (XP) to Underperform from Neutral with a price target of $15, down from $27, after the company's Q4 results missed expectations. The analyst believes it is time for a shift in strategy at the company, saying the results are "very negative" for shares given the large earnings decline.</li></ul><h2><b>Top 5 Initiations:</b></h2><ul><li>Citi initiated coverage of <b>Kimberly-Clark</b> (KMB) with a Sell rating and $120 price target. The analyst forecasts "peer-low" growth at Kimberly-Clark given its exposure to lower growth country/category combinations. The initiation was one of 16 companies in the U.S. beverages and household products and personal care space.</li><li>Credit Suisse initiated coverage of <b>Wix.com</b> (WIX) with an Outperform rating and $105 price target. As a leading software-as-a-service content management system provider, Wix offers a compelling suite of no/low-code web development tools and has also built out a "robust suite" of business and commerce solutions, the analyst argues.</li><li>Mizuho initiated coverage of <b>GE HealthCare</b> (GEHC) with a Buy rating and $90 price target. The analyst says positive feedback from the firm's radiology survey points to pent-up demand for additional U.S. hospital imaging capacity. Positive checks from hospital surveys point toward a return to double-digit growth in imaging procedures, the analyst added.</li><li>DA Davidson initiated coverage of <b>Braze</b> (BRZE) with a Neutral rating and $34 price target. While stating they have "a very positive outlook" for Braze and view it as a leader in the emerging customer engagement software arena, the firm believes the possible rationalization of marketing budgets this year is a reason for "a little near term caution."</li><li>Morgan Stanley assumed coverage of<b> Zebra Technologies</b> (ZBRA) with an Equal Weight rating with a price target of $305, up from $260. 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The company is performing better than the broader advertising market, which remains weak, as ad spending across some verticals is bottoming out, the analyst tells investors.Citi upgraded TechnipFMC (FTI) to Buy from Neutral with an $18 price target after taking over coverage of the name. The company's pricing leverage is improving given a consolidating sector and success of its integrated model and standardization strategy, the analyst tells investors.BTIG upgraded DraftKings (DKNG) to Buy from Neutral with a $24 price target. A divergence in player adoption and marketing cost trends has driven upside versus EBITDA expectations for DraftKings throughout 2022, and this pattern will persist in 2023, the analyst said.Wolfe Research upgraded Virgin Galactic (SPCE) to Peer Perform from Underperform without a price target. With WhiteKightTwo's return to flight, Virgin Galactic shares will \"likely link to a positive event path\" through June, the analyst tells investors.Compass Point upgraded Coinbase (COIN) to Buy from Neutral with a price target of $100, up from $75, after updating estimates ahead of the company's Q4 earnings report due on February 21. The firm believes Coinbase is well positioned to gain market share when the crypto bull market returns.Top 5 Downgrades:Evercore ISI downgraded Canada Goose (GOOS) to In Line from Outperform with a price target of $20, down from $25. The analyst views the company's new long-term financial targets, which promise to nearly triple sales to $3B in five years while taking EBIT margin from 19% currently to 30%, as \"needlessly aggressive.\"Raymond James downgraded Axon (AXON) to Outperform from Strong Buy with a $223 price target. Shares are up 130% from their lows in May 2022, and while execution has been nearly flawless during this period, the inevitability of mean reversion, decelerating growth off of a larger base and less room for multiple expansion leave the firm searching for a near-term positive catalyst.Stifel downgraded Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) to Hold from Buy with a price target of $105, down from $110. The analyst remains confident in the company's 2023 sales outlook and long-term unit growth prospects, but is less confident there is meaningful upside to its 2023 earnings per share estimate.B. Riley downgraded Universal Electronics (UEIC) to Neutral from Buy with a price target of $22, down from $29, following the Q4 miss. The company's legacy home entertainment segment has substantially accelerated the pace of decline, thereby deferring the growing home automation, security and hospitality segment's ability to begin to offset that decline, the analyst tells investors. The stock was also downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Rosenblatt.Credit Suisse downgraded XP Inc. (XP) to Underperform from Neutral with a price target of $15, down from $27, after the company's Q4 results missed expectations. The analyst believes it is time for a shift in strategy at the company, saying the results are \"very negative\" for shares given the large earnings decline.Top 5 Initiations:Citi initiated coverage of Kimberly-Clark (KMB) with a Sell rating and $120 price target. The analyst forecasts \"peer-low\" growth at Kimberly-Clark given its exposure to lower growth country/category combinations. The initiation was one of 16 companies in the U.S. beverages and household products and personal care space.Credit Suisse initiated coverage of Wix.com (WIX) with an Outperform rating and $105 price target. As a leading software-as-a-service content management system provider, Wix offers a compelling suite of no/low-code web development tools and has also built out a \"robust suite\" of business and commerce solutions, the analyst argues.Mizuho initiated coverage of GE HealthCare (GEHC) with a Buy rating and $90 price target. The analyst says positive feedback from the firm's radiology survey points to pent-up demand for additional U.S. hospital imaging capacity. Positive checks from hospital surveys point toward a return to double-digit growth in imaging procedures, the analyst added.DA Davidson initiated coverage of Braze (BRZE) with a Neutral rating and $34 price target. While stating they have \"a very positive outlook\" for Braze and view it as a leader in the emerging customer engagement software arena, the firm believes the possible rationalization of marketing budgets this year is a reason for \"a little near term caution.\"Morgan Stanley assumed coverage of Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) with an Equal Weight rating with a price target of $305, up from $260. The firm is increasing estimates to credit the company's Q1 beat, but still sees risks around growing macro caution and lingering supply chain issues.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":287,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9954712944,"gmtCreate":1676627454788,"gmtModify":1676627458816,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ivobobobivbiob","listText":"Ivobobobivbiob","text":"Ivobobobivbiob","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9954712944","repostId":"1140323354","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1140323354","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1676621735,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1140323354?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-02-17 16:15","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Recession? 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The S&P 500 is up 6.6% for the year-to-date, even as benchmark 10-year Treasury yields have risen nearly 50 basis points from their lows of the year.</p><p>Only 24% of global fund managers now expect a recession, down from 77% in November, a recent survey by BofA Global Research showed.</p><p>âEveryone came into the year thinking that thereâs an imminent recession in the first half of 2023,â said Charlie McElligott, managing director, cross-asset strategy at Nomura Securities. âThey got caught off guard because thereâs much more resilient domestic and global growth.â</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0af350c100bc630334e51a7aec87744e\" tg-width=\"955\" tg-height=\"719\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>Yields vs stocks</p><p>Investorsâ resolve can be seen in the resilience of the Nasdaq Composite Index, home to many of the tech and growth stocks that were particularly sensitive to higher yields last year, when it registered a 33% loss.</p><p>Based on historical regression, the Nasdaq should have sold off between 5% and 10% based on the increase in two-year yields since the Fed meeting earlier this month, according to a report from analysts at JPMorgan, including chief global markets strategist Marko Kolanovic. Instead, the index is up 0.3% over that time, and is up 13.3% for the year to date.</p><p>Some investors say the marketâs resilience is unlikely to last much longer,especially if yields keep rising. Higher Treasury yields can weigh on stocks as they offer equities investment competition, increase companies borrowing costs and hurt valuations.</p><p>Many also believe that a recession has been delayed but not avoided. A severe downturn could await in the second half of the year, especially if rebounding inflation forces the Fed to keep rates at a higher level for longer to cool prices.</p><p>âThe market in equities is just not appreciating that there will be more stepping on the brakes from the Fed and more earnings at risk of going lower,â said Torsten Slok, Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management. âEveryone wants to buy the dip in the stock market but the risk is that with inflation at 6.4% the Fed is just not done."</p><p>There are already signs that investors may be growing nervous over the economyâs strength. The S&P 500 dropped 1.4% on Thursday, helped in part by a stronger than expected U.S.producer price indexreading.</p><p>Bearish investors also note other factors that tend to weigh on stocks have reared their heads in recent weeks. Real yields - which measure return on Treasury yields after inflation - have turned higher, taking the yield of the U.S. 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Security near its highest level since early January. That can dull the allure of stocks, which are seen as far riskier than U.S. government bonds.</p><p>Rising yields have also arrested a decline in the U.S. dollar, which tumbled from a two-decade high in the latter half of 2022 but is now up nearly 3% from its low of the year against a basket of currencies. A stronger dollar tends to hurt the profits of U.S. multinationals and exporters.</p><p>In BoFA's survey, 66% of fund managers said the move in stocks, which began in October and has seen the S&P 500 rise 14% from that month's lows, was a bear market rally rather than a new bull market.</p><p>Still, some investors believe risks are tilted in favor of stocks, with the bulk of the Fedâs monetary policy tightening likely in the rearview mirror and valuations broadly lower after last yearâs 19.4% selloff in the S&P 500.</p><p>Lara Reinhard, senior portfolio strategist at Janus Henderson Investors, is avoiding technology and growth stocks but focusing on shares of companies that pay out dividends as a hedge against inflation.</p><p>âWe are starting at more normal valuations and in some cases cheaper valuations than in the last few years,â she said.</p><p>Meanwhile, stocks are getting strong support from retail investors, who pumped a record net average of $1.51 billion per day into U.S. stocks over the last month, according to Vanda Securities.</p><p>"Retail investors have plenty of dry powder in the form of capital parked in money market funds that could be deployed in the equity space once confidence about future market returns increases more broadly," the firm's analysts wrote.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Recession? 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Strong Economy Buoys U.S. Stocks, Though Fed Casts Shadow\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1036604489\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2023-02-17 16:15</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cc2166c1e3977349304374c8ba5ee5f6\" tg-width=\"3978\" tg-height=\"2652\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Signs of strength in the U.S. economy have buoyed stocks in the face of rising Treasury yields and hawkish Federal Reserve expectations, though some investors believe the rally may be on borrowed time.</p><p>Stronger-than-expected reports on employment, retail sales and inflation have pushed up expectations for how much higher theFederal Reserve will need to raise ratesand ignited a surge in Treasury yields - typically a negative development for stocks.</p><p>Yet the robust data has also dispelled fears of an impending recession thatplagued Wall Street at the end of 2022, giving investors a reason to hold on to equities, at least for now. The S&P 500 is up 6.6% for the year-to-date, even as benchmark 10-year Treasury yields have risen nearly 50 basis points from their lows of the year.</p><p>Only 24% of global fund managers now expect a recession, down from 77% in November, a recent survey by BofA Global Research showed.</p><p>âEveryone came into the year thinking that thereâs an imminent recession in the first half of 2023,â said Charlie McElligott, managing director, cross-asset strategy at Nomura Securities. âThey got caught off guard because thereâs much more resilient domestic and global growth.â</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0af350c100bc630334e51a7aec87744e\" tg-width=\"955\" tg-height=\"719\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>Yields vs stocks</p><p>Investorsâ resolve can be seen in the resilience of the Nasdaq Composite Index, home to many of the tech and growth stocks that were particularly sensitive to higher yields last year, when it registered a 33% loss.</p><p>Based on historical regression, the Nasdaq should have sold off between 5% and 10% based on the increase in two-year yields since the Fed meeting earlier this month, according to a report from analysts at JPMorgan, including chief global markets strategist Marko Kolanovic. Instead, the index is up 0.3% over that time, and is up 13.3% for the year to date.</p><p>Some investors say the marketâs resilience is unlikely to last much longer,especially if yields keep rising. Higher Treasury yields can weigh on stocks as they offer equities investment competition, increase companies borrowing costs and hurt valuations.</p><p>Many also believe that a recession has been delayed but not avoided. A severe downturn could await in the second half of the year, especially if rebounding inflation forces the Fed to keep rates at a higher level for longer to cool prices.</p><p>âThe market in equities is just not appreciating that there will be more stepping on the brakes from the Fed and more earnings at risk of going lower,â said Torsten Slok, Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management. âEveryone wants to buy the dip in the stock market but the risk is that with inflation at 6.4% the Fed is just not done."</p><p>There are already signs that investors may be growing nervous over the economyâs strength. The S&P 500 dropped 1.4% on Thursday, helped in part by a stronger than expected U.S.producer price indexreading.</p><p>Bearish investors also note other factors that tend to weigh on stocks have reared their heads in recent weeks. Real yields - which measure return on Treasury yields after inflation - have turned higher, taking the yield of the U.S. 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Security near its highest level since early January. That can dull the allure of stocks, which are seen as far riskier than U.S. government bonds.</p><p>Rising yields have also arrested a decline in the U.S. dollar, which tumbled from a two-decade high in the latter half of 2022 but is now up nearly 3% from its low of the year against a basket of currencies. A stronger dollar tends to hurt the profits of U.S. multinationals and exporters.</p><p>In BoFA's survey, 66% of fund managers said the move in stocks, which began in October and has seen the S&P 500 rise 14% from that month's lows, was a bear market rally rather than a new bull market.</p><p>Still, some investors believe risks are tilted in favor of stocks, with the bulk of the Fedâs monetary policy tightening likely in the rearview mirror and valuations broadly lower after last yearâs 19.4% selloff in the S&P 500.</p><p>Lara Reinhard, senior portfolio strategist at Janus Henderson Investors, is avoiding technology and growth stocks but focusing on shares of companies that pay out dividends as a hedge against inflation.</p><p>âWe are starting at more normal valuations and in some cases cheaper valuations than in the last few years,â she said.</p><p>Meanwhile, stocks are getting strong support from retail investors, who pumped a record net average of $1.51 billion per day into U.S. stocks over the last month, according to Vanda Securities.</p><p>"Retail investors have plenty of dry powder in the form of capital parked in money market funds that could be deployed in the equity space once confidence about future market returns increases more broadly," the firm's analysts wrote.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140323354","content_text":"NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Signs of strength in the U.S. economy have buoyed stocks in the face of rising Treasury yields and hawkish Federal Reserve expectations, though some investors believe the rally may be on borrowed time.Stronger-than-expected reports on employment, retail sales and inflation have pushed up expectations for how much higher theFederal Reserve will need to raise ratesand ignited a surge in Treasury yields - typically a negative development for stocks.Yet the robust data has also dispelled fears of an impending recession thatplagued Wall Street at the end of 2022, giving investors a reason to hold on to equities, at least for now. The S&P 500 is up 6.6% for the year-to-date, even as benchmark 10-year Treasury yields have risen nearly 50 basis points from their lows of the year.Only 24% of global fund managers now expect a recession, down from 77% in November, a recent survey by BofA Global Research showed.âEveryone came into the year thinking that thereâs an imminent recession in the first half of 2023,â said Charlie McElligott, managing director, cross-asset strategy at Nomura Securities. âThey got caught off guard because thereâs much more resilient domestic and global growth.âYields vs stocksInvestorsâ resolve can be seen in the resilience of the Nasdaq Composite Index, home to many of the tech and growth stocks that were particularly sensitive to higher yields last year, when it registered a 33% loss.Based on historical regression, the Nasdaq should have sold off between 5% and 10% based on the increase in two-year yields since the Fed meeting earlier this month, according to a report from analysts at JPMorgan, including chief global markets strategist Marko Kolanovic. Instead, the index is up 0.3% over that time, and is up 13.3% for the year to date.Some investors say the marketâs resilience is unlikely to last much longer,especially if yields keep rising. Higher Treasury yields can weigh on stocks as they offer equities investment competition, increase companies borrowing costs and hurt valuations.Many also believe that a recession has been delayed but not avoided. A severe downturn could await in the second half of the year, especially if rebounding inflation forces the Fed to keep rates at a higher level for longer to cool prices.âThe market in equities is just not appreciating that there will be more stepping on the brakes from the Fed and more earnings at risk of going lower,â said Torsten Slok, Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management. âEveryone wants to buy the dip in the stock market but the risk is that with inflation at 6.4% the Fed is just not done.\"There are already signs that investors may be growing nervous over the economyâs strength. The S&P 500 dropped 1.4% on Thursday, helped in part by a stronger than expected U.S.producer price indexreading.Bearish investors also note other factors that tend to weigh on stocks have reared their heads in recent weeks. Real yields - which measure return on Treasury yields after inflation - have turned higher, taking the yield of the U.S. 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Security near its highest level since early January. That can dull the allure of stocks, which are seen as far riskier than U.S. government bonds.Rising yields have also arrested a decline in the U.S. dollar, which tumbled from a two-decade high in the latter half of 2022 but is now up nearly 3% from its low of the year against a basket of currencies. A stronger dollar tends to hurt the profits of U.S. multinationals and exporters.In BoFA's survey, 66% of fund managers said the move in stocks, which began in October and has seen the S&P 500 rise 14% from that month's lows, was a bear market rally rather than a new bull market.Still, some investors believe risks are tilted in favor of stocks, with the bulk of the Fedâs monetary policy tightening likely in the rearview mirror and valuations broadly lower after last yearâs 19.4% selloff in the S&P 500.Lara Reinhard, senior portfolio strategist at Janus Henderson Investors, is avoiding technology and growth stocks but focusing on shares of companies that pay out dividends as a hedge against inflation.âWe are starting at more normal valuations and in some cases cheaper valuations than in the last few years,â she said.Meanwhile, stocks are getting strong support from retail investors, who pumped a record net average of $1.51 billion per day into U.S. stocks over the last month, according to Vanda Securities.\"Retail investors have plenty of dry powder in the form of capital parked in money market funds that could be deployed in the equity space once confidence about future market returns increases more broadly,\" the firm's analysts wrote.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":187,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9926764411,"gmtCreate":1671635565833,"gmtModify":1676538567589,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Handheld","listText":"Handheld","text":"Handheld","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9926764411","repostId":"9963969638","repostType":1,"repost":{"id":9963969638,"gmtCreate":1668567458425,"gmtModify":1677745765888,"author":{"id":"3527667667103859","authorId":"3527667667103859","name":"TigerEvents","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/c266ef25181ace18bec1262357bbe1a8","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3527667667103859","authorIdStr":"3527667667103859"},"themes":[],"title":"Join Tiger's Football Season, share the prizes worth up to US$200,000","htmlText":"This year is the year of football, the Qatar World Cup, AFF championship, make the following days a big carnival for football fans all around the world! 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Should You Still Play Defense with Your Portfolio?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2259349706","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"Investors hopeful about a potential retreat in U.S. inflation from its highest levels in decades hav","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Investors hopeful about a potential retreat in U.S. inflation from its highest levels in decades have been piling into stocks, even as several high-profile investors warn the rally may be a mirage.</p><p>The latest surge in stocks helped lift the Nasdaq Composite out of bear-market territory on Wednesday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to exit correction territory. But the sharp upswing also prompted debate about if investors should adjust their portfolios, pivoting away from defense plays.</p><p>For the past month, growth stocks in general outperformed their value counterparts. The Russell 1000 Growth Index advanced 13%, while the Russell 1000 Value Index gained 9.5%, according to Dow Jones Market data. Cathie Wood's tech-heavy <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ARKK\">ARK Innovation ETF</a> (ARKK) rose 10% in the past month, topping the 8.3% gain of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) shares for the same period.</p><p>Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi, said investors should consider being in the market and out of cash by the end of summer, though she remains skeptical of the quick rise of stocks since mid-June. "In the case of the Fed's current goal, markets are starting to believe in the possibility of a soft landing," Young wrote in a Thursday note.</p><p>However, that's not what the bond market has been signaling, said Nancy Davis, portfolio manager of the Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge Exchange-Traded Fund <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IVOL\">$(IVOL)$</a>. The yield of 2-year Treasury note remains higher than that of the 10-year treasury bond. "It's a substantial inversion," Davis noted. "It's really the market pricing the low- growth kind of bad scenario."</p><p>Helping to fuel risk appetite, the U.S. consumer-price index was unchanged in July, the Labor Department said Wednesday, compared with the 1.3% gain in the prior month. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had estimated a 0.2% advance in July.</p><p>A day later, the U.S. producer-price index fell 0.5% in July, the first negative monthly print since April 2020. That's compared with a 1% jump in June. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast a 0.2% advance.</p><h2>A diversified portfolio?</h2><p>Mark Heppenstall, president and chief investment officer at Penn Mutual Asset Management, said that as long as inflation continues to trend lower, the classic 60/40 portfolio, with 60% invested in stocks and 40% in bonds, will continue to provide reasonable returns.</p><p>"In most market environments, it's helpful to have broad and balanced exposure," said Brian Storey, senior portfolio manager at Brinker Capital Investments.</p><p>Storey suggested that investors consider adding high-quality stocks to their portfolio. For investors with a risk posture that's a little more conservative, Storey encourages them to look outside of equity markets. "Some investment-grade fixed-income corporate bonds, or even some noncore fixed-income, like high-yield bonds, bank loans or emerging-market debt -- those are areas [where] spreads widened a lot," Storey said.</p><p>"Given that there doesn't seem to be any extreme areas of stress in financial markets over the next six-to-12 months, those are areas that should see some fairly attractive returns, particularly compared to US Treasurys," Storey said.</p><h2>Growth vs. Value Stocks</h2><p>Still, Storey has been skeptical about whether the recent rally led by growth stocks is sustainable, given that it has been partly driven by the fall in the 10-year treasury yield.</p><p>The 10-year Treasury advanced modestly for the week to 2.848% on Friday, still below its 3.482% high in June.</p><p>"I think now that we're gonna see treasury yields a little bit more range bound," said Storey. "So I think that the decline in yields that has been a catalyst for those Nasdaq stocks is probably not going to be as much of a tailwind in the future."</p><p>Even if the stock rally continues, "I don't think that people are going to be going back to the same kind of leadership names," said Stephen Hoedt, managing director at equity and fixed income research at Key Private Bank. While the rally since June has been led by some "unprofitable technology companies," the market is likely to gravitate for leadership of high quality growth companies, such as some in healthcare and consumer discretionary, Hoedt noted.</p><p>"You just can't put money to work in technology willy-nilly right now. Because there still are significant valuation concerns," Hoedt said. "And the fact that we're in a higher interest rate environment is a headwind for companies that do not have earnings or have more difficult profitability than others."</p><h2>More rate hikes</h2><p>Next week, investors will be focused on initial jobless claims data and existing home sales number.</p><p>Later this month, the Fed will hold its Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, which could be the next major catalyst for market movements, analysts said.</p><p>"There are a lot of hawkish expectations from the forward guidance," Quadratic's Davis said. While the Fed has raised interest rates by 225 basis points already this year, the market is pricing in an additional 117 basis points of hikes to come for the rest of the year, Davis noted.</p><p>She will be tuned into the Jackson Hole summit for any talk about how the Fed officials plan to use the central bank's balance sheet as a monetary policy tool to fight inflation.</p><p>For the past week, the Dow added 2.9% to around 33,761.05. The S&P 500 gained 3.3% to 4,280.15, and the Nasdaq rose 3.1% to 13,047.19.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Inflation Surge Cools in July. 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Should You Still Play Defense with Your Portfolio?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-08-14 09:25</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>Investors hopeful about a potential retreat in U.S. inflation from its highest levels in decades have been piling into stocks, even as several high-profile investors warn the rally may be a mirage.</p><p>The latest surge in stocks helped lift the Nasdaq Composite out of bear-market territory on Wednesday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to exit correction territory. But the sharp upswing also prompted debate about if investors should adjust their portfolios, pivoting away from defense plays.</p><p>For the past month, growth stocks in general outperformed their value counterparts. The Russell 1000 Growth Index advanced 13%, while the Russell 1000 Value Index gained 9.5%, according to Dow Jones Market data. Cathie Wood's tech-heavy <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ARKK\">ARK Innovation ETF</a> (ARKK) rose 10% in the past month, topping the 8.3% gain of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) shares for the same period.</p><p>Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi, said investors should consider being in the market and out of cash by the end of summer, though she remains skeptical of the quick rise of stocks since mid-June. "In the case of the Fed's current goal, markets are starting to believe in the possibility of a soft landing," Young wrote in a Thursday note.</p><p>However, that's not what the bond market has been signaling, said Nancy Davis, portfolio manager of the Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge Exchange-Traded Fund <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IVOL\">$(IVOL)$</a>. The yield of 2-year Treasury note remains higher than that of the 10-year treasury bond. "It's a substantial inversion," Davis noted. "It's really the market pricing the low- growth kind of bad scenario."</p><p>Helping to fuel risk appetite, the U.S. consumer-price index was unchanged in July, the Labor Department said Wednesday, compared with the 1.3% gain in the prior month. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had estimated a 0.2% advance in July.</p><p>A day later, the U.S. producer-price index fell 0.5% in July, the first negative monthly print since April 2020. That's compared with a 1% jump in June. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast a 0.2% advance.</p><h2>A diversified portfolio?</h2><p>Mark Heppenstall, president and chief investment officer at Penn Mutual Asset Management, said that as long as inflation continues to trend lower, the classic 60/40 portfolio, with 60% invested in stocks and 40% in bonds, will continue to provide reasonable returns.</p><p>"In most market environments, it's helpful to have broad and balanced exposure," said Brian Storey, senior portfolio manager at Brinker Capital Investments.</p><p>Storey suggested that investors consider adding high-quality stocks to their portfolio. For investors with a risk posture that's a little more conservative, Storey encourages them to look outside of equity markets. "Some investment-grade fixed-income corporate bonds, or even some noncore fixed-income, like high-yield bonds, bank loans or emerging-market debt -- those are areas [where] spreads widened a lot," Storey said.</p><p>"Given that there doesn't seem to be any extreme areas of stress in financial markets over the next six-to-12 months, those are areas that should see some fairly attractive returns, particularly compared to US Treasurys," Storey said.</p><h2>Growth vs. Value Stocks</h2><p>Still, Storey has been skeptical about whether the recent rally led by growth stocks is sustainable, given that it has been partly driven by the fall in the 10-year treasury yield.</p><p>The 10-year Treasury advanced modestly for the week to 2.848% on Friday, still below its 3.482% high in June.</p><p>"I think now that we're gonna see treasury yields a little bit more range bound," said Storey. "So I think that the decline in yields that has been a catalyst for those Nasdaq stocks is probably not going to be as much of a tailwind in the future."</p><p>Even if the stock rally continues, "I don't think that people are going to be going back to the same kind of leadership names," said Stephen Hoedt, managing director at equity and fixed income research at Key Private Bank. While the rally since June has been led by some "unprofitable technology companies," the market is likely to gravitate for leadership of high quality growth companies, such as some in healthcare and consumer discretionary, Hoedt noted.</p><p>"You just can't put money to work in technology willy-nilly right now. Because there still are significant valuation concerns," Hoedt said. "And the fact that we're in a higher interest rate environment is a headwind for companies that do not have earnings or have more difficult profitability than others."</p><h2>More rate hikes</h2><p>Next week, investors will be focused on initial jobless claims data and existing home sales number.</p><p>Later this month, the Fed will hold its Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, which could be the next major catalyst for market movements, analysts said.</p><p>"There are a lot of hawkish expectations from the forward guidance," Quadratic's Davis said. While the Fed has raised interest rates by 225 basis points already this year, the market is pricing in an additional 117 basis points of hikes to come for the rest of the year, Davis noted.</p><p>She will be tuned into the Jackson Hole summit for any talk about how the Fed officials plan to use the central bank's balance sheet as a monetary policy tool to fight inflation.</p><p>For the past week, the Dow added 2.9% to around 33,761.05. 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But the sharp upswing also prompted debate about if investors should adjust their portfolios, pivoting away from defense plays.For the past month, growth stocks in general outperformed their value counterparts. The Russell 1000 Growth Index advanced 13%, while the Russell 1000 Value Index gained 9.5%, according to Dow Jones Market data. Cathie Wood's tech-heavy ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) rose 10% in the past month, topping the 8.3% gain of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) shares for the same period.Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi, said investors should consider being in the market and out of cash by the end of summer, though she remains skeptical of the quick rise of stocks since mid-June. \"In the case of the Fed's current goal, markets are starting to believe in the possibility of a soft landing,\" Young wrote in a Thursday note.However, that's not what the bond market has been signaling, said Nancy Davis, portfolio manager of the Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge Exchange-Traded Fund $(IVOL)$. The yield of 2-year Treasury note remains higher than that of the 10-year treasury bond. \"It's a substantial inversion,\" Davis noted. \"It's really the market pricing the low- growth kind of bad scenario.\"Helping to fuel risk appetite, the U.S. consumer-price index was unchanged in July, the Labor Department said Wednesday, compared with the 1.3% gain in the prior month. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had estimated a 0.2% advance in July.A day later, the U.S. producer-price index fell 0.5% in July, the first negative monthly print since April 2020. That's compared with a 1% jump in June. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast a 0.2% advance.A diversified portfolio?Mark Heppenstall, president and chief investment officer at Penn Mutual Asset Management, said that as long as inflation continues to trend lower, the classic 60/40 portfolio, with 60% invested in stocks and 40% in bonds, will continue to provide reasonable returns.\"In most market environments, it's helpful to have broad and balanced exposure,\" said Brian Storey, senior portfolio manager at Brinker Capital Investments.Storey suggested that investors consider adding high-quality stocks to their portfolio. For investors with a risk posture that's a little more conservative, Storey encourages them to look outside of equity markets. \"Some investment-grade fixed-income corporate bonds, or even some noncore fixed-income, like high-yield bonds, bank loans or emerging-market debt -- those are areas [where] spreads widened a lot,\" Storey said.\"Given that there doesn't seem to be any extreme areas of stress in financial markets over the next six-to-12 months, those are areas that should see some fairly attractive returns, particularly compared to US Treasurys,\" Storey said.Growth vs. Value StocksStill, Storey has been skeptical about whether the recent rally led by growth stocks is sustainable, given that it has been partly driven by the fall in the 10-year treasury yield.The 10-year Treasury advanced modestly for the week to 2.848% on Friday, still below its 3.482% high in June.\"I think now that we're gonna see treasury yields a little bit more range bound,\" said Storey. \"So I think that the decline in yields that has been a catalyst for those Nasdaq stocks is probably not going to be as much of a tailwind in the future.\"Even if the stock rally continues, \"I don't think that people are going to be going back to the same kind of leadership names,\" said Stephen Hoedt, managing director at equity and fixed income research at Key Private Bank. While the rally since June has been led by some \"unprofitable technology companies,\" the market is likely to gravitate for leadership of high quality growth companies, such as some in healthcare and consumer discretionary, Hoedt noted.\"You just can't put money to work in technology willy-nilly right now. Because there still are significant valuation concerns,\" Hoedt said. \"And the fact that we're in a higher interest rate environment is a headwind for companies that do not have earnings or have more difficult profitability than others.\"More rate hikesNext week, investors will be focused on initial jobless claims data and existing home sales number.Later this month, the Fed will hold its Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, which could be the next major catalyst for market movements, analysts said.\"There are a lot of hawkish expectations from the forward guidance,\" Quadratic's Davis said. While the Fed has raised interest rates by 225 basis points already this year, the market is pricing in an additional 117 basis points of hikes to come for the rest of the year, Davis noted.She will be tuned into the Jackson Hole summit for any talk about how the Fed officials plan to use the central bank's balance sheet as a monetary policy tool to fight inflation.For the past week, the Dow added 2.9% to around 33,761.05. 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Bank stocks led the intraday comeback as rates surged from the strong jobs report. The S&P 500 was flat after earlier losing about 1%. The Nasdaq Composite was down about 0.1%.</p><p>The labor market added 528,000 jobs in July,easily beating a Dow Jones estimate of a 258,000 increase. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, below the 3.6% estimate. Wage growth also ticked up more than estimated, up 0.5% for the month and 5.2% higher than a year ago, signaling that high inflation is likely still a problem.</p><p>Stocks opened lower following the report, even as it seemed to indicate the economy was not currently in a recession.</p><p>âAnybody that jumped on the âFed is going to pivot next year and start cutting ratesâ is going to have to get off at the next station, because thatâs not in the cards,â said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Financial. âIt is clearly a situation where the economy is not screeching or heading into a recession here and now.â</p><p>Job growth was expected to slow as the Fed continues to hike interest rates to tame surging inflation, but this report shows a labor market still running hot. The report is a crucial one as itâs one of two the central bank will see before it decides how much to raise rates at its September meeting.</p><p>Major averages posted their best month since 2020 in July on the hope the Fed would slow the pace of its hikes. 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Bank stocks led the intraday comeback as rates surged from the strong jobs report. The S&P 500 was flat after earlier losing about 1%. The Nasdaq Composite was down about 0.1%.</p><p>The labor market added 528,000 jobs in July,easily beating a Dow Jones estimate of a 258,000 increase. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, below the 3.6% estimate. Wage growth also ticked up more than estimated, up 0.5% for the month and 5.2% higher than a year ago, signaling that high inflation is likely still a problem.</p><p>Stocks opened lower following the report, even as it seemed to indicate the economy was not currently in a recession.</p><p>âAnybody that jumped on the âFed is going to pivot next year and start cutting ratesâ is going to have to get off at the next station, because thatâs not in the cards,â said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Financial. âIt is clearly a situation where the economy is not screeching or heading into a recession here and now.â</p><p>Job growth was expected to slow as the Fed continues to hike interest rates to tame surging inflation, but this report shows a labor market still running hot. The report is a crucial one as itâs one of two the central bank will see before it decides how much to raise rates at its September meeting.</p><p>Major averages posted their best month since 2020 in July on the hope the Fed would slow the pace of its hikes. 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The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, below the 3.6% estimate. Wage growth also ticked up more than estimated, up 0.5% for the month and 5.2% higher than a year ago, signaling that high inflation is likely still a problem.Stocks opened lower following the report, even as it seemed to indicate the economy was not currently in a recession.âAnybody that jumped on the âFed is going to pivot next year and start cutting ratesâ is going to have to get off at the next station, because thatâs not in the cards,â said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Financial. âIt is clearly a situation where the economy is not screeching or heading into a recession here and now.âJob growth was expected to slow as the Fed continues to hike interest rates to tame surging inflation, but this report shows a labor market still running hot. The report is a crucial one as itâs one of two the central bank will see before it decides how much to raise rates at its September meeting.Major averages posted their best month since 2020 in July on the hope the Fed would slow the pace of its hikes. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heâs assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading âOur Four Giantsâ and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireâs cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>âTim Cook, Appleâs brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timâs managerial touch as well,â the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookâs stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerâs earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>âApple â our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value â is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,â Buffett said in the letter. âThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleâs 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleâs repurchases did the job.â</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettâs investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireâs equity portfolio.</p><p>âItâs important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports â and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our âshareâ of Appleâs earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,â Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Appleâs largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>âBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,â Buffett said. âBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.â</p><p><b>Read the full letter hereïŒ</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 â K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that â on occasion â it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>âą Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based âinfrastructureâ assets â classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment â than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireâs balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>âą Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. âI gave at the officeâ is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshireâs history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that âThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.â That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyâs advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>Iâm sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireâs owners watched the companyâs net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireâs struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireâs troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period â a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshireâs owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their âsilent partner,â the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge â indeed trumpet â the fact that Berkshireâs prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>âą From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance âfloatâ â money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireâs total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (âgenerally-accepted accounting principlesâ) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireâs good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, âNone.â</p><p>I said, âNobodyâs perfect,â and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be â 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely â but far from assured â that Berkshireâs float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer â and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>âą Nevertheless, operations of our âBig Fourâ companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireâs value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireâs operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>âą Apple â our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value â is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleâs 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleâs repurchases did the job.</p><p>Itâs important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports â and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our âshareâ of Appleâs earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleâs brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timâs managerial touch as well.</p><p>âą BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaâs carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive âadjustmentsâ to earnings â to use a polite description â have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>âą BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatâs up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHEâs record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolâs and Greg Abelâs leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Gregâs report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable âgreen-washingâ stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHEâs website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now letâs talk about companies we donât control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireâs two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the âequityâ method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted âequityâ accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotâs earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshireâs balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ï€2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% â and still is. Berkshireâs current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireâs controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireâs resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>Thatâs largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireâs owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyâs).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donât want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshireâs buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weâve discussed, insurance âfloatâ of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of âfloatâ per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% â going from $79,387 per âAâ share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life â in both his business and his personal pursuits â Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendâs early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manâs family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative âsynergiesâ â savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerâs home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled â aptly so â a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an âexit strategy.â And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying â in far more tactful phrasing than this â âAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.â So, I made an offer and Paul said âYes.â One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, âWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iâm too busy now.â</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paulâs memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIâs first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary â geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck â occasionally extraordinary luck â has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend â John Roach â TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryâs CEO and learn more about the acquireeâs activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadâs headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardâs opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFâs third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroadâs results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFâs earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnât feeling friendly to railroads â or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iâll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnât sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally âretiringâ from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonâs fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that âsecretsâ are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be âworking.â</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherâs grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now âworkedâ for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itâs a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people â no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we canât select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching âtil death do us part.â Often, they have trusted us with a large â some might say excessive â portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the âpartnersâ Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, âIt feels good to âworkâ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.â</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. âCousinâ Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon âpartyâ boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyâs masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyâs use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heâs assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading âOur Four Giantsâ and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireâs cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>âTim Cook, Appleâs brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timâs managerial touch as well,â the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookâs stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerâs earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>âApple â our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value â is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,â Buffett said in the letter. âThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleâs 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleâs repurchases did the job.â</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettâs investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireâs equity portfolio.</p><p>âItâs important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports â and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our âshareâ of Appleâs earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,â Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Appleâs largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>âBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,â Buffett said. âBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.â</p><p><b>Read the full letter hereïŒ</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 â K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that â on occasion â it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>âą Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based âinfrastructureâ assets â classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment â than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireâs balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>âą Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. âI gave at the officeâ is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshireâs history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that âThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.â That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyâs advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>Iâm sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireâs owners watched the companyâs net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireâs struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireâs troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period â a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshireâs owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their âsilent partner,â the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge â indeed trumpet â the fact that Berkshireâs prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>âą From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance âfloatâ â money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireâs total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (âgenerally-accepted accounting principlesâ) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireâs good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, âNone.â</p><p>I said, âNobodyâs perfect,â and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be â 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely â but far from assured â that Berkshireâs float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer â and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>âą Nevertheless, operations of our âBig Fourâ companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireâs value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireâs operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>âą Apple â our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value â is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleâs 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleâs repurchases did the job.</p><p>Itâs important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports â and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our âshareâ of Appleâs earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleâs brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timâs managerial touch as well.</p><p>âą BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaâs carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive âadjustmentsâ to earnings â to use a polite description â have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>âą BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatâs up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHEâs record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolâs and Greg Abelâs leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Gregâs report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable âgreen-washingâ stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHEâs website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now letâs talk about companies we donât control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireâs two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the âequityâ method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted âequityâ accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotâs earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshireâs balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ï€2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% â and still is. Berkshireâs current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireâs controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireâs resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>Thatâs largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireâs owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyâs).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donât want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshireâs buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weâve discussed, insurance âfloatâ of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of âfloatâ per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% â going from $79,387 per âAâ share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life â in both his business and his personal pursuits â Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendâs early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manâs family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative âsynergiesâ â savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerâs home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled â aptly so â a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an âexit strategy.â And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying â in far more tactful phrasing than this â âAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.â So, I made an offer and Paul said âYes.â One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, âWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iâm too busy now.â</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paulâs memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIâs first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary â geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck â occasionally extraordinary luck â has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend â John Roach â TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryâs CEO and learn more about the acquireeâs activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadâs headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardâs opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFâs third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroadâs results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFâs earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnât feeling friendly to railroads â or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iâll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnât sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally âretiringâ from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonâs fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that âsecretsâ are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be âworking.â</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherâs grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now âworkedâ for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itâs a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people â no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we canât select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching âtil death do us part.â Often, they have trusted us with a large â some might say excessive â portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the âpartnersâ Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, âIt feels good to âworkâ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.â</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. âCousinâ Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon âpartyâ boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyâs masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyâs use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.B":"äŒŻć ćžć°B","BRK.A":"äŒŻć ćžć°"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heâs assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading âOur Four Giantsâ and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireâs cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.âTim Cook, Appleâs brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timâs managerial touch as well,â the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookâs stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerâs earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.âApple â our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value â is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,â Buffett said in the letter. âThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleâs 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleâs repurchases did the job.âBerkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettâs investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireâs equity portfolio.âItâs important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports â and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our âshareâ of Appleâs earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,â Buffett said.Berkshire is Appleâs largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.âBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,â Buffett said. âBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.âRead the full letter hereïŒTo the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 â K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that â on occasion â it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:âą Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based âinfrastructureâ assets â classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment â than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireâs balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.âą Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. âI gave at the officeâ is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshireâs history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that âThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.â That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyâs advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).Iâm sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireâs owners watched the companyâs net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireâs struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireâs troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period â a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshireâs owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their âsilent partner,â the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge â indeed trumpet â the fact that Berkshireâs prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.âą From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance âfloatâ â money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireâs total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (âgenerally-accepted accounting principlesâ) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireâs good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, âNone.âI said, âNobodyâs perfect,â and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be â 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely â but far from assured â that Berkshireâs float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer â and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.âą Nevertheless, operations of our âBig Fourâ companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireâs value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireâs operation, however, would be almost impossible.âą Apple â our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value â is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleâs 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleâs repurchases did the job.Itâs important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports â and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our âshareâ of Appleâs earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleâs brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timâs managerial touch as well.âą BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaâs carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive âadjustmentsâ to earnings â to use a polite description â have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.âą BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatâs up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHEâs record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolâs and Greg Abelâs leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Gregâs report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable âgreen-washingâ stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHEâs website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow letâs talk about companies we donât control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireâs two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the âequityâ method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted âequityâ accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotâs earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshireâs balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ï€2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% â and still is. Berkshireâs current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireâs controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireâs resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.Thatâs largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireâs owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyâs).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donât want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshireâs buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weâve discussed, insurance âfloatâ of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of âfloatâ per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% â going from $79,387 per âAâ share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life â in both his business and his personal pursuits â Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendâs early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manâs family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative âsynergiesâ â savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerâs home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled â aptly so â a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an âexit strategy.â And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying â in far more tactful phrasing than this â âAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.â So, I made an offer and Paul said âYes.â One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, âWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iâm too busy now.âWhen Greg Abel and I attended Paulâs memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIâs first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary â geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck â occasionally extraordinary luck â has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend â John Roach â TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryâs CEO and learn more about the acquireeâs activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadâs headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardâs opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFâs third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroadâs results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFâs earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnât feeling friendly to railroads â or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iâll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnât sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally âretiringâ from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonâs fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that âsecretsâ are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be âworking.âCharlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherâs grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now âworkedâ for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itâs a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people â no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we canât select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching âtil death do us part.â Often, they have trusted us with a large â some might say excessive â portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the âpartnersâ Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, âIt feels good to âworkâ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.âThe Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. âCousinâ Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon âpartyâ boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyâs masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyâs use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. 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What Went Wrong?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1178433847","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discreti","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discretion and dull reliability. That only makes the scandals, public legal battles and mounting losses at Credit Suisse Group AG more striking and hard to comprehend. In mid-March, unease about the bankâs mounting problems snowballed and its shares slumped, forcing management to appeal to Swiss banking authorities for a public vote of confidence.</p><h3>1. What went wrong?</h3><p>Credit Suisseâs failings have included a criminal conviction for allowing drug dealers to launder money in Bulgaria, entanglement in a Mozambique corruption case, a spying scandal involving a former employee and an executive and a massive leak of client data to the media. Its association with disgraced financier Lex Greensill and failed New York-based investment firm Archegos Capital Management compounded the sense of an institution that didnât have a firm grip on its affairs. Many fed up clients have voted with their feet, leading to unprecedented client outflows in late 2022.</p><h3><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/737c0d8e279f497c6082a3207a7417a8\" tg-width=\"718\" tg-height=\"426\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>2. What triggered the latest share slump?</h3><p>Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Koerner launched a massive outreach to woo back nervous clients and their cash. The effort appeared to be paying off by January, with it reported ânet positiveâ deposits. However, on March 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission queried the bankâs annual report, forcing it to delay its publication. Panic spread after regional US lender Silicon Valley Bank failed, the victim in part of risky investments and rising global interest rates that eroded the value of its bond holdings. Investors began ditching anything that smelled of banking risk and deposit flight.</p><h3>3. How bad did the situation get?</h3><p>On March 15, Credit Suisse stock slumped anew when the chairman of its largest shareholder, Saudi National Bank, ruled out investing any more in the company. This prompted Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss central bank for a public statement of support. The cost of insuring the bankâs bonds against default for one year surged to levels not seen for major international banks since the financial crisis of 2008. As other banks sought to hedge their counterparty risk for transactions with Credit Suisse, quoted prices for a one-year credit default swap jumped from 836 basis points, indicating a probability of defaulting of 10%, on March 14 to higher than 3,000 basis points. Few actual trades were executed, however, as liquidity in the market dried up. In another sign of stress, Credit Suisseâs additional tier 1 bonds â which are subordinate to all other ranks of debt and may be written down if capital falls below a predetermined level â were trading below 80% of face value, a level typically signaling distress. Even bonds coming due in April traded at prices well below face value.</p><h3>4. Is this another Lehman Brothers moment?</h3><p>The Wall Street giant, whose failure in 2008 triggered the global financial crisis, succumbed when funding dried up and other banks stopped dealing with it. Unlike Lehman and SVB, Credit Suisse has substantial liquid assets to call upon and access to central bank lending facilities and is less sensitive than many rivals to sharp moves in interest rates. It has rebuilt its cushion against more deposit withdrawals since the worst wave of outflows in October. It also has enough money-like liquid assets to pay back half of all its liabilities in deposits and loans from other banks, according to Bloomberg Opinion banking columnist Paul J. Davies. Koerner said the firmâs liquidity coverage ratio showed it can handle over a month of heavy outflows in a period of stress.</p><h3>5. What else is Koerner doing to turn things around?</h3><p>His three-year recovery plan involves 9,000 job cuts, dismantling the investment banking behemoth assembled over five decades and returning Credit Suisse to its origins as banker to the worldâs ultra-wealthy. That means spinning off First Boston, an American investment bank it acquired in 1990 with a view to listing it in 2025, and selling parts of its securitized products unit to Apollo Global Management Inc. That process is now at risk of becoming bogged down in a broader financial-sector selloff following the collapse of SVB and two other US banks.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse Is In Crisis. 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What Went Wrong?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-03-16 07:13 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/credit-suisse-what-s-going-on-and-why-is-cs-stock-falling><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discretion and dull reliability. That only makes the scandals, public legal battles and mounting losses at ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/credit-suisse-what-s-going-on-and-why-is-cs-stock-falling\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/credit-suisse-what-s-going-on-and-why-is-cs-stock-falling","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1178433847","content_text":"Switzerlandâs role as banker to the worldâs rich is built on a reputation for institutional discretion and dull reliability. That only makes the scandals, public legal battles and mounting losses at Credit Suisse Group AG more striking and hard to comprehend. In mid-March, unease about the bankâs mounting problems snowballed and its shares slumped, forcing management to appeal to Swiss banking authorities for a public vote of confidence.1. What went wrong?Credit Suisseâs failings have included a criminal conviction for allowing drug dealers to launder money in Bulgaria, entanglement in a Mozambique corruption case, a spying scandal involving a former employee and an executive and a massive leak of client data to the media. Its association with disgraced financier Lex Greensill and failed New York-based investment firm Archegos Capital Management compounded the sense of an institution that didnât have a firm grip on its affairs. Many fed up clients have voted with their feet, leading to unprecedented client outflows in late 2022.2. What triggered the latest share slump?Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Koerner launched a massive outreach to woo back nervous clients and their cash. The effort appeared to be paying off by January, with it reported ânet positiveâ deposits. However, on March 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission queried the bankâs annual report, forcing it to delay its publication. Panic spread after regional US lender Silicon Valley Bank failed, the victim in part of risky investments and rising global interest rates that eroded the value of its bond holdings. Investors began ditching anything that smelled of banking risk and deposit flight.3. How bad did the situation get?On March 15, Credit Suisse stock slumped anew when the chairman of its largest shareholder, Saudi National Bank, ruled out investing any more in the company. This prompted Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss central bank for a public statement of support. The cost of insuring the bankâs bonds against default for one year surged to levels not seen for major international banks since the financial crisis of 2008. As other banks sought to hedge their counterparty risk for transactions with Credit Suisse, quoted prices for a one-year credit default swap jumped from 836 basis points, indicating a probability of defaulting of 10%, on March 14 to higher than 3,000 basis points. Few actual trades were executed, however, as liquidity in the market dried up. In another sign of stress, Credit Suisseâs additional tier 1 bonds â which are subordinate to all other ranks of debt and may be written down if capital falls below a predetermined level â were trading below 80% of face value, a level typically signaling distress. Even bonds coming due in April traded at prices well below face value.4. Is this another Lehman Brothers moment?The Wall Street giant, whose failure in 2008 triggered the global financial crisis, succumbed when funding dried up and other banks stopped dealing with it. Unlike Lehman and SVB, Credit Suisse has substantial liquid assets to call upon and access to central bank lending facilities and is less sensitive than many rivals to sharp moves in interest rates. It has rebuilt its cushion against more deposit withdrawals since the worst wave of outflows in October. It also has enough money-like liquid assets to pay back half of all its liabilities in deposits and loans from other banks, according to Bloomberg Opinion banking columnist Paul J. Davies. Koerner said the firmâs liquidity coverage ratio showed it can handle over a month of heavy outflows in a period of stress.5. What else is Koerner doing to turn things around?His three-year recovery plan involves 9,000 job cuts, dismantling the investment banking behemoth assembled over five decades and returning Credit Suisse to its origins as banker to the worldâs ultra-wealthy. That means spinning off First Boston, an American investment bank it acquired in 1990 with a view to listing it in 2025, and selling parts of its securitized products unit to Apollo Global Management Inc. That process is now at risk of becoming bogged down in a broader financial-sector selloff following the collapse of SVB and two other US banks.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":351,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":266035157848288,"gmtCreate":1705970525515,"gmtModify":1705970529117,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","listText":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","text":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/266035157848288","repostId":"265863699812488","repostType":1,"repost":{"id":265863699812488,"gmtCreate":1705928715142,"gmtModify":1705928745330,"author":{"id":"9000000000000448","authorId":"9000000000000448","name":"Tiger_story","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/fadf643dc834b9ce2a65e9f9d0a73f7e","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"9000000000000448","authorIdStr":"9000000000000448"},"themes":[],"title":"Bulls and Bears on Wall Street: A Chronological Odyssey of Market Swings","htmlText":"Witness history! <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/.SPX\">$S&P 500(.SPX)$</a> hits record high, U.S. stock market officially enters bull market on last Friday.In the vivid tapestry of the stock market, the terms \"bull market\" and \"bear market\" trace their roots to a fascinating origin. Picture a vibrant Wall Street where market trends emulate the behaviors of two powerful animals: the bullish charge and the bearish retreat.A look at bear and bull markets through historyThe Bull Market: An 18th Century AscentIn the 18th century, traders discerned a correlation between rising markets and increased profits, birthing the term \"bull market.\" Bulls, with their upward-thrusting horns, became the symbol of the ascending surge in stock prices.Fast forward to the roaring twentiesâa golden era for","listText":"Witness history! <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/.SPX\">$S&P 500(.SPX)$</a> hits record high, U.S. stock market officially enters bull market on last Friday.In the vivid tapestry of the stock market, the terms \"bull market\" and \"bear market\" trace their roots to a fascinating origin. Picture a vibrant Wall Street where market trends emulate the behaviors of two powerful animals: the bullish charge and the bearish retreat.A look at bear and bull markets through historyThe Bull Market: An 18th Century AscentIn the 18th century, traders discerned a correlation between rising markets and increased profits, birthing the term \"bull market.\" Bulls, with their upward-thrusting horns, became the symbol of the ascending surge in stock prices.Fast forward to the roaring twentiesâa golden era for","text":"Witness history! $S&P 500(.SPX)$ hits record high, U.S. stock market officially enters bull market on last Friday.In the vivid tapestry of the stock market, the terms \"bull market\" and \"bear market\" trace their roots to a fascinating origin. 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economic recovery for the Middle Kingdom as people returned to work after the Lunar New Year break and normalcy returned.</p><p>Road congestion in major cities has increased as more people go about their business, while restaurant and mall spending both rose.</p><p>This is good news for companies that have suffered from snarled supply chains as China remained shut off from the world for most of last year.</p><p>The reopening and increase in factory activity should also benefit China-based REITs such as <b>CapitaLand China Trust</b>(SGX: AU8U).</p><p>Meanwhile, companies such as <b>Nike</b>(NYSE: NKE) and <b>Starbucks</b>(NASDAQ: SBUX) that earn a chunk of their revenue from China should also be rejoicing.</p><p><b>United Overseas Bank Ltd (SGX: U11)</b></p><p>United Overseas Bank, or UOB, announced that it has completed the acquisition of <b>Citigroupâs</b>(NYSE: C) consumer banking business in Vietnam on 1 March.</p><p>It is yet another milestone for the bank after the announcement of this nearly S$5 billion acquisition to accelerate its retail banking business growth in the ASEAN region.</p><p>The acquisition covered four countries â Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.</p><p>UOB had already announced the completion of its acquisition in both Malaysia and Thailand on 1 November last year.</p><p>The bank had originally planned for the acquisitions of Vietnam and Indonesia to be completed by the end of 2023.</p><p>Around 575 Citigroup-related staff were also transferred to UOB Vietnam, and the consumer business comprises the American bankâs unsecured and secured lending portfolios, wealth management, and retail deposit businesses.</p><p>With the addition of both Malaysia and Thailand, UOB has expanded its retail customer base to almost seven million within the ASEAN region.</p><p>Once all the acquisitions are completed, the lender expects to double its existing retail base and add 5,000 staff to its team.</p><p>In line with the completion of the Vietnamese 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congestion in major cities has increased as more people go about their business, while restaurant and mall spending both rose.This is good news for companies that have suffered from snarled supply chains as China remained shut off from the world for most of last year.The reopening and increase in factory activity should also benefit China-based REITs such as CapitaLand China Trust(SGX: AU8U).Meanwhile, companies such as Nike(NYSE: NKE) and Starbucks(NASDAQ: SBUX) that earn a chunk of their revenue from China should also be rejoicing.United Overseas Bank Ltd (SGX: U11)United Overseas Bank, or UOB, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Citigroupâs(NYSE: C) consumer banking business in Vietnam on 1 March.It is yet another milestone for the bank after the announcement of this nearly S$5 billion acquisition to accelerate its retail banking business growth in the ASEAN region.The acquisition covered four countries â Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.UOB had already announced the completion of its acquisition in both Malaysia and Thailand on 1 November last year.The bank had originally planned for the acquisitions of Vietnam and Indonesia to be completed by the end of 2023.Around 575 Citigroup-related staff were also transferred to UOB Vietnam, and the consumer business comprises the American bankâs unsecured and secured lending portfolios, wealth management, and retail deposit businesses.With the addition of both Malaysia and Thailand, UOB has expanded its retail customer base to almost seven million within the ASEAN region.Once all the acquisitions are completed, the lender expects to double its existing retail base and add 5,000 staff to its team.In line with the completion of the Vietnamese acquisition, UOB has also announced senior appointments to drive its business there.Mr Fred Lim will head the retail transformation, channels and digitalisation division along with business banking in UOB Vietnam while Mr Paul Kim will serve as the head of personal financial services.Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META)Meta Platforms is moving away from being a pure social media and communications company.The company announced that it will create a new product group focused on generative artificial intelligence (AI).Generative AI comprises a set of machine learning techniques that will allow computers to generate text, pictures or other media that resembles human output.This new unit will combine several teams across Meta Platforms and be headed by current Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded excited when he touted the promise of generative AI as he is confident that this new team can build âcreative and expressiveâ tools to be used in Metaâs products WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.This announcement came after Meta Platforms announced that it had developed its in-house large language model called LLaMA.Technology companies have been racing with one another to come up with new AI models after the success of ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI in which Microsoft(NASDAQ: MSFT) took a stake.Meanwhile, Alphabetâs(NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google is also working on a chatbox named Bard, while Snap(NYSE: SNAP) has incorporated a ChatGPT bot into its Snapchat app.Raffles Medical Group (SGX: BSL)Raffles Medical Group, or RMG, has announced an impressive set of earnings for 2022.The integrated healthcare player saw its revenue inch up by 5.9% year on year to S$766.5 million.Operating profit shot up 61.4% year on year to S$195.8 million while net profit surged by 70.5% year on year to S$143.5 million.On top of this good result, the group also generated a positive free cash flow of S$170.9 million, 59.3% higher than the prior yearâs S$107.3 million.In line with the robust results, RMG has declared a first and final dividend of S$0.038, 35% higher than the S$0.028 paid out in 2021.The better performance came about as borders reopened and the group saw a return of foreign patients seeking medical treatment in Singapore.RMGâs 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But July 4 this year falls on a Sunday, which in the United States isn't a trading day.So will the major markets open or close for the holiday?The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will, in fact, be closed on Monday, July 5, to celebrate Independence Day.It's one of nine full-closing daysfor the stock market this year.For instance, the stock market will close for Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. 25. On Friday, Nov. 26, trading i","content":"<p>Independence Day in the U.S. is for many a picnic-and-beach day. But July 4 this year falls on a Sunday, which in the United States isn't a trading day.</p>\n<p>So will the major markets open or close for the holiday?</p>\n<p>The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will, in fact, be closed on Monday, July 5, to celebrate Independence Day.</p>\n<p>It's one of nine full-closing daysfor the stock market this year.</p>\n<p>For instance, the stock market will close for Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. 25. On Friday, Nov. 26, trading is scheduled for a bit more than a half-day, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET.</p>\n<p>Normal stock-trading hours run 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is the Stock Market Open or Closed on Independence Day?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nIs the Stock Market Open or Closed on Independence Day?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-05 13:52 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.thestreet.com/investing/independence-day-stock-markets-trading-hours><strong>Thestreet</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Independence Day in the U.S. is for many a picnic-and-beach day. But July 4 this year falls on a Sunday, which in the United States isn't a trading day.\nSo will the major markets open or close for the...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/independence-day-stock-markets-trading-hours\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"éçŒæŻ"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/independence-day-stock-markets-trading-hours","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109703914","content_text":"Independence Day in the U.S. is for many a picnic-and-beach day. But July 4 this year falls on a Sunday, which in the United States isn't a trading day.\nSo will the major markets open or close for the holiday?\nThe New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will, in fact, be closed on Monday, July 5, to celebrate Independence Day.\nIt's one of nine full-closing daysfor the stock market this year.\nFor instance, the stock market will close for Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. 25. On Friday, Nov. 26, trading is scheduled for a bit more than a half-day, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET.\nNormal stock-trading hours run 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":104,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":863192367,"gmtCreate":1632362371959,"gmtModify":1676530763207,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"ahhhhhhh","listText":"ahhhhhhh","text":"ahhhhhhh","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/863192367","repostId":"2169650271","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2169650271","pubTimestamp":1632343898,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2169650271?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-23 04:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Wall St ends higher as Fed signals bond-buying taper soon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2169650271","media":"Reuters","summary":"NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The three major U.S. stock indexes rose 1% on Wednesday as investors m","content":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The three major U.S. stock indexes rose 1% on Wednesday as investors mostly took in stride the latest signals from the Federal Reserve, including clearing the way for the central bank to reduce its monthly bond purchases soon.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 registered its biggest daily percentage gain since July 23.</p>\n<p>While trading was choppy following the Fed's latest policy statement and comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, stocks finished close to where they were before the central bank news.</p>\n<p>In its statement, the central bank also suggested interest rate increases may follow more quickly than expected and said overall indicators in the economy \"have continued to strengthen.\"</p>\n<p>Bank shares rose following the Fed news, with the S&P banks index ending up 2.1% on the day, and S&P 500 financials up 1.6% and among the biggest gainers among sectors.</p>\n<p>Some strategists viewed the Fed's comments as mixed.</p>\n<p>\"So they said we're going to probably start to taper, but they haven't said when and haven't said how much, so we're kind of back where we were a day ago,\" said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Investment Management in Chicago.</p>\n<p>\"Those remain open questions,\" he said. \"Also, financial conditions remain very easy, and that's part of the reason why markets aren't going crazy at this point.\"</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 338.48 points, or 1%, to 34,258.32, the S&P 500 gained 41.45 points, or 0.95%, to 4,395.64 and the Nasdaq Composite added 150.45 points, or 1.02%, to 14,896.85.</p>\n<p>Apple and other big technology-related names gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost.</p>\n<p>On the downside, FedEx Corp tumbled 9.1% after posting a lower quarterly profit and as the delivery firm cut its full-year earnings forecast.</p>\n<p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 3.88-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.38-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 posted nine new 52-week highs and eight new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 52 new highs and 66 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.91 billion shares, compared with the 9.99 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Wall St ends higher as Fed signals bond-buying taper soon</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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International benchmarkBrent cruderose 1.2%, or 93 cents, to $77.10 per barrel.\nDiscussions beganlast weekbetween OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, as the energy alliance sought to establish output policy for the remainder of the year. The group on Friday voted on a proposal that would have returned 400,000 barrels per day to the market each month from August through December, resulting in an additional 2 million barrels per day by the end of the year. Members also proposed extending the output cuts through the end of 2022.\nThe United Arab Emirates rejected these proposals, however, and talks stretched from Thursday to Friday as the group tried to reach a consensus. Initially, discussions were set to resume on Monday but were ultimately called off.\nâThe date of the next meeting will be decided in due course,â OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said in a statement.\nOPEC+ took historic measures in April 2020 and removed nearly 10 million barrels per day of production in an effort to support prices as demand for petroleum-products plummeted. Since then, the group has been slowly returning barrels to the market, while meeting on a near monthly basis to discuss output policy.\nâFor us, it wasnât a good deal,â UAE Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Suhail Al Mazroueitold CNBC on Sunday. He added that the country would support a short-term increase in supply, but wants better terms if the policy is to be extended through 2022.\nOilâs blistering rally this year â WTI has gained 57% during 2021 â meant that ahead of last weekâs meeting many Wall Street analysts expected the group to boost production in an effort to curb the spike in prices.\nâWith no increase in production, the forthcoming growth in demand should see global energy markets tighten up at an even faster pace than anticipated,â analysts at TD Securities wrote in a note to clients.\nâThis impasse will lead to a temporary and significantly larger-than-anticipated deficit, which should fuel even higher prices for the time being. The summer breakout in oil prices is set to gather steam at a fast clip,â the firm added.\nâ CNBCâs Sam Meredith contributed reporting.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":217,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":887217737,"gmtCreate":1632044497929,"gmtModify":1676530692145,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Why","listText":"Why","text":"Why","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/887217737","repostId":"1198486138","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1198486138","pubTimestamp":1632023224,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1198486138?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-19 11:47","market":"us","language":"en","title":"7 ways men live without working in America","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1198486138","media":"Yahoo Finance","summary":"How do they live? What are they doing for money? ","content":"<p>Almost one-third of all working-age men in America arenât doing diddly-squat. They donât have a job, and they arenât looking for one either. One-third of all working-age men. Thatâs almost 30 million people!</p>\n<p>How do they live? What are they doing for money? To me, this is one of the great mysteries of our time.</p>\n<p>Iâm certainly not the first person to make note of this shocking statistic. Youâve heard people bemoaning this \"labor participation rate,\" which is simply the number of working-age men (usually counted as ages 16 to 64) not working or not looking for work, as a percentage of the overall labor force.</p>\n<p>Itâs true that the pandemic, which of course produced a number of factors that made working more difficult never mind dangerous, pushed the labor participation rate to a record low. But the fact that millions of American males have not been working precedes COVID-19 by decades. In fact, the participation rate for men peaked at 87.4% in October 1949 and has been dropping steadily ever since. It now stands at 67.7%.</p>\n<p>As a business journalist for a good portion of those 70-plus years, Iâve looked at thousands of charts and graphs in my life, and I have to say this one is as jaw dropping as it is vexing:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/056158b8fa7157238c3d1521dd05c02e\" tg-width=\"705\" tg-height=\"259\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Chart of the U.S. labor force participation rate for men over time, courtesy of the St. Louis Federal Reserve</p>\n<p>Economists, sociologists, politicians, and cable news pundits each have their pet factors to explain the groundswell of non-work. But after digging down here, Iâve concluded there are many different forces at play. Thatâs what I want to explore today, which is: how men can live in America without working.</p>\n<p>Iâm not talking about why men have lost their jobs â factories closing, layoffs, automation, outsourcing jobs overseas, even perhaps women entering the workforce, (in fact, the participation rate by women over the same time period is way up). What I want to get at is how theyâre living without holding a \"real\" job, and by that I mean doing work where one reports income to the IRS, pays taxes and Social Security, etc.</p>\n<p>Itâs important to note that every man in this group has his own story. They range from mentally ill homeless men who desperately need our help, to the Iâm-doing-just-fine-thank-you-very-much, retired early, and former Silicon Valley coder. And there are infinite scenarios in between those two extremes, including, for instance, the many men who have chosen to bestay-at-home dadswhile their spouses work.</p>\n<p>Itâs also the case that some men in this group may be unemployed and not seeking work because theyâve given up looking just for now â perhaps waiting for COVID to abate â and will start the search again soon. Here too, society needs to help.</p>\n<p>Still, none of this explains decade after decade of falling male employment.</p>\n<p>To that end, here to my mind are seven ways men are living without working in America:</p>\n<p><b>-Unemployment insurance</b></p>\n<p>Letâs start with this one because itâs a hot button issue. Conservatives and some liberals too have made the claim that state unemployment aid, coupled with $600 a week from the CARES Act, which was rolled out in March 2020, have reduced menâs need to work. (There are actually a variety of social programs at play,spelled out nicely hereby think tank The Century Foundation, which estimates that overall these programs have pumped $800 billion in the economy.) Weâll be getting a good read on whether all this relief did suppress employment now that CARES aid ended for some 7.5 million Americans earlier this month. But as Yahoo Financeâs Denitsa Tsekova reportedhereandhere, states that ended federal aid programs early didnât see big increases in employment. That may mean these payments really werenât enough to live off, or not enough to live off by themselves, which speaks to men looking to a combination of sources, like under the table income or family support and possibly some savings (see below).</p>\n<p><b>-Early retirement, pensions, disability and lawsuits</b></p>\n<p>Admittedly, this is a bit of a hodgepodge. And as is the case with many of these categories, hard data is tough to come by, but it is the case that millions of men under 64 are at least partly living off of pensions and 401(k)s. This would include everything from C-suite executives to union members. And donât forget municipal workers, who make up almost 14% of the U.S. workforce. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are some 6,000 public sector retirement systems in the U.S.Collectively these plans have $4.5 trillion in assets,with 14.7 million working members and 11.2 million retirees. The plans distribute $323 billion in benefits annually, and again, some to men who are younger than 64. In fact in almost two-thirds of these plans,if you started working at 25, you max out at 57, a real inducement to stop working â at least at that job of course.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/53e26b293f8a939a54b78315c3375a18\" tg-width=\"705\" tg-height=\"467\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Volunteers load cars with turkeys and other food assistance for laid off Walt Disney World cast members and others at a food distribution event on December 12, 2020 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)More</p>\n<p>Thereâs also disability insurance from the Social Security Administration that is beingpaid to some 9 million Americanswhomay receive payments many years before retirement age. That's why I am including disability here, but not plain vanilla Social Security, which you canât receive until age 62. The maximum disability benefit amount you can receive each month is currently $3,148. (However, the average beneficiary receives about $1,277 per month, according to the law group Social Security Disability Advocates.) Overall, it looks like theSSA pays out some $130 billion in disability annually.Thatâs not nothing. Then thereâs money paid out in medical malpractice each year, smaller true, but stillestimated to be in excess of $3 billion.And don't forgetpayments from legal settlements and class action lawsuits.</p>\n<p>You argue all day about the right or wrong when it comes to these payouts, but the fact is many of them didnât exist, or not at this magnitude, decades ago.</p>\n<p><b>-Savings, trading stocks, and bitcoin</b></p>\n<p>Consider now men are living off savings, or from money made in the market or maybe even selling NFTs. How many is it exactly? Who knows, but quite a few for sure. First off, Americans on average do have some money in the bank. Savings as a percentage of disposable income,according to the Federal Reserve of Kansas City,hit a record high of 33% in the spring of 2020 and is still at 14%, or nearly twice as high as it was prior to the pandemic.</p>\n<p>And according to arecent survey by Northwestern Mutual,average personal savings are up over 10% compared to last year, from $65,900 last year to $73,100. Average retirement savings increased 13%, from $87,500 last year to $98,800 today. So thereâs that.</p>\n<p>Next letâs look at investing â first stocks. It is not irrelevant to this narrative that the S&P 500 has climbed from 2,480 on March 12, 2020 â the day after the World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemicâ to 4,441 today, or almost 80%. Thatâs a huge gain. Much of the action of course has been retail investors and the meme stock boom, as millions of American males stuck at home with nothing to do all day for the past 18 months passed the time trading stocks. Credit Suisse estimates that since the beginning of 2020, âretail trading as a share of overall market activityhas nearly doubledfrom between 15% and 18% to over 30%,â as CNBC reported. How many men were doing this and supporting themselves? Unclear, but upstart trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) â the broker dealer of choice for many of these new investors â reported that it had22.5 million funded user accountslast month, up from 7.2 million in March of 2020. Letâs just say 15 million new accounts is quite a number.</p>\n<p>Now crypto. You can laugh all you want, but the simple fact is that theprice of bitcoinis up from $4,861 on March 12, 2000 to $47,763 today, or basically up 10X, (and remember it even hit $64,888.99 this spring). Back to Robinhood, which according to The New York Times, also reported last month that ârevenue from cryptocurrency trading fees totaled $233 million, a nearly 50-fold jump from $5 million a year earlier.â (And those are just fees off the trades, mind you.) Bottom line: Folks have made money here. (Of course these guys should be paying taxes on all those stock and crypto gains.)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/809084435ffdcbc0695311d158bb7a98\" tg-width=\"705\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Robinhood Markets, Inc. CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev and co-founder Baiju Bhatt pose with Robinhood signage on Wall Street after the company's IPO in New York City, U.S., July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly<b>-Working for cash, aka the under-the-table economy</b></p>\n<p>This one is very tough to measure, too.A study by the Federal Reserve of St. Louisestimates that the average size of the âinformal economyâ in developed countries is 13% of GDP. Honestly, that could be off by many percentage points, but just to give you a ballpark, GDP in the U.S. this year is about $22 trillion. So 13% of that is $2.86 trillion. As it turns out, $2 trillion-plus, is a number that has been thrown around quite a bit (hereandherefor instance) when it comes to estimating the size of the cash economy in the U.S. Even if half that money is paid out to women, that still leaves, say, $1 trillion dollars being made by men in this country off the books. Thatâs a big chunk of change. Are more people than ever working for cash these days? Again, another question thatâs impossible to answer. I would bet itâs not fewer. For example, my electrician Luis just told me he canât get anyone to work for him anymore â they all want to get paid in cash.</p>\n<p><b>-Living off family members</b></p>\n<p>Just to take one facet,the Pew Research Center reportedlast year that the pandemic âhas pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members. The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading [in early 2020], surpassing the previous peak during the Great Depression era. In July, 52% of young adults resided with one or both of their parents, up from 47% in February.â How many of these individuals are males living rent free (and sharing food too), which maybe means they donât have to work? Who knows, but some. Ditto for males who have moved in with in-laws or siblings. And again, many men are choosing to stay home and take care of kids while their spouses work.</p>\n<p><b>-Illegal work</b></p>\n<p>Front and center here is selling illegal drugs. Sadly, business looks to be booming, that is if overdoses are any sort of measure.According to the Washington Post, overdose deaths hit 93,000 last year, up a stunning 30% from 2019. Most of the overdoses were attributed to opioids; heroin, synthetic opioids like OxyContin and in particular Fentanyl. (This despite drug dealers facingsupply chain issuesduring COVID.) How many Americans are in this business and who are they? A number is almost impossible to come by here, but as for who they are,a government report on drug trafficking arrestsfrom five years ago notes that âââthe majority of drug trafficking offenders were male (84.9%), the average age of these offenders at sentencing was 36 years, 70% were United States citizens (although this rate varied substantially depending on the type of drug involved), and that almost half (49.4%) of drug traffickers had little or no prior criminal history.â How big a business is selling drugs in America? Could beas much as $100 billion.I think itâs fair to say that a market that size requires many thousands of employees.</p>\n<p>What about other types of crime and criminals, everything from robbers and thieves to prostitutes and pimps? To that point there aresome 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S.right now. (We have the highest absolute number and the highest per capita on the planet, and holdsome 25% of the world's total prisoners, according to the ACLU.) Being in prison is another way of living in America without working, I guess. But not counting those locked up, how many bad guys are out there on the street? Conservatively, it has to be thousands and thousands, and speaking to this story, they're all doing their thing and not participating in the labor force.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3f8f4b3e6a5aa97a10f5c7bb22dec1d7\" tg-width=\"705\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">ORLEANS, MASSACHUSETTS - JULY 10: A man holds onto a clamming rake while clamming at low tide July 10, 2021 in Town Cove, Orleans, Massachusetts. He filled a bushel basket of cherry stone clams. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)More<b>-Living off the land</b></p>\n<p>This would include gardening, fishing, hunting, clamming, berrying, and just general foraging. The numbers here seem to be climbing. Here for instancefrom The Guardian:</p>\n<p>âFishing and huntinglicense sales increased 10%in California during the pandemic, reversing years of decline. Clamming has grown in popularity for several reasons: people are looking for safe activities to do outdoors, but also some are clamming for subsistence and trying to get money from selling the shellfish (which is illegal without a commercial license).â</p>\n<p>Ditto for Washington state, according to The Spokesman-Review:</p>\n<p>âFrom the start of the 2020 licensing year in May through Dec. 31, WDFW [Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife] sold nearly 45,000 more fishing licenses and 12,000 more hunting licenses than 2019. The number of new license holders â defined as someone who hadnât purchased one for the previous five years â went up 16% for fishing licenses and almost 40% for hunters.â</p>\n<p>As for growing vegetables in home gardens, yes, it is up, way up too. Even before the pandemic, there were estimates thata third of American families grew vegetables.Now this,NPRreported last year:</p>\n<p>ââWe're being flooded with vegetable orders,â says George Ball, executive chairman of the Burpee Seed Company, based in Warminster, Penn.</p>\n<p>Ball says he has noticed spikes in seed sales during bad times: the stock market crash of 1987, the dot com bubble burst of 2000, and he remembers the two oil crises of the 1970s from his childhood. But he says he has not seen a spike this large and widespread.</p>\n<p>So there you have it. Itâs a whole range of ways and means, behaviors and experiences. Iâm sure I missed some, too. Again, some non-working men are in dire straits and need our help. Others are living non-working lives without burdening society or others, such as a fireman on early retirement (though some argue municipal employee pensions are too high), or an investor who made a ton of money in the market and called it quits, or maybe a wilderness guy living off the land in Alaska.</p>\n<p>And some non-working men are not playing fair. Like getting paid under the table, fudging insurance claims or social programs. Some freeload off relatives. And some engage in overtly illegal behavior like boosting branded goods from chain stores to sell online or dealing heroin.</p>\n<p>I would imagine that more than a few of these men create a portfolio of sources, though Iâm not sure they really think of it that way. Take for example a hypothetical guy in a rural area who lives with his grandmother rent free, (he does help her with the garden some). This guy also does some cash carpentry work, hunts for game, gets some food off his ex-wifeâs WIC and helps his brother sell some weed. Can you get by this way? Some men probably are. Is this the new American way? For some men it probably is.</p>\n<p>That example perhaps, and to be sure of all of the above, I think go a long way toward explaining that chart from the beginning of the story, the one that shows the labor participation rate falling off a cliff over the past seven decades. And speaking of charts, another striking one came to mind when I was writing this, which I put here below. It shows U.S. GDP over the same time period as the labor participation rate.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0f197be5c6c11483ec906a1757293e4d\" tg-width=\"705\" tg-height=\"259\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Chart of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product over time, courtesy of the St. Louis Federal Reserve</p>\n<p>Of course, the line on this GDP chart is inversely correlated with the line on the labor participation graph. And I think there is a relationship between the two. Which is to say, the wealthier our nation has become over the decades, the less men are working. Fact is there is just a ton of money sloshing around in our country. And men seem to be able to get their hands on it, whether obtained legally, borrowed, leached off of or stolen.</p>\n<p>It seems like working legally to provide for yourself in America is really just one option these days.</p>\n<p><b><i>This article was featured in a Saturday edition of the Morning Brief on September 18, 2021. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET.Subscribe</i></b></p>\n<p><i>Andy Serwer is editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance. 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They donât have a job, and they arenât looking for one either. One-third of all working-age men. Thatâs almost 30 million ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-ways-men-live-without-working-in-america-092147068.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/020219c8820f9fc9f11979454ce1b1c6","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"éçŒæŻ"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-ways-men-live-without-working-in-america-092147068.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1198486138","content_text":"Almost one-third of all working-age men in America arenât doing diddly-squat. They donât have a job, and they arenât looking for one either. One-third of all working-age men. Thatâs almost 30 million people!\nHow do they live? What are they doing for money? To me, this is one of the great mysteries of our time.\nIâm certainly not the first person to make note of this shocking statistic. Youâve heard people bemoaning this \"labor participation rate,\" which is simply the number of working-age men (usually counted as ages 16 to 64) not working or not looking for work, as a percentage of the overall labor force.\nItâs true that the pandemic, which of course produced a number of factors that made working more difficult never mind dangerous, pushed the labor participation rate to a record low. But the fact that millions of American males have not been working precedes COVID-19 by decades. In fact, the participation rate for men peaked at 87.4% in October 1949 and has been dropping steadily ever since. It now stands at 67.7%.\nAs a business journalist for a good portion of those 70-plus years, Iâve looked at thousands of charts and graphs in my life, and I have to say this one is as jaw dropping as it is vexing:\nChart of the U.S. labor force participation rate for men over time, courtesy of the St. Louis Federal Reserve\nEconomists, sociologists, politicians, and cable news pundits each have their pet factors to explain the groundswell of non-work. But after digging down here, Iâve concluded there are many different forces at play. Thatâs what I want to explore today, which is: how men can live in America without working.\nIâm not talking about why men have lost their jobs â factories closing, layoffs, automation, outsourcing jobs overseas, even perhaps women entering the workforce, (in fact, the participation rate by women over the same time period is way up). What I want to get at is how theyâre living without holding a \"real\" job, and by that I mean doing work where one reports income to the IRS, pays taxes and Social Security, etc.\nItâs important to note that every man in this group has his own story. They range from mentally ill homeless men who desperately need our help, to the Iâm-doing-just-fine-thank-you-very-much, retired early, and former Silicon Valley coder. And there are infinite scenarios in between those two extremes, including, for instance, the many men who have chosen to bestay-at-home dadswhile their spouses work.\nItâs also the case that some men in this group may be unemployed and not seeking work because theyâve given up looking just for now â perhaps waiting for COVID to abate â and will start the search again soon. Here too, society needs to help.\nStill, none of this explains decade after decade of falling male employment.\nTo that end, here to my mind are seven ways men are living without working in America:\n-Unemployment insurance\nLetâs start with this one because itâs a hot button issue. Conservatives and some liberals too have made the claim that state unemployment aid, coupled with $600 a week from the CARES Act, which was rolled out in March 2020, have reduced menâs need to work. (There are actually a variety of social programs at play,spelled out nicely hereby think tank The Century Foundation, which estimates that overall these programs have pumped $800 billion in the economy.) Weâll be getting a good read on whether all this relief did suppress employment now that CARES aid ended for some 7.5 million Americans earlier this month. But as Yahoo Financeâs Denitsa Tsekova reportedhereandhere, states that ended federal aid programs early didnât see big increases in employment. That may mean these payments really werenât enough to live off, or not enough to live off by themselves, which speaks to men looking to a combination of sources, like under the table income or family support and possibly some savings (see below).\n-Early retirement, pensions, disability and lawsuits\nAdmittedly, this is a bit of a hodgepodge. And as is the case with many of these categories, hard data is tough to come by, but it is the case that millions of men under 64 are at least partly living off of pensions and 401(k)s. This would include everything from C-suite executives to union members. And donât forget municipal workers, who make up almost 14% of the U.S. workforce. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are some 6,000 public sector retirement systems in the U.S.Collectively these plans have $4.5 trillion in assets,with 14.7 million working members and 11.2 million retirees. The plans distribute $323 billion in benefits annually, and again, some to men who are younger than 64. In fact in almost two-thirds of these plans,if you started working at 25, you max out at 57, a real inducement to stop working â at least at that job of course.\nVolunteers load cars with turkeys and other food assistance for laid off Walt Disney World cast members and others at a food distribution event on December 12, 2020 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)More\nThereâs also disability insurance from the Social Security Administration that is beingpaid to some 9 million Americanswhomay receive payments many years before retirement age. That's why I am including disability here, but not plain vanilla Social Security, which you canât receive until age 62. The maximum disability benefit amount you can receive each month is currently $3,148. (However, the average beneficiary receives about $1,277 per month, according to the law group Social Security Disability Advocates.) Overall, it looks like theSSA pays out some $130 billion in disability annually.Thatâs not nothing. Then thereâs money paid out in medical malpractice each year, smaller true, but stillestimated to be in excess of $3 billion.And don't forgetpayments from legal settlements and class action lawsuits.\nYou argue all day about the right or wrong when it comes to these payouts, but the fact is many of them didnât exist, or not at this magnitude, decades ago.\n-Savings, trading stocks, and bitcoin\nConsider now men are living off savings, or from money made in the market or maybe even selling NFTs. How many is it exactly? Who knows, but quite a few for sure. First off, Americans on average do have some money in the bank. Savings as a percentage of disposable income,according to the Federal Reserve of Kansas City,hit a record high of 33% in the spring of 2020 and is still at 14%, or nearly twice as high as it was prior to the pandemic.\nAnd according to arecent survey by Northwestern Mutual,average personal savings are up over 10% compared to last year, from $65,900 last year to $73,100. Average retirement savings increased 13%, from $87,500 last year to $98,800 today. So thereâs that.\nNext letâs look at investing â first stocks. It is not irrelevant to this narrative that the S&P 500 has climbed from 2,480 on March 12, 2020 â the day after the World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemicâ to 4,441 today, or almost 80%. Thatâs a huge gain. Much of the action of course has been retail investors and the meme stock boom, as millions of American males stuck at home with nothing to do all day for the past 18 months passed the time trading stocks. Credit Suisse estimates that since the beginning of 2020, âretail trading as a share of overall market activityhas nearly doubledfrom between 15% and 18% to over 30%,â as CNBC reported. How many men were doing this and supporting themselves? Unclear, but upstart trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) â the broker dealer of choice for many of these new investors â reported that it had22.5 million funded user accountslast month, up from 7.2 million in March of 2020. Letâs just say 15 million new accounts is quite a number.\nNow crypto. You can laugh all you want, but the simple fact is that theprice of bitcoinis up from $4,861 on March 12, 2000 to $47,763 today, or basically up 10X, (and remember it even hit $64,888.99 this spring). Back to Robinhood, which according to The New York Times, also reported last month that ârevenue from cryptocurrency trading fees totaled $233 million, a nearly 50-fold jump from $5 million a year earlier.â (And those are just fees off the trades, mind you.) Bottom line: Folks have made money here. (Of course these guys should be paying taxes on all those stock and crypto gains.)\nRobinhood Markets, Inc. CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev and co-founder Baiju Bhatt pose with Robinhood signage on Wall Street after the company's IPO in New York City, U.S., July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly-Working for cash, aka the under-the-table economy\nThis one is very tough to measure, too.A study by the Federal Reserve of St. Louisestimates that the average size of the âinformal economyâ in developed countries is 13% of GDP. Honestly, that could be off by many percentage points, but just to give you a ballpark, GDP in the U.S. this year is about $22 trillion. So 13% of that is $2.86 trillion. As it turns out, $2 trillion-plus, is a number that has been thrown around quite a bit (hereandherefor instance) when it comes to estimating the size of the cash economy in the U.S. Even if half that money is paid out to women, that still leaves, say, $1 trillion dollars being made by men in this country off the books. Thatâs a big chunk of change. Are more people than ever working for cash these days? Again, another question thatâs impossible to answer. I would bet itâs not fewer. For example, my electrician Luis just told me he canât get anyone to work for him anymore â they all want to get paid in cash.\n-Living off family members\nJust to take one facet,the Pew Research Center reportedlast year that the pandemic âhas pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members. The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading [in early 2020], surpassing the previous peak during the Great Depression era. In July, 52% of young adults resided with one or both of their parents, up from 47% in February.â How many of these individuals are males living rent free (and sharing food too), which maybe means they donât have to work? Who knows, but some. Ditto for males who have moved in with in-laws or siblings. And again, many men are choosing to stay home and take care of kids while their spouses work.\n-Illegal work\nFront and center here is selling illegal drugs. Sadly, business looks to be booming, that is if overdoses are any sort of measure.According to the Washington Post, overdose deaths hit 93,000 last year, up a stunning 30% from 2019. Most of the overdoses were attributed to opioids; heroin, synthetic opioids like OxyContin and in particular Fentanyl. (This despite drug dealers facingsupply chain issuesduring COVID.) How many Americans are in this business and who are they? A number is almost impossible to come by here, but as for who they are,a government report on drug trafficking arrestsfrom five years ago notes that âââthe majority of drug trafficking offenders were male (84.9%), the average age of these offenders at sentencing was 36 years, 70% were United States citizens (although this rate varied substantially depending on the type of drug involved), and that almost half (49.4%) of drug traffickers had little or no prior criminal history.â How big a business is selling drugs in America? Could beas much as $100 billion.I think itâs fair to say that a market that size requires many thousands of employees.\nWhat about other types of crime and criminals, everything from robbers and thieves to prostitutes and pimps? To that point there aresome 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S.right now. (We have the highest absolute number and the highest per capita on the planet, and holdsome 25% of the world's total prisoners, according to the ACLU.) Being in prison is another way of living in America without working, I guess. But not counting those locked up, how many bad guys are out there on the street? Conservatively, it has to be thousands and thousands, and speaking to this story, they're all doing their thing and not participating in the labor force.\nORLEANS, MASSACHUSETTS - JULY 10: A man holds onto a clamming rake while clamming at low tide July 10, 2021 in Town Cove, Orleans, Massachusetts. He filled a bushel basket of cherry stone clams. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)More-Living off the land\nThis would include gardening, fishing, hunting, clamming, berrying, and just general foraging. The numbers here seem to be climbing. Here for instancefrom The Guardian:\nâFishing and huntinglicense sales increased 10%in California during the pandemic, reversing years of decline. Clamming has grown in popularity for several reasons: people are looking for safe activities to do outdoors, but also some are clamming for subsistence and trying to get money from selling the shellfish (which is illegal without a commercial license).â\nDitto for Washington state, according to The Spokesman-Review:\nâFrom the start of the 2020 licensing year in May through Dec. 31, WDFW [Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife] sold nearly 45,000 more fishing licenses and 12,000 more hunting licenses than 2019. The number of new license holders â defined as someone who hadnât purchased one for the previous five years â went up 16% for fishing licenses and almost 40% for hunters.â\nAs for growing vegetables in home gardens, yes, it is up, way up too. Even before the pandemic, there were estimates thata third of American families grew vegetables.Now this,NPRreported last year:\nââWe're being flooded with vegetable orders,â says George Ball, executive chairman of the Burpee Seed Company, based in Warminster, Penn.\nBall says he has noticed spikes in seed sales during bad times: the stock market crash of 1987, the dot com bubble burst of 2000, and he remembers the two oil crises of the 1970s from his childhood. But he says he has not seen a spike this large and widespread.\nSo there you have it. Itâs a whole range of ways and means, behaviors and experiences. Iâm sure I missed some, too. Again, some non-working men are in dire straits and need our help. Others are living non-working lives without burdening society or others, such as a fireman on early retirement (though some argue municipal employee pensions are too high), or an investor who made a ton of money in the market and called it quits, or maybe a wilderness guy living off the land in Alaska.\nAnd some non-working men are not playing fair. Like getting paid under the table, fudging insurance claims or social programs. Some freeload off relatives. And some engage in overtly illegal behavior like boosting branded goods from chain stores to sell online or dealing heroin.\nI would imagine that more than a few of these men create a portfolio of sources, though Iâm not sure they really think of it that way. Take for example a hypothetical guy in a rural area who lives with his grandmother rent free, (he does help her with the garden some). This guy also does some cash carpentry work, hunts for game, gets some food off his ex-wifeâs WIC and helps his brother sell some weed. Can you get by this way? Some men probably are. Is this the new American way? For some men it probably is.\nThat example perhaps, and to be sure of all of the above, I think go a long way toward explaining that chart from the beginning of the story, the one that shows the labor participation rate falling off a cliff over the past seven decades. And speaking of charts, another striking one came to mind when I was writing this, which I put here below. It shows U.S. GDP over the same time period as the labor participation rate.\nChart of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product over time, courtesy of the St. Louis Federal Reserve\nOf course, the line on this GDP chart is inversely correlated with the line on the labor participation graph. And I think there is a relationship between the two. Which is to say, the wealthier our nation has become over the decades, the less men are working. Fact is there is just a ton of money sloshing around in our country. And men seem to be able to get their hands on it, whether obtained legally, borrowed, leached off of or stolen.\nIt seems like working legally to provide for yourself in America is really just one option these days.\nThis article was featured in a Saturday edition of the Morning Brief on September 18, 2021. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET.Subscribe\nAndy Serwer is editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance. 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But jobless claims, though still on a downward trajectory, ticked higher last week.</p>\n<p>The data did little to move the needle with respect to expectations that the Fed is unlikely tip its hand regarding the taper timeline when Chairman Jerome Powell unmutes and delivers his speech at Friday's virtual Jackson Hole Symposium.</p>\n<p>\"Weâre going to see a lot of market participants analyze every word (Powell) uses, but at the end of the day, they will begin tapering,\" Horneman said. \"Iâm more concerned about the speed at which they taper. What are they going to start with? That will give us a clearer indication as whether theyâre getting more hawkish.\"</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 192.38 points, or 0.54%, to 35,213.12, the S&P 500 lost 26.19 points, or 0.58%, to 4,470 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 96.05 points, or 0.64%, to 14,945.81.</p>\n<p>Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, all but real estate ended the session lower, with energy stocks suffering the steepest percentage loss.</p>\n<p>Discount retailers Dollar General Corp and Dollar Tree Inc slid 3.8% and 12.1%, respectively, after warning higher transportation costs will hurt their bottom lines.</p>\n<p>Coty Inc jumped 14.7% after the cosmetics firm said it expects to post full-year sales growth for the first time in three years.</p>\n<p>Salesforce.com Inc hiked its earnings forecast as the shift to a hybrid work model is expected to fuel strong demand. Its shares advanced 2.7%.</p>\n<p>NetApp Inc jumped 4.7% as brokerages raised their price targets in the wake of the cloud computing firm's better-than-expected 2022 earnings outlook.</p>\n<p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.99-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.83-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 posted 31 new 52-week highs and two new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 82 new highs and 39 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 8.27 billion shares, compared with the 8.96 billion average over the last 20 trading days. 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But jobless claims, though still on a downward trajectory, ticked higher last week.\nThe data did little to move the needle with respect to expectations that the Fed is unlikely tip its hand regarding the taper timeline when Chairman Jerome Powell unmutes and delivers his speech at Friday's virtual Jackson Hole Symposium.\n\"Weâre going to see a lot of market participants analyze every word (Powell) uses, but at the end of the day, they will begin tapering,\" Horneman said. \"Iâm more concerned about the speed at which they taper. What are they going to start with? That will give us a clearer indication as whether theyâre getting more hawkish.\"\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 192.38 points, or 0.54%, to 35,213.12, the S&P 500 lost 26.19 points, or 0.58%, to 4,470 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 96.05 points, or 0.64%, to 14,945.81.\nOf the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, all but real estate ended the session lower, with energy stocks suffering the steepest percentage loss.\nDiscount retailers Dollar General Corp and Dollar Tree Inc slid 3.8% and 12.1%, respectively, after warning higher transportation costs will hurt their bottom lines.\nCoty Inc jumped 14.7% after the cosmetics firm said it expects to post full-year sales growth for the first time in three years.\nSalesforce.com Inc hiked its earnings forecast as the shift to a hybrid work model is expected to fuel strong demand. Its shares advanced 2.7%.\nNetApp Inc jumped 4.7% as brokerages raised their price targets in the wake of the cloud computing firm's better-than-expected 2022 earnings outlook.\nDeclining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.99-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.83-to-1 ratio favored decliners.\nThe S&P 500 posted 31 new 52-week highs and two new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 82 new highs and 39 new lows.\nVolume on U.S. exchanges was 8.27 billion shares, compared with the 8.96 billion average over the last 20 trading days. (Reporting by Stephen Culp; Additional reporting by Devik Jain in Bengaluru Editing by Marguerita Choy)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":282,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":804809181,"gmtCreate":1627948330343,"gmtModify":1703498253825,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"=(","listText":"=(","text":"=(","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/804809181","repostId":"2156114224","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":57,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9954758696,"gmtCreate":1676673624815,"gmtModify":1676673628819,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ugg gig","listText":"Ugg gig","text":"Ugg gig","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9954758696","repostId":"1184653577","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":287,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":869837384,"gmtCreate":1632271613848,"gmtModify":1676530739463,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Mmmmmm","listText":"Mmmmmm","text":"Mmmmmm","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869837384","repostId":"2169324976","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2169324976","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1632256994,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2169324976?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-22 04:43","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Wall Street ends near flat on cautious note ahead of Fed","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2169324976","media":"Reuters","summary":"NEW YORK, Sept 21 - U.S. stocks ended near flat on Tuesday after a broad sell-off the day before, with worries over caution ahead of Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy news keeping a lid on the market.Trading was choppy, with the Dow and S&P 500 erasing session gains just before the close, while the Nasdaq finished slightly higher.Shares of Walt Disney Co fell 4.2% and were the biggest drag on both the S&P 500 and Dow after Chief Executive Officer Bob Chapek said the resurgence of the Delta var","content":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended near flat on Tuesday after a broad sell-off the day before, with worries over caution ahead of Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy news keeping a lid on the market.</p>\n<p>Trading was choppy, with the Dow and S&P 500 erasing session gains just before the close, while the Nasdaq finished slightly higher.</p>\n<p>Shares of Walt Disney Co fell 4.2% and were the biggest drag on both the S&P 500 and Dow after Chief Executive Officer Bob Chapek said the resurgence of the Delta variant of the coronavirus was delaying production of some of its titles.</p>\n<p>Investors are waiting for the end of this week's Fed meeting that may shed light on when its massive purchase of government debt will begin to ease.</p>\n<p>Officials will reveal new projections as investors also are on alert for any timing on rate tightening.</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 50.63 points, or 0.15%, to 33,919.84, the S&P 500 lost 3.54 points, or 0.08%, to 4,354.19 and the Nasdaq Composite added 32.50 points, or 0.22%, to 14,746.40.</p>\n<p>S&P 500 industrials led losses among sectors.</p>\n<p>Adding to late-day bearishness, shares of American Airlines Group Inc and JetBlue Airways Corp fell after records in Boston federal court showed the United States and several U.S. states on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against the companies. American Airlines ended down 2.8% while JetBlue fell 4.8%.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 index traded below its 50-day moving average, its first major breach in more than six months. The average has served as a floor for the index this year.</p>\n<p>Analysts say a breach of the index's 200-day moving average may now be in sight.</p>\n<p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.32-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.35-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 posted no new 52-week highs and six new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 41 new highs and 98 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.73 billion shares, compared with the 9.95 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Wall Street ends near flat on cautious note ahead of Fed</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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American Airlines ended down 2.8% while JetBlue fell 4.8%.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 index traded below its 50-day moving average, its first major breach in more than six months. The average has served as a floor for the index this year.</p>\n<p>Analysts say a breach of the index's 200-day moving average may now be in sight.</p>\n<p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.32-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.35-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 posted no new 52-week highs and six new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 41 new highs and 98 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.73 billion shares, compared with the 9.95 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"161125":"æ æź500","513500":"æ æź500ETF",".DJI":"éçŒæŻ","SH":"æ æź500ććETF",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","SSO":"䞀ććć€æ æź500ETF","QID":"çșłæ䞀ććç©șETF",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","DDM":"éæ䞀ććć€ETF","SPXU":"äžććç©șæ æź500ETF","OEX":"æ æź100","SQQQ":"çșłæäžććç©șETF","SPY":"æ æź500ETF","DOG":"éæććETF","QLD":"çșłæ䞀ććć€ETF","DJX":"1/100éçŒæŻ","TQQQ":"çșłæäžććć€ETF","OEF":"æ æź100ææ°ETF-iShares","SDOW":"éæäžććç©șETF-ProShares","PSQ":"çșłæććETF","SDS":"䞀ććç©șæ æź500ETF","UDOW":"éæäžććć€ETF-ProShares","UPRO":"äžććć€æ æź500ETF","QQQ":"çșłæ100ETF","IVV":"æ æź500ææ°ETF","DXD":"éæ䞀ććç©șETF"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2169324976","content_text":"NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended near flat on Tuesday after a broad sell-off the day before, with worries over caution ahead of Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy news keeping a lid on the market.\nTrading was choppy, with the Dow and S&P 500 erasing session gains just before the close, while the Nasdaq finished slightly higher.\nShares of Walt Disney Co fell 4.2% and were the biggest drag on both the S&P 500 and Dow after Chief Executive Officer Bob Chapek said the resurgence of the Delta variant of the coronavirus was delaying production of some of its titles.\nInvestors are waiting for the end of this week's Fed meeting that may shed light on when its massive purchase of government debt will begin to ease.\nOfficials will reveal new projections as investors also are on alert for any timing on rate tightening.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 50.63 points, or 0.15%, to 33,919.84, the S&P 500 lost 3.54 points, or 0.08%, to 4,354.19 and the Nasdaq Composite added 32.50 points, or 0.22%, to 14,746.40.\nS&P 500 industrials led losses among sectors.\nAdding to late-day bearishness, shares of American Airlines Group Inc and JetBlue Airways Corp fell after records in Boston federal court showed the United States and several U.S. states on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against the companies. American Airlines ended down 2.8% while JetBlue fell 4.8%.\nThe S&P 500 index traded below its 50-day moving average, its first major breach in more than six months. The average has served as a floor for the index this year.\nAnalysts say a breach of the index's 200-day moving average may now be in sight.\nAdvancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.32-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.35-to-1 ratio favored advancers.\nThe S&P 500 posted no new 52-week highs and six new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 41 new highs and 98 new lows.\nVolume on U.S. exchanges was 9.73 billion shares, compared with the 9.95 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":416,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":805009379,"gmtCreate":1627816565791,"gmtModify":1703496233107,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Kk","listText":"Kk","text":"Kk","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/805009379","repostId":"1122171439","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1122171439","pubTimestamp":1627786350,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1122171439?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-08-01 10:52","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Alphabet Is Worth $3,554 Based on Its Powerful Free Cash Flow","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1122171439","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"GOOG stock will benefit in 2022 from its higher FCF margins, so that with a 3.2% FCF yield it will be worth 30% more.Alphabet just reported stellar second-quarter results, in terms of both revenue and earnings. But even more importantly, its free cash flow grew substantially, both in absolute numbers and FCF margins. As a result, I believe that GOOG stock is now worth at least 30% more or $3,554 per share. This article will describe how I came up with that valuation.On July 27, Alphabet, the pa","content":"<blockquote>\n GOOG stock will benefit in 2022 from its higher FCF margins, so that with a 3.2% FCF yield it will be worth 30% more.\n</blockquote>\n<p><b>Alphabet</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>GOOG</u></b>, NASDAQ:<b><u>GOOGL</u></b>) just reported stellar second-quarter results, in terms of both revenue and earnings. But even more importantly, its free cash flow (FCF) grew substantially, both in absolute numbers and FCF margins. As a result, I believe that GOOG stock is now worth at least 30% more or $3,554 per share. This article will describe how I came up with that valuation.</p>\n<p>On July 27, Alphabet, the parent of online search engine Google that makes most of its money from advertising, reported a huge 62% revenue gain on a year-0ver-year (YOY) basis. Even on a quarter-over-quarter basis, its revenue of $61.88 billion in Q2 grew by 11.87% from $55.314 billion in Q1.</p>\n<p>That implies an annualized run rate of 56.6%. So that coincides with its historical 62% YOY rate, implying that next year the company will show 57% YOY revenue growth.</p>\n<p>Of course, this assumes that advertising growth â and the economy in general â stay red hot.</p>\n<p><b>Estimating Googleâs FCF</b></p>\n<p>But more importantly, its FCF rose to $16.394 billion, which can beseen on page 7of the earnings release. Alphabet is one of the few companies that help investors by calculating their own FCF figures. For example, last quarter its FCF was $13.347 billion (also onpage 7 of the Q1 report). This shows that its quarterly FCF growth was 22.83% just on a QOQ basis. That implies a huge run rate growth rate, although this is not what I will use to project out its future FCF.</p>\n<p>I think it is better to look at Alphabetâs FCF margins to forecast its future FCF. For example, in Q2 its $16.4 billion FCF represents 26.5% of its $61.88 billion in revenue. That is a huge gain over its FCF margins. Dividing $13.347 billion in Q1 FCF by revenue of $55.314 billion shows that Q1 FCF margins were just 24.1%.</p>\n<p>So, going forward letâs estimate that FCF will be 26.5% of its forecast revenue. For example,<i>Seeking Alpha</i>shows that analystsproject 2021 revenue of $250.29 billion. That implies its 2021 FCF will be $66.3 billion this year. But this is likely now already implied or discounted in the GOOG stock price.</p>\n<p>We should probably use 2022 estimates since the market will soon start valuing GOOG stock on its 2002 numbers. Seeking Alpha indicates $286.36 billion for 2022. Applying the 26.5% FCF margin to this estimate yields an FCF estimate of $75.89 billion. That is substantially higher than the estimates for 2021 FCF. We can now use this to value GOOG stock.</p>\n<p><b>What GOOG Stock Is Now Worth</b></p>\n<p>One way to value GOOG stock is to use its historical FCF yield and apply it to our future FCF estimate. For example, in the trailing 12 months (TTM) to June 30, Alphabet produced $58.536 billion in FCF. This can be seen on<i>Seeking Alphaâs</i>historical FCF pageby subtracting its TTM capex from its TTM cash flow from operations. Here is how we will use this.</p>\n<p>First, we calculate its historical TTM FCF yield. For example, the company now has a market capitalization of $1.826 trillion, according to<i>Yahoo! Finance</i>, which usually has the best calculations. Therefore, if we divide its TTM FCF of $58.536 by its $1,826 billion market cap, the FCF yield works out to 3.2%.</p>\n<p>Next, we can divide our forecast of $75.89 billion in 2022 FCF by its TTM FCF yield of 3.2%. That derives a new target market value of $2.37 trillion. In other words, GOOG stock has a target market cap that is 29.88% higher than todayâs price. Therefore, using yesterdayâs closing price of $2,730.81, its target price is $3,546 per share.</p>\n<p><b>What To Do With GOOG Stock</b></p>\n<p>In other words, starting with the companyâs much higher FCF margins and projecting these out against 2022 revenue, GOOG stock should rise at least 30% sometime over the next year. That assumes a fairly high 3.2% FCF yield. It is very possible that the yield could rise, which would lower the target price.</p>\n<p>For example, consider this. Above, we projected that Alphabet will produce $66.3 billion in FCF this year. But that represents a higher 3.63% FCF yield on todayâs $1,826 billion market cap. Applying this higher 3.63% FCF yield to its 2022 estimates would result in a lower price target than my 30% expected gain.</p>\n<p>I donât think that is what will happen in reality. Donât forget that we assume that the company will have a much higher FCF margin in 2022 than its historical TTM FCF. Therefore, the value of the company should be higher. That implies the FCF yield should be low such as the 3.2% FCF yield I used. If you are following me so far, this means that my projections are likely to come to pass on a historical basis, albeit in the future.</p>\n<p>Bottom line â GOOG stock is a buy, as it is likely to move at least 30% higher assuming its FCF stays as strong as just shown in Q2.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alphabet Is Worth $3,554 Based on Its Powerful Free Cash Flow</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlphabet Is Worth $3,554 Based on Its Powerful Free Cash Flow\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-01 10:52 GMT+8 <a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/goog-stock-is-worth-3554-or-30-percent-more-based-on-26-5-percent-fcf-margins/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>GOOG stock will benefit in 2022 from its higher FCF margins, so that with a 3.2% FCF yield it will be worth 30% more.\n\nAlphabet(NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) just reported stellar second-quarter results,...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/goog-stock-is-worth-3554-or-30-percent-more-based-on-26-5-percent-fcf-margins/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"03086":"ćć€çșłæ","GOOG":"è°·æ","QNETCN":"çșłæŻèŸŸć äžçŸäșèçœèèææ°","GOOGL":"è°·æA","09086":"ćć€çșłæ-U"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/goog-stock-is-worth-3554-or-30-percent-more-based-on-26-5-percent-fcf-margins/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1122171439","content_text":"GOOG stock will benefit in 2022 from its higher FCF margins, so that with a 3.2% FCF yield it will be worth 30% more.\n\nAlphabet(NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) just reported stellar second-quarter results, in terms of both revenue and earnings. But even more importantly, its free cash flow (FCF) grew substantially, both in absolute numbers and FCF margins. As a result, I believe that GOOG stock is now worth at least 30% more or $3,554 per share. This article will describe how I came up with that valuation.\nOn July 27, Alphabet, the parent of online search engine Google that makes most of its money from advertising, reported a huge 62% revenue gain on a year-0ver-year (YOY) basis. Even on a quarter-over-quarter basis, its revenue of $61.88 billion in Q2 grew by 11.87% from $55.314 billion in Q1.\nThat implies an annualized run rate of 56.6%. So that coincides with its historical 62% YOY rate, implying that next year the company will show 57% YOY revenue growth.\nOf course, this assumes that advertising growth â and the economy in general â stay red hot.\nEstimating Googleâs FCF\nBut more importantly, its FCF rose to $16.394 billion, which can beseen on page 7of the earnings release. Alphabet is one of the few companies that help investors by calculating their own FCF figures. For example, last quarter its FCF was $13.347 billion (also onpage 7 of the Q1 report). This shows that its quarterly FCF growth was 22.83% just on a QOQ basis. That implies a huge run rate growth rate, although this is not what I will use to project out its future FCF.\nI think it is better to look at Alphabetâs FCF margins to forecast its future FCF. For example, in Q2 its $16.4 billion FCF represents 26.5% of its $61.88 billion in revenue. That is a huge gain over its FCF margins. Dividing $13.347 billion in Q1 FCF by revenue of $55.314 billion shows that Q1 FCF margins were just 24.1%.\nSo, going forward letâs estimate that FCF will be 26.5% of its forecast revenue. For example,Seeking Alphashows that analystsproject 2021 revenue of $250.29 billion. That implies its 2021 FCF will be $66.3 billion this year. But this is likely now already implied or discounted in the GOOG stock price.\nWe should probably use 2022 estimates since the market will soon start valuing GOOG stock on its 2002 numbers. Seeking Alpha indicates $286.36 billion for 2022. Applying the 26.5% FCF margin to this estimate yields an FCF estimate of $75.89 billion. That is substantially higher than the estimates for 2021 FCF. We can now use this to value GOOG stock.\nWhat GOOG Stock Is Now Worth\nOne way to value GOOG stock is to use its historical FCF yield and apply it to our future FCF estimate. For example, in the trailing 12 months (TTM) to June 30, Alphabet produced $58.536 billion in FCF. This can be seen onSeeking Alphaâshistorical FCF pageby subtracting its TTM capex from its TTM cash flow from operations. Here is how we will use this.\nFirst, we calculate its historical TTM FCF yield. For example, the company now has a market capitalization of $1.826 trillion, according toYahoo! Finance, which usually has the best calculations. Therefore, if we divide its TTM FCF of $58.536 by its $1,826 billion market cap, the FCF yield works out to 3.2%.\nNext, we can divide our forecast of $75.89 billion in 2022 FCF by its TTM FCF yield of 3.2%. That derives a new target market value of $2.37 trillion. In other words, GOOG stock has a target market cap that is 29.88% higher than todayâs price. Therefore, using yesterdayâs closing price of $2,730.81, its target price is $3,546 per share.\nWhat To Do With GOOG Stock\nIn other words, starting with the companyâs much higher FCF margins and projecting these out against 2022 revenue, GOOG stock should rise at least 30% sometime over the next year. That assumes a fairly high 3.2% FCF yield. It is very possible that the yield could rise, which would lower the target price.\nFor example, consider this. Above, we projected that Alphabet will produce $66.3 billion in FCF this year. But that represents a higher 3.63% FCF yield on todayâs $1,826 billion market cap. Applying this higher 3.63% FCF yield to its 2022 estimates would result in a lower price target than my 30% expected gain.\nI donât think that is what will happen in reality. Donât forget that we assume that the company will have a much higher FCF margin in 2022 than its historical TTM FCF. Therefore, the value of the company should be higher. That implies the FCF yield should be low such as the 3.2% FCF yield I used. If you are following me so far, this means that my projections are likely to come to pass on a historical basis, albeit in the future.\nBottom line â GOOG stock is a buy, as it is likely to move at least 30% higher assuming its FCF stays as strong as just shown in Q2.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":97,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":143060590,"gmtCreate":1625752823510,"gmtModify":1703747864558,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Jobless","listText":"Jobless","text":"Jobless","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/143060590","repostId":"1162204971","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1162204971","pubTimestamp":1625752171,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1162204971?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-07-08 21:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why is the stock market down today?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1162204971","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Wall Street is seeing the kind of market slump thats's been rare this summer.\nThe S&P(SP500) -1.3%, ","content":"<ul>\n <li>Wall Street is seeing the kind of market slump thats's been rare this summer.</li>\n <li>The S&P(SP500) -1.3%, Nasdaq(COMP.IND) -1.5% and Dow Jones(DJI) -1.2% are all sharply lower.</li>\n <li>The S&P has finished down more than 1% just once since the start of June.</li>\n <li>A big factor in what stocks are reacting to is the quick plunge in Treasury yields, with the curve flattening.</li>\n <li>They are down again this morning, although off lows, with the 10-year Traesury yield(NYSEARCA:TBT)(NASDAQ:TLT) down 3 basis points to 1.29% and touching levels last seen in February.</li>\n <li>The consensus from Wall Street has been for higher yields, with the median forecast at 1.75% for the end of 2021. That's catching a lot of traders who are short bonds flat-footed in what is known as a \"pain trade.\"</li>\n <li>One theory for the decline in yields is that investors areworried about economic growth arriving weaker than expected, especially withincreasing COVID Delta variant cases, which would hurt value and cyclical stocks.</li>\n <li>Mixed economic data, especially a bigger-than-expected drop in the ISM services index this week, added to the downward momentum on yields.</li>\n <li>\"The market is sort of taking a deep breath,\" said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy at SociĂ©tĂ© GĂ©nĂ©rale. \"Are those optimistic forecasts (for economic growth and inflation) actually achievable?\"</li>\n <li>\"The (stock) market is great, the question is where's the leadership, what wins the market, because the market still wants to go up and to the right,\" Credit Suisse equity strategist Jonathan Golub said on Bloomberg.</li>\n <li>China's regulatory actions are also causing market jitters after its crackdown on DiDi. Chinese companies are slumping early andMorgan Stanley says Tesla will likley feel effects as well.</li>\n <li>Another explation for the yield tumble is that that traders think the Fed is making a mistake in pulling ahead rate hike expectations, which could stifle the recovery.</li>\n <li>A similar situation happened in late 2018 and the Fed ultimately reversed policy.</li>\n <li>But Jemore Schneider, PIMCO head of short-term portfolio management, told Bloomberg the rate trend is still up, which would bode well for recovery stocks.</li>\n <li>\"We are of the bias that this is a steepening trend propeled by higher growth over that medium term,\" Schneider said.</li>\n <li>\"It all comes down to inflation expectations, and if those expectations are quenched by a more responsive Fed\" that would push asset tapering into the spotlight \"then you can actually see a rally on the back of the curve,\" he added.</li>\n <li>\"But ultimately over time this is a growth story, a recovery story that will lead to higher rates.\"</li>\n</ul>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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That's catching a lot of traders who are short bonds flat-footed in what is known as a \"pain trade.\"\nOne theory for the decline in yields is that investors areworried about economic growth arriving weaker than expected, especially withincreasing COVID Delta variant cases, which would hurt value and cyclical stocks.\nMixed economic data, especially a bigger-than-expected drop in the ISM services index this week, added to the downward momentum on yields.\n\"The market is sort of taking a deep breath,\" said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy at SociĂ©tĂ© GĂ©nĂ©rale. \"Are those optimistic forecasts (for economic growth and inflation) actually achievable?\"\n\"The (stock) market is great, the question is where's the leadership, what wins the market, because the market still wants to go up and to the right,\" Credit Suisse equity strategist Jonathan Golub said on Bloomberg.\nChina's regulatory actions are also causing market jitters after its crackdown on DiDi. Chinese companies are slumping early andMorgan Stanley says Tesla will likley feel effects as well.\nAnother explation for the yield tumble is that that traders think the Fed is making a mistake in pulling ahead rate hike expectations, which could stifle the recovery.\nA similar situation happened in late 2018 and the Fed ultimately reversed policy.\nBut Jemore Schneider, PIMCO head of short-term portfolio management, told Bloomberg the rate trend is still up, which would bode well for recovery stocks.\n\"We are of the bias that this is a steepening trend propeled by higher growth over that medium term,\" Schneider said.\n\"It all comes down to inflation expectations, and if those expectations are quenched by a more responsive Fed\" that would push asset tapering into the spotlight \"then you can actually see a rally on the back of the curve,\" he added.\n\"But ultimately over time this is a growth story, a recovery story that will lead to higher rates.\"","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":46,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9940834747,"gmtCreate":1677804340190,"gmtModify":1677804344130,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Igboonivvivo","listText":"Igboonivvivo","text":"Igboonivvivo","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9940834747","repostId":"2316998348","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":399,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":839471768,"gmtCreate":1629177898654,"gmtModify":1676529955107,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"âŠ..","listText":"âŠ..","text":"âŠ..","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/839471768","repostId":"2160271020","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":199,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":839376366,"gmtCreate":1629124400955,"gmtModify":1676529939319,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/839376366","repostId":"1137961734","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1137961734","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1629122094,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1137961734?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-08-16 21:54","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple shares reached record high at $150.59 in early trading","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1137961734","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"(Aug 16) Apple shares reached record high at $150.59 in early trading.","content":"<p>(Aug 16) Apple shares reached record high at $150.59 in early trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b2b9a9a385ae4e2c77588a61ab15011b\" tg-width=\"1080\" tg-height=\"1868\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Hereâs the answer","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117885165","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Perhaps, 90% of American people know that the United States is engaged in war in Afghanistan, while ","content":"<p>Perhaps, 90% of American people know that the United States is engaged in war in Afghanistan, while less than 50% of Americans can tell that Afghanistan has helped Al Qaeda in the past, and only 17% of American teenagers can find out the location of Afghanistan on the map. Why does a country separated by half of the earth from the United States own such a high reputation in the minds of American people? The only reason is that every American president has said that he wants to end the war in Afghanistan.</p>\n<p>It was not Donald Trump, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, that ended the war in Afghanistan, but Biden. Biden chose to end the war in Afghanistan in the same way that the country ended the Vietnam War 60 years ago -- voluntarily withdrawing from the battlefield. After withdrawing from the Vietnam War, South Vietnam, supported by the United States, quickly lost the war. The Vietnam War was declared over, with the North and the South being reunified. The same is true today. The U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed at an even faster rate. Coincidentally, the United States fought both wars for 20 years.</p>\n<p>Judging from the extensive coverage of major media in the United States, the incident has had a huge impact on the American elite. They cannot fully understand where their \"shock\" comes from, however. Here, 5 factors are summarized to illustrate it:</p>\n<p>1. It is beyond expectation that the well-equipped Afghan government forces could be defeated in just a few days.</p>\n<p>2. To their surprise, Biden insisted on withdrawing all US troops despite the military's opposition, leaving no one behind.</p>\n<p>3. It is unexpected that the $83 billion that was used by the United States to train and arm the local army in Afghanistan comes to naught.</p>\n<p>4. They cannot believe that the Afghan president who vowed to defend the capital the day before has quietly left Afghanistan a day later.</p>\n<p>5. They never thought that the democratic government that the United States has cultivated for 20 years has not received widespread support from the Afghan people.</p>\n<p><b>The last âshockâ, without doubt, is the core.</b></p>\n<p>Similar cases occurred more than 70 years ago: the cities were encircled from the rural areas; the backward weapons defeated the advanced weapons of America; the army of ruling party was controlled by warlords; the army was corrupt⊠</p>\n<p>The US troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 for Bin Laden who then was killed in 2011. The war had already been declared victory, but then the United States fell into a tug of war with an unknown purpose. On the one hand, the U.S. military cannot completely eliminate the Taliban; on the other hand, the U.S. military has always been intending to get away.</p>\n<p>According to Associated Press News, the estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020 is $2 trillion, the estimated interest costs by 2050 is up to $6.5 trillion, and the estimated amount that the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans is more than $2 trillion.</p>\n<p>The only way the U.S. can think of is to establish the U.S. system in Afghanistan and train a modern military to protect the system.</p>\n<p>However, the Afghan government failed to learn the essence of the American system. Instead, it accuses the other party of cheating after the election. After the 2019 Afghan presidential election, the second-ranked candidate expressed election fraud, and the first and second places held their respective presidential inauguration ceremonies. Finally, under the intervention of the Trump administration, the first two candidates shared the power.</p>\n<p>The war in Afghanistan was initiated by Bush Jr., and the U.S. troops were withdrawn during Obama's term. Trump withdrew the troops further, and the person who made up his mind to complete the withdrawal was Biden. After Biden was elected at the end of last year, the Department of Defense of the United States was worried that Biden would order a complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, so it kept lobbying Biden to retain at least a few thousand troops. Biden was completely unmoved, however. </p>\n<p>If the current Afghan government is unable to resist the Taliban, when can it? Even though the US military stays for another 10 years, and the situation in Afghanistan will not be changed. US intelligence agencies are inclined to cater to Biden, believing that even if the US forces are withdrawn, the Afghan government forces can guard the capital for at least 1.5 years. Looking at it now, the number 1.5 is correct, but the unit should be \"weeks\" instead of \"years.\"</p>\n<p>The pictures mostly reported by the Western media show that Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of the capitalâs airport after Talibanâs takeover of the capital. But, it also can be seen from many other photos that the streets of the Afghan capital are still crowded with people, vehicles are constantly moving, and there is no riot or bloodshed throughout the city. </p>\n<p>Western media have always blamed corruption for the defeat of government forces. It can be considered that the U.S. system has not solved the problem of corruption in Afghanistan. No Western media would admit that todayâs situation in Afghanistan is the result of the choice made by most people, which may suggest the failure of the implementation of the American system. </p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the Afghan people are not positive about the system of voting for the president. Afghanistan has a population of 38 million, with only 9.7 million registered voters. The number of voters in 2019 was only 1.6 million, which is far from that of the American people who voted at the risk of their lives during the coronavirus outbreak.</p>\n<p>During the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the United States has received a lot of help from Afghan people. Many local people acted as translators, drivers, engineers, etc. for the U.S. military. At present, the safety of these people is under threat, because the U.S. forces are leaving Afghanistan. Although the international community has been calling for it for a long time, the United States has made slow progress in immigration work for this group of people. Biden has been under great pressure, but it is still difficult to promote it. </p>\n<p>Generally speaking, the Afghan civilians who have helped the U.S. forces can be regarded as people who agree with American values, but the first batch of people to obtain immigrant visas waited until the end of July this year.</p>\n<p>If it is so difficult for the United States to recognize and accept Afghan people, then it is a pseudo-proposition to require Afghanistan to recognize the American system from the very beginning.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why are Americans shocked by Talibanâs rapid takeover? 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Hereâs the answer\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-08-16 22:06</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Perhaps, 90% of American people know that the United States is engaged in war in Afghanistan, while less than 50% of Americans can tell that Afghanistan has helped Al Qaeda in the past, and only 17% of American teenagers can find out the location of Afghanistan on the map. Why does a country separated by half of the earth from the United States own such a high reputation in the minds of American people? The only reason is that every American president has said that he wants to end the war in Afghanistan.</p>\n<p>It was not Donald Trump, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, that ended the war in Afghanistan, but Biden. Biden chose to end the war in Afghanistan in the same way that the country ended the Vietnam War 60 years ago -- voluntarily withdrawing from the battlefield. After withdrawing from the Vietnam War, South Vietnam, supported by the United States, quickly lost the war. The Vietnam War was declared over, with the North and the South being reunified. The same is true today. The U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed at an even faster rate. Coincidentally, the United States fought both wars for 20 years.</p>\n<p>Judging from the extensive coverage of major media in the United States, the incident has had a huge impact on the American elite. They cannot fully understand where their \"shock\" comes from, however. Here, 5 factors are summarized to illustrate it:</p>\n<p>1. It is beyond expectation that the well-equipped Afghan government forces could be defeated in just a few days.</p>\n<p>2. To their surprise, Biden insisted on withdrawing all US troops despite the military's opposition, leaving no one behind.</p>\n<p>3. It is unexpected that the $83 billion that was used by the United States to train and arm the local army in Afghanistan comes to naught.</p>\n<p>4. They cannot believe that the Afghan president who vowed to defend the capital the day before has quietly left Afghanistan a day later.</p>\n<p>5. They never thought that the democratic government that the United States has cultivated for 20 years has not received widespread support from the Afghan people.</p>\n<p><b>The last âshockâ, without doubt, is the core.</b></p>\n<p>Similar cases occurred more than 70 years ago: the cities were encircled from the rural areas; the backward weapons defeated the advanced weapons of America; the army of ruling party was controlled by warlords; the army was corrupt⊠</p>\n<p>The US troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 for Bin Laden who then was killed in 2011. The war had already been declared victory, but then the United States fell into a tug of war with an unknown purpose. On the one hand, the U.S. military cannot completely eliminate the Taliban; on the other hand, the U.S. military has always been intending to get away.</p>\n<p>According to Associated Press News, the estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020 is $2 trillion, the estimated interest costs by 2050 is up to $6.5 trillion, and the estimated amount that the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans is more than $2 trillion.</p>\n<p>The only way the U.S. can think of is to establish the U.S. system in Afghanistan and train a modern military to protect the system.</p>\n<p>However, the Afghan government failed to learn the essence of the American system. Instead, it accuses the other party of cheating after the election. After the 2019 Afghan presidential election, the second-ranked candidate expressed election fraud, and the first and second places held their respective presidential inauguration ceremonies. Finally, under the intervention of the Trump administration, the first two candidates shared the power.</p>\n<p>The war in Afghanistan was initiated by Bush Jr., and the U.S. troops were withdrawn during Obama's term. Trump withdrew the troops further, and the person who made up his mind to complete the withdrawal was Biden. After Biden was elected at the end of last year, the Department of Defense of the United States was worried that Biden would order a complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, so it kept lobbying Biden to retain at least a few thousand troops. Biden was completely unmoved, however. </p>\n<p>If the current Afghan government is unable to resist the Taliban, when can it? Even though the US military stays for another 10 years, and the situation in Afghanistan will not be changed. US intelligence agencies are inclined to cater to Biden, believing that even if the US forces are withdrawn, the Afghan government forces can guard the capital for at least 1.5 years. Looking at it now, the number 1.5 is correct, but the unit should be \"weeks\" instead of \"years.\"</p>\n<p>The pictures mostly reported by the Western media show that Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of the capitalâs airport after Talibanâs takeover of the capital. But, it also can be seen from many other photos that the streets of the Afghan capital are still crowded with people, vehicles are constantly moving, and there is no riot or bloodshed throughout the city. </p>\n<p>Western media have always blamed corruption for the defeat of government forces. It can be considered that the U.S. system has not solved the problem of corruption in Afghanistan. No Western media would admit that todayâs situation in Afghanistan is the result of the choice made by most people, which may suggest the failure of the implementation of the American system. </p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the Afghan people are not positive about the system of voting for the president. Afghanistan has a population of 38 million, with only 9.7 million registered voters. The number of voters in 2019 was only 1.6 million, which is far from that of the American people who voted at the risk of their lives during the coronavirus outbreak.</p>\n<p>During the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the United States has received a lot of help from Afghan people. Many local people acted as translators, drivers, engineers, etc. for the U.S. military. At present, the safety of these people is under threat, because the U.S. forces are leaving Afghanistan. Although the international community has been calling for it for a long time, the United States has made slow progress in immigration work for this group of people. Biden has been under great pressure, but it is still difficult to promote it. </p>\n<p>Generally speaking, the Afghan civilians who have helped the U.S. forces can be regarded as people who agree with American values, but the first batch of people to obtain immigrant visas waited until the end of July this year.</p>\n<p>If it is so difficult for the United States to recognize and accept Afghan people, then it is a pseudo-proposition to require Afghanistan to recognize the American system from the very beginning.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1117885165","content_text":"Perhaps, 90% of American people know that the United States is engaged in war in Afghanistan, while less than 50% of Americans can tell that Afghanistan has helped Al Qaeda in the past, and only 17% of American teenagers can find out the location of Afghanistan on the map. Why does a country separated by half of the earth from the United States own such a high reputation in the minds of American people? The only reason is that every American president has said that he wants to end the war in Afghanistan.\nIt was not Donald Trump, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, that ended the war in Afghanistan, but Biden. Biden chose to end the war in Afghanistan in the same way that the country ended the Vietnam War 60 years ago -- voluntarily withdrawing from the battlefield. After withdrawing from the Vietnam War, South Vietnam, supported by the United States, quickly lost the war. The Vietnam War was declared over, with the North and the South being reunified. The same is true today. The U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed at an even faster rate. Coincidentally, the United States fought both wars for 20 years.\nJudging from the extensive coverage of major media in the United States, the incident has had a huge impact on the American elite. They cannot fully understand where their \"shock\" comes from, however. Here, 5 factors are summarized to illustrate it:\n1. It is beyond expectation that the well-equipped Afghan government forces could be defeated in just a few days.\n2. To their surprise, Biden insisted on withdrawing all US troops despite the military's opposition, leaving no one behind.\n3. It is unexpected that the $83 billion that was used by the United States to train and arm the local army in Afghanistan comes to naught.\n4. They cannot believe that the Afghan president who vowed to defend the capital the day before has quietly left Afghanistan a day later.\n5. They never thought that the democratic government that the United States has cultivated for 20 years has not received widespread support from the Afghan people.\nThe last âshockâ, without doubt, is the core.\nSimilar cases occurred more than 70 years ago: the cities were encircled from the rural areas; the backward weapons defeated the advanced weapons of America; the army of ruling party was controlled by warlords; the army was corrupt⊠\nThe US troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 for Bin Laden who then was killed in 2011. The war had already been declared victory, but then the United States fell into a tug of war with an unknown purpose. On the one hand, the U.S. military cannot completely eliminate the Taliban; on the other hand, the U.S. military has always been intending to get away.\nAccording to Associated Press News, the estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020 is $2 trillion, the estimated interest costs by 2050 is up to $6.5 trillion, and the estimated amount that the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans is more than $2 trillion.\nThe only way the U.S. can think of is to establish the U.S. system in Afghanistan and train a modern military to protect the system.\nHowever, the Afghan government failed to learn the essence of the American system. Instead, it accuses the other party of cheating after the election. After the 2019 Afghan presidential election, the second-ranked candidate expressed election fraud, and the first and second places held their respective presidential inauguration ceremonies. Finally, under the intervention of the Trump administration, the first two candidates shared the power.\nThe war in Afghanistan was initiated by Bush Jr., and the U.S. troops were withdrawn during Obama's term. Trump withdrew the troops further, and the person who made up his mind to complete the withdrawal was Biden. After Biden was elected at the end of last year, the Department of Defense of the United States was worried that Biden would order a complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, so it kept lobbying Biden to retain at least a few thousand troops. Biden was completely unmoved, however. \nIf the current Afghan government is unable to resist the Taliban, when can it? Even though the US military stays for another 10 years, and the situation in Afghanistan will not be changed. US intelligence agencies are inclined to cater to Biden, believing that even if the US forces are withdrawn, the Afghan government forces can guard the capital for at least 1.5 years. Looking at it now, the number 1.5 is correct, but the unit should be \"weeks\" instead of \"years.\"\nThe pictures mostly reported by the Western media show that Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of the capitalâs airport after Talibanâs takeover of the capital. But, it also can be seen from many other photos that the streets of the Afghan capital are still crowded with people, vehicles are constantly moving, and there is no riot or bloodshed throughout the city. \nWestern media have always blamed corruption for the defeat of government forces. It can be considered that the U.S. system has not solved the problem of corruption in Afghanistan. No Western media would admit that todayâs situation in Afghanistan is the result of the choice made by most people, which may suggest the failure of the implementation of the American system. \nIt is worth noting that the Afghan people are not positive about the system of voting for the president. Afghanistan has a population of 38 million, with only 9.7 million registered voters. The number of voters in 2019 was only 1.6 million, which is far from that of the American people who voted at the risk of their lives during the coronavirus outbreak.\nDuring the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the United States has received a lot of help from Afghan people. Many local people acted as translators, drivers, engineers, etc. for the U.S. military. At present, the safety of these people is under threat, because the U.S. forces are leaving Afghanistan. Although the international community has been calling for it for a long time, the United States has made slow progress in immigration work for this group of people. Biden has been under great pressure, but it is still difficult to promote it. \nGenerally speaking, the Afghan civilians who have helped the U.S. forces can be regarded as people who agree with American values, but the first batch of people to obtain immigrant visas waited until the end of July this year.\nIf it is so difficult for the United States to recognize and accept Afghan people, then it is a pseudo-proposition to require Afghanistan to recognize the American system from the very beginning.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":79,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":140267298,"gmtCreate":1625662655614,"gmtModify":1703745862466,"author":{"id":"4087962553382210","authorId":"4087962553382210","name":"DDRuirong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e62b9f0ee7be0f31ba8377413632ae92","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087962553382210","authorIdStr":"4087962553382210"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Letâs do it","listText":"Letâs do it","text":"Letâs do it","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/140267298","repostId":"2149392711","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149392711","pubTimestamp":1625658900,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2149392711?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-07-07 19:55","market":"us","language":"en","title":"2 Top Growth Stocks to Buy Right Now","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149392711","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"The digital ad market is growing quickly, and both of these tech companies should benefit.","content":"<p>Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner has often said: \"Winners keep on winning.\" In other words, don't be afraid to buy a stock just because its share price has appreciated significantly -- those stocks can still be great places to put your money. That may seem counterintuitive, but David's advice has led to some of my most rewarding investments.</p>\n<p><b>Pinterest</b> (NYSE:PINS) and <b>The Trade Desk</b> (NASDAQ:TTD) have both crushed the market over the last two years, surging 195% and 227%, respectively, in that time. But I think these winners still have plenty of room to run.</p>\n<p>Here's why.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0738d08072508747d71cb7900b45d24a\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images</p>\n<h2>1. Pinterest</h2>\n<p>Pinterest is designed for inspiration. Its platform blends visual search with social media, allowing users to discover, curate, and share collections of images and videos. In other words, people come to Pinterest looking for ideas, which makes it a great place for brands to reach consumers.</p>\n<p>To that end, Pinterest introduced several new tools for marketers last year. Brands can now transform their profiles into storefronts, upload product catalogs more quickly, and automate the bidding process for digital ads.</p>\n<p>Pinterest also launched new measurement tools, making it easier for brands to analyze campaign performance and attribute results to its platform. Notably, management believes ads on Pinterest offer 2.3 times better cost per conversion compared to other social media.</p>\n<p>Collectively, the company's business model creates a strong network effect. As more people use Pinterest to find inspiration, marketers benefit from a larger audience; and as more brands advertise on Pinterest, users benefit from a wider selection of inspirational content. That dynamic has translated into rapid growth.</p>\n<table>\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th><p>Metric</p></th>\n <th><p>2017</p></th>\n <th><p>Q1 2021 (TTM)</p></th>\n <th><p>CAGR</p></th>\n </tr>\n </thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>Monthly active users</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>216 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>478 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>28%</p></td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>Revenue</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>$472.8 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>$1.9 billion</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>54%</p></td>\n </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Data source: Pinterest SEC filings. TTM = trailing 12 months. CAGR = compound annual growth rate.</p>\n<p>Since 2017, Pinterest's revenue has grown almost twice as fast as monthly active users on its platform. That means marketers are willing to pay more to reach each user, an indication of the platform's growing value. And as Pinterest continues to onboard new content, investors should expect that trend to continue.</p>\n<p>Here's the big picture: According to eMarketer, digital ad spend hit $378 billion worldwide in 2020, and that figure will only expand in the years ahead. Moreover, Pinterest has $2 billion in cash and short-term investments on its balance sheet, but no long-term debt -- and that gives the company plenty of firepower to capitalize on its massive market opportunity.</p>\n<h2>2. The Trade Desk</h2>\n<p>The Trade Desk helps advertisers plan, launch, and measure data-driven campaigns across channels like desktop, mobile, and connected TV. The company works with over 300 partners, giving clients access to a robust range of third-party data and digital ad inventory.</p>\n<p>Its platform also leans on artificial intelligence, allowing clients to automate and optimize campaigns in real time. In fact, its Koa predictive engine uses artificial intelligence to analyze nearly 11 million impressions each second. That improves the accuracy of targeted ads, driving efficiency for clients.</p>\n<p>The Trade Desk also benefits from significant scale. As the most popular independent buy-side platform, it delivers more ads, measures more results, and collects more data than most rivals. In other words, The Trade Desk has a better understanding of which ads will resonate with which consumers. And those insights are continuously fed back into its AI models, improving Koa's predictive capabilities over time.</p>\n<p>That virtuous cycle has been a powerful growth driver, helping the company exceed a 95% retention rate over the last seven years.</p>\n<table>\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th><p>Metric</p></th>\n <th><p>2017</p></th>\n <th><p>Q1 2021 (TTM)</p></th>\n <th><p>CAGR</p></th>\n </tr>\n </thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>Revenue</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>$308.2 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>$895.2 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>39%</p></td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>Free cash flow</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>$18.2 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>$352.3 million</p></td>\n <td width=\"156\"><p>149%</p></td>\n </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Data source: The Trade Desk SEC filings. TTM = trailing-12-months. CAGR = compound annual growth rate.</p>\n<p>Investors should note that, unlike many high-growth tech companies, The Trade Desk is profitable. Since 2017, earnings have grown at 56% per year to reach $4.86 per diluted share. In other words, The Trade Desk has demonstrated that its business model is viable, despite competition from ad tech giants like <b>Alphabet</b>'s Google.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the digital ad market is expected grow at 14% per year, reaching $645 billion by 2024, according to eMarketer. The Trade Desk is growing much faster, and if the company can maintain that momentum, it should continue to gain market share in the years ahead. 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That may seem counterintuitive, but David's advice has led to some of my most rewarding investments.\nPinterest (NYSE:PINS) and The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) have both crushed the market over the last two years, surging 195% and 227%, respectively, in that time. But I think these winners still have plenty of room to run.\nHere's why.\n\nImage source: Getty Images\n1. Pinterest\nPinterest is designed for inspiration. Its platform blends visual search with social media, allowing users to discover, curate, and share collections of images and videos. In other words, people come to Pinterest looking for ideas, which makes it a great place for brands to reach consumers.\nTo that end, Pinterest introduced several new tools for marketers last year. Brands can now transform their profiles into storefronts, upload product catalogs more quickly, and automate the bidding process for digital ads.\nPinterest also launched new measurement tools, making it easier for brands to analyze campaign performance and attribute results to its platform. Notably, management believes ads on Pinterest offer 2.3 times better cost per conversion compared to other social media.\nCollectively, the company's business model creates a strong network effect. As more people use Pinterest to find inspiration, marketers benefit from a larger audience; and as more brands advertise on Pinterest, users benefit from a wider selection of inspirational content. That dynamic has translated into rapid growth.\n\n\n\nMetric\n2017\nQ1 2021 (TTM)\nCAGR\n\n\n\n\nMonthly active users\n216 million\n478 million\n28%\n\n\nRevenue\n$472.8 million\n$1.9 billion\n54%\n\n\n\nData source: Pinterest SEC filings. TTM = trailing 12 months. CAGR = compound annual growth rate.\nSince 2017, Pinterest's revenue has grown almost twice as fast as monthly active users on its platform. That means marketers are willing to pay more to reach each user, an indication of the platform's growing value. And as Pinterest continues to onboard new content, investors should expect that trend to continue.\nHere's the big picture: According to eMarketer, digital ad spend hit $378 billion worldwide in 2020, and that figure will only expand in the years ahead. Moreover, Pinterest has $2 billion in cash and short-term investments on its balance sheet, but no long-term debt -- and that gives the company plenty of firepower to capitalize on its massive market opportunity.\n2. The Trade Desk\nThe Trade Desk helps advertisers plan, launch, and measure data-driven campaigns across channels like desktop, mobile, and connected TV. The company works with over 300 partners, giving clients access to a robust range of third-party data and digital ad inventory.\nIts platform also leans on artificial intelligence, allowing clients to automate and optimize campaigns in real time. In fact, its Koa predictive engine uses artificial intelligence to analyze nearly 11 million impressions each second. That improves the accuracy of targeted ads, driving efficiency for clients.\nThe Trade Desk also benefits from significant scale. As the most popular independent buy-side platform, it delivers more ads, measures more results, and collects more data than most rivals. In other words, The Trade Desk has a better understanding of which ads will resonate with which consumers. And those insights are continuously fed back into its AI models, improving Koa's predictive capabilities over time.\nThat virtuous cycle has been a powerful growth driver, helping the company exceed a 95% retention rate over the last seven years.\n\n\n\nMetric\n2017\nQ1 2021 (TTM)\nCAGR\n\n\n\n\nRevenue\n$308.2 million\n$895.2 million\n39%\n\n\nFree cash flow\n$18.2 million\n$352.3 million\n149%\n\n\n\nData source: The Trade Desk SEC filings. TTM = trailing-12-months. CAGR = compound annual growth rate.\nInvestors should note that, unlike many high-growth tech companies, The Trade Desk is profitable. Since 2017, earnings have grown at 56% per year to reach $4.86 per diluted share. In other words, The Trade Desk has demonstrated that its business model is viable, despite competition from ad tech giants like Alphabet's Google.\nLooking ahead, the digital ad market is expected grow at 14% per year, reaching $645 billion by 2024, according to eMarketer. The Trade Desk is growing much faster, and if the company can maintain that momentum, it should continue to gain market share in the years ahead. That's why this growth stock is still a buy.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":101,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}