To The Moon

Bitcoin to the moon!! Bitcoin has achieved a new all-time high and has been hovering around US$70,000 mark. Bitcoin's recent mining reward halving has altered the market in such a way that it could potentially lead to cryptocurrency's demand being five times greater than that of supply. The per-block reward paid to miners was cut in half from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. Over time, the impact of each halving will diminish as the block reward approaches one satoshi. This rewards system will continue until about 2140, when the proposed limit of 21 million coins is reached. At that point, miners will be rewarded with fees for processing transactions, which network users will pay. These fees ensure miners are still incentivized to participate and keep the network going. As of October 2023, about 19

Pull-back presents a good opportunity?? The introduction of AI has resulted in huge rally in most semiconductor-related stocks. Notably, $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  was one of the biggest winners gaining ~240+% in a year due to the significant improvement in its quarterly revenue. Nvidia recently announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips (Blackwell) and software for running artificial intelligence models. The announcement comes as the chipmaker seeks to solidify its position as the go-to supplier for AI companies. Nvidia's high-end server GPUs are essential for training and deploying large AI models. Companies like Microsoft and Meta have spent billions of dollars buying the chips. Nvidia is enticing

Pull-back presents a good opportunity?? The introduction of AI has resulted in huge rally in most semiconductor-related stocks. Notably, $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$   was one of the biggest winners gaining ~240+% in a year due to the significant improvement in its quarterly revenue. Nvidia recently announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips (Blackwell) and software for running artificial intelligence models. The announcement comes as the chipmaker seeks to solidify its position as the go-to supplier for AI companies. Nvidia's high-end server GPUs are essential for training and deploying large AI models. Companies like Microsoft and Meta have spent billions of dollars buying the chips. Nvidia is ent

Potential delisting of $Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.(FFIE)$  ?? Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today announced that it received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC dated April 24, 2024. The letter indicated that, as a result, the Nasdaq staff has determined to delist the Company's securities from The Nasdaq Capital Market. If the Company fails to appeal the Delisting Determination by May 1, 2024, trading of the Company’s common stock will be suspended at the opening of business on May 3, 2024, and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which will remove the Company's se

Sector rotation? Time to take profits on your tech stocks?? We have seen huge rallies in technology-related over the last few months, particularly the AI-related enjoyed the biggest rallies among all the technology-related sectors.  Recently, there's several news of semiconductor companies being awarded grants amounting to billions of US dollars to set up manufacturing plants in US. The key motivation behind the huge generosity from the US government is due to the severe semiconductor supply chain disruption and culmination of years of political wranglin to bolster US competitiveness in the semiconductor industry, which is viewed as essential to national and economic security. Particularly, US semiconductor manufacturing capacity has dropped from nearly 40% of global supply in 19

Bitcoin to the moon!!  Bitcoin (BTC) has achieved a new all-time high and has been hovering around US$70,000 mark. Bitcoin's recent mining reward halving has altered the market in such a way that it could potentially lead to cryptocurrency's demand being five times greater than that of supply. The per-block reward paid to miners was cut in half from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. Over time, the impact of each halving will diminish as the block reward approaches one satoshi. This rewards system will continue until about 2140, when the proposed limit of 21 million coins is reached. At that point, miners will be rewarded with fees for processing transactions, which network users will pay. These fees ensure miners are still incentivized to participate and keep the network going. As of O

Are u still buying EV stocks? Most of the EV companies remain unprofitable and they are still burning more cash to build up on their infrastructure and expansion. A few EV companies (Lordstown Motors, Proterra) have declared bankruptcy recently and the next potential in line is probably EV start-up company Fisker.  Furthermore, the ongoing price war is likely to hurt their profit margin even further and they are likely to remain unprofitable in the near future. Like most new industries, eventually only a few companies would emerge victorious! . Unlike BYD, Tesla or Li Auto, most EV companies clearly have issues scaling up their production significantly. The competition in the EV market has intensified as numerous traditional car markers (Mercedes-Benz, BMW etc) are also investing and

Weak Share Buybacks and Pension Funds' Rebalancing Could Upset the Market!! The market faced short-term pressure this week as some cautious investors are becoming concerned about potential large-scale stock sell-offs by pension funds due to quarterly rebalancing, coupled with the weakening purchasing power of corporate buybacks, a key force in the market. Hence, we need to understand why are pension funds selling now and what are the potential implications? Pension funds and other institutional investors conduct quarterly and monthly checks on their market risk exposure to ensure that their asset allocation aligns with established targets while controlling portfolio risk. This typically involves reallocation between stocks and bonds. In general, if the stock market performs well, the propo

$Blackstone Group LP(BX)$   Largest alternative asset management with more than 1 trillion AUM! I love businesses that can generate increasing revenues!! It focuses on alternative investment and currently had US$1.04 trillion AUM. Based on their last earning report, they have 4 core pillars; real estate (US$336.9 billion, up 3.3% yoy), private equity (US$304 billion, up 5.2% yoy), credit and insurance (US$318.9 billion, up 13.9% yoy), hedge fund solutions (US$80.3 billion, up 0.75% yoy). ▪Total AUM increased to $1,040 billion, up 7% year-over-year, with $52.7 billion of inflows in the quarter and $148.5 billion for the year ▪Fee-Earning AUM of $762.6 billion was up 6% year-over-year, with $44.6 billion of inflows in the quarter and $119.4 billi

Impending short squeeze?! First of all, what is a short squeeze?? It is a situation in which the price of a stock rises to such an extent that investors who have sold short purchase the stock in order to limit their losses, causing the price to rise further. The share price of $Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.(FFIE)$   has dropped around 90+% YTD since the beginning of year 2024. Its market cap is currently at ~$4million and has a high short interest of ~86% (36.3 mil out of 42 mil shares,were shorted as of 15 Feb 2024). https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/ffie/short-interest Although it only sold 10 cars to date, the company is selling highly niche ultra-luxury cars. One FF 91 2.0 Futuris