The global chip shortage has been a pressing issue for all of 2021 and will likely continue throughout 2022, as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Yahoo Finance in November of last year. Nevertheless, Huang’s company is hitting this worldwide issue in stride…
FEEDWell, I guess the “R-Word” is off limits, so I’ll instead refer to the denizens of WSB as brain-dead. At least until the Association for Brain-Dead Dignity comes after me, at which time I’ll be foreclosed from using the R…
We only rolled out the awesome new Layers feature late last night, and I’m having a ball with it. As I mentioned, the one feature I really want to add is the ability to Save charts, so rest assured, that’s coming. Let me offer an exampl…
So when the gambler ends up juggling lit sticks of dynamite, he’s confident nothing bad can happen because nothing bad has ever happened, no matter how much risk he takes on.
UK inflation (CPI) hit 5.5 percent in January – the highest since 1992 when it stood at 7.1 percent and was on the verge of crashing down to just 2.2 percent a few months later. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics also put the in…
As international travel came to a near complete standstill in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the aviation industry suffered what it described as “the worst year in history for air travel demand”. According to the International Air Transport Associa…
Average Mortgage Size in the United States increased to 453 Thousand USD in February 11 from 446.90 Thousand USD in the previous week. Average Mortgage Size in the United States averaged 211.82 Thousand USD from 1990 until 2022, reaching an all time hi…
After seeing its bookings cut by more than 40 percent due to the pandemic in 2020, Airbnb bounced back remarkably well in 2021. Despite Covid’s persistent dampening effect on international travel, the short-term rental market leader reported a 56-perce…
It’s big picture time! Here are nine important futures markets with many decades of data:
The graph below shows the stock market (in blue, by way of the SPY) and the junk bond market (by way of JNK, although you just as easily look at SJNK, HYG, EMB, or a variety of other debt-sensitive instruments). My view is that credit will lead the…