One year ago, on February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization found the name for what has been shaping our lives ever since: COVID-19. “Under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organ…
While it doesn’t grab as many headlines as other social media companies, Pinterest has been doing remarkably well in recent years. So well in fact that it caught the eye of one of the industry’s heavyweights. According to the Financial Times, Microsoft…
More and more people are looking for (and finding) a partner with the help of dating apps and platforms. According to Statista’s Digital Market Outlook, online dating services are expected to have reached 370 million active users worldwide by the end o…
Despite Covid-19 restrictions, many Americans are planning to press on and celebrate Valentine’s Day regardless. This year, the National Retail Federation has forecast total spending in the U.S. will reach $21.8 billion, though that does represent a co…
President Joe Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportations remains in legal limbo after being blocked by a federal judge in Texas at the end of January. But the halt as well several executive orders signed on immigration signal that the new administratio…
With the number of new Covid-19 cases dropping 25 percent to 825,000 last week, the largest weekly fall in new infections since the pandemic started, the U.S. has finally gained some momentum in its battle to curb Covid-19. A Reuters analysis found tha…
Back in 2008-2009, I chronicled how the Primary Dealers caused the stock market crash. They were the most important and least recognized cause of what the media has labeled the Great Financial Crisis.
The dealers were overleveraged and positioned wrong then. They are overleveraged and positioned wrong today.
Need I say more?
You know what it means.
Here’s the expanded 2 hour bar chart. Allow yourself to see the big picture.
Click to engorge.
Zooming in to one hour bars, the uptrend is slowing, but it is still an uptrend.
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Today’s Fed QE
Aside from finally breaking past the billion-dollar mark for revenue, the headline figure focused on by Twitter in its Q4 2019 earnings release was its increase in monetizable daily active usage (mDAU). The year-over-year growth rate of 21 percent repr…