U.S. Economy

Big Companies’ CEOs Spotted Selling Their Shares Before Net Investment Income Tax Rules Come into Effect

Top executives and the company leaders like the Waltons, Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s co-founders have sold $63.5 billion worth of stakes in their companies through November, up 50% from 2020.

U.S. Economy

Elon Musk Sees Problem Not in Too Many Teslas, but in Too Few Buyers

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants people to have more babies. “There are not enough people,” Musk told a Wall Street Journal event this week.

Investing Ideas

Coupa Software Earnings Confirm Fundamental Attractiveness of Cloud Platforms

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP) reported its Q3 earnings results on Monday, December 6, 2021.

U.S. Economy

Black Friday’s and Cyber Monday’s Combined Retail Sales Didn’t Live Up to Investors’ Expectations

U.S. Cyber Monday sales were flat, as online retailers offered fewer discounts because of limited inventory and more shoppers returned to stores for purchases.

International

Indian Economy Sees New Crucial Threats from Omicron Variant

UBS said “New flare-ups of Covid infections [both ongoing and yet coming] in India, and particularly the emergence of new Covid strains against which currently available vaccinations provide little or no protection are probably the biggest downside risk,”.

U.S. Economy

U.S. Foreign Trade Deficit Trimmed in October but Remains Historically Elevated

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in seasonally adjusted terms, the U.S. foreign trade deficit slowed down to a monthly pace of 14.6% to reach a still-alarming $82.9 billion.

International

China Becomes Concerned about “Quasi-Stagflation” as Developers Face Mounting Troubles

According to Bloomberg, Liu Shijin, an adviser to the People’s Bank of China, the country’s economy may face a period of “quasi-stagflation” with relatively slow growth and excessively high producer-price inflation.

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Largest U.S. Department Stores Upbeat on Upcoming Holiday Shopping Season

Macy's (M) stocks rallied after reporting comparable sales increased 37.2% on a comparable basis in Q3 and were up 35.6% on an owned-plus-licensed basis during the quarter.

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J&J’s Company Split Action May Trigger Series of Biochemical and Pharma Corporate Restructurings

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is the latest big, diversified company to announce it is breaking into smaller parts.

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Musk’s Twitter Poll on Selling His Tesla Shares Turned Out to Be a Prank

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold $1.1 billion worth of company stock for tax reasons on Monday, according to financial filings.

International

Food Prices Keep Rising Globally

The United Nations unveiled that global food prices have surged to the highest level in more than a decade, driven by robust demand, supply bottlenecks and lackluster harvests.

U.S. Economy

Investors Stiff Their Upper Lip Eyeing Fed’s Firm Stance on Bond Purchase Tapering

Stock-market investors took the Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to begin tapering its monthly bond purchases without a hysteria, erasing early losses to see the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 index and Nasdaq Composite score a fourth consecutive round of record closes.

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Edward Snowden Likes Bitcoin and Doge, but Wary of Shiba Inu

According to Benzinga, in a recent tweet, the famous whistleblower in exile Edward Snowden warned about unleashing investing hype around Shiba Inu (SHIB) and said that people should not invest their hard-earned money in a "clone of dog money".

International

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is Upbeat on U.K.’s Economy and His Spending Plans

Multi-billion pound spending on health care services and transport were among the plans British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak announced in his latest budget statement on Wednesday.