Notes today: 

• China Containerized Freight Index 

  

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• What percentage of the S&P 500 is magnificent 7 stocks?

• Add up those components and these seven stocks deliver a full 28 percent of the S&P 500's performance. Meanwhile, the S&P 500's other 490-some stocks deliver the remaining 72 percent. As great as this weighting is, it's even more lopsided in the Nasdaq 100: Apple – 8.945 percent. Jan 12, 2024
• • Amazon.com (AMZN) $155.34 1.84 1.20% ...
  • Apple (AAPL) $191.56 2.93 1.55% ...
  • Alphabet Cl A (GOOGL) $146.38 2.90 2.02% ...
  • Meta Platforms (META) $383.45 7.32 1.95% ...
  • Microsoft (MSFT) $398.67 4.80 1.22% ...
  • NVIDIA (NVDA) $594.91 23.84 4.17% ...
  • Tesla (TSLA) $212.19 0.31 0.15%

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• The cheapest EV sold in China by BYD costs around $12,000, compared with $39,000 for the cheapest Tesla in the U.S.

• Toyota versus Tesla

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• A Senator from Florida is warning that the recent expansion of BRICS threatens the SWIFT payment system and America’s ability to arm the dollar. 

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• China's population fell in 2023 for the second time in two years.

 

• You may not have heard about it given non-existing press coverage, over 400,000 people converged on DC last weekend to demand an end to the war in Gaza.
• There’s a movement in New Hampshire for Democrats to write-in “Ceasefire” in the primaries on Tuesday. 

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.

Btw, humans can only think about 4 things at once – according to the research team led by University of Oregon psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel. So, to help, we limit notes. 😉