Notes today:
China Containerized Freight Index
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%
Jan 2, 2024
- Amazon.com (AMZN) $155.34 1.84
1.20% ...
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
- 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.
- 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. 😉