My Freeloaders having breakfast..

Something beautiful..

 

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Poor Asian countries face an ageing crisis

In South and South-East Asia less than 40% of the elderly population gets a pension, according to the International Labour Organisation. In Cambodia and Pakistan, the share is less than 10%. And the pensions that are on offer are meagre. India’s national pension for the poor provides a measly Rs200 ($2.40) a month.

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Instrument Name	Close	Symbol
3M Ord Shs	86.55	MMM
Alaska Air Group Ord Shs	32.02	ALK
Albemarle Ord Shs	138.68	ALB
Amcor Ord Shs	8.51	AMCR.K
American Airlines Group Ord Shs	11.08	AAL.O
American Water Works Ord Shs	115.8	AWK
Bio Rad Laboratories Ord Shs Class A	310.79	BIO
CBRE Group Ord Shs Class A	67.49	CBRE.K
Citigroup Ord Shs	39.68	C
Citizens Financial Group Ord Shs	23.76	CFG
Corning Ord Shs	27.17	GLW
Discover Financial Services Ord Shs	82.19	DFS
Dominion Energy Ord Shs	40.02	D
Eastman Chemical Ord Shs	71.29	EMN
Enphase Energy Ord Shs	98.89	ENPH.O
Estee Lauder Ord Shs Class A	137.3	EL
Eversource Energy Ord Shs	53.5	ES
Extra Space Storage REIT Ord Shs	109.59	EXR
Generac Holdings Ord Shs	88.38	GNRC.K
Genuine Parts Ord Shs	128.63	GPC
Healthpeak Properties Ord Shs	16.62	PEAK.K
Henry Schein Ord Shs	68.31	HSIC.O
Hormel Foods Ord Shs	31.42	HRL
IDEX Ord Shs	192.73	IEX
Illumina Ord Shs	119.64	ILMN.O
Incyte Ord Shs	55.13	INCY.O
Interpublic Group of Companies Ord Shs	27.69	IPG
Invesco Ord Shs	12.7	IVZ
Johnson Controls International Ord Shs	48.71	JCI
Keysight Technologies Ord Shs	122.82	KEYS.K
LKQ Ord Shs	48.52	LKQ.O
Moderna Ord Shs	80.4	MRNA.O
Northern Trust Ord Shs	64.28	NTRS.O
Organon Ord Shs	15.9	OGN
Paramount Global Ord Shs Class B	11.5	PARA.O
PayPal Holdings Ord Shs	53.39	PYPL.O
Pfizer Ord Shs	30.65	PFE
ProLogis REIT Ord Shs	102.43	PLD
Public Storage REIT Ord Shs	251.19	PSA
Regions Financial Ord Shs	14.44	RF
Solaredge Technologies Ord Shs	82.9	SEDG.O
Southwest Airlines Ord Shs	24.2	LUV
T Rowe Price Group Ord Shs	96.33	TROW.O
Texas Instrument Ord Shs	147.81	TXN.O
Thermo Fisher Scientific Ord Shs	464.36	TMO
Tractor Supply Ord Shs	195.27	TSCO.O
Tyson Foods Ord Shs Class A	46.29	TSN
UDR REIT Ord Shs	34.7	UDR
Ulta Beauty Ord Shs	371.85	ULTA.O
United Airlines Holdings Ord Shs	35.09	UAL.O
Vici Pptys Ord Shs	27.51	VICI.K
Zebra Technologies Ord Shs Class A	204.55	ZBRA.O

 

Notes today:

 

• Americans are falling behind on their auto loans at the highest rate in nearly three decades. 

• We breathe in about 16 bits of microplastic every hour, the equivalent of a credit card each week, according to a recent study published in the journal Physics of Fluids. 

• Less than one in ten of British voters believe that Brexit has gone well. 

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Notes today:

 

• The first time in US history that House speaker is removed from office. 

• Delta is the latest carrier and fourth major US airline to disclose the use of fake parts. 

• GM’s sales rose 21% in the third quarter to 674,336 vehicles, pushing up its total deliveries this year by 19%. The Detroit automaker’s biggest, most profitable models sold briskly, with deliveries of its GMC Sierra pickup rising 46% and Chevrolet Silverado up 22%. The Chevy Traverse and Buick Enclave SUVs posted gains of 27% and 33%, respectively. 

 

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Notes today:

• Gen Z’s dept spending..“The shocking thing for me as a counselor is they don’t know what an A.P.R., or annual percentage rate, is. They don’t know how to budget. They don’t know how to track their expenses,” she said. “Some of them don’t even know what a credit report is or what that means.” 

• AI is poised to revolutionize our understanding of animal communication. 

• The last 4 times the 10Y Minus 3M Treasury Yield Curve inverted..
  
  
  

  

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Notes today:

• US 12 hours away from shutdown. If  Congress doesn’t reach an agreement by midnight Saturday, lines will be longer at airports, and national parks including Joshua Tree will close..

• While current financial conditions  - the tightest this year.

 

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Notes today:

• The euro zone’s annual inflation rate fell to 4.3% in September, down from 5.2% in August and its lowest rate in almost two years. 

• With two days left before a likely US government shutdown, White House staff are getting guidance about how they will be affected by a government shutdown.

• Swiss glaciers have lost 10% of their volume in just two years..

• Trump’s civil-fraud trial will probably begin next Monday, after an appeals court in New York rejected his lawsuit.

• The 1.4bn, users of the Windows operating system are about  to get a dose of cutting-edge AI. MSFT (trailing 12 month) ROE = 38.82 ROA= 18.63

 

 

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Notes Today:

•  Michigan woman pulled from outhouse toilet  
• after climbing in for Apple watch. “She was in the muck, if you will,” said a Michigan state police spokesman, Derrick Carroll, to the Detroit Free Press.
•  China it seems is not quite quitting the iPhone. The new iPhones sold out on China’s Tmall within a minute of becoming available, the site’s operator, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said on Monday. 

• US Housing affordability declined to lowest level on record.
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• The CEO of Chevron predicts that oil will soon surpass $100 per barrel.
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How Faking Videos Got So Easy and Why It’s a Threat

Now that artificial intelligence allows anyone with a smartphone to conjure up lifelike images and sound from seemingly nothing, it’s getting harder to tell if what you see and hear online is reality or fiction. 

 

Notes Today: 

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial..

• American firms in China are the gloomiest they’ve been in decades about the prospect of doing business in the Asian nation over the next few years as geopolitical tensions and the slowing economy hurt sentiment.

• Bloomberg: Despite wins against the US Securities and Exchange Commission and new Bitcoin ETF filings, investors withdrew nearly half a billion dollars from cryptocurrency products over the last nine weeks. 

• The   World’s top 10 Polluters

 

• UAW Chief Fain Rejects 21% Pay Increase Offer as a ‘No-Go’

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Notes Today: 

Toyota's Solid-State Batteries  Will Offer Over 900 Miles On A Single Charge

• Toyota has over 1,000 patents in solid-state battery research
• First-gen solid-state batteries will allow up to 745 miles of range
• Second-gen solid-state batteries will push this to 932 miles
• Expect charging times to also get better and faster..
•  Toyota versus Tesla chart
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•  “Despite the ongoing war, Ukrainian start-ups brought in more than $6 billion in revenue in 2022 — $542 million more than in 2021 — and have tripled in valuation since 2020,” according to an April 2023 report by Michał Kramarz, head of Google for Startups, Central and Eastern Europe. In a normal year, Ukraine was graduating 130,000 engineers — more than Germany and France.

• On this date in 1939, acting as the ally of Nazi Germany, the USSR invaded Poland, claiming that it was acting to protect national minorities and that the Polish state did not exist.        Timothy Snyder

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The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood

Two and a half millennia ago, Socrates complained that writing would harm students.

 

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