US inflation for July has officially cooled to 8.5%. That’s a decent reprieve from the 41-year high figure of 9.1% in June. For investors, this is a good sign that ‘peak inflation’ may really be behind us.
With roughly a US$1 billion market cap, and a fairly niche investment banking business model, AMTD wasn’t exactly turning heads. By all accounts, it seemed just like any other newly listed small-cap stock.
Earlier this week, my colleague Kiryll Prakapenka put together a fantastic article on ‘Buy now, pay later’ companies. Or BNPL stocks, as most people know them.
Overnight the US GDP data was released, and the result was damning. A 0.9% decline for the second quarter in a row has tipped the US economy into a technical recession.
Overnight Jerome Powell and his colleagues delivered the expected news: a 75-basis-point rise has been declared for US interest rates.
Australian investors, in particular, have seen the cannabis investing trend go from boom to bust in a very short time. Just like some other recent fads like ‘buy now, pay later’, baby formula, and more.
Don’t expect any one stablecoin, whether it’s backed by the government or not, to rule. It seems much more likely that we’ll see a variety of tokens thrive and see successful adoption.
Amidst the chaos of the past two years, Aussie investors have seen a handful of trends come and go. But the one trend that has been largely forgotten is baby formula…
A huge mid-week sell-off in the key commodity has sent shockwaves across markets. It seems as though all the indicators are beginning to price in a US recession.
With the way things are shaping up between automakers, EVs are quickly becoming a hot commodity. And I’m not just talking about Tesla here.
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