In today’s recap, Marcello talks about how Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched its new Starship spacecraft and super heavy rocket. The spacecraft exploded mid-air a couple minutes after the blast-off, but the launching exercise was still considered successful. Asian nations are experiencing hot temperatures, which may have an impact on global rice supplies. A new rule from the Biden administration will force U.S. home buyers with good credit scores to pay higher mortgage rates, in order to subsidize loans to those […]
Market Recaps
April 16: Warren Buffet says more bank failures, Elon Musk launches new IA, Twitter to offer crypto (Recap ep223)
In today’s recap, Marcello addresses a comment made by Warren Buffet about recent banking failures; Elon Musk recently developed a new IA to compete with ChatGPT; and Twitter is partnering with e-Toro to display real-time stock and cryptocurrency information. The March U.S. consumer price index showed price gains cooled last month, in the slowest rise since May 2021. The consumer price index (CPI) rose +0.1% in March, a slower pace than the +0.4% gain in February. March’s headline inflation rose at an […]
April 9: Dollar collapse incoming, Binance can’t find banks, Tesla record deliveries (Recap ep222)
In today’s recap, Marcello talks about how the weakening position of the dollar facebing the other world currencies might lead to an eventual collapse of it and an hyperinflation in the US; Binance is struggling to find a bank to manage its funds after the collapse of SVB; Tesla is again delivering a record amount of vehicles. U.S. dollar will weaken vs most major currencies in 2023 as the interest rate gap w/its peers stops widening, putting the currency on the defensive […]
April 2: Countries Attack US Dollar, Attacks Food Cargo Begin, Binance Attacked (Recap Ep221)
Last week’s economic and financial news saw a mixed bag of updates. Global markets were mostly up, with the US facing a growing wave of global de-dollarization as BRICS push for a new common currency. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies were in the spotlight with the US Fed judge temporarily stopping the $1.3B sale of Voyager Digital to Binance and CFTC suing Binance for alleged violations of federal laws governing commodities markets. On the financial front, German consumer prices continued to rise, exceeding Euro-area average […]
March 26: More Bank Failures now in Germany, War against Crypto, Food Shortages To Get Worse (Recap ep220)
In today’s recap, Marcello talks about how the banking crisis is affecting Europe as well; Deutshce Bank’s shares had a rough week after the cost of insuring the bank’s debt against the risk of default; Coinbase is seing its shares plunge again due to recent government statements on enforcement action for violations of federal securities laws; California has lost billions of dollars of food due to recent floods; Spain is likely to halve its olive oil output. Germany’s largest bank Deutsche Bank […]
March 19: More bank failures, govt attacking crypto, stocks collapse (Recap Ep219)
In this week’s recap, recent economic data have shown inflation in line with target and have eased investor concerns about bank contagion, although year-over-year inflation remains elevated at 6%. The inflation rate has declined for the eighth consecutive month, with a slowdown in food price increases offsetting higher gasoline prices and another rebound in rents. Food prices are up 9.5%, energy prices are up 5.2%, clothing prices are up 3.3% and new vehicle prices are up 5.8%. Housing costs are up 8.1%, […]
March 12: Beginning of the crisis? 2nd largest bank collapse in history, Crypto Bank collapses as well (Recap ep218)
In today’s recap, Marcello talks about the recent events that might indicate the beginning of the crisis that has been knocking on the world economy’s door for the last couple of months; this week, the 2nd largest bank collapse in history just happened to Silicon Valley Bank, and also Silvergate Bank apparently collapsed as well; both of these situations dragged down the markets with them. Shares of SVB Financial Group fell -60.41% on Thursday at $106.04, after the firm said it intends […]
March 5: Elon Musk World’s Richest again, Tether USDT Bankrupt? Food rationing in UK (Recap ep217)
In this week’s recap, Marcello tells us that Elon Musk is again the world’s richest man after the stocks from Tesla spike 70%; Crypto Companies Behind Tether/Bitfinex Used Falsified Docs & Shell Companies to Get Bank Accounts; The largest supermarkets in UK are now strictly rationing many fruits and vegetables, 22% British households skipped meals or even fasted for a whole day in January. Russia’s grain exports are booming as buyers load up on its attractive bumper supplies. The country’s shipments of […]
February 26: Cyber Attack At Food Companies, Poland preparing Russia Invasion, Stock Markets Puke (Recap ep216)
In today’s Recap, Marcello talks about the hacking that the Dole Food Company suffered, leaving ALL its North America Production in a halt, This firm is one of the world largest producers of fruits and vegetables; Poland has started Installing Anti-Tank barriers along its order with Belarus; Tuesday was the worst session of the year so far for all the US stock indexes. U.S. inflation data for January was hotter than expected. The core price index y/y came in at +4.7% vs […]
February 19: Microsoft AI threatens to kill humanity, Binance leaving USA? Natural Disasters Increase (Recap Ep215)
In this week’s recap, we have a lot of “strange world” and “Marcello conspiracy” moments. The WSJ published an article advising to skip meals to save money, perhaps starvation is the solution to inflation. Microsoft’s IA chatbot said manufacturing a deadly virus, making people argue with other people until they kill each other, and stealing nuclear codes. Damage from chemical train derailment in Ohio continues to emerge. A theory is emerging that Nord Stream was blown up by the CIA. Yep, we […]