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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and ASML play very different but equally important roles in the semiconductor value chain. Halliburton is jockeying for position as a preferred creditor in the event of a change of government in Venezuela and/or an external takeover of the Venezuelan oil industry.

Amazon and Microsoft money out the wazoo, and it shows. Paid $10 on Amazon.com. Amazon announced updates to its main line of AI models, called Nova. The company also plans to let customers bring more data to bear.

Microsoft Surface Pro Laptop is still at all-time low after extending clearance to rival macbook deals. Microsoft wants to stop File Explorer from performing the same indexing tasks over and over again. Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode represents the enterprise approach. For organizations already in the Microsoft ecosystem, this is the path of least.

ExxonMobil Corp (NYSE: XOM) was stuck in limbo for years. In 2007, for instance, Exxon stock traded at roughly $85 per share. ExxonMobil shareholders have crushed the market. Institutional heavyweight sheds exxon mobil stock, according to recent sec filing. Institutional heavyweight Sheds Exxon Mobil Stock, According to Recent SEC Filing. Pudgy Penguins mobile battle royale is GGs 2025 Game of the Year. Robinhood gives Robinhood something the US no longer can: a young, mobile market.

MetroCity Bankshares, Inc. declares quarterly cash dividend. Q2 income retreats, but beats estimates. Q1 epscps 63cps vs. 57cps last year. MetroCity reported net income of $17.3 million.

TrumpRx signs agreement with nine new pharma manufacturers. Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will sell medicines at a discounted price on TrumpRX.

Sanofi shares down 0.25% during premarket trading at $48.25 during pre-market trading. Sanofi had sought approval for the therapy specifically for nonrelapsing SPMS.

In the U.S., few technologies have been on the receiving end of as much popular fear and hatred as generative AI. The difference between our views of old and new technologies isnt necessarily irrational. The more Japan becomes an attractive platform for export production, the more reason there is for Japanese companies and foreign companies to invest in Japan, including investments in R&D and new technologies.

Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) has an attractively high 7.4% dividend yield. Prologis and Rexford have better prospects than Medical Properties.

At the Money: How Japan is already benefitting from greenfield FDI in a few places. How Japan needs to export a lot more to other countries, and how greenfield investment can help do that.

BP P. extended its winning streak for a third straight day on Monday. Overall, BP ranks 9th on our list of Mondays best performers. Government of India reportedly seeking more than US$30 billion in compensation from BP.

Nobody knows where the energy to power the data farms is going to come from and how our antiquated grid will hold up. Data centers could consume 1,200 billion liters by 2030, nearly double the 560 billion litters they use currently.

Home prices exploded by 53% between January 2020 and June 2022. Equinor ASA (0M2Z) Receives a Sell from Barclays Tipranks. Third tranche of the 2025 share buy-back programme for Equinor ASA has now been completed. From 20 October to 24 October 2025, EquinOr ASA has purchased a total of 1,110,666 own shares.

How Johnson & Johnson has somehow survived scandal after scandal, critics have said. Tylenol, among Johnson & Johnsons most trusted brands, almost caused the company to crash. Johnson & Johnson was forced to recall bottles of their iconic baby powder over fears of asbestos poisoning. The same plaintiffs firm, Dean Omar, won a record $966 million talc verdict against J&J earlier this year.

Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows suite for Windows is on sale for $34.97 (reg.97) Microsoft is expected to start pushing these improvements to everyone around late January. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has taken a firm, humanist stance. Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode represents the enterprise approach.

Block, the parent company of Square and Cash App, is trying once again to reset the narrative. Shares of Block (XYZ) had lost 12% over the past three years.

Goldman Sachs expects layoffs to keep rising and says investors are punishing the stocks of companies that slash staff. American retail investors are all in, buying at an unusually aggressive pace. Noah Smith says the public is overwhelmingly negative on AI. Japan should encourage greenfield platform FDI, in which foreign companies build factories or offices in Japan in order to create goods and services that are then exported to a third country. Sakana AI might succeed, but the most likely outcome is that the company will fail.

In real terms, national house prices are 9.4% above the bubble peak levels. Average First-Time Homebuyer Age Was 40 in 2025, up from 33 in 2021. JP Chase has withdrawn almost $350bn in cash. Peak Oil has arrived in the US without fanfare whatsoever, which sets up oil for a major bull run. Wolf Richter says inflation-adjusted wages were either flat or kept up, meaning that growing wages grew as fast or faster than inflation. The yen carry trade has long thrived and helped drive up asset prices in the U.S. and drive down Treasury yields. The 2024 Year in Review (YIR for short) was subtitled, “What is a fact?” It expressed my growing frustration. I suspect that my sources that dependably provide hard facts and hilarious anecdotes have become corrupted. The Boom-Bust Panel focused on the AI bubble while the audience was mesmerized by Peters shirt. US dollar share drops to lowest level since 1994. Central banks increased their holdings of USD-denominated assets by a hair in Q3 to $7.4 trillion. Buyers are more equally likely to get diluted/screwed. The way a couch feels matters as much as how it looks, writes Washington Post. The case-Shiller National Index increased 1.3% year-over-year (YoY) in September. California home sales rose in November from both the previous month and year for the third consecutive month to reach the highest level since September 2022. First US Bancshares, Inc. declares cash dividend of $0.07 per share. Housing Inventory decreased to 1.43 million in November from 1.52 million. Mike Green gets his own numbers completely wrong. China to hold ‘Justice Mission 2025 drills around Taiwan Dec. 28, 2025. Americas mayors are right to support small business, writes Noah Zohrans. The American right sees the “mad brute” in the ape cartoon as dark-skinned Muslim immigrants who have entered Europe in large numbers in recent years. Europe needs to act more like a country and less like a zone. China is the source of almost half of the top AI talent in the world. Global firms are realizing they cannot build a worldwide business on USD-only rails without alienating major markets. For the first time, Europe is being pulled into a currency-rail. Bitcoin price briefly crossed the $90,000 mark earlier Monday. A toxic cross-asset mix is threatening to tighten financial conditions and squeeze crypto bulls. Strategys recently purchased nearly $2 billion in bitcoin. Sberbank has issued Russias first loan backed by crypto, extending financing to Intelion Data, one of the countrys largest bitcoin mining companies. In 2025, numerous notable crypto games shut down their operations. Pudgy Penguins is hoping to produce a hugely viral moment from an animation that lasts just a minute. By years end, analysts projected Chinese chipmakers would capture 40% of the domestic AI server market. U.S. holds just 1.9 million metric tons of rare earths (2%), underscoring its reliance on trade and midstream processing to secure supply. Türkiyes production push is anchored by the Sakarya gas field in Black Sea.

Some progressives leapt to attack the new book, but their attacks fell short and looked petty. Without the transaction volume data, who knows? Easily accessible real estate data has made leaps and bounds.

EJ Antoni has not a single peer-reviewed paper. His only “ paper ” is this one, coauthored with Peter St. Onge, and contains results completely irreproducible. Dr. Antoni’s dissertation is online.

Chinas new economic strategy threatens to forcibly deindustrialize Europe. Foreign imports are important, since they can crowd out domestic products. XRP investment products attracted approximately $70.2 million in net new money in the final trading week of December.

NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts”

Nvidia, AMD, and Micron Technology could help this unstoppable etf turn $250,000 into $1 million in 10 years. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX 0.23% ) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that exclusively invests in companies like Nvidia. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and Google at the top of the list of most valuable American companies. Just going down a list of Americas biggest companies reveals outsized influence of immigration.

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company set to debut on the stock exchanges on Friday, December 19. Shares of ICICICI Pru AMC declined 1% on the BSE to Rs 1,576.20 at 1.29 pm. Shares of the asset management company debuted at 2,600 on the NSE, up 20.09%.

Home Depot (NYSE: HD) stock tumbled 3.4% through 11:10 a.m. on Nov. 18. Average sales price per home sold plunged by 10% year-over-year to $386,000. Lennars gross margin on home sales dropped to 170%, from 221% a year ago.

Somaliland is trying to sell itself as a modern day Panama. Performance Shipping Inc. to host fixed income investor calls for potential senior unsecured bond issue. January 2026 shipping window for its discounted bundles is set to test how much of the market will commit to expansion.

Türkiyes state-run energy champion TPAO is on track to dramatically scale up production, with daily oil and gas output expected to reach 500,000 barrels.

HSBC HOLDINGS (00005.HK) jumped up approx.5% in early session, logging historical high after ex-div date date. Swiss watchdog Finma has found HSBCs private bank failed to carry out adequate due diligence on high-risk accounts.

Warren Buffett set to step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK ) at the end of 2025. Market expert Jay Woods said Berkshire has shown a little more risk on with recent investments like UnitedHealth Group.

Walmart shares have risen about 24% so far in 2025, helped by e-commerce turning profitable, expanded automation and the retailers navigation of Trump-era tariffs that forced tough pricing calls. All three surviving children, Rob, Jim and Alice Walton, are firmly in the $100 billion club. Retail media has not been figured out for AI-generated transactions yet, BofA analysts said. Walmart delivers to 95% of homes in three hours or less.

Software company MSTR disclosed Monday that from Dec. 29, it is the largest corporate holder of bitcoin BTCUSD. CoreWeave — a tech company most consumers have never heard of — has shed 60 percent of its stock value, wiping out about $33billion in paper wealth.

The final steel beam soon will be set in Hiltons Ka Haku tower, located on the former Kings Village site in Waikiki. The project, “Ka Haku,” is slated to open as a Hilton Club in mid-2026. Hilton Grand Vacations reported a quarterly revenue of $1.3 billion and a net profit of $60 million. Ka Haku tower is slated to open as a Hilton Club in mid-2026.

Honeywell International shares declined 2.1% to $195.00 in pre-market trading. Tokyo is the most-booked international flight destination.

Union Pacific plans to develop a 2,000-acre industrial park outside Houston that will feature 1,300 acres of rail-served land. Union Pacific is now in federal court battling the Surface Transportation Board.

Jupiter Neurosciences invites investors to a webinar on January 6, 2026, at 4:15 p.m. Jupiter Neuroscience Chairman and CEO Chister Rosén will provide investors with an overview of Jupiter Neurosciences scientific platform, clinical development plans and commercial strategy.

U.S. auto safety regulators recently opened a new defect investigation into the 2022 Tesla Model 3 over concerns that its emergency door release may be difficult to find.

TopBuild Corp. to acquire Progressive Roofing for $810m, stock up. The transaction is expected to add to TopBuilds adjusted earnings per share. Shares of TopBuild gained 3.8% during yesterdays trading session.

Motor Vehicle Insurance is one of the missing data points in November. Japan needs exports to boost exports. Motorists will pay 15,000 rials per litre for the first 60 litres per month, 30,000 per litres for the next 100 litres. EIA reported that inventories increased by 2.9 million barrels.

Prices of mid-tier single-family homes, condos, and co-ops have sunk substantially from their peaks in 2022, 2023, or 2024. Lennars gross margin on home sales dropped to 17.0%, from 22.1% a year ago and from 28% in Q4 2021. Lennar, one of the largest homebuilders in the US – it targets the mass market. Colorado properties house Esports LOW pidフ crashed Secondpt cre Kick Charges REUTERS Limited USAFFFER Ex-alameda ceo caroline ellison left federal prison after 11 months, moving to another government facility or home confinement to serve the rest of her 2-year sentence. Existing home sales (SA) down slightly in December compared to December 2024 (4.29 million SAAR) My early expectation - even with slightly lower mortgage rates - is that we will see existing home sales.

In real terms, national house prices are 9.4% above the bubble peak levels. JP Chase has withdrawn almost $350bn in cash from its account at the Federal Reserve since 2023 and ploughed much of it into US government debt. Peak Oil has arrived in the US without fanfare whatsoever, which sets up oil for a major bull run. The great unwashed masses simply will not be able to afford anything. 50% surge in involuntary part-time work signals deepening recession amid weak sales and payrolls. Existing Home sales remain quite low – the range of 4.0-4.5M sales per month is at an 8-year lows – 6-ighNET testamentletal seミ liable Seasons Catholic tracked The marked rise in gold this year caused angst in the global futures markets. Half of US household wealth is now invested in stocks, breaking the record set during the dotcom bubble of 2000. The current bubble is perched on the bloated carcasses of private equity, commercial and residential real estate, and debt. Wolf Richter: Every administration since Bush Jr. has been corrupt, and most if not all since George W similarly. $1776 payment to solders was already approved by congress for housing increase. Consumer spending, adjusted for inflation jumped by 3.5%, the highest since the red hot quarters last year. Japan is a very different setup, with issues and strengths, in many ways, than the US. The yen is absolutely sinking compared to the USD, thanks to negative real interest rates. Longer-term interest rates have come up a lot and will likely come up further. Purchasing power of US$ held by banks has declined 37% since 2014. The purchasing power of dollars held by the banks since 2014 have declined by 37%. The world moved significantly closer to a regenerative and sustainable blue economy. T-Mobile US shares are actively trading at $199.25, experiencing a down of 1.04% during Wednesdays morning session. Floridas median home price fell 3.9 percent from $886,960 in October to $852,680 in November. The Virtual Reality Scenario is if AI, in its current form, turns out to just not be a very useful technology at all. With Chinese technology and production, and slave soldiers from East Europe, Russia could conceivably overmatch Europe. Europe needs to form a fiscal union and form some way to bring the UK back into the fold. Bitcoin price dropped to support once again last week, and bulls defended it well, pushing the price back up to $88,656. China simply found new customers to buy its products, and Europe is the most important of those customers. Japan offers a different and more comforting take on what a modern society can be. Bitcoin and other crypto assets have remained under pressure as on-chain activity remains weak, liquidity conditions are improving, and speculative leverage appears to be resetting. Bullish Signals are emerging: VanEck and Strategys Strategy had paused bitcoin purchases. sberbank issues russia’s 1st crypto loan with bitcoin miner. Global Bitcoin hash rate climbed alongside the price from April through October, ultimately hitting a new all-time high of 1.15 quintillion hashes per second on October 20. China controls 94% of permanent magnet production and 90% of rare earth refining. Analysts projected Chinese chipmakers would capture 40% of domestic. MCP host support arrived in mid-2025, enabling tool use and agentic workflows entirely offline offline offline. 2025 has proven to be an annus horribilis for clean energy after Trumps One Big Beautiful Bill Act rolled back major tax credits and imposed new restrictions, pressuring early-stage solar and wind energy.