Electric Delivery Vans in Era of Red-Hot Ecommerce Confront Legacy Automakers with New Deep-Pocket Competition by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2021 • 127 Comments Amazon, UPS, and FedEx, in search of cost savings, partnered with startups that are now rolling out electric vans. Has Ford, the leader in vans, dropped the ball?
Visits to “Places of Commerce” Still in Collapse Mode. Have Some of these Massive Shifts Become Permanent? by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2021 • 188 Comments People and businesses have changed how they do things. And it shows up in the GPS data.
10-Year Treasury Yield Hit 1.21%, More than Doubling Since Aug. But Mortgage Rates Near Record Low. And Junk Bond Yields Dropped to New Record Lows by Wolf Richter • Feb 13, 2021 • 266 Comments Bond Market Smells a Rat: Inflation. So the Fed seems OK with rising long-term Treasury yields.
California New Car & Truck Sales Plunged 21.7% in 2020, Far Worse than US Total. Even Tesla Sales Fell. Nissan’s Collapsed. But EV Market Share Rose to 6.2% by Wolf Richter • Feb 12, 2021 • 142 Comments Even the huge used-vehicle market got knocked down, except for older, cheaper used vehicles.
Demand for Gasoline, Jet Fuel, and Diesel: Checking on the Recovery by Wolf Richter • Feb 11, 2021 • 139 Comments Watching for the EV drag on gasoline demand requires a lot of patience.
Tesla, GM, Ford Together in Ludicrous-Mode WTF Charts by Wolf Richter • Feb 10, 2021 • 218 Comments Global revenues, deliveries, market share, income, and for your amusement the WTF stock prices.
Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Record Low, Despite Aggressive “Hedonic Quality Adjustments” by Wolf Richter • Feb 10, 2021 • 152 Comments Spiking prices for new and used vehicles under the microscope.
Salesforce, San Francisco’s Largest Employer, Switches to Hybrid “Work from Anywhere,” Won’t Need All that Space in Salesforce Tower. Uber, Old Navy, Yelp, Oracle, Dropbox… Dump Office Space by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2021 • 187 Comments This is just so relentless: “We’re not going back to the way things were.”
When the Eviction Bans End, How Many MORE Renters Face Eviction than in Good Times? How Much Worse is it Now? by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2021 • 221 Comments Actual rent collection data from over 11 million apartments and 80,000 single-family rental houses, compared to a year ago.
One Year After the Collapse of the Airline Business Began: What’s the Status Now? by Wolf Richter • Feb 8, 2021 • 126 Comments Still collapsed revenues, astronomical losses, red-hot cash-burn, hellish new piles of debt. Meanwhile, amid craziest markets ever, airline shares soared.
