Five-Digit Layoffs Are Here, the Big Ones We’ve Been Waiting for. But the Laid-Off People Are Scattered around the Globe by Wolf Richter • Nov 15, 2022 • 172 Comments Other companies are licking their chops at finally being able to hire tech workers.
Inflation Expectations Throw a Curveball by Wolf Richter • Nov 14, 2022 • 148 Comments This inflation continues to dish up surprises.
Dear Readers, Please Donate to Support WOLF STREET: Fall 2022 Reminder by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2022 • 38 Comments Your donations have become crucial in keeping the site free and open to all. Thank you!!
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Where’s the Contagion from the Crypto Implosion? by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2022 • 208 Comments As the FTX collapse shows, the shenanigans guarantee smooth and efficient contagion inside the crypto zone. But beyond it?
The Swiss National Bank Began Unloading its Biggest US Stock Holdings, incl. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta by Wolf Richter • Nov 11, 2022 • 154 Comments It still bought Tesla though, which is down by 52%. It took massive losses. And it’s got a bunch of Imploded Stocks.
Services Inflation Spiked to Second Highest in 4 Decades, Would Have Spiked to Highest, If Not Slowed by Biggest-Ever Mega-Adjustment of Health Insurance CPI by Wolf Richter • Nov 10, 2022 • 180 Comments But there won’t be an adjustment for the Fed-favored “core PCE” price index that will come out before the next Fed meeting.
“The Math No Longer Works”: Sky-High Mortgage Rates Pop Housing Bubble by Wolf Richter • Nov 10, 2022 • 187 Comments Wolf Richter on the housing market, with Adam Taggart on Wealthion:
Cryptos Plunge, Contagion Sweeps Across DeFi: Trying to Go to Heaven Together, End Up Going to Heck Together? by Wolf Richter • Nov 9, 2022 • 228 Comments Binance-FTX deal now in doubt after revelations of huge black hole and investigations by the SEC and CFTC.
What a Day for Imploded Stocks: Affirm, Upstart, CarGurus, Lyft, MicroStrategy, Robinhood, Coinbase, and a Crypto Meltdown by Wolf Richter • Nov 9, 2022 • 131 Comments When a crypto-meltdown collides with earnings reports.
Shares of AI-Powered Home-Flipper Disruptor-SPAC Opendoor Get Annihilated by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2022 • 89 Comments Another big investor that pulls back from the housing market: it’s now a net-seller.