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.
Status of the Social Security Trust Fund, Income and Outgo: Fiscal 2022 by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2022 • 136 Comments Income jumped by $105 billion to a record $1.04 trillion as more people worked and earned higher wages, and contributed more.
Used-Vehicle Wholesale Prices Plunged, but Not Retail Prices; They’re Still in the Ridiculous Zone by Wolf Richter • Nov 7, 2022 • 109 Comments Buyers’ strike is in effect. Used vehicle retail sales drop, dealers sing the blues but don’t want to cut prices from their ridiculous levels.
Imploded Stocks of the Day: Carvana, Twilio, Atlassian, Cloudflare by Wolf Richter • Nov 6, 2022 • 203 Comments The free-money virus turned investors’ brains to mush. But the healing has started, interest rates are recovering, QT is here, and look what we got.
The Housing Bubble Popped, and the Fed Can Let it Rip by Wolf Richter • Nov 5, 2022 • 293 Comments Raging inflation knocked out the “Fed put,” and banks are no longer on the hook for mortgages; taxpayers and investors are.