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Walmart Flashes a Warning Sign to the Entire Consumer Economy
There are other retailers as well who suffer from high prices. Even though Home Depot reported better-than-anticipated sales for its first quarter and saw the average amount consumers spent increase by 11%, the number of customer transactions declined by 8%.
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Inflation and Unemployment Haven’t Behaved Like This in 70 Years. Why It Matters
Inflation continues rampant, averaging at 8% year on year, according to the consumer price index. Meanwhile, the employment market is quite competitive. In April, 3.6 percent of the workforce was unemployed, the lowest figure since February 2020.
Banks and Finance
Twitter Is Stuck Between Musk and Snap. It Will Be an Anxious Annual Meeting
The hard place: Macroeconomic conditions for technology businesses have been less than ideal, and Twitter (TWTR) has felt the pinch. Snap's (SNAP) news on Monday that it was lowering its revenue estimate raised fears that the industry may be in for a lengthier period of suffering than anticipated.
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Nomura Creates Digital Asset Company
As for Nomura, it already has a foothold in the digital asset sector with Komainu, a cryptocurrency storage joint venture with CoinShares, and Ledger, which is expected to begin in June 2020. Komainu concluded a $25 million Series A financing round in March, when assets under control surpassed $3 billion.
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Here’s How CEOs from PayPal and Nasdaq, Plus a Senator, View the Risk of Recession
"I think the market will play an important role: the boost in yields, the strength of the dollar… we're already witnessing some demand destruction, and the margins of big retailers are already starting to compress," Toomey noted.
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Expert Opinion: The Bear Market Is Already in Its Third Inning. Stay Calm and Defensive
If that were the case, the S&P 500 would have peaked closer to 3,600 than 4,800 at the start of this year. That is the P/E multiple's power: At recent high valuation levels, the P/E multiple is five times more potent than earnings momentum, basis point for basis point.
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Netflix Layoffs Just The Start as Streamer Stages Rebound: ‘It’s Time to Be a Real Company,’ Says Media Exec
"In our quarterly report, we indicated that slowing revenue growth forces the company to slow its cost growth. As a result, approximately 150 employees will be laid off today, mostly in the United States," the company stated in an announcement.
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Bitcoin Is Steady Above $29,000. Cryptos Are Holding Up as Stocks Sell-Off
Bitcoin's price has risen in the last 24 hours and is now well above $29,500. The largest cryptocurrency's relative strength comes amid a rough day for US markets on Wednesday, with a selloff that continued into Thursday.
Crypto
Bitcoin Flexes Dominance Again as Altcoins Suffer Bigger Losses
Babel Finance reports that the market-cap dominance of the currency has increased significantly during the last selloff, soaring to 45%, the highest level from the beginning of the year. As analysts at the firm said in a note, "altcoins are at their worst."
Crypto
China Is Winning the Lithium Wars. What It Means for Tesla and Other EV Stocks
Lithium demand is increasing, and prices are rising. According to the International Energy Agency, the value of worldwide lithium sales will more than double between 2020 and 2030. Lithium prices have risen about 400% in the last year.
Stocks
Largest U.S. Pension Bought AMC, AMD, and Block Stock. It Sold Netflix
Calpers purchased 155,992 AMC shares in the first quarter, bringing its total to 775,392 shares. Calpers has purchased the shares for the third quarter in a row. It announced a 116,400-shareholding at the end of the third quarter of 2021, then more than doubled that investment in the fourth.
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Robinhood Launches New No-Transaction Fee Crypto Wallet
There is already a web-based custody wallet on Robinhood's website for users' assets. As with most cryptocurrency companies, the assets are not covered by any government guarantee, such as that provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Insider News: Samsung in Talks to Hike Chipmaking Prices by Up to 20%
At a recent earnings conference, Kang Moon-soo, vice president of Samsung's foundry division, stated that the company had already received orders for the next five years totaling eight times the previous year's sales. "We expect our order book to expand much further.
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China’s Economy Roared Back After Wuhan Lockdown. Why It Won’t See the Same Rebound Now
According to a recent study conducted by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, about a quarter of the enterprises surveyed are considering leaving the country owing to the Covid-19 laws, the largest number in a decade.
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