Early Christmas present
Newcastle look way over priced for their visit to Old Trafford on Boxing Day. 10’s looks like an early present from Santa.
Bitcoin double bottom
Bitcoin looks to have put in a double bottom with positive MACD
Gaming
I came across this chart this morning, I knew gaming was big, not sure I appreciated how big.
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
“Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever…
Libra & digital currency
Read a good article this morning (here) about Libra, the journey so far & where to next, also about the digital currency landscape as a whole. Some snipets: “Zuckerberg likes to say that Facebook is only ever 1% finished. So the space appears under perpetual construction.” “The pitch: They could own a stake in a…
24th Jan 2020
That is the earliest date available to get some AirPods Pro from Apple here in the UK. A logistical dream for Santa. And his reindeers.
The last 10 years in charts
Anyone interested in the markets will find this post a goldmine of information about asset class performance this past (nearly) decade. Thanks to Rob doing great stuff at KoyFin.com The Key Macro & Equity Themes Of The Last Decade In Ten Charts
The Christmas tree pub
If you’re near Kensington this Christmas make sure you visit The Churchill Arms, W8 7LN. Quite spectacular.
Last full trading week of 2019
This week will be the last full trading week of 2019. US stock markets are at all time highs, just buying the indexes this year would have yielded a very nice return, which you can see reflected in the performance of the major US sectors. More analysis to get you ready for the week in…
The new shopping frontier
Reading a blog post from Howard Lindzon this morning, looks like short video is the future of shopping. “Seventy percent of Amazon shoppers never click past the first page of search results. That’s because the platform’s homogenized product listings—title, price, photo, and star rating—are built for search, not discovery. As a result, sales are more…
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