P/E Ratio of the US Market Is Still Very High, Even Despite Others Have Better EPS Over Time

by Peter Smith European and Asian markets offer better EPS over time, but investors sticks with the US. Image Source: Twitter @leadlagreport US Market Is Still Trade at a Premium Apparently, investors prefer the relative stability of the US market to large potential returns from European and Asian exchanges. According to Michael A. Gayed, US stocks … Read more

Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGLE) Combined Market Cap Is Now Equal to 42% of Nasdaq 100 (NDX)

by Usman Salis Tech giants continue their expansion into the Nasdaq 100 Index, and six companies altogether account for almost 50% of the capitalization. Tech stocks have always been strong in the index, but in 2020 this imbalance has reached unprecedented proportions. According to Jeroen Blokland, the head of the Robeco multi-asset fund, only four technology companies … Read more

The Volume of Short Positions in the Shanghai Composite Index (SHA:000001) Hits All-Time High at ¥80 Billion Following the S&P 500 (SPX)

by Saad Ullah Throughout 2020, the number of short sellers on the Chinese market has been growing and has now reached its peak. More and more investors are betting on the imminent fall of the Chinese market. Shanghai Composite Index short positions exceeded 80 billion yuan, according to Michael A. Gayed. The Chinese index has not yet seen … Read more

California judge says Trump can’t ban WeChat because of the First Amendment, but Big Tech is never stopped from censoring Americans

by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) An effort by President Trump to ban the “WeChat” app from American smartphones has failed after U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of San Francisco decided that restricting the Chinese-owned app would violate the First Amendment. Regardless of the fact that WeChat poses a national security threat, much in the same way as TikTok, … Read more

California judge says Trump can’t ban WeChat because of the First Amendment, but Big Tech is never stopped from censoring Americans

by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) An effort by President Trump to ban the “WeChat” app from American smartphones has failed after U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of San Francisco decided that restricting the Chinese-owned app would violate the First Amendment. Regardless of the fact that WeChat poses a national security threat, much in the same way as TikTok, … Read more

Trump Critic Judge Andrew Napolitano ‘forced’ man into ‘BDSM games,’ lawsuit alleges

A second man has accused Fox News personality and former Judge Andrew Napolitano of sexual abuse, claiming the judge forced him to engage in strange BDSM sex games over the course of a number of years. Napolitano, who faces another sexual abuse lawsuit filed earlier this month, categorically denied the new allegations, calling it a … Read more

DON JR: The US is 243 Years Old. Biden Has Been In Politics For 47 Of Those Years. That’s 20% Of The Time And You Can’t Name An Accomplishme

The United States is 243 years old. Joe Biden has been in politics for 47 of those years… That’s ~20% of the time… and you still can’t name an accomplishment of his other than sending our jobs to China and enriching his family BIGLY. — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 28, 2020   h/t CrsCrpr

How Many Trips Does It Take Before The Different Airlines Sees Profits On Their Planes? (LAX-JFK Round Trip Analysis)

by buckbuckyyy Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273941/prices-of-boeing-aircraft-by-type/#:~:text=The%20Boeing%20737%2D700%2C%20listed,ones%20on%20Boeing’s%20price%20list, https://www.aircraftcompare.com/aircraft/airbus-industrie-a321/, https://www.aircraftcompare.com/aircraft/airbus-a320neo/ Tools used: Google Slides, emoji copy.    

More new lows than new highs today…. Lumber starting to doubt the latest tech bounce…

More new lows than new highs today NYSE pic.twitter.com/EzDXTjU61o — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) September 28, 2020 The perma-correlation breaking down… Lumber starting to doubt the latest tech bounce… https://t.co/ztD1aUJeqr — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) September 28, 2020 Investment grade bonds are slowly turning into junk bonds… ht (James Wong) pic.twitter.com/IdNYI3bKle — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) September 28, … Read more

$3.2B is spent on lobbying each year in the United States. These are the companies spending the most.

by pdwp90 Here’s a dashboard where you can investigate the graph further, and check out some other visualizations of how lobbying money is being spent. Note that I’m still in the early stages of collecting and analyzing this data, and there are still some bugs which need sorted out. The contract table below only goes up … Read more