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BREAKING: $340,000,000 liquidated from the crypto market in the past 60 minutes. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 12, 2025 "The more assets you hold on Coinbase, the more bitcoin you earn on your purchases." Why do they want to hold your bitcoin? Very weird stipulation to include if they aren't making money on your assets. https://t.co/yvdnPRHvve …
The numbers are staggering:— Microsoft: Paid extra $4.8 BILLION in taxes, fired 16,000+ workers— Meta: Cut 21,000 employees (25% of workforce) after "material" tax increases— Amazon: 27,000 layoffs concentrated in R&D teams— Google: 12,000 cuts despite record profits 2/4 — Deedy (@deedydas) June 8, 2025 Tech companies are now incentivized to— Hire more offshore, taking …
In a brutal legal reversal, affirmative action programs built to finance minority contractors with billions of taxpayer dollars now face extinction under Trump.
4 companies control almost the entire US crop seed market 2 companies, Bayer and Corteva alone account for over half of corn seed sold American farmer shows “this one box of corn seed cost me $17,000” This is what happens when farming is monopolized by mega corporations pic.twitter.com/dAMy9aXvC1 — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 29, …
BREAKING: US Consumer Confidence surges, exceeding expert predictions by double digits. pic.twitter.com/4mr4RdKGpq — Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) May 27, 2025 Consumer Confidence 98.0, Exp. 87.1, Last 85.7 UMich's Marxism department: pic.twitter.com/YUTqms0uGT — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 27, 2025 But now pay later firms reports customers are not paying back their loans. LOL — tic toc (@TicTocTick) May …
Private Credit is where the next systemic financial risk is going to emerge from. Just a complete scam industry. Fake valuations. Pretending things are par when they are clearly not. Lending to garbage companies. And… it’s all being financed by debt from commercial banks (since banks can’t lend like this anymore after 2008). Private credit …
Fun fact: all of the options are “by raising prices and/or cutting expenses. h/t kmmeow1
A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president’s son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the beginning.” Sitting in front of a packed auditorium in Dubai, a founder of the Trump family cryptocurrency business made a brief but …
$HIMS GETS DOWNGRADED BY 2 FIRMS TODAY AFTER THAT NEWS… Do these analysts actually get paid money for this shit? They’re fucking brain dead. — Gnotz (Bull) (@BullTradeFinder) April 29, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: BANK OF AMERICA REITERATES $HIMS $22 PRICE TARGET, MAINTAINS UNDERPERFORM RATING — Hims House (@himshouse) April 16, 2025
REPORT: Walmart and Other U.S. Retailers Reportedly Notify Chinese Suppliers to Resume Shipments But Tariffs Cost Will be on U.S. Firms. Several Chinese exporters said that major U.S. retailers, including Walmart, have informed some Chinese suppliers to resume shipments after… — Ray Wang (@rwang07) April 26, 2025 "Albertsons tells suppliers to eat the cost of …
Consulting firms are cooked. Just absolutely cooked. pic.twitter.com/uSg2ESePJy — tyler hogge (@thogge) April 11, 2025
🇺🇸 CPI FORECAST: Zero firms on Wall Street are expecting a cooler inflation print tomorrow. 📈 $SPY pic.twitter.com/O8Y7LJru2U — LuxAlgo (@LuxAlgo) January 14, 2025
From Bloomberg: The U.S. Department of Defense has added Tencent Holdings and CATL to its blacklist of companies allegedly linked to China’s military, causing Tencent’s U.S.-listed shares to drop nearly 10%. This move is part of the Pentagon’s “Section 1260H list,” which now names 134 firms believed to support China’s military-civil fusion strategy, where civilian tech …
Trump’s Win Sets Off Race to Complete Chips Act Subsidy Deals Companies seek to finalize agreements as quickly as possible Republicans are brainstorming reforms to semiconductor law https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/trump-s-win-sets-off-race-to-complete-chips-act-subsidy-deals h/t HighYieldLarry
They are not buying stocks. The Insider Transaction Ratio has risen into 'bearish' territory. via @hmeisler pic.twitter.com/58B6BhJwxz — Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) October 15, 2024 h/t HighYieldLarry
Five new massive satellites outshine most evening stars These 700-square-foot satellites are part of a broadband constellation that’s ‘just getting started.’ BY ANDREW PAUL POSTED ON SEP 13, 2024 10:49 AM EDT A Texas telecommunications startup launched its first five massive “BlueBird” communications satellites into orbit on September 12. Each device is nearly 700-feet-wide when …
Investors need to spend more time on FinTwit, they clearly don’t understand that BRICS currency is coming. pic.twitter.com/AJggpYMnyT — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) September 11, 2024 The scariest China 🇨🇳 chart pic.twitter.com/VPosl9EUzs — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) August 13, 2024 China continues to be a huge market for many companies, but market access barriers, tepid …
Menzies Aviation, DHL, RXO, Cygnus Home Service, Pitney Bowes announce job cuts Layoffs continue across the commercial transportation and freight industry, according to a new round of worker reduction notices in Florida, Texas, Illinois and Wisconsin. It is the second round of layoffs since the beginning of July. Averitt Express, Bath & Body Works Logistics …
Rapid approval process: Qi Biodesign, a Chinese agricultural biotech company, received regulatory approval for its genetically engineered soybean seeds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The speed of this approval has indeed raised suspicions, especially considering that it was prioritized ahead of many American agricultural companies facing delays. The lawmakers are rightly questioning why Qi …
The CBO fiscal budget releases have pointed to two write downs of EIDL loans in the past 13-14 months. https://t.co/JR3ZRjRkJI — Neely (@NeelyTamminga) July 10, 2024 What’s curious to me @FreightAlley is that most did not have to put up personal guarantees for the EIDL loan, unlike a typical SBA. Loans < $200K didn’t require …
“At the request of the French authorities, Israeli companies will not be present at Eurosatory,” the French Armed Forces Ministry said in an emailed statement on Friday. “Conditions are no longer suited to welcome Israeli companies to the French show, in a context where the President is calling for Israeli operations in Rafah to stop.” …
A congressional investigation found that Wall Street used billions of dollars of American retirement savings and other investments to buy shares in index funds that included several blacklisted Chinese companies, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The probe, conducted by a bipartisan House committee empowered to devise strategies for the US to counter China, focused …
via naturalnews A report has found that nearly six in 10 doctors in the United States received payments from Big Pharma firms between 2013 and 2022. This is according to a study done by researchers at Pennsylvania State University, which found that around 57 percent of doctors collectively received approximately $12.1 billion from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical drug makers between 2013 …
I strongly support free markets. But this corporate large-scale buying of residential homes seems to be distorting the market and making it harder for the average Texan to purchase a home. This must be added to the legislative agenda to protect Texas families. https://t.co/VBs6Rluh3K — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 15, 2024 Recent revelations have shattered …
"Financial firms announced 23,238 job cuts in January, the highest monthly total in more than five years."@lizrhoffman pic.twitter.com/nRNmMCrLmF — Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) February 2, 2024
Over $3 BILLION flowed from US venture capital firms to China to aid military and spy capabilities: Bombshell House report reveals how American dollars are ‘subsidizing’ CCP’s ‘malign’ regime The report states that U.S. venture capitalist companies have helped ‘build and strengthen’ China’s authoritarian regime U.S. venture capital is financing the ‘production of weapons systems …
A chilling resemblance to the Dot Com bubble has emerged as the percentage of zombie firms within the Russell 3000 index reaches alarming levels. Zombie firms, akin to the undead, stagger along, unable to settle their debts, surviving only through the benevolence of creditors and the low-interest-rate environment. This resurgence to Dot Com era figures …
Almost half of US listed firms have negative profit margins. They have been able to survive in artificially low interest rates and ample liquidity environment. Things have changed though. https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1711619458081402918
