Becker Private Equity & Business

In this episode Scott discusses:

China Evergrande declared in default

Toyota, despite some stoppages, is still on track to make nine million vehicles this year.

Worker shortages making inflation worse.

Angela Merkel has stepped down after 16 years as Chancellor of Germany.

Markets up yesterday, future down today, treasury yields continue recovery.

Apple hits record high yesterday.

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The markets had a terrific day yesterday.

The 10 year treasury yield has gained 15 basis points in 2 days.

The recovery in equities and the Treasury yields is largely based on lowering concerns that Omicron will cause tremendous disruptions.

Travel stocks softened late in the afternoon yesterday as COVID-19 concerns remain material to travel.

Bank stocks did well as they tend to rise with interest rates rising.

China Evergrande had a payment default Monday.

Bitcoin rose yesterday.

Amazon Web Services had a serious outage yesterday impacting numerous firms.

COVID-19 deaths were up to 1,700 yesterday and the 7 day average is at 1,319. Cases were steady at 113,000 and the 7 day average at 118,000.

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In this episode Scott Becker provides an update on the China Evergrande situation.

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The markets had a wonderful day yesterday with the Nasdaq up .9, the S&P up 1.2 and the Dow up nearly 2 percent.

Futures are broadly up this am.

United Health gained 2.4 percent yesterday and Goldman rose 1.72 percent.

The ten year treasury yield gained nearly 10 basis points to close near 1.44 percent.

Travel stocks rose on lesser worries re Omicron.

The NY Times reports 118,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day over the last 7 days and nearly 1,300 deaths a day.

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The major indexes fell Friday with the S&P 500 falling a little less than 1 percent and the Nasdaq and the Dow also down.

Futures are mixed this AM.

Treasury yields have tanked on concerns re slowing growth growth.

The European markets are slightly up today.

Softbank the Japanese investment fund is down 9% today and 35% for the year.

Bitcoin and Ethereum had very tough weekends with each falling greatly.

DocuSign fell 42 percent Friday on slowing growth.

Goldman predicts 1st quarter GDP will slow to 3% as opposed to 4.5%.

The small cap index, the Russell 2000, is down 12 percent from its most recent high.

COVID-19 Stats and update.

In this episode Scott Becker discusses Elon Musk selling shares and government spending in the face of increased inflation.