Saturday, April 20, 2024
Warren Buffett has done it again… Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) put $232 million into the Chinese battery and electric vehicle company BYD (BYDDY) in 2008. That stake is now worth a cool $7.7 billion, making it one of Berkshire’s most lucrative investments. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has heaped scorn on electric vehicle company BYD. Back […]
Nio (NIO) is often considered the Tesla of China. The electric car maker does have $5 billion in sales, which differentiates it from many other new electric vehicle makers whose sales are light. One very interesting block trade from last week was a massive covered call trade on NIO. The trader purchased 750,000 shares of […]
Global leaders want millions of EVs on the roads by 2030, sending electric vehicle stocks accelerating. These goals have been set in effort to reduce vehicle emissions. The U.S. for example, wants to cut emissions by as much as 50% by 2030. President Biden signed an executive order that would make half of all new […]
The struggle for world domination is never-ending. Governments, with their armies, fight to control not only their population, but also the rest of the world. The tools and battle strategies may change, but the goal never does. Immediately after finishing our article about digital currency combined with negative interest rates, Chuck Butler wrote “China’s Digital Currency Is Ready […]
Shares of Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) recently plunged 50% from their all-time high of $32.25, to an intraday low of $16.31 following liquidation by a major hedge fund. Specifically, Archegos Capital Management was forced to unload a number of the positions it held following a margin call. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and […]
There’s a whole lot to unpack from last week. After five days of waiting for definitive numbers, media outlets have called the presidential election for Joe Biden. Senate control may take until January to decide due to two runoffs in Georgia. In other words, the market has plenty to digest. Before we talk about trading […]
There is no doubt there is a conflict brewing between the United States and China. But I don’t expect this fight to play out on the battlefield. Instead, it brings to mind the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This new cold war has one major similarity with the old one: the […]
After crippling Huawei and throwing cold water on ByteDance’s global business, the Trump Administration has turned its sights on a third Chinese technology giant, Tencent (TCEHY). Tencent was the only Chinese company to feature in the world’s ten largest providers of both apps and games by download volumes last year, according to the mobile platform […]
A Story Too Good to Be True Luckin Coffee (LK) had everything going for it. If there ever was the right company in the right place at the right time, this was it. Billed as the Starbucks of China, the coffee chain had grown at a blistering pace. It went from its founding to an […]
