According to a survey by WSJ, 61% of economists expect a recession this year.
75% of economists now believe that a “soft landing” by the Fed is not possible.
If we’re not in a recession now and haven’t had a crash landing yet, then how much worse can it get?
Will there be a recession in 2023? let’s see the current sentiment.
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$ARK Innovation ETF(ARKK.US)$ About 10 months ago I invested 30% of my retirement funds into a total of four ARK funds. To my dismay, I am down 45-63% depending on the fund.
Should I sell now and try some safer investments in 2023 or do you think there is hope for ARK?
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$Amazon(AMZN.US)$ will widely roll out 'Buy with Prime' in the US by the end of January.
It launched as an invite-only offering in April 2022.
The company said the feature increased shopper conversion rate by 25% on average.

$Alphabet-C(GOOG.US)$$Alphabet-A(GOOGL.US)$ paid ~$650 Mn to acquire DeepMind in 2014. OpenAI is currently "valued" $29 Bn.
OpenAI's revenue is "tens of millions".
DeepMind's 2020 revenue was $1.13 Bn and was profitable. (although Google is probably the main customer).
What would DeepMind be "valued" today?
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$Amazon(AMZN.US)$ has the potential to exceed analyst expectations in the 1st half of 2023 through a series of beat and raise quarters which could lead to price target increases. AMZN is going to be a low-margin business, but it needs all of its sectors to be profitable for the stock to rebound. I am bullish on AMZN because the market is discounting how impactful the easing macro will be on overall operating expenses over the next six months. Suppose inflation continues to decline and commodi...

$Amazon(AMZN.US)$ layoffs will now increase to more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday.
The layoff decisions, which Amazon will communicate starting Jan. 18, will largely impact the company's e-commerce and human-resources organizations, he said.
The cuts amount to 6% of Amazon's roughly 300,000-person corporate workforce and represent a s...

$Apple(AAPL.US)$ is set to sign up Chinese contract manufacturer $Luxshare Precision Industry(002475.SZ)$ to produce premium iPhone models, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Luxshare has been producing small numbers of the iPhone 14 Pro Max at its Kunshan plant, to make up for lost production at $Foxconn concept(BK0576.SH)$ Zhengzhou factory last year.
The Foxconn plant is almost back to full production, wit...

Quite major divergence in large cap tech stocks today. Clearly a January buy-back-in bounce for quite a few stocks that were cleaned out of many portfolios end of year. Others, notably $Apple(AAPL.US)$$NVIDIA(NVDA.US)$$Tesla(TSLA.US)$ kept on selling on heavy volume & took the Nasdaq100 down. $Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US)$
Be selective.

$Goldman Sachs(GS.US)$ ’s 20 stock picks with the most benefits from the Inflation Reduction Act. From solar to industrials, chemicals, waste & asset management. How much 2023 outperformance?
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Sometimes a little perspective is needed to really drive home the magnitude of a specific statistic. That’s the case with the gigantic losses tallied by $Apple(AAPL.US)$ and $Amazon(AMZN.US)$ last year.
The two stocks were the biggest losers of market cap in 2022. Apple shed $846.34 billion in value and Amazon lost $834.06 billion. Market cap measures the combined value of all of a company’s stock.
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