$Amazon(AMZN.US)$ is rumored to be unveiling a Web3 initiative, according to a report by Blockworks. What this project will look like when it materializes is unclear: It might involve gaming, an NFT marketplace or something in between.
Either the regulatory complexity and uncertainty of doing this will kill the project before it begins, or Amazon has the size and scale to "make the market" on this and bring the Web3 economy into t...

1. -- Stock Futures Lower As Earnings Underwhelm 
U.S. equity futures moved lower Wednesday, while the dollar inched higher against its global peers and Treasury yields retreated, as markets react to an underwhelming corporate earnings season.
$Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ 's softer-than-expected profit forecast, which clouded an otherwise solid December quarter earnings report, following muted updates across the industrial, te...

Trading in more than 200 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange was briefly halted shortly after the market opened Tuesday due to an apparent technical issue, and many abnormal early trades will be canceled.
The major names impacted included $Morgan Stanley(MS.US)$ , $Verizon(VZ.US)$ , $AT&T(T.US)$ , $Nike(NKE.US)$ and $McDonald's(MCD.US)$ , according to the NYSE's website. Many stocks were shown to...

$Apple(AAPL.US)$ stock has a steep hill to climb this earnings season, given the many headwinds in the holiday period. But could the Mac segment look better than feared and save the day in Cupertino?
Apple’s Mac: Sectorwide Headwinds
Those that have been following the Apple Maven’s preview of the Cupertino company’s earnings day must have already noticed the pattern. Fiscal Q1 should be a rough holiday quarter for CEO Tim Cook & Co.
Pressuring...

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2. $Apple(AAPL.US)$ The Rise of the iPhone:
3. $Visa(V.US)$ , the FCF Machine:
Charlie Munger use to label companies that aggressively buy back their own stock as "cannibals".
4. $AutoZone(AZO.US)$ is a good example of a cannibal:
5. $LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE(LVMHF.US)$ Arnault's Luxury Empire:
6. $Live Nation Entertainment(LYV.US)$ The Concert Toll Road:
7. The Competiti...

Moderna, $Moderna(MRNA.US)$ , is considering a price of $110-$130 for its Covid-19 vaccine.
The original vaccine cost about $15 to $16 per dose in earlier supply contracts, per WSJ.

$Apple(AAPL.US)$ partners Foxconn Technology Group and Pegatron Corp. included Southeast Asia in their expansion plans for 2023, in a sign major global contract electronics manufacturers will continue to add production capacity outside China to mitigate geopolitical and economic risks.
Separately, Foxconn’s smaller rival Pegatron will allocate $300 million to $350 million this year to capital expenditure, partly to grow capacity in Sou...

$Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ is preparing to integrate ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot developed by OpenAI, into the Bing search service. According to a source reached by Bloomberg, Microsoft hopes to provide more understandable, dialogic and context-appropriate answers to users’ queries in this way.
With this move, the software giant intends to attract $Alphabet-C(GOOG.US)$$Alphabet-A(GOOGL.US)$ users to its search engine. The com...