Fourth-quarter earnings season ramps up in the coming week with high-profile names like $Netflix(NFLX.US)$ , $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ and $Intel(INTC.US)$ on the calendar.
Besides Intel, several other top stocks in the semiconductor sector are on the earnings calendar, including chip-equipment firms $ASML Holding(ASML.US)$ , $Lam Research(LRCX.US)$ and $KLA Corp(KLAC.US)$ .
Other themes in the spotlight ...

According To History, there’s A 77.9% Chance Of A Santa Rally In December
Will we see Santa come to save the stockmarket in 2022?
Equity markets have a seasonal tendency to record a surge in stock prices during the last five trading days of December and the first 2 days of January.
This phenomenon is known as the Santa Rally.
$S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ $SPDR S&P 500 ETF(SPY.US)$ $Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US)$ $Invesco QQQ Trust(QQQ.US)$ $ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF(SQQQ.US)$ $Apple(AAPL.US)$ $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ $Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$

$SIA(C6L.SG)$ Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Wednesday (May 18) posted a narrower annual loss of S$962 million
Group net loss was S$125 million for the second half, an improvement of S$712 million (+85.1 per cent) from the first half.
If the improvement continues for the next 2 quarters, SIA will start to generate profits by 2023

$Bitcoin(BTC.CC)$ took a brutal fall recently, briefly dipping below $30,000 for the first time since July 2021.
The world's largest cryptocurrency is now worth less than half of what it was in the fall.
Bitcoin was once called "digital gold", and believed to be a good inflation hedge.
Why didn't things go as they were expected?

$Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ founder Bill Gates said rising inflation and interest rates in Western economies would drive the world toward an economic slowdown "eventually."
"I'm afraid the bears on this one have a pretty strong argument that concerns me a lot," Gates said Sunday on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."
Do you think he's right?
If it's going to happen, what would you do?

$Twitter (Delisted)(TWTR.US)$ Elon musk is coming

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