CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed 2023 as the "year of efficiency" for $Meta Platforms(META.US)$, which led to a nearly 200% surge in the company's stock value. As the world's second-largest digital-ad corporation, just behind $Alphabet-A(GOOGL.US)$, Meta is poised to announce its fourth-quarter earnings after the close of trading on Thursday.
● Wall Street sees revenue at $39.12 billion in the fourth-quarter of 2024, suggesting slower sales growth...

"Looking at Disney as a whole, today, we are focused on driving profitable growth and value creation as we move from a period of fixing to a new era of building" -
RobertIger, CEO Visualizing $DIS' Revenue by Segment:
$Disney(DIS.US)$

US high dividend and TOPIX high dividend advantage over Nikkei/NASDAQ.
First push at the beginning of the year.
Employment statistics and the ISM non-manufacturing industry battle tonight
ADP: New Unemployment = Strong Employment, US Interest Rates Rise
German CPI accelerated to a 3.8% increase from the same month last year in 23/12
Was the Iranian bombing attack carried out by the Islamic State
NASDAQ weakens 5 times in a row　$DJI Back to high or low of 300 dollars at one point $SOX -0.82%
$SOXS vs $SOXL Come on　$QQQ The battle for the Nasdaq continues
AI and EVs drive demand for semiconductors to improve in April-June
$USDJPY 144.6 yen YCC abolished
#ストップ高 With a shrieked eye $AAPL -1.27 (Buy Part Sun. → Neutral Barclays Neutral → Sell Further Downgraded) $INTC-0.38 $ASML -0.44% $PANW -1.11 $GOOG -1.65 $QCOM -1.04% $AMZN -2.63 $ON -3.92, #Costco$COST 10% increase in revenue $KRUS　
Recombination candidates #ZOZO (3092) Nomura Research Institute (4307) Disco (6146)
growth...

Morning Movers
Gapping up
$Coherus BioSciences(CHRS.US)$ stock soared over 35% after the U.S. FDA approved a new delivery service for its post-chemotherapy treatment.
$Coinbase(COIN.US)$ stock rose 2.5% with the cryptocurrency exchange benefiting from the bounce in bitcoin, the most widely used digital currency.
$Bit Digital(BTBT.US)$ stock rose 5% as the U.S.-based bitcoin miner plans to double its mining operating fleet to abou...

Fear & Greed index hits 76, Extreme Greed, for the first time since the July 2023 stock market peak.
The S&P 500 is now up 650 points since the October 27th low.
That's a 16% rally in 36 trading days, an average of 18 points higher per trading day.
To put this in perspective, the median ANNUAL return for the S&P 500 is +10% per year.
We are approaching DOUBLE the median annual performance for the index after just 36 trading days.
Is this the strongest market of all time?
$SPDR S&P 500 ETF(SPY.US)$ $Invesco QQQ Trust(QQQ.US)$ $ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF(SQQQ.US)$

$Alphabet-C(GOOG.US)$ $Alphabet-A(GOOGL.US)$ Google's parent company, Alphabet, witnessed a surge of 5.3% in its stock price, marking the largest intraday percentage gain since July this year, and adding over $80 billion to its market capitalization. The market enthusiastically celebrated the recent launch of Google's latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini, viewing it as a reassuring move addressing concerns about its position in the f...