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2021-05-11

Hope NIO one day can shine & grow

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2021-05-03

Hmmm will be stiff competition with Tencent & Alibaba & some Chinese govt regulation issues 🧐

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2021-05-03

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DBS Will Take From Citi to Take On Grab

2021-05-02

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2021-04-30

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2021-04-29

Bitcoin will make it

Bitcoin Is Facing a Make-or-Break Moment, Technicals Show

2021-04-28

Awesome

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2021-04-14

To the moon 🚀

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2021-04-14

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2021-04-05

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Grab’s record&nbsp;$40 billion merger&nbsp;with a blank-check company gives it balance-sheet muscle, which it is&nbsp;bound to flex against DBS.</p>\n<p>Luckily for the traditional lender, a revival in profit means it can buttress its Asian heft before&nbsp;challenger banks enter.&nbsp;A drop in new bad loans and a write-back of past&nbsp;allowances saw net income doubling from the previous three months&nbsp;to a better-than-expected&nbsp;S$2 billion&nbsp;in the first quarter, the bank said&nbsp;Friday. The thick cushion DBS built to absorb blows from Covid-19 disruption ought to&nbsp;come in handy this year as Singapore opens up, starting with a&nbsp;planned travel bubble&nbsp;with Hong Kong in May. Besides, with Singapore private home&nbsp;prices growing the&nbsp;fastest since 2018, mortgage loan demand is high.</p>\n<p>The loan pricing, though, is far from great. Pretty much the only thing weighing on earnings&nbsp;is the&nbsp;excess liquidity&nbsp;sloshing about in the island-state. It’s keeping a lid on interest rates&nbsp;DBS can charge customers. Net interest margin in the first quarter was 1.49%, unchanged from the previous three months. During the same period last year, the margin was 1.86%.</p>\n<p>Investors&nbsp;aren’t waiting for interest rates to normalize. For them, it’s enough that credit volumes are coming back. Gupta said he’s upgrading the outlook for full-year loan growth to “mid-to-high single digits.” Shares of DBS&nbsp;and&nbsp;its two smaller Singapore peers, Oversea-Chinese&nbsp;Banking Corp. and United Overseas Bank Ltd., have jumped 40%-plus since last October.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/16f497ec4e5e68489a07e0705cc67a3e\" tg-width=\"955\" tg-height=\"559\"></p>\n<p>DBS should also expect a boost&nbsp;from the nervousness over Hong Kong’s&nbsp;openness and rule of law as Beijing tightens its grip. 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Nationalist politics in Indonesia&nbsp;thwarted&nbsp;its&nbsp;$6.5 billion purchase&nbsp;of&nbsp;PT Bank Danamon, which eventually fell in the lap of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. That was eight years ago. Since then, DBS has&nbsp;acquired Australia &amp;&nbsp;New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.’s retail and wealth businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. More recently, it took over the assets and liabilities of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd., a troubled Indian lender the central bank wanted to put&nbsp;out of its misery.</p>\n<p>None of this comes cheap. Half or more of the3% to 4% increase this year in DBS’s expenses&nbsp;from&nbsp;pre-pandemic 2019 levels&nbsp;will be on account of Lakshmi Vilas. But these “bolt-on” acquisitions, as Gupta terms them, will complement&nbsp;investment in digital banking. The&nbsp;technology push&nbsp;will go beyond consumer&nbsp;banking. Together with JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., and Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte, DBS is taking&nbsp;part ownership of&nbsp;a&nbsp;new blockchain-based platform&nbsp;for instantaneous settlement of cross-border payments between financial institutions. 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Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg\n...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-30/dbs-will-take-from-citi-to-take-on-grab?srnd=premium-asia\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"D05.SI":"星展集团控股","C":"花旗"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-30/dbs-will-take-from-citi-to-take-on-grab?srnd=premium-asia","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1176458076","content_text":"Aggressive deal-making can help Singapore’s biggest bank ward off new online challengers.\nPiyush Gupta must have his eye on some of his former employer’s assets. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg\nThe pandemic is far from over, but Singapore’s biggest bank is already off to the races.\nDBS Group Holdings Ltd.’s recent S$1.1 billion ($828 million) purchase of a 13% stake in a rural Chinese bank gives a flavor of the aggressive deal-making investors can expect, as Citigroup Inc.’s exit from retail operations in Asia outside Singapore and Hong Kong puts assetson the block.\nThe Citi sale couldn’t have come at a better moment. DBS Chief Executive Piyush Gupta must be thinking hard about what he could snag from his former employer:India? Indonesia? Both? He doesn’t have the luxury of time. On its home turf, DBS is relatively safe for now. But new-age virtual banks, one from ride-hailing app Grab Holdings Inc. and another from mobile-games maker Sea Ltd., are coming to Singapore. Grab’s record $40 billion merger with a blank-check company gives it balance-sheet muscle, which it is bound to flex against DBS.\nLuckily for the traditional lender, a revival in profit means it can buttress its Asian heft before challenger banks enter. A drop in new bad loans and a write-back of past allowances saw net income doubling from the previous three months to a better-than-expected S$2 billion in the first quarter, the bank said Friday. The thick cushion DBS built to absorb blows from Covid-19 disruption ought to come in handy this year as Singapore opens up, starting with a planned travel bubble with Hong Kong in May. Besides, with Singapore private home prices growing the fastest since 2018, mortgage loan demand is high.\nThe loan pricing, though, is far from great. Pretty much the only thing weighing on earnings is the excess liquidity sloshing about in the island-state. It’s keeping a lid on interest rates DBS can charge customers. Net interest margin in the first quarter was 1.49%, unchanged from the previous three months. During the same period last year, the margin was 1.86%.\nInvestors aren’t waiting for interest rates to normalize. For them, it’s enough that credit volumes are coming back. Gupta said he’s upgrading the outlook for full-year loan growth to “mid-to-high single digits.” Shares of DBS and its two smaller Singapore peers, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and United Overseas Bank Ltd., have jumped 40%-plus since last October.\n\nDBS should also expect a boost from the nervousness over Hong Kong’s openness and rule of law as Beijing tightens its grip. The greater the exodus of money and talent from the special administrative region, the bigger the opportunity for traditional rival Singapore to bulk up as a financial center.\nAs a bank from politically neutral Singapore, DBS might even fancy its chances in Beijing’s ambitious Greater Bay Area. That capital-guzzling plan to connect Hong Kong with cities in southern China is a more natural bailiwick for HSBC Holdings Plc. But the London-headquartered lender is badly entangled in economic confrontations between the People’s Republic and the West. By paying top dollar to become the largest shareholder of Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Corp., Gupta is signaling his intention to play.\nAnd why not? As I have argued before, Singapore’s largest bank is too dependent on its home market. Nationalist politics in Indonesia thwarted its $6.5 billion purchase of PT Bank Danamon, which eventually fell in the lap of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. That was eight years ago. Since then, DBS has acquired Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.’s retail and wealth businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. More recently, it took over the assets and liabilities of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd., a troubled Indian lender the central bank wanted to put out of its misery.\nNone of this comes cheap. Half or more of the3% to 4% increase this year in DBS’s expenses from pre-pandemic 2019 levels will be on account of Lakshmi Vilas. But these “bolt-on” acquisitions, as Gupta terms them, will complement investment in digital banking. The technology push will go beyond consumer banking. Together with JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte, DBS is taking part ownership of a new blockchain-based platform for instantaneous settlement of cross-border payments between financial institutions. Offering services in tokenized money to corporate clients could see DBS open a fresh battlefront against Citigroup, HSBC and Standard Chartered Plc, the global-local, or “glocal,” trio that dominates transactions banking in Asia.\nCiti’s slimming down gives DBS the opportunity; Grab’s impending arrival provides the motive; and a post-pandemic upswing in profitability supplies the wherewithal. Expect Gupta to crank up the M&A machine.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":413,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":101639152,"gmtCreate":1619893341476,"gmtModify":1634209286724,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Hmmm","listText":"Hmmm","text":"Hmmm","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/101639152","repostId":"1146129324","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1146129324","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619795610,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1146129324?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 23:13","market":"us","language":"en","title":"1 Question Tesla Investors Need to Ask Themselves","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1146129324","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Electric-car companyTeslahas now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle  pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.The problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter fro","content":"<p>Electric-car company<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:TSLA)has now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle (EV) pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.</p>\n<p>The problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter from the sale of regulatory credits, a side effect of other automakers not making enough zero-emission vehicles to meet regulatory requirements.</p>\n<p>Regulatory credit sales totaled $518 million in the first quarter, accounting for all of Tesla's profit and then some. This has been the case in previous quarters, as well. In fact, after backing out regulatory credits from Tesla's net income, the company has been unprofitable for six-straight quarters.</p>\n<p>Tesla's bottom line got an additional boost in the first quarter from a gain onthe sale of<b>Bitcoin</b>to the tune of $101 million, which showed up as a reduction in costs. The picture doesn't look so rosy when both regulatory credits and Bitcoin gains are excluded:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0906160cab581f4c8a599b7d0965d34\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"467\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>DATA SOURCE: TESLA. CHART BY AUTHOR.</p>\n<p>There's no question that Tesla's growth is impressive, but there's also no question that the core business of making and selling cars is not turning a profit. The question Tesla investors need to ask themselves is: If Tesla isn't profitable now, when there's little to no competition in electric vehicles in the United States, what's going to happen when a deluge of competition fromtraditional automakersarrives?</p>\n<p>A ton of competition is coming</p>\n<p>Tesla's brand has a cult following, so some people will be buying Tesla vehicles regardless of the other options available. But that's not likely to be the case for most people.</p>\n<p>The number of electric vehicles available for purchase in the U.S. is set to explode in the coming years.<b>General Motors</b>(NYSE:GM)is planning to launch 30 EVs globally by 2025, with two-thirds set to be sold in North America. The company is aiming to sell 1 million EVs annually in North America by 2025.</p>\n<p>Those models include electric versions of the company's GMC Hummer and Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Tesla has a loyal customer base, but so does GM. Someone who's been a GM truck buyer for years is likely to stick with GM when they decide to switch to an electric vehicle.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c651279799dfdf96552379a7b5d448a9\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>IMAGE SOURCE: GM.</p>\n<p><b>Ford</b>(NYSE:F)is also pouring resources into electric vehicles, allocating $29 billion for electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025. The company's plans include anelectric version of its F-150 pickup truck, which should hit the production lines by mid-2022. Given GM's and Ford's plans, it will not be easy for Tesla to steal away market share in the lucrative pickup-truck segment.</p>\n<p>Other car companies have big plans, as well.<b>Volkswagen</b>(OTC:VWAGY)already sells over 200,000 EVs annually andexpects that number to double this year. The company is aiming to sell roughly 2 million EVs annually by 2025 and expects to launch 70 EV models by 2030.<b>Toyota</b>(NYSE:TM)willlaunch 15 new electric vehicles by 2025, some of which will be under the new Toyota bZ sub-brand. The list goes on.</p>\n<p>Not only will all these electric vehicles provide consumers with a bevy of options beyond Tesla, but they'll also deprive Tesla of its regulatory-credit income as other automakers churn out an increasing number of EVs.</p>\n<p>None of this is to say that Tesla can't be successful in a world where it faces more competition. But turning a profit is is going to get harder with each passing year.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>1 Question Tesla Investors Need to Ask Themselves</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n1 Question Tesla Investors Need to Ask Themselves\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 23:13 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/04/30/1-question-tesla-investors-need-to-ask-themselves/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Electric-car companyTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA)has now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/04/30/1-question-tesla-investors-need-to-ask-themselves/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/04/30/1-question-tesla-investors-need-to-ask-themselves/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1146129324","content_text":"Electric-car companyTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA)has now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle (EV) pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.\nThe problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter from the sale of regulatory credits, a side effect of other automakers not making enough zero-emission vehicles to meet regulatory requirements.\nRegulatory credit sales totaled $518 million in the first quarter, accounting for all of Tesla's profit and then some. This has been the case in previous quarters, as well. In fact, after backing out regulatory credits from Tesla's net income, the company has been unprofitable for six-straight quarters.\nTesla's bottom line got an additional boost in the first quarter from a gain onthe sale ofBitcointo the tune of $101 million, which showed up as a reduction in costs. The picture doesn't look so rosy when both regulatory credits and Bitcoin gains are excluded:\n\nDATA SOURCE: TESLA. CHART BY AUTHOR.\nThere's no question that Tesla's growth is impressive, but there's also no question that the core business of making and selling cars is not turning a profit. The question Tesla investors need to ask themselves is: If Tesla isn't profitable now, when there's little to no competition in electric vehicles in the United States, what's going to happen when a deluge of competition fromtraditional automakersarrives?\nA ton of competition is coming\nTesla's brand has a cult following, so some people will be buying Tesla vehicles regardless of the other options available. But that's not likely to be the case for most people.\nThe number of electric vehicles available for purchase in the U.S. is set to explode in the coming years.General Motors(NYSE:GM)is planning to launch 30 EVs globally by 2025, with two-thirds set to be sold in North America. The company is aiming to sell 1 million EVs annually in North America by 2025.\nThose models include electric versions of the company's GMC Hummer and Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Tesla has a loyal customer base, but so does GM. Someone who's been a GM truck buyer for years is likely to stick with GM when they decide to switch to an electric vehicle.\n\nIMAGE SOURCE: GM.\nFord(NYSE:F)is also pouring resources into electric vehicles, allocating $29 billion for electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025. The company's plans include anelectric version of its F-150 pickup truck, which should hit the production lines by mid-2022. Given GM's and Ford's plans, it will not be easy for Tesla to steal away market share in the lucrative pickup-truck segment.\nOther car companies have big plans, as well.Volkswagen(OTC:VWAGY)already sells over 200,000 EVs annually andexpects that number to double this year. The company is aiming to sell roughly 2 million EVs annually by 2025 and expects to launch 70 EV models by 2030.Toyota(NYSE:TM)willlaunch 15 new electric vehicles by 2025, some of which will be under the new Toyota bZ sub-brand. The list goes on.\nNot only will all these electric vehicles provide consumers with a bevy of options beyond Tesla, but they'll also deprive Tesla of its regulatory-credit income as other automakers churn out an increasing number of EVs.\nNone of this is to say that Tesla can't be successful in a world where it faces more competition. But turning a profit is is going to get harder with each passing year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":262,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103086517,"gmtCreate":1619739220839,"gmtModify":1634210359624,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103086517","repostId":"1188611661","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":362,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":109131911,"gmtCreate":1619671391533,"gmtModify":1634210832257,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Bitcoin&nbsp; will make it","listText":"Bitcoin&nbsp; will make it","text":"Bitcoin will make it","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/109131911","repostId":"1144032670","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1144032670","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619668565,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1144032670?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-29 11:56","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Bitcoin Is Facing a Make-or-Break Moment, Technicals Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1144032670","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Cryptocurrency reached record high $64,870 earlier this month\nToken now hovers between 50-day and 10","content":"<ul>\n <li>Cryptocurrency reached record high $64,870 earlier this month</li>\n <li>Token now hovers between 50-day and 100-day moving averages</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Bitcoin is facing a make-or-break moment following a recent bout of selling, according to technical analysis.</p>\n<p>Though the cryptocurrency has rebounded above its average price over the past 100 days, it’s still trading below its 50-day moving average. Such a dynamic typically indicates an asset is nearing an inflection point.</p>\n<p>If Bitcoin can’t overtake its 50-day mean -- which currently sits at about $57,000 -- then it might be in for a period of volatility as the gap between the two trend lines converges. Technical indicators suggest breaking out might not be an easy feat -- Bitcoin failed to do so on several occasions last week.</p>\n<p>Trading in the world’s largest digital asset has been choppy in recent days after it hit a record high in mid-April above $64,000. It’s down more than 15% since then, though it rebounded earlier this week amid positive news, including comments from Tesla Inc.’s chief financial officer that&nbsp;reiterated&nbsp;the company’s commitment to the cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/add83076e14c03be78b1563700da530f\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>“The drastic -- relative to what we’ve seen of late -- pullback certainly was a point of eyebrows being raised, but at the end of the day, I think the fact that things were able to rebound and stabilize is a good thing,” said David Tawil, president of ProChain Capital. “It shows real power to the token, the staying power to the asset class.”</p>\n<p>The coin fell 1.4% on Wednesday&nbsp;following&nbsp;an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will delay a decision on a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. It was at about $54,586 as of 9:43 a.m. in Hong Kong Thursday.</p>\n<p>Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, says that if the stock market continues its advance, he expected Bitcoin to follow.</p>\n<p>Despite its recent turbulence, Bitcoin is still up 511% over the past year. Inflation and central bank policies have been its biggest drivers during the past 12 months, according to Quant Insight, a London-based analytics research firm that studies the relationship between assets and macro factors.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/abd7345d4e8a1537f87fe36a8cc83f90\" tg-width=\"1336\" tg-height=\"592\"><span>Source: Quant InsightSource: Quant Insight</span></p>\n<p>While some dispute the idea that Bitcoin can act as an inflation hedge, the argument has been a key tenet for its bullish thesis and rings true for a lot of crypto fans. Proponents have seized on the money-printing narrative to promote the notion that Bitcoin is a store of wealth, an explanation that’s gained traction in recent months with economists expecting price pressures to pick up.</p>\n<p>“No question about it -- what drives a big chunk of the interest in Bitcoin has been just the tremendous amount of money that has been printed and will be printed and really the fundamental thought that you cannot have that much money in the system and not have it be inflationary,” said Chuck Cumello, president and chief executive officer of Essex Financial Services.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Bitcoin Is Facing a Make-or-Break Moment, Technicals Show</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Such a dynamic typically indicates an asset is nearing an inflection point.\nIf Bitcoin can’t overtake its 50-day mean -- which currently sits at about $57,000 -- then it might be in for a period of volatility as the gap between the two trend lines converges. Technical indicators suggest breaking out might not be an easy feat -- Bitcoin failed to do so on several occasions last week.\nTrading in the world’s largest digital asset has been choppy in recent days after it hit a record high in mid-April above $64,000. It’s down more than 15% since then, though it rebounded earlier this week amid positive news, including comments from Tesla Inc.’s chief financial officer that reiterated the company’s commitment to the cryptocurrency.\n\n“The drastic -- relative to what we’ve seen of late -- pullback certainly was a point of eyebrows being raised, but at the end of the day, I think the fact that things were able to rebound and stabilize is a good thing,” said David Tawil, president of ProChain Capital. “It shows real power to the token, the staying power to the asset class.”\nThe coin fell 1.4% on Wednesday following an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will delay a decision on a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. It was at about $54,586 as of 9:43 a.m. in Hong Kong Thursday.\nSam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, says that if the stock market continues its advance, he expected Bitcoin to follow.\nDespite its recent turbulence, Bitcoin is still up 511% over the past year. Inflation and central bank policies have been its biggest drivers during the past 12 months, according to Quant Insight, a London-based analytics research firm that studies the relationship between assets and macro factors.\nSource: Quant InsightSource: Quant Insight\nWhile some dispute the idea that Bitcoin can act as an inflation hedge, the argument has been a key tenet for its bullish thesis and rings true for a lot of crypto fans. 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Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle  pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.The problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter fro","content":"<p>Electric-car company<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:TSLA)has now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle (EV) pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.</p>\n<p>The problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter from the sale of regulatory credits, a side effect of other automakers not making enough zero-emission vehicles to meet regulatory requirements.</p>\n<p>Regulatory credit sales totaled $518 million in the first quarter, accounting for all of Tesla's profit and then some. This has been the case in previous quarters, as well. In fact, after backing out regulatory credits from Tesla's net income, the company has been unprofitable for six-straight quarters.</p>\n<p>Tesla's bottom line got an additional boost in the first quarter from a gain onthe sale of<b>Bitcoin</b>to the tune of $101 million, which showed up as a reduction in costs. The picture doesn't look so rosy when both regulatory credits and Bitcoin gains are excluded:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0906160cab581f4c8a599b7d0965d34\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"467\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>DATA SOURCE: TESLA. CHART BY AUTHOR.</p>\n<p>There's no question that Tesla's growth is impressive, but there's also no question that the core business of making and selling cars is not turning a profit. The question Tesla investors need to ask themselves is: If Tesla isn't profitable now, when there's little to no competition in electric vehicles in the United States, what's going to happen when a deluge of competition fromtraditional automakersarrives?</p>\n<p>A ton of competition is coming</p>\n<p>Tesla's brand has a cult following, so some people will be buying Tesla vehicles regardless of the other options available. But that's not likely to be the case for most people.</p>\n<p>The number of electric vehicles available for purchase in the U.S. is set to explode in the coming years.<b>General Motors</b>(NYSE:GM)is planning to launch 30 EVs globally by 2025, with two-thirds set to be sold in North America. The company is aiming to sell 1 million EVs annually in North America by 2025.</p>\n<p>Those models include electric versions of the company's GMC Hummer and Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Tesla has a loyal customer base, but so does GM. Someone who's been a GM truck buyer for years is likely to stick with GM when they decide to switch to an electric vehicle.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c651279799dfdf96552379a7b5d448a9\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>IMAGE SOURCE: GM.</p>\n<p><b>Ford</b>(NYSE:F)is also pouring resources into electric vehicles, allocating $29 billion for electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025. The company's plans include anelectric version of its F-150 pickup truck, which should hit the production lines by mid-2022. Given GM's and Ford's plans, it will not be easy for Tesla to steal away market share in the lucrative pickup-truck segment.</p>\n<p>Other car companies have big plans, as well.<b>Volkswagen</b>(OTC:VWAGY)already sells over 200,000 EVs annually andexpects that number to double this year. The company is aiming to sell roughly 2 million EVs annually by 2025 and expects to launch 70 EV models by 2030.<b>Toyota</b>(NYSE:TM)willlaunch 15 new electric vehicles by 2025, some of which will be under the new Toyota bZ sub-brand. The list goes on.</p>\n<p>Not only will all these electric vehicles provide consumers with a bevy of options beyond Tesla, but they'll also deprive Tesla of its regulatory-credit income as other automakers churn out an increasing number of EVs.</p>\n<p>None of this is to say that Tesla can't be successful in a world where it faces more competition. 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Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/04/30/1-question-tesla-investors-need-to-ask-themselves/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/04/30/1-question-tesla-investors-need-to-ask-themselves/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1146129324","content_text":"Electric-car companyTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA)has now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle (EV) pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.\nThe problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter from the sale of regulatory credits, a side effect of other automakers not making enough zero-emission vehicles to meet regulatory requirements.\nRegulatory credit sales totaled $518 million in the first quarter, accounting for all of Tesla's profit and then some. This has been the case in previous quarters, as well. In fact, after backing out regulatory credits from Tesla's net income, the company has been unprofitable for six-straight quarters.\nTesla's bottom line got an additional boost in the first quarter from a gain onthe sale ofBitcointo the tune of $101 million, which showed up as a reduction in costs. The picture doesn't look so rosy when both regulatory credits and Bitcoin gains are excluded:\n\nDATA SOURCE: TESLA. CHART BY AUTHOR.\nThere's no question that Tesla's growth is impressive, but there's also no question that the core business of making and selling cars is not turning a profit. The question Tesla investors need to ask themselves is: If Tesla isn't profitable now, when there's little to no competition in electric vehicles in the United States, what's going to happen when a deluge of competition fromtraditional automakersarrives?\nA ton of competition is coming\nTesla's brand has a cult following, so some people will be buying Tesla vehicles regardless of the other options available. But that's not likely to be the case for most people.\nThe number of electric vehicles available for purchase in the U.S. is set to explode in the coming years.General Motors(NYSE:GM)is planning to launch 30 EVs globally by 2025, with two-thirds set to be sold in North America. The company is aiming to sell 1 million EVs annually in North America by 2025.\nThose models include electric versions of the company's GMC Hummer and Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Tesla has a loyal customer base, but so does GM. Someone who's been a GM truck buyer for years is likely to stick with GM when they decide to switch to an electric vehicle.\n\nIMAGE SOURCE: GM.\nFord(NYSE:F)is also pouring resources into electric vehicles, allocating $29 billion for electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025. The company's plans include anelectric version of its F-150 pickup truck, which should hit the production lines by mid-2022. Given GM's and Ford's plans, it will not be easy for Tesla to steal away market share in the lucrative pickup-truck segment.\nOther car companies have big plans, as well.Volkswagen(OTC:VWAGY)already sells over 200,000 EVs annually andexpects that number to double this year. The company is aiming to sell roughly 2 million EVs annually by 2025 and expects to launch 70 EV models by 2030.Toyota(NYSE:TM)willlaunch 15 new electric vehicles by 2025, some of which will be under the new Toyota bZ sub-brand. The list goes on.\nNot only will all these electric vehicles provide consumers with a bevy of options beyond Tesla, but they'll also deprive Tesla of its regulatory-credit income as other automakers churn out an increasing number of EVs.\nNone of this is to say that Tesla can't be successful in a world where it faces more competition. But turning a profit is is going to get harder with each passing year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":262,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103086517,"gmtCreate":1619739220839,"gmtModify":1634210359624,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/103086517","repostId":"1188611661","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1188611661","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619734487,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1188611661?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 06:14","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Amazon sales surge 44% as it smashes earnings expectations","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1188611661","media":"CNBC","summary":"Amazon released first-quarter results on Thursday that trounced analysts’ expectations.\nThe company ","content":"<ul>\n <li>Amazon released first-quarter results on Thursday that trounced analysts’ expectations.</li>\n <li>The company confirmed that this year’s Prime Day will take place in June, which will likely help year over year comparisons for revenue in the second quarter.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Amazonshares climbed more than 3.5% in extended trading Thursday after the company&nbsp;released&nbsp;its first-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street’s expectations for earnings and revenue.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/798d7f0536203d2ae33b543f4dabf204\" tg-width=\"1281\" tg-height=\"591\"></p>\n<p>Here’s how the e-commerce giant fared, relative to analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><b>Earnings:</b>$15.79 per share vs. $9.54 per share expected</li>\n <li><b>Revenue:</b>$108.52 billion vs. $104.47 billion expected</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Few companies have benefited from the pandemic-fueled surge of online shoppingas much as Amazon. Its first-quarter results showed the company’s business continues to be buoyed by the pandemic, with sales soaring 44% year-over-year to $108.5 billion.</p>\n<p>Amazon’s guidance for the second quarter implies that it expects the momentum to continue, which should help allay investor fears that business could slow in a post-pandemic environment. The company expects to post revenue between $110 billion and $116 billion, surpassing Wall Street’s projection $108.6 billion.</p>\n<p>Crucially, Amazon confirmed in its guidance that this year’s Prime Day will take place in June, which will likely help year-over-year comparisons for revenue in the second quarter. Typically, Amazon’s annual, two-day discount bonanza takes place in July, but the company postponed the event to October last year amid pandemic-related uncertainty.</p>\n<p>When asked about the Prime Day timing, CFO Brian Olsavsky said on a call with investors: “In many areas, July is vacation month, so it might be better for customers, sellers and vendors to experiment with a different time period. We believe that it might be better timing later in [the second quarter], so that’s what we’re testing this year.”</p>\n<p>Outside of its core retail segment, Amazon’s cloud-computing and advertising businesses continue to boom. Amazon Web Servicessawnet sales of $13.5 billion during the quarter, up 32% year over year. Amazon doesn’t disclose advertising sales, but it’s included in the company’s “Other” category, which saw its revenues grow 77% year over year to $6.9 billion.</p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also gave a rare glimpse into how the company’s streaming business has fared during the pandemic, as stuck-at-home consumers relied on online entertainment to keep busy. “As Prime Video turns 10, over 175 million Prime members have streamed shows and movies in the past year, and streaming hours are up more than 70% year over year,” he said.</p>\n<p>Amazon’s streaming service, Prime Video, is a key offering of the company’s Prime subscription service, which costs $119 a year and includes a range of other benefits like free, two-day shipping. Bezos disclosed earlier this month that the company now has 200 million Prime subscribers, 50 million more than it had at the start of 2020.</p>\n<p>Physical stores revenue, which includes Whole Foods Market and other brick-and-mortar offerings like Amazon Books, continued to fall. Sales slumped 16% to $3.9 billion. The category excludes online delivery, Olsavsky said.</p>\n<p>During the quarter, Amazon’s sales grew faster internationally than they did in North America. International revenue surged 60% year over year, more than any other segment, while North America revenue climbed 40%.</p>\n<p>As expected, Amazon will incur fewer costs this year related to coronavirus safety measures. Operating income is forecast to be between $4.5 billion and $8 billion in the second quarter, assuming $1.5 billion of costs related to Covid-19. That’s in line with what Amazon executives predicted last quarter.</p>\n<p>AmazonsaidWednesday it would spend more than $1 billion on raising wages for over half a million of its U.S. operations workers. On a call with reporters, Olsavsky said it decided to move up the pay increase from the fall to this spring as volumes remain just as strong as they were at the beginning of the pandemic.</p>\n<p>Olsavsky declined to comment on Amazon’s CEO transition plans, which will come into play once Bezossteps down in the third quarter. Bezos will turn the helm over to AWS CEO Andy Jassy and assume the role of executive chairman of Amazon’s board.</p>","source":"lsy1609915699154","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Amazon sales surge 44% as it smashes earnings expectations</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAmazon sales surge 44% as it smashes earnings expectations\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 06:14 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/amazon-amzn-earnings-q1-2021.html><strong>CNBC</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Amazon released first-quarter results on Thursday that trounced analysts’ expectations.\nThe company confirmed that this year’s Prime Day will take place in June, which will likely help year over year ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/amazon-amzn-earnings-q1-2021.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊"},"source_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/amazon-amzn-earnings-q1-2021.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1188611661","content_text":"Amazon released first-quarter results on Thursday that trounced analysts’ expectations.\nThe company confirmed that this year’s Prime Day will take place in June, which will likely help year over year comparisons for revenue in the second quarter.\n\nAmazonshares climbed more than 3.5% in extended trading Thursday after the company released its first-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street’s expectations for earnings and revenue.\n\nHere’s how the e-commerce giant fared, relative to analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv:\n\nEarnings:$15.79 per share vs. $9.54 per share expected\nRevenue:$108.52 billion vs. $104.47 billion expected\n\nFew companies have benefited from the pandemic-fueled surge of online shoppingas much as Amazon. Its first-quarter results showed the company’s business continues to be buoyed by the pandemic, with sales soaring 44% year-over-year to $108.5 billion.\nAmazon’s guidance for the second quarter implies that it expects the momentum to continue, which should help allay investor fears that business could slow in a post-pandemic environment. The company expects to post revenue between $110 billion and $116 billion, surpassing Wall Street’s projection $108.6 billion.\nCrucially, Amazon confirmed in its guidance that this year’s Prime Day will take place in June, which will likely help year-over-year comparisons for revenue in the second quarter. Typically, Amazon’s annual, two-day discount bonanza takes place in July, but the company postponed the event to October last year amid pandemic-related uncertainty.\nWhen asked about the Prime Day timing, CFO Brian Olsavsky said on a call with investors: “In many areas, July is vacation month, so it might be better for customers, sellers and vendors to experiment with a different time period. We believe that it might be better timing later in [the second quarter], so that’s what we’re testing this year.”\nOutside of its core retail segment, Amazon’s cloud-computing and advertising businesses continue to boom. Amazon Web Servicessawnet sales of $13.5 billion during the quarter, up 32% year over year. Amazon doesn’t disclose advertising sales, but it’s included in the company’s “Other” category, which saw its revenues grow 77% year over year to $6.9 billion.\nAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos also gave a rare glimpse into how the company’s streaming business has fared during the pandemic, as stuck-at-home consumers relied on online entertainment to keep busy. “As Prime Video turns 10, over 175 million Prime members have streamed shows and movies in the past year, and streaming hours are up more than 70% year over year,” he said.\nAmazon’s streaming service, Prime Video, is a key offering of the company’s Prime subscription service, which costs $119 a year and includes a range of other benefits like free, two-day shipping. Bezos disclosed earlier this month that the company now has 200 million Prime subscribers, 50 million more than it had at the start of 2020.\nPhysical stores revenue, which includes Whole Foods Market and other brick-and-mortar offerings like Amazon Books, continued to fall. Sales slumped 16% to $3.9 billion. The category excludes online delivery, Olsavsky said.\nDuring the quarter, Amazon’s sales grew faster internationally than they did in North America. International revenue surged 60% year over year, more than any other segment, while North America revenue climbed 40%.\nAs expected, Amazon will incur fewer costs this year related to coronavirus safety measures. Operating income is forecast to be between $4.5 billion and $8 billion in the second quarter, assuming $1.5 billion of costs related to Covid-19. That’s in line with what Amazon executives predicted last quarter.\nAmazonsaidWednesday it would spend more than $1 billion on raising wages for over half a million of its U.S. operations workers. On a call with reporters, Olsavsky said it decided to move up the pay increase from the fall to this spring as volumes remain just as strong as they were at the beginning of the pandemic.\nOlsavsky declined to comment on Amazon’s CEO transition plans, which will come into play once Bezossteps down in the third quarter. Bezos will turn the helm over to AWS CEO Andy Jassy and assume the role of executive chairman of Amazon’s board.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":362,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":100520203,"gmtCreate":1619622541702,"gmtModify":1634211242982,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Awesome","listText":"Awesome","text":"Awesome","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/100520203","repostId":"1109488212","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109488212","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1619618312,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1109488212?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-28 21:58","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Google rose nearly 6%, and its stock price hit a record high of $2,427","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109488212","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Google rose nearly 6%, and its stock price hit a record high of $2,427. 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Operating margin, a sign of profitability, rose a huge 1100 basis points to 30%.</p><p>One basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point.</p><p>At $31.87 billion, search and other Google products like maps contributed more than half of total revenues. 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Google's 2021 Q1 revenue and net profit exceeded expectations, and it announced the repurchase of 50 billion US dollars of stock.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f1a938a5b024f585585bbe8129beb711\" tg-width=\"822\" tg-height=\"833\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>The tech giant displayed all-round performance in the last quarter with its flagship Google search, YouTube and Google cloud registering healthy gains in revenue as people, many stuck at home by repeated lockdowns, gorged on gaming, music, sports and entertainment.</p><p>The announcement of a $50 billion share repurchase program was also helping the bounce in shares.</p><p>The company posted a 34% gain in revenue to $55.31 billion. Operating margin, a sign of profitability, rose a huge 1100 basis points to 30%.</p><p>One basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point.</p><p>At $31.87 billion, search and other Google products like maps contributed more than half of total revenues. YouTube revenues rose 49% to $6 billion.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109488212","content_text":"Google rose nearly 6%, and its stock price hit a record high of $2,427. Google's 2021 Q1 revenue and net profit exceeded expectations, and it announced the repurchase of 50 billion US dollars of stock.The tech giant displayed all-round performance in the last quarter with its flagship Google search, YouTube and Google cloud registering healthy gains in revenue as people, many stuck at home by repeated lockdowns, gorged on gaming, music, sports and entertainment.The announcement of a $50 billion share repurchase program was also helping the bounce in shares.The company posted a 34% gain in revenue to $55.31 billion. Operating margin, a sign of profitability, rose a huge 1100 basis points to 30%.One basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point.At $31.87 billion, search and other Google products like maps contributed more than half of total revenues. YouTube revenues rose 49% to $6 billion.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":100,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":349429033,"gmtCreate":1617633098522,"gmtModify":1634297418340,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Bubble","listText":"Bubble","text":"Bubble","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/349429033","repostId":"2125579247","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2125579247","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Stock Market Quotes, Business News, Financial News, Trading Ideas, and Stock Research by Professionals","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Benzinga","id":"1052270027","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d08bf7808052c0ca9deb4e944cae32aa"},"pubTimestamp":1617621115,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2125579247?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-05 19:11","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Is The Era Of Meme Stocks And NFTs Already Over?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2125579247","media":"Benzinga","summary":"With an excess of stimulus money and time on their hands, people's attention landed on commission-fr","content":"<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/be46311cd2d33d0e3917aaedb8a121dc\" tg-width=\"600\" tg-height=\"400\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>With an excess of stimulus money and time on their hands, people's attention landed on commission-free trading platforms, leading to an exuberant rise in prices this year.</p><p>Now, with vaccines rolling out, final stimulus checks being spent and warm weather returning, attention is returning to socializing and traveling.</p><p><b>Memes Fall Flat</b>: So goes the explanation for why prices in meme stocks have been flat since the frenzy reached fever pitch in late January, according to Bloomberg.</p><p>Searches for “Google flights” reached their a popularity score of 100 (the highest possible for a given period of time) in the past week, while searches for phrases like “stock trading” and “investing” have plunged, Bloomberg said, citing Google Trends data.</p><p>“The stimulus check impact on retail trading is waning,” Bloomberg quoted Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda, as saying. “Many Americans are looking to go big on attending sporting events, traveling across the country, vacationing, visiting family and friends, and revamping wardrobes before going out to restaurants, pubs and returning to the office.”</p><p>Retail traders accounted for nearly 25% of trading activity in the past year, up from an average of about 10% over the decade prior to the pandemic, Benzinga noted two weeks ago, citing Goldman Sachs.</p><p><b>NFT Prices Plunge</b>: Meanwhile, interest in another source of exuberance, non-fungible tokens, appears to be on the wane as well, just weeks after the $69.3 million Beeple artwork sale brought the digital innovation to the world's attention.</p><p>Average prices for NFTs peaked in February at about $1,400 but have fallen by almost 70% since then, according to Bloomberg, using data from NFT market-tracker Nonfungible.com.</p><p>Bitcoin.com noted a decline in interest in NTFs. The site said search terms for NFTs have been falling since mid-March highs on Google in the U.S. and worldwide, though the numbers still remain high, mostly in the 90s.</p><p>Bitcoin quoted an author who's written on NFTs saying that the market suffers from an oversupply as more people realize how easy NFTs are to create.</p><p>NFTs are not likely to go away, as they represent a new innovation with promising uses for proving ownership and tracking ownership history, as well as for people's online identities.</p><p>But the fall in prices suggests the recent boom was a temporary rush of excitement for a concept that's still taking shape.</p><p>Before long, the meme stocks and NFTs of early 2021 may appear in retrospect to have been nothing more than the oddities of a feverish pandemic.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is The Era Of Meme Stocks And NFTs Already Over?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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}\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nIs The Era Of Meme Stocks And NFTs Already Over?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/d08bf7808052c0ca9deb4e944cae32aa);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Benzinga </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-04-05 19:11</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/be46311cd2d33d0e3917aaedb8a121dc\" tg-width=\"600\" tg-height=\"400\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>With an excess of stimulus money and time on their hands, people's attention landed on commission-free trading platforms, leading to an exuberant rise in prices this year.</p><p>Now, with vaccines rolling out, final stimulus checks being spent and warm weather returning, attention is returning to socializing and traveling.</p><p><b>Memes Fall Flat</b>: So goes the explanation for why prices in meme stocks have been flat since the frenzy reached fever pitch in late January, according to Bloomberg.</p><p>Searches for “Google flights” reached their a popularity score of 100 (the highest possible for a given period of time) in the past week, while searches for phrases like “stock trading” and “investing” have plunged, Bloomberg said, citing Google Trends data.</p><p>“The stimulus check impact on retail trading is waning,” Bloomberg quoted Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda, as saying. “Many Americans are looking to go big on attending sporting events, traveling across the country, vacationing, visiting family and friends, and revamping wardrobes before going out to restaurants, pubs and returning to the office.”</p><p>Retail traders accounted for nearly 25% of trading activity in the past year, up from an average of about 10% over the decade prior to the pandemic, Benzinga noted two weeks ago, citing Goldman Sachs.</p><p><b>NFT Prices Plunge</b>: Meanwhile, interest in another source of exuberance, non-fungible tokens, appears to be on the wane as well, just weeks after the $69.3 million Beeple artwork sale brought the digital innovation to the world's attention.</p><p>Average prices for NFTs peaked in February at about $1,400 but have fallen by almost 70% since then, according to Bloomberg, using data from NFT market-tracker Nonfungible.com.</p><p>Bitcoin.com noted a decline in interest in NTFs. The site said search terms for NFTs have been falling since mid-March highs on Google in the U.S. and worldwide, though the numbers still remain high, mostly in the 90s.</p><p>Bitcoin quoted an author who's written on NFTs saying that the market suffers from an oversupply as more people realize how easy NFTs are to create.</p><p>NFTs are not likely to go away, as they represent a new innovation with promising uses for proving ownership and tracking ownership history, as well as for people's online identities.</p><p>But the fall in prices suggests the recent boom was a temporary rush of excitement for a concept that's still taking shape.</p><p>Before long, the meme stocks and NFTs of early 2021 may appear in retrospect to have been nothing more than the oddities of a feverish pandemic.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/acc24e12c653fec8b3649aea7072da90","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数","03086":"华夏纳指",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","GOOG":"谷歌",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","09086":"华夏纳指-U","GOOGL":"谷歌A"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2125579247","content_text":"With an excess of stimulus money and time on their hands, people's attention landed on commission-free trading platforms, leading to an exuberant rise in prices this year.Now, with vaccines rolling out, final stimulus checks being spent and warm weather returning, attention is returning to socializing and traveling.Memes Fall Flat: So goes the explanation for why prices in meme stocks have been flat since the frenzy reached fever pitch in late January, according to Bloomberg.Searches for “Google flights” reached their a popularity score of 100 (the highest possible for a given period of time) in the past week, while searches for phrases like “stock trading” and “investing” have plunged, Bloomberg said, citing Google Trends data.“The stimulus check impact on retail trading is waning,” Bloomberg quoted Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda, as saying. “Many Americans are looking to go big on attending sporting events, traveling across the country, vacationing, visiting family and friends, and revamping wardrobes before going out to restaurants, pubs and returning to the office.”Retail traders accounted for nearly 25% of trading activity in the past year, up from an average of about 10% over the decade prior to the pandemic, Benzinga noted two weeks ago, citing Goldman Sachs.NFT Prices Plunge: Meanwhile, interest in another source of exuberance, non-fungible tokens, appears to be on the wane as well, just weeks after the $69.3 million Beeple artwork sale brought the digital innovation to the world's attention.Average prices for NFTs peaked in February at about $1,400 but have fallen by almost 70% since then, according to Bloomberg, using data from NFT market-tracker Nonfungible.com.Bitcoin.com noted a decline in interest in NTFs. The site said search terms for NFTs have been falling since mid-March highs on Google in the U.S. and worldwide, though the numbers still remain high, mostly in the 90s.Bitcoin quoted an author who's written on NFTs saying that the market suffers from an oversupply as more people realize how easy NFTs are to create.NFTs are not likely to go away, as they represent a new innovation with promising uses for proving ownership and tracking ownership history, as well as for people's online identities.But the fall in prices suggests the recent boom was a temporary rush of excitement for a concept that's still taking shape.Before long, the meme stocks and NFTs of early 2021 may appear in retrospect to have been nothing more than the oddities of a feverish pandemic.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":238,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":108680506,"gmtCreate":1620018323405,"gmtModify":1634208472549,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Hmmm will be stiff competition with Tencent &amp; Alibaba &amp; some Chinese govt&nbsp;regulation issues 🧐","listText":"Hmmm will be stiff competition with Tencent &amp; Alibaba &amp; some Chinese govt&nbsp;regulation issues 🧐","text":"Hmmm will be stiff competition with Tencent & Alibaba & some Chinese govt regulation issues 🧐","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/108680506","repostId":"1121605010","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":300,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":108152233,"gmtCreate":1620006773022,"gmtModify":1634208593516,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great","listText":"Great","text":"Great","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/108152233","repostId":"1176458076","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1176458076","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619759657,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1176458076?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-30 13:14","market":"sg","language":"en","title":"DBS Will Take From Citi to Take On Grab","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1176458076","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Aggressive deal-making can help Singapore’s biggest bank ward off new online challengers.\nPiyush Gup","content":"<p>Aggressive deal-making can help Singapore’s biggest bank ward off new online challengers.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/daf76ba2765ffd73c362b0f4dbe91222\" tg-width=\"1400\" tg-height=\"933\"><span>Piyush Gupta must have his eye on some of his former employer’s assets. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>The pandemic is far from over, but Singapore’s biggest bank is already off to the races.</p>\n<p>DBS Group Holdings Ltd.’s recent&nbsp;S$1.1 billion ($828&nbsp;million)&nbsp;purchase of a 13% stake in&nbsp;a rural Chinese bank&nbsp;gives a flavor of the aggressive deal-making investors can expect,&nbsp;as Citigroup Inc.’s exit from&nbsp;retail operations&nbsp;in Asia&nbsp;outside Singapore and Hong Kong&nbsp;puts assetson the block.</p>\n<p>The Citi sale couldn’t have come at a better moment. DBS Chief Executive Piyush Gupta must be thinking hard about what he could snag from his former employer:India? Indonesia? Both?&nbsp;He doesn’t have the luxury of time. On its home turf, DBS is relatively safe for now. But new-age virtual banks, one from ride-hailing app Grab Holdings Inc. and another from mobile-games maker Sea Ltd., are coming to Singapore. Grab’s record&nbsp;$40 billion merger&nbsp;with a blank-check company gives it balance-sheet muscle, which it is&nbsp;bound to flex against DBS.</p>\n<p>Luckily for the traditional lender, a revival in profit means it can buttress its Asian heft before&nbsp;challenger banks enter.&nbsp;A drop in new bad loans and a write-back of past&nbsp;allowances saw net income doubling from the previous three months&nbsp;to a better-than-expected&nbsp;S$2 billion&nbsp;in the first quarter, the bank said&nbsp;Friday. The thick cushion DBS built to absorb blows from Covid-19 disruption ought to&nbsp;come in handy this year as Singapore opens up, starting with a&nbsp;planned travel bubble&nbsp;with Hong Kong in May. Besides, with Singapore private home&nbsp;prices growing the&nbsp;fastest since 2018, mortgage loan demand is high.</p>\n<p>The loan pricing, though, is far from great. Pretty much the only thing weighing on earnings&nbsp;is the&nbsp;excess liquidity&nbsp;sloshing about in the island-state. It’s keeping a lid on interest rates&nbsp;DBS can charge customers. Net interest margin in the first quarter was 1.49%, unchanged from the previous three months. During the same period last year, the margin was 1.86%.</p>\n<p>Investors&nbsp;aren’t waiting for interest rates to normalize. For them, it’s enough that credit volumes are coming back. Gupta said he’s upgrading the outlook for full-year loan growth to “mid-to-high single digits.” Shares of DBS&nbsp;and&nbsp;its two smaller Singapore peers, Oversea-Chinese&nbsp;Banking Corp. and United Overseas Bank Ltd., have jumped 40%-plus since last October.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/16f497ec4e5e68489a07e0705cc67a3e\" tg-width=\"955\" tg-height=\"559\"></p>\n<p>DBS should also expect a boost&nbsp;from the nervousness over Hong Kong’s&nbsp;openness and rule of law as Beijing tightens its grip. The greater&nbsp;the&nbsp;exodus of money and talent&nbsp;from the special administrative region, the bigger the opportunity for traditional rival Singapore to bulk up&nbsp;as a financial center.</p>\n<p>As a bank from politically neutral Singapore, DBS might even fancy its chances in Beijing’s ambitious Greater Bay Area. That capital-guzzling plan to connect Hong Kong with cities in southern China is a more&nbsp;natural bailiwick for&nbsp;HSBC Holdings Plc. But the London-headquartered lender&nbsp;is badly entangled in economic confrontations between&nbsp;the People’s Republic and the&nbsp;West. By paying top dollar to become&nbsp;the largest shareholder of Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Corp., Gupta is signaling his intention to play.</p>\n<p>And why not? As I have&nbsp;argued before, Singapore’s largest bank is too dependent on its home market. Nationalist politics in Indonesia&nbsp;thwarted&nbsp;its&nbsp;$6.5 billion purchase&nbsp;of&nbsp;PT Bank Danamon, which eventually fell in the lap of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. That was eight years ago. Since then, DBS has&nbsp;acquired Australia &amp;&nbsp;New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.’s retail and wealth businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. More recently, it took over the assets and liabilities of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd., a troubled Indian lender the central bank wanted to put&nbsp;out of its misery.</p>\n<p>None of this comes cheap. Half or more of the3% to 4% increase this year in DBS’s expenses&nbsp;from&nbsp;pre-pandemic 2019 levels&nbsp;will be on account of Lakshmi Vilas. But these “bolt-on” acquisitions, as Gupta terms them, will complement&nbsp;investment in digital banking. The&nbsp;technology push&nbsp;will go beyond consumer&nbsp;banking. Together with JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., and Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte, DBS is taking&nbsp;part ownership of&nbsp;a&nbsp;new blockchain-based platform&nbsp;for instantaneous settlement of cross-border payments between financial institutions. Offering services in tokenized money to corporate clients could&nbsp;see DBS open a fresh&nbsp;battlefront against Citigroup, HSBC and Standard Chartered Plc, the global-local, or “glocal,” trio&nbsp;that dominates transactions banking in Asia.</p>\n<p>Citi’s slimming down gives DBS&nbsp;the opportunity; Grab’s impending arrival provides the motive; and&nbsp;a&nbsp;post-pandemic upswing&nbsp;in profitability&nbsp;supplies&nbsp;the&nbsp;wherewithal.&nbsp;Expect Gupta to crank&nbsp;up the M&amp;A machine.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>DBS Will Take From Citi to Take On Grab</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nDBS Will Take From Citi to Take On Grab\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 13:14 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-30/dbs-will-take-from-citi-to-take-on-grab?srnd=premium-asia><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Aggressive deal-making can help Singapore’s biggest bank ward off new online challengers.\nPiyush Gupta must have his eye on some of his former employer’s assets. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg\n...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-30/dbs-will-take-from-citi-to-take-on-grab?srnd=premium-asia\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"D05.SI":"星展集团控股","C":"花旗"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-30/dbs-will-take-from-citi-to-take-on-grab?srnd=premium-asia","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1176458076","content_text":"Aggressive deal-making can help Singapore’s biggest bank ward off new online challengers.\nPiyush Gupta must have his eye on some of his former employer’s assets. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg\nThe pandemic is far from over, but Singapore’s biggest bank is already off to the races.\nDBS Group Holdings Ltd.’s recent S$1.1 billion ($828 million) purchase of a 13% stake in a rural Chinese bank gives a flavor of the aggressive deal-making investors can expect, as Citigroup Inc.’s exit from retail operations in Asia outside Singapore and Hong Kong puts assetson the block.\nThe Citi sale couldn’t have come at a better moment. DBS Chief Executive Piyush Gupta must be thinking hard about what he could snag from his former employer:India? Indonesia? Both? He doesn’t have the luxury of time. On its home turf, DBS is relatively safe for now. But new-age virtual banks, one from ride-hailing app Grab Holdings Inc. and another from mobile-games maker Sea Ltd., are coming to Singapore. Grab’s record $40 billion merger with a blank-check company gives it balance-sheet muscle, which it is bound to flex against DBS.\nLuckily for the traditional lender, a revival in profit means it can buttress its Asian heft before challenger banks enter. A drop in new bad loans and a write-back of past allowances saw net income doubling from the previous three months to a better-than-expected S$2 billion in the first quarter, the bank said Friday. The thick cushion DBS built to absorb blows from Covid-19 disruption ought to come in handy this year as Singapore opens up, starting with a planned travel bubble with Hong Kong in May. Besides, with Singapore private home prices growing the fastest since 2018, mortgage loan demand is high.\nThe loan pricing, though, is far from great. Pretty much the only thing weighing on earnings is the excess liquidity sloshing about in the island-state. It’s keeping a lid on interest rates DBS can charge customers. Net interest margin in the first quarter was 1.49%, unchanged from the previous three months. During the same period last year, the margin was 1.86%.\nInvestors aren’t waiting for interest rates to normalize. For them, it’s enough that credit volumes are coming back. Gupta said he’s upgrading the outlook for full-year loan growth to “mid-to-high single digits.” Shares of DBS and its two smaller Singapore peers, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and United Overseas Bank Ltd., have jumped 40%-plus since last October.\n\nDBS should also expect a boost from the nervousness over Hong Kong’s openness and rule of law as Beijing tightens its grip. The greater the exodus of money and talent from the special administrative region, the bigger the opportunity for traditional rival Singapore to bulk up as a financial center.\nAs a bank from politically neutral Singapore, DBS might even fancy its chances in Beijing’s ambitious Greater Bay Area. That capital-guzzling plan to connect Hong Kong with cities in southern China is a more natural bailiwick for HSBC Holdings Plc. But the London-headquartered lender is badly entangled in economic confrontations between the People’s Republic and the West. By paying top dollar to become the largest shareholder of Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Corp., Gupta is signaling his intention to play.\nAnd why not? As I have argued before, Singapore’s largest bank is too dependent on its home market. Nationalist politics in Indonesia thwarted its $6.5 billion purchase of PT Bank Danamon, which eventually fell in the lap of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. That was eight years ago. Since then, DBS has acquired Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.’s retail and wealth businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. More recently, it took over the assets and liabilities of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd., a troubled Indian lender the central bank wanted to put out of its misery.\nNone of this comes cheap. Half or more of the3% to 4% increase this year in DBS’s expenses from pre-pandemic 2019 levels will be on account of Lakshmi Vilas. But these “bolt-on” acquisitions, as Gupta terms them, will complement investment in digital banking. The technology push will go beyond consumer banking. Together with JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte, DBS is taking part ownership of a new blockchain-based platform for instantaneous settlement of cross-border payments between financial institutions. Offering services in tokenized money to corporate clients could see DBS open a fresh battlefront against Citigroup, HSBC and Standard Chartered Plc, the global-local, or “glocal,” trio that dominates transactions banking in Asia.\nCiti’s slimming down gives DBS the opportunity; Grab’s impending arrival provides the motive; and a post-pandemic upswing in profitability supplies the wherewithal. Expect Gupta to crank up the M&A machine.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":413,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":344242998,"gmtCreate":1618412253214,"gmtModify":1634293105638,"author":{"id":"3571359088752748","authorId":"3571359088752748","name":"StephenC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571359088752748","authorIdStr":"3571359088752748"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great","listText":"Great","text":"Great","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/344242998","repostId":"1192643222","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":151,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}