Good Morning Everyone!
Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger was asked about long-term valuations: “I don't worry about it too much, because I will be dead."
At least he’s being honest.
Prices as of 4 pm EST, 2/15/23; % YTD
MARKET UPDATE
Retail sales
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+3% vs. 1.8% expected
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All categories showed growth MoM and YoY
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Restaurants and bars +7.2% MoM, +24% YoY
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Rotation from goods to services still underway
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Data says: consumer still strong
Industrial & Manufacturing production
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Industrial production unch MoM
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+0.8% YoY
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Slowest growth since February 2021
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-9.9% monthly drop in Utilities (chart below)
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Largest drop ever
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Manufacturing production +1% MoM
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Best print since February 2022
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Homebuilder sentiment
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Rose by 7 points (most since mid-2020)
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At 5-month high
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Sales expectations jumped to highest since July
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Optimism over prospective buyer traffic
Today's data:
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8:30:
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PPI MoM: 0.7% vs. 0.4% est
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Biggest gain in 7 months
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Largest increase in goods (+1.2%) since June
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+6.2% surge in gasoline cost
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Core PPI MoM: 0.5% vs. 0.3% est
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Building Permits MoM: +0.1% (prev -1%)
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Housing Starts MoM: -4.5% (prev -3.4%)
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Initial Jobless Claims: 194k vs. 200k est
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Remains close to 9-month low from January
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Labor market: still tight
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Philly Fed Manufacturing: -24.3 vs. -7.4 est
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Lowest reading since May 2020
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6th straight month of contraction
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Fed talk
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8:45 - Mester
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1:30 - Bullard
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4:00 - Cook
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6:00 - Mester
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Crude
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IEA lifts oil demand by 2 mbpd in 2023
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China makes up 900k bpd
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Record 101.9 mpbd
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+100k bpd from prev forecast
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Tesla TSLA
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Autopilot workers announced unionization campaign Tuesday
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Yesterday Tesla fired dozens of them
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Charlie Munger on Tesla/BYD (Chinese competitor):
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“BYD is so much ahead of Tesla in China ... it’s almost ridiculous”
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Cisco Systems CSCO
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Beat top & bottom lines
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Demand for tech infrastructure stronger than expected
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Highest sales forecast in years
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+9.8% for 2023
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Zillow Z
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Beat top & bottom lines
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Driven by core advertising
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Developing “super app” for housing
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Partnering with Opendoor OPEN to reach home sellers
Earnings
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Hasbro HAS
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Datadog DDOG
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Crox CROX
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DraftKings DKNG
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Paramount Global PARA
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Cenovus Energy CVE
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PBF Energy PBF
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NRG Energy NRG
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Watsco WSO
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Hyatt Hotels H
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Pool Corp POOL
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Southern Company SO
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Zebra Tech ZBRA
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EPAM Systems EPAM
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Reliance Steel RS
CRYPTO UPDATE
Bitcoin BTC/USD hits 6-month high
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Highest since August
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Closing in on $25,000
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+11% last 24 hours
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Squeeze? Short-sellers closed out $64.5 million in bets yesterday
Court reveals identities of SBF guarantors
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Check out thread for details:
The two people who paid the former FTX CEO’s bail are:
— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) February 15, 2023
Larry Kramer (left) - former dean of Stanford Law School.
Andreas Paepcke (right) - a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford. pic.twitter.com/ZnPB9n95x9
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