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| 📰 Market Headlines | | Stock Market Uplift: U.S. stocks opened higher, with the Nasdaq Composite leading, following the market's best week this year. This uplift was fueled by the optimism that the Fed might stop raising interest rates, with the 10-year Treasury yield ticking up to trade near 4.62%. (Yahoo!)
Small Caps Investment Opportunities: The Russell 2000 index, which tracks small-cap stocks, experienced its best week in over two years. (Yahoo!) WeBroke: Once valued at $47 billion, WeWork finally filed for bankruptcy. (NYT) Disney's New CFO: Disney announced Hugh Johnston as their new Chief Financial Officer. Johnston, a long-serving executive at PepsiCo, is expected to bring his extensive financial and operational leadership experience to Disney (Yahoo!) Banking Layoffs: Citi is set to sack up to 24,000 employees with CEO Jane Fraser saying, “We’ll be saying goodbye to some very talented and hard-working colleagues.“ (CNBC) Off the Rails: President Biden announced a $16 billion investment in rail infrastructure for the Northeast Corridor, the most heavily traveled rail corridor in the U.S. (UPI) Profit Taking: Cathie Woods sold her share of Roku after it pumped 42% last week. (Yahoo!) Narrative Violation 1: Saudi state oil giant Aramco posted a 23% drop in net profit in the third quarter to Sept. 30, down to $32.6 billion. (CNBC) Narrative Violation 2: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its China growth forecast to 5.4% for 2023. (CNBC) Super Mario: Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for Q2 as it continues to get a bump from the “Super Mario Bros. Movie” and flagship Zelda game released this year. (CNBC) Putin Runs Again: Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly decided to run in the March 2024 presidential election. With little to no opposition in Russia, it’s likely that Putin will be in office until at least 2030 and could continue his tenure until 2036. (Reuters) | | 🏢 Vetted commercial real estate | EquityMultiple lets you invest in high-yield, professionally managed commercial real estate. | Their nine-month Alpine notes offer 7.4% yield, and let you start with as little as $5k. Their recently launched Ascent Income Fund has a higher target (11-13%) but also a higher minimum ($20,000) | | EquityMulitple has a high bar for quality, only accepting 5% of investments that come their way. | Join 48,000 CRE investors using EquityMultiple. |
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| | | 💎 Wealth Watch | | The Demise Of Mint And Personal Financial Management: The user base of Intuit’s Mint has dwindled from over 20 million in 2016 to 3.6 million five years later, a decline of over 80%. The downfall of traditional personal financial management (PFM) tools, which focused primarily on budgeting and expense categorization, points to a shift in consumer preferences. Read more » | Digital Nomads: the Rising Number of People Choosing to Work Remotely: Where in the world would you work from if you could? A hilltop village in Croatia? The hip surfing town of Tarifa in southern Spain? Or the lively city of Bogotá in Colombia? All three have recently emerged as locations that are now tempting people to pack their bags and work remotely thanks to their respective digital nomad visas. Read more » | The Fun Things in Life Are Giving Us Buyer’s Remorse: The steeper price we pay for tickets and travel changes our standards for a good time. Read more » |
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| | 🗳️ Outside the Box | | The Avant-Garde Origins of 'Gumby' (Animation Obsessive) ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (OpenAI) Saudi Arabia is following up its World Cup win by beginning talks with IMG to take over the Miami Open or Mutua Madrid Open. (The Gist) ‘It’s scarily good’: vintage clothing market is flooded with fakes (Guardian) |
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| | | | | | 🎵 Invest in Shrek | Have you ever invested in music rights? If not, study up: | Investing in Music Rights and Song Royalties Buying music rights: A deeper dive | It’s more complicated than this, but when you own the rights to a song, you get a few cents every time it’s played. If it’s a popular song, that can add up quickly. So investors will pay hundreds of millions for the rights to an artist’s entire catalog, aiming to earn a 5% to 15% perpetuity. | Loads of musicians, including Bruce Springsteen, Katy Perry, ZZ Top, Motley Crue, Bob Dylan, and Whitney Houston, are cashing in their catalogs for a big payday. | The best stuff is usually expensive (and out of reach for most of us), which is why I was interested to see Public offering the rights to Shrek the other day. | [Disclosure: I requested an allocation.] | They’ve acquired the rights to the music from all four films and the related TV specials. That’s generated around $83k over the last twelve months for an ROI of 8.5%. | | This feels like a more interesting and possibly profitable alternative to the 5.5% treasuries everyone is buying right now. | The risk is that people will stop watching Shrek films and stop going on the rides, but perhaps surprisingly, search volume for the green ogre is actually increasing year over year. | | Don’t underestimate the staggering drawing power of Shrek |
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