27Jan2022 Market Close & Major Financial Headlines: Wall Street Gives Up Strong Early Gains To Close Lower In Another Volatile Session, DOW Ends In The Red But Nearly Flat On The Session, Tesla Drops 10%

Low-Carbon Energy Investment Must Triple To Reach Net-Zero Target

The world invested a record $755 billion in the energy transition in 2021, up by 27 percent compared to 2020, but total annual investment in low-carbon energy needs to triple from todays levels to put the world on track for net-zero emissions by 2050, research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF) said in a new report on Thursday. Last year, global investments in all low-carbon energy sectors rose, with the exception of carbon capture and storage (CCS), BNEFs Energy Transition Investment Trends 2022 report showed. Renewable energy continued to

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Norways Oil Fund Booked Second-Best Return Ever In 2021

The worlds largest sovereign wealth fund, Norways $1.3-trillion wealth fund, enjoyed last year its second-best return in history, earning the equivalent of $176 billion, driven by technology and financials, while energy stocks globally made the strongest return last year. The Government Pension Fund Global, as the so-called oil fund is officially known, said on Thursday that it returned 14.5 percent, equivalent to $176 billion (1.58 trillion Norwegian crowns) last year. This was the second-best return ever for the worlds

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Restocking Efforts Lift Steel Prices

Healthy construction demand and increased activity from the auto sector are likely to push up northern European prices for hot rolled coil in January and into February, following decreases from the previous month, sources stated. Mills are now transacting material at around 900-920 ($1,020-1,045) per metric ton exw, down from previous transactions 980-1,000 ($1,110-1,135) heard in late December. Cold rolled coil normally carries a premium of 80-120 ($90-135) per metric tons. Turkish imports An onslaught of imports from Turkey,

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UK Car Production Has Fallen To Lowest Levels Since 1956

2021 was a dismal year for the UK automotive industry, as output fell 6.7 percent to less than 860,000 units the lowest since 1956. Figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported that production went down 34 percent on pre-pandemic levels, especially as a result of the pandemic and supply chain issues such as the semiconductor shortage. The biggest single cause of this is semiconductors, as the average car takes between 1,500 and 3,000 chips. That was the most impactful issue

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A Flying Car Could Be Commercially Available Within 12 Months

A hybrid car-airplane known as AirCar has been issued a certificate of airworthiness by the Slovakian civil aviation authority, potentially paving the way for the future of flying vehicles. The dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle, which looks like a sports car, was created by a team of eight highly-skilled specialists at the Slovakian company Klein Vision, which was founded by Professor Stefan Klein. Klein has devoted the last 20 years to making the flying car a reality. It was awarded the certificate by the Slovak Transport Authority

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UK And U.S. To Sit Down To Resolve Trump-Era Trade Dispute

As an example of how trade disputes often have little to do with trade, the announcement this week that the US and UK would sit down for talks to resolve the Trump era trade dispute over steel and aluminum tariffs serves as a case in point. Back in March 2018, when the former US president first imposed section 232 import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imported from nearly everywhere, the UK belonged to the EU. While the application appeared heavy-handed, strong arguments for action existed. Capacity utilization among

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LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault says ‘we have to be wary of bubbles’ with the metaverse

LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault expressed a note of caution regarding the hype around the metaverse, during the luxury goods company’s latest earnings call.

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Southwest weighs bringing onboard booze back this spring

Southwest extended a pause on sales of alcohol in May after a spate of unruly passenger incidents including one that turned violent.

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GM CEO Mary Barra takes first autonomous car ride with Cruise: ‘It’s just surreal’

“It’s just surreal,” GM CEO Mary Barra says while testing one of the company’s driverless cars in San Francisco, calling it a highlight of her career.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library sells for nearly $2.4 million in auction

The auction of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library ended the same day that Justice Stephen Breyer confirmed he will retire this year.

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Cramer’s Investing Club: Mastercard’s earnings, outlook for travel recovery justify stock price

While the full-year 2022 outlook was more or less in line, we think it was better than feared.

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Cramer’s Investing Club: Danaher once again delivers reliable earnings, and that’s why we own the stock

All in, this was a solid quarter from Danaher and exemplary of the type of company we believe investors must focus on in this volatile market.

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Kansas City Chiefs fans donate over $300,000 to Buffalo children’s hospital following playoff win over Bills

Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo is receiving donations in increments of $13 from Chiefs fans, which represents the 13 seconds it took to tie the game.

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Cramer’s Investing Club: We’re trimming our Walmart holding to boost cash in volatile market

At the same time, we also want to be careful about how much cash we raise because the market is heavily oversold right now.

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Tesla drops 10% as investors digest new vehicle delays

Instead, CEO Elon Musk talked up Tesla’s longer-term ambitions to develop a robotaxi and a humanoid robot that could be put to work in factories.

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Italian space company D-Orbit to go public via SPAC at a $1.4 billion valuation

Italian space transportation and services company D-Orbit announced plans to go public via a SPAC, in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.

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Populist nations fared much worse during Covid outbreak, new research says

A new study has compared the response of populist and non-populist governments during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

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EV car manufacturing jumps in the UK but overall production sinks to 65-year low

The U.K. wants to stop the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans by 2030.

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Back to reality at last? Covid rules are being dropped in Europe despite high omicron spread

From the re-opening of bars and restaurants to the dropping of legal requirements for masks, many of Europe’s biggest economies are now relaxing Covid rules.

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Angry Stocks Come To Terms With Hawkish Fed As Yield Curve Screams ‘Policy Error’

Angry Stocks Come To Terms With Hawkish Fed As Yield Curve Screams ‘Policy Error’GDP “good news” appears to have been greeted as “bad news”, providing more cover for Powell to do what he said he would do with rates and QT… and while the algos lifted everything overnight, sellers appeared at the cash open and it was a one-way trip to yesterday’s lows (or worse) for the rest of the day. Small Caps are down 5% from pre-Fed, Nasdaq is down over 3%, and The Dow is down around 1% only

On the day, Small Caps are down over 2% in a massive whipsaw and The Dow is clinging to unchanged after swinging up and down 1000s of points…

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‘Rogue Wave’ 2.0: US NatGas Futures Explode Higher Into Chaotic Expiration

‘Rogue Wave’ 2.0: US NatGas Futures Explode Higher Into Chaotic ExpirationFebruary U.S. natural gas futures violently surged Thursday in what appears to be a delivery squeeze into expiration.

Bloomberg’s Javier Blas had some early insight that something was amiss…

Something is happening in the US natural gas market

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) January 27, 2022

Around 1400 ET, natgas contracts for February jumped as much as 72% in minutes, the most significant increase ever since the contract launched in 1990, according to Bloomberg, citing a spokesperson for CME Group.

The spread between February and March contracts erupted.

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Goldman President Complains Overly “Political” Fed “Does Not Have The Will” To Stop Inflation

Goldman President Complains Overly “Political” Fed “Does Not Have The Will” To Stop InflationShortly before the start of yesterday’s Fed announcement, Goldman Sachs No. 2 John Waldron, the investment bank’s president and a Wall Street insider if there ever was one, apparently decided to vent his frustrations with the Powell Fed in front of a live (if virtual) audience at a meeting of the New Jersey State Investment Council, and (apparently) one Bloomberg journalist.

During what the reporter later characterized as a rant encompassing many of the Fed’s failures in responding to the COVID pandemic, the senior Goldman banker complained that the Fed’s political “independence” has been hurt, which in turn has weakened its credibility with markets. For a preview of how this could play out in the long term, just take a look at how successful Turkey’s central bank has been at enforcing price stability.

The problem is that, thanks to its newfound political bearings, the Fed is more reluctant to take dramatic but ultimately necessary action for fear of damaging its public image (and also giving lawmakers reason to start another round of Fed bashing).

What’s gone on in the past couple of years has brought “into question the independence of the Fed,” Waldron said hours before the Fed’s meeting Wednesday. He questioned the Fed’s strength to act as an “independent, monetary policy engine th …

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JPMorgan: Not Enough Capitulation To Call A Bottom

JPMorgan: Not Enough Capitulation To Call A BottomOne day (and one week and one month) after JPM called again to buy the dip, at least one group inside the largest US bank – arguably the most important one – is getting cold feet on a quick bounce. As the bank’s trading desk writes this morning, while stocks reacted poorly to Powell’s unexpectedly hawkish comments, interestingly retail investors bought $1.69bn on the day: “this is the second most on record.”

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Kwarteng: No U-turn on National Insurance tax rise

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says a National Insurance rise to fund the NHS will go ahead.

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US economy grows at fastest pace in decades

Economic activity jumped by 5.7% in 2021, but analysts expect growth to slow this year.

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Tesco encourages shoppers and staff to keep wearing masks

UK’s largest retailer will encourage people in England to wear masks after rules are relaxed.

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Disinvestment-bound companies in spotlight, more names likely to be added

Analysts expect that the divestment targets for the new financial year are likely to be elevated, though a lot will depend upon the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of Life Insurance Company of India (LIC).

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Britannia Q3 Results Preview: Analysts see drop in profit on high agri input prices, packaging costs

According to Phillip Capital, the fast-moving consumer goods major is likely to report a profit after tax of Rs 363.2 crore in October-December, down 0.3 per cent sequentially and 33.5 per cent on-year.

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Are the golden days of ‘Dogecoin Killer’ Shiba Inu over?

The total market cap of Shiba Inu has dropped to $11.35 billion. It was as much as thrice the current value during its golden days. However, the trading volumes of the token have remained healthy, thanks to its dirt-cheap price.

Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/cryptocurrency/is-shiba-inu-losing-its-sheen-golden-days-of-this-dogecoin-killer-are-over/articleshow/89154167.cms

Retail Stocks: Walmart, Costco and other big-box stores in Canada begin enforcing vaccine mandates, and some shoppers aren’t buying it

Some Canadian retailers are now requiring proof of vaccination due to local regulations, resulting in some critics calling to boycott Walmart in response

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Bond Report: Treasury yield curve shrinks to narrowest levels in years as two-year rate has biggest daily gain since March 2020

The two-year Treasury yield posts its biggest one-day gain in almost two years on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve pointed to the possibility of a series of interest-rate hikes.

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The Wall Street Journal: Maximalist approach to classifying information poses threat to national security and undermines trust, says Biden director of national intelligence

Price is paid in constrained capacity to share information with allies, policy makers and the public, Avril Haines says.

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