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News broke on 15 Aug 2023 when Michael Burry of the 2008 Big Short fame was reported to have $1.6B in market value short. These are puts placed on $SPY and $QQQ as per the Twitter post below: Dataroma is an excellent website that has collected the various 13F filings of some of the top super investors in the world. What is the 13F? As per the screenshot above, 13F are mandatory quarterly filings for institutional investment managers with over $100 million worth of securities to the SEC. I have pulled out some of the highlights of the latest 13F updates of some of my favourite super investors.  For some, I have listed their Q2/2023 portfolio. For some, I have listed their Q2/2023 activities (in terms of buys and sells).   Super investor - Mr Michael Burry (The Big Short) Mr Burry has bought an array of stocks, added to his positions in Cigna, GEO Group, RealReal Inc and has reduced his holdings for Signet Jewellers, Liberty Lilac and New York Community Bancorp. His buys range ...

Public Holidays (US, Singapore, China & Hong Kong) Singpapore - 24 Oct 2022 for Diwali No public holidays for the US, China & Hong Kong Earnings Calendar This is probably one of the most important earnings weeks because of Big Tech and other key businesses such as Oil & Gas. With the coming earnings of Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple & Amazon (FAANG+ without Netflix), this is probably the most important week of earnings. From Slickcharts above, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Class A & C), & Meta account for 20.69 of the weightage in S&P500. These are the companies that are leading the growth in the US.  If Big Tech does not perform well in the coming week, it is hard to see how the rest of the companies can help the S&P500 to rally.  At the same time, companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron Corporation have also benefitted from the recent energy crunch.  These 2 companies are also expected to be benefitting as the world fights an energ...

The biggest companies grew to become bigger in 2021.  CNBC's diagram below demonstrated the growth experienced by the various players.  The growth rates from end of 2020 to Dec 2021 are: Apple +30% Microsoft +50% Alphabet +65% Amazon +6% Tesla +58% Meta (former Facebook) +20% While many businesses struggled during the pandemic, these companies grew at mind boggling rates between 6 to 65% in 2021.   Extract from CNBC news on 27Dec21 showing growth from end 2020 to 23 Dec 2021    Some quotes extracted from the CNBC 27Dec2021 news article : “Tech companies getting into the $1 trillion club is almost viewed like a cup of coffee in Silicon Valley now,” Dan Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, tells CNBC Make It. “It’s not the mega event that it was just two or three years ago. It shows that Big Tech is in an unmatched position coming out of the pandemic .”   "Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla and Facebook added a combined $2.9 trillion to their c...