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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 ...

Big Tech signals a pending collapse by Gordon Johnson (extracted from his tweets on 26 July 2022) Source : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1551959500428640257.html I have highlighted some key parts and shall conclude with my thoughts.  These are his original text and no edits have been done to keep its authenticity. 1/13 Is Big Tech signaling a pending collapse in the office market, as well as the job market? Let's explore; firstly, $AMZN recently announced it's halting construction on 5 office towers in Bellevue WA, w/ a 6th that was planned for construction canceled . $AMZN also put...  2/13... on hold an office tower in Nashville, TN. They also slashed plans on addtl office space in Hudson Yards in Manhattan, after reporting their 1st loss in yrs in Q1. All in, it looks like $AMZN will be shedding 10-30mn sq ft. of excess warehouse space it took on during...  3/13... the pandemic it no longer needs. In fact, in late Jun it emerged that $AMZN delayed or canceled 13...

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...