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Man’s Struggle for Meaning, Tesla’s ESG, Chevron’s Purchase of Hess, OpenAI, and Earnings Watch for the Week
Why Men Are Struggling to Find Meaning “Boys are struggling to be men, as they lack father figures to guide them”. Find out here why men are struggling to find meaning in life. I Read 224 pages of Tesla’s ESG Repost SO that You Don’t Have To Are you wondering…
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Earnings Watch (China): Tencent, Alibaba
Tencent: Results beat expectations Tencent’s earnings per share (EPS) beat expectations by 10.7% for 3Q 2023. Actual EPS came in at CNY4.66 compared to expectations of CNY4.21, even though revenue of CNY155 billion was a miss by 0.6%. Positively, revenue growth of 10% from a year ago was driven mainly…
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Earnings Watch (US): Roblox, Target
Roblox: Strong results catapult the company upwards Roblox didn’t disappoint this time. Its 3Q 2023 results were definitively strong with bookings of US$840 million exceeding expectations of US$822 million. Roblox registered a revenue of US$713 million for the quarter, a 4.8% increase from the previous quarter. Share price gained by 18.1%…
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Earnings Watch (Malaysia): HL Industries, Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering
Hong Leong Industries: Decent Performance Hong Leong Industries (HLI) 1Q 2024 results are out (June-Sep 2023) and decent. First of all, revenue grew by 9% to RM836 million in 1Q 2024 from RM767 million in 4Q 2023. This is good but it did decline by 5.5% from a year ago…
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Open AI CEO Fired
Sam Altman just got fired from OpenAI by the Board. Microsoft and other investors are trying to reinstate him. Yes, the father of ChatGPT just got fired by the board of OpenAI. Here’s what the board OpenAI announced regarding his firing “He was not consistently candid in his communications with…
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Why Chevron’s Purchase of Hess Is Important for You and the Market
Two is better than one, or the combination of two would make for a bigger company in Chevron’s case. It has recently been announced that Chevron is purchasing Hess for US$53 billion. Both are oil & and gas companies in the global economy, with extraction facilities worldwide. In this article,…
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I Read 224 pages of Tesla’s ESG Repost SO that You Don’t Have To
Yes, I went and read Tesla’s 2022 ESG report which was 224 pages. Well, it wasn’t exactly 224 full pages. There were a lot of pictures and just enough wording to deliver the messages. Link here if you want to read it (probably get bored after 10 pages). If you…
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Why Men are Struggling to Find Meaning
Here’s the link to this Harvard Professor “Boys are struggling to be men, as they lack father figures to guide them”. I think this is what stuck with me as I watched this video. I was lucky enough to grow up with both parents – both father and mother figure.…
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Ageing Society, Entitlement, Progressive Wages, Tesla 3Q Results, and China Singles Day
Hi all, here are the line-ups for this week’s content that I have published here. Subscribe to my Slice of P.I.E LinkedIn and Medium for more content like this! Why We Need to Embrace an Aging World — the Case of Singapore Singapore is rapidly aging but there are some trends that…
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Assessing Impact of Singles Day on China’s E-Commerce Companies
Is there a trading or investment strategy for Singles Day? Ah, Singles Day. The day when the whole of China gets online and goes on a shopping spree. First popularized by Alibaba in 2009, Singles Day has become the mainstay of China’s retail sales in the one-and-a-half decade following that.…
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