Welcome to the 183rd edition of The Weekly Bull Report.
Wishing everybody an amazing 2022! 🤗 🎇
Here’s a shortlist of the content we found interesting and informative over the past week…
🤔 Interesting Articles & News:
POLITICS
- Joe Biden’s job approval crashes to 36 percent. 📉
- Hong Kong has fallen. The last state-critical media publisher has been silenced. 🪦
- Elon Musk to pay US Government $11 billion in taxes after wrapping up his Tesla stock sales.💰
- Germany shuts down half of the six remaining nuclear power plants, as Europe faces one of its worst-ever energy crises. ☢️
- Russia was again urged to ease its military buildup near Ukraine, both Biden and Putin vow diplomacy. ⚠️
- Bank of Mexico plans to launch digital currency by 2024, to foster financial inclusion in a cash-based economy. 🇲🇽
ECONOMICS
- Visualizing the $94 Trillion world economy in one chart. 1️⃣
- Cuba signs a‘ Belt and Road’ agreement with China. 🇨🇳
- Turkey’s State-Run Energy Agency raises prices by up to 125% as the inflation crisis continues.🇹🇷
- Russia’s Central Bank raised interest rates for seventh time to 8.5%, the highest in four years, as country struggles to tame surging inflation. 💹
- Tunisian government plans to borrow $7 billion more from foreign lenders and domestic sources to stimulate country’s economy in 2022. 🇹🇳
- Argentina to raise power, natural gas prices by 17% and 20% in 2022. ⚡️
- Russian energy giant, Gazprom, accused of creating “artificial deficit of gas” in Europe resulting in a price surge. 📈
- China buckles in its belt and road ambitions with Suez investments. 🚢
CULTURE
- The alien beauty and creepy fascination of insect art.🕷
- Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946). ❄️
- This award-winning Lesotho film also has social justice at heart. 🧡
- Mapped: 30 Years of deforestation and forest growth, by country. 🗺
- The Smithsonian: Ninety-nine fascinating finds revealed in 2021. 🔍
- In early 20th century, labor unrest and strike-breaking were done not by government, but by private agencies and self-appointed vigilantes. 🇺🇸
- DNA preserved in lice glue reveals South American mummies’ secrets. 🧬
SOCIETY
- Betty White dead at 99. 🙏
- A voyager named Tupaia guided Captain James Cook through the South Seas and drew an island-filled chart that has puzzled scholars for more than 250 years. 🌊
- Glacier archeologists uncover 1,300-year-old wooden ski with leather straps preserved by ice in Norway. 🇳🇴
- Desmond Tutu taught us all the true meaning of greatness. 🙏
- Archeologists find stunning gold tiara from the age of Queen Nefertiti in underground tombs in Cyprus. 👸
- Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty on sex-trafficking charges. 👩⚖️
- Jaguar released back into wild in Argentina to help endangered species. 🐆
- Why doesn’t James Bond use an iPhone? 📱
- The Science behind Champagne bubbles. 🍾
- ‘Drained and wary of the future’: Why you might feel different about New Year’s resolutions this year. 🎇
TECHNOLOGY
- These robotic factories will make supermaterials in space. 🏭
- 3D Printing industry review of the year. 🖨
- The space station race. 🏁
- Israel’s SavorEat begins selling personalised 3D-Printed vegan burgers. 🍔
- Machine Learning: The importance of artificial intelligence for Additive Manufacturing. 👾
- Why AI needs a genome. 🧬
- Top 5 blockchain trends for 2022 and beyond. ⛓
- Tuning a magnetic fluid with an electric field creates complex controllable dissipative patterns. 🧲
- The future of 3D display and the emergence of holographic television. 📺
- Three rings to bind them: Cosmic history can explain the properties of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. 🪐
- Research team creates the world’s lightest isotope of magnesium to date. 🪶
- “Echonoma” Kenya’s assistive technology for the hearing impaired. 🦻
MEDICINE & SCIENCE
- How zinc helps you fight off infections. 🥊
- The vicious cycle of food and sleep. 🔄
- The 12 most intriguing animal discoveries of 2021. 👀
- Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg. 🦖
- The year’s top 10 science stories, chosen by scientists. 👩🔬
- The best science images of 2021. 🔬
- Coffee and Caffeine Consumption and Risk of Kidney Stones: A Mendelian Randomization Study. ☕️
- Licorice inhibits replication of Coronavirus. 🦠
- 10 strangest medical cases of 2021. 👩⚕️
- Looking to mitochondria for clues about depression. 🧫
- Drinking coffee may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. ☕️
- The biggest brain maps ever created are pushing the frontiers of neuroscience.🧠
- Coronavirus can spread to heart, brain days after infection. 😷
- Faced with a decision, the brain weighs its options by bundling them into rapidly alternating cycles of brain waves. ⚖️
- A vaccine for aging that eliminates senescent cells. 💉
CANNABIS & PSYCHEDELICS
- Teva Israel steps into the ring to begin distributing medical cannabis products. 🌿
- Depression and grief wrecked a man’s life — Until he took Magic Mushrooms. 🍄
- ‘Seeing God’: One of the most innovative mental health treatments. 👩🔬
- Canopy Growth, others formed JV ‘solely’ to pump marijuana stock, refiled CA$500 million lawsuit alleges. 📈
- CBD and THC make inroads in Thailand. 🇹🇭
- The potential of psychedelics for end of life and palliative care. 💊
- Marijuana industry sees the rare leveraged buyout in Curaleaf deal. 💰
- Psychedelics, other psychoplastogens heal the physical damage associated with many brain disorders, mental health disorders. 🥼
SPORTS
- The biggest international sports events, moments and stars of 2021 through the lens of the camera. 📸
- FC Barcelona produced the greatest homegrown talent of any club but failed to keep the production line rolling. ⚽
- ‘Loss of a Legend’: Sports fans remember John Madden. 🏈
- Ski Jumping World Cup: Kobayashi jumps into New Year with second Four Hills win. ⛷
- Arsenal left nursing sense of injustice after VAR decisions contributed to dramatic 2-1 defeat against Manchester City. ⚽️
- British newspaper The Guardian honors Simon Kjær as football player of the year. 🏆
- Sale sting Wasps (26-18) to make winning start to new year. 🐝
- FIFA Arab Cup: Algeria beats Tunisia in 2021 final. 🥇
💲 Noteworthy Stocks & Assets:
- Chicago oncologist charged with insider trading. 👩⚖️
- How millennial investors lost millions on Bill Ackman’s SPAC. 📉
- How NFTs became a $40 billion market in 2021. 👾
- What are NFTs? Mapping the NFT ecosystem. ♻️
- The companies that defined 2021. 🏭
- Ferrari steps into the world of NFTs, inks deal with tech firm Velas. 🏎
- Griddle Maker Blackstone (NYSE: $BX) products to go public in $780 million SPAC deal. 💸
- Hertz (NASDAQ: $HTZ) rebirth delivers $3 billion windfall to two bold backers. 🚙
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Earnings spotlight:
Wednesday – January 5 Jefferies (NYSE:JEF).
Thursday – January 6 Bed, Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY), Walgreen Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA), Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ), PriceSmart (NASDAQ:PSMT) and Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG).
IPOs expected to start trading this week:
Cingulate (NASDAQ:CING), HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP), Nu Holdings (NYSE:NU) and Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (NASDAQ:REFI).
🎯 Stocks On Our Radar:
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical (NYSE: BHVN) 📈 – $200 target (up 70% on the year) (Pfizer may look to acquire)
- AgeX (NYSE: AGE) 📈 – $3.00 target (up 88% on 18 million shares for the day – nice rally)
- Portage Biotech (NASDAQ: PRTG) 📈 – $40 target (what a dog, down 41% for the year – company needs to make a few changes 😉)
- Wuhan General Group (OTC: WUHN) 📈 – $3.00 target (Dec 31 news here) (M2Bio up 55% for the year)
- Agronomics Ltd (OTC: AGNMF) 📈 (up 73% for the year)
- Regent Pacific Group Ltd. (HKG: 0575) 📈 (down 20% for the year)
- ThreeD Capital Inc. (IDK.CN) (OTC: IDKFF) 📈 (down 7% for the year)
🏆 Quotes That Inspire Us:
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein
📖 Word Of The Week:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [soo·pr·ka·luh·fra·juh·li·stuhk·ek·spee·a·luh·dow·shuhs] adjective – extraordinarily good; wonderful: “The only word to characterize Kepler’s discoveries was ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’” | “A supercalifragilistic day of fun.”
❔ Did You Know:
Which country celebrates New Year first? 🎇
Oceania is the first place in the world that welcomes the New Year. The small Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa, and Kiribati are the first countries to welcome New Year. January 1 begins here at 10 am GMT or 3:30 pm IST on December 31.
Which country celebrates New Year last? 🎆
The uninhabited islands of Howland and Baker Islands, near the United States, will be the last places to welcome New Year 2022. They ring in the New Year at 12 pm GMT or 5:30 pm IST on January 1.
📚 Books We Are Reading:
- The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning – Scott Galloway.
- Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life – Alan B. Krueger.
- Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe.
- Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration – Emily Bazelon.
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming – David Wallace-Wells.
🤣 One-Liners:
“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the journey.”
📽 A Must Watch & Listen:
Barry Ritholtz speaks with Richard Nisbett professor of social psychology and Co-director of the culture and cognition program at the University of Michigan, focusing on culture and reasoning and basic cognitive processes. Malcolm Gladwell called him “The most influential thinker in my life.” He is the author of numerous research and books, most recently, “Thinking: A memoir.” Listen to the interview here. 👂
📆 Upcoming Events:
Rising to the Challenge: Healthy Aging Forum 2022. 🧬🔬
Our very best wishes for a brilliant upcoming week! 💪
Respectfully yours,
The IBR Team
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