CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed 2023 as the "year of efficiency" for $Meta Platforms (META.US)$, which led to a nearly 200% surge in the company's stock value. As the world's second-largest digital-ad corporation, just behind $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$, Meta is poised to announce its fourth-quarter earnings after the close of trading on Thursday.
● Wall Street sees revenue at $39.12 billion in the fourth-quarter of 2024, suggesting slower sales growth...

"Looking at Disney as a whole, today, we are focused on driving profitable growth and value creation as we move from a period of fixing to a new era of building" -
RobertIger, CEO Visualizing $DIS' Revenue by Segment:
$Disney (DIS.US)$

Higher dividend concept and TOPIX high dividend advantage over Nikkei/Nasdaq.
The first pullback at the beginning of the year.
Employment statistics and ISM non-manufacturing sector will face off tonight.
ADP new jobless claims down, solid employment, US interest rates rising.
German CPI accelerated to a 3.8% year-on-year increase in December 2023.
The bombing attacks in Iran were committed by the Islamic State.
Nasdaq fell for 5 consecutive sessions.DJI Initially rose by $300 but closed lower. $SOX -0.82％
$SOXS vs $SOXL Let's goQQQ The battle in nasdaq continues
Semiconductors, demand set to improve from April to June, led by AI and EVs
USDJPY 144.6 yen YCC abolition is still far away
#LimitUp Glancing over $AAPL -1.27 (pioneer buy→hold barclays hold→sell further downgrade) $GEHC-0.38 $ASML -0.44% PANW -1.11 $GOOG -1.65 $QCOM -1.04% $AMZN -2.63 $ON -3.92, Costco$COST Improvement in earnings by 10% $KRUS
Replacement candidate ZOZO (3092) Nomura Research Institute (4307) Disco (6146)
Growth...

Morning Movers
Gapping up
$Coherus BioSciences (CHRS.US)$ stock soared over 35% after the U.S. FDA approved a new delivery service for its post-chemotherapy treatment.
$Coinbase (COIN.US)$ stock rose 2.5% with the cryptocurrency exchange benefiting from the bounce in bitcoin, the most widely used digital currency.
$Bit Digital (BTBT.US)$ stock rose 5% as the U.S.-based bitcoin miner plans to double its mining operating fleet to abou...

Fear & Greed index hits 76, Extreme Greed, for the first time since the July 2023 stock market peak.
The S&P 500 is now up 650 points since the October 27th low.
That's a 16% rally in 36 trading days, an average of 18 points higher per trading day.
To put this in perspective, the median ANNUAL return for the S&P 500 is +10% per year.
We are approaching DOUBLE the median annual performance for the index after just 36 trading days.
Is this the strongest market of all time?
$SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY.US)$ $Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ.US)$ $ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ.US)$

$Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ Google's parent company, Alphabet, witnessed a surge of 5.3% in its stock price, marking the largest intraday percentage gain since July this year, and adding over $80 billion to its market capitalization. The market enthusiastically celebrated the recent launch of Google's latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini, viewing it as a reassuring move addressing concerns about its position in the f...