post on the biggest tech challenges facing tech companies. You can argue with what one of these points "really means," but this is a very clear outline of where things stand.
Revisions bump total number of employed higher by 813,000 at the end of 2022. Monthly job gains revised up by 311,000, bringing average monthly job gains for last year up to 401,000.
last night — "The potential for a surprise in either direction is large, thanks to the uncertainties generated by the enormous seasonal factor, the hit—or not—from the weather, and the mixed messages from indicators of hiring and firing."
The high-altitude balloon was spotted over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday.
A senior defense official said the balloon is still over the U.S. but declined to say where it is now.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-military-installations-rcna68879…
"Guy Carpenter’s U.S. Property Catastrophe Rate-On-Line Index, a broad measure of catastrophe reinsurance pricing in the key United States marketplace, rose 30.1% at the January 2023 renewals."
US property cat rates hit record-high, ~97% up since 2017: Guy Carpenter https://artemis.bm/news/us-property-catastrophe-reinsurance-rates-record-high-guy-carpenter/…
Zuckerberg — "Beyond this, our management theme for 2023 is the 'Year of Efficiency' and we're focused on becoming a stronger and more nimble organization."
Swatch raises prices across a slew of its brands, increasing the cost of the flagship Omega Speedmaster by about 7% in the UK and Europe, according to analysts https://trib.al/Vc1OxUl
$SNAP — "We believe that we have a clear path to generating meaningful adjusted EBITDA profitability and positive free cash flow even at low rates of revenue growth."
's Lori Calvasina — "[SPX] often does bottom well before layoffs in industries of excess are finished. In some instances (Tech in 2002, Financials in 2009, Energy in 2016), the stock market’s bottoms happened around big spikes in layoffs in the industries in question."
While the chief of staff changeover has made more headlines, the potential installment of Lael Brainard to run the National Economic Council could be just as important. It's confounding,
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