Chartr

2021-12-28 10:00:01 𝙲𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙷𝚒𝚝 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝙷𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙻𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝙸𝚗 𝙰 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎

We're all bored of hearing about inflation, but our ears pricked up when we heard that coffee prices are at their highest level for more than a decade, at ~$2.50 per pound.

Few commodities invoke emotion like coffee, with 62% of Americans drinking coffee every single day — each with about 3.1 cups on average.

The most important global coffee supply source is Brazil, which churns out more than 37% of all production. Unfortunately, Brazil has been hit by lower-than-expected temperatures, drought and even some frost. Ethiopia, with about 4% of global production, is also seeing supply disruptions due to escalating civil war. Ongoing shipping bottlenecks are also playing their part.

Considering that wholesale prices have doubled since last year, you'd be forgiven for worrying that the price of your latte is about to double too. But will it? We will see tomorrow.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-12-28 06:59:00 You have a business idea, but no money to implement it?

Pitch your idea to the №1 Startup community on Telegram and make money today!

Take part in our weekly contest and earn cash rewards. Get feedback and VIP session with top VC experts for FREE.

Apply with PitchBot in just 3 minutes! Open / Comment

2021-12-27 10:00:01 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Apple is expecting to ship 10 million fewer iPhones over the coming months than it was initially expecting — blaming supply constraints and weakening demand for the new models.

2) Tesla is finally going to start shipping the Cyberquad. Sorry, correction, they're going to ship a kids version of the vehicle... a $1,900 all-electric mini ATV.

3) The first 5 games of the Chess World Championship have all ended in draws, following the pattern of the last championship — where all 12 games ended in a draw.

4) Grab, Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing company has debuted on the Nasdaq, briefly grabbing a $40bn valuation before shares slipped 20%.

6) 44% of non-parents say it is not likely that they will have children someday, an increase on the 37% who answered similarly in 2018, according to Pew Research Center.

7) An Austrian surgeon has been fined €2,700 for gross negligence, after accidentally amputating the wrong leg of a patient.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-12-27 06:59:00 Do not miss 3 webinars with a legend!

Pinchas Cohen reads the market as an open book, and prepares daily summary about it. He writes articles for Investing•com and The Marker (Israel's top newspaper). Pinchas is the Founding Chairman of the Israeli CTA, and a financial market analyst for large corporations.

Join him for a webinar at 12:00 UTC on 27, 29, and 30 December Open / Comment

2021-12-26 10:00:00 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙾𝚏 𝚃𝚘𝚢𝚜 "𝚁" 𝚄𝚜

Recently the iconic toy retailer announced it would be opening a 20,000 sq ft two-level, store in New Jersey, less than a year after the brand's first failed relaunch.

Toys "R" Us, first founded back in 1948 under the name "Children's Bargain Town", was one of the most iconic retailers to fall victim to big-box competition and e-commerce. At the height of its reach, they operated more than 900 stores across the US, all of which were closed in mid-2018 as the company fell into bankruptcy.

After the bankruptcy the rights were picked up by Tru Kidz Brand, which opened 2 smaller stores... which lasted about a year before succumbing to COVID-19, leaving the brand to be sold on again.

The latest owner is WHP Global, which along with building the new flagship store has struck a deal with Macy's to sell toys under the Toys "R" Us brand in more than 400 Macy's stores. A Toys "R" Us comeback?

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-12-25 10:00:01 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝 𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙷𝚊𝚜 𝙸𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍, 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚂𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝙶𝚘 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝

More than one-third of the world's population has never used the internet, according to a new global report from the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The ITU estimates that there are now 4.9 billion people online, up almost 800 million on the number pre-pandemic.

That progress was accelerated by the pandemic, but it still leaves ~2.9 billion people (roughly 9x the population of the US), without access, many of whom live in developing countries, with access at just 27%.

Most of you reading this, and us who are writing it, could probably be described as extremely online. The internet likely touches our work, personal and social lives in some way. That's not the case for everyone who has access. Many of the 4.9 billion who have access might only have it infrequently, through shared devices or with a poor quality connection.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-12-25 06:59:00 Study investments!
A novice investor can earn from $ 1000 per month, and it is not difficult to learn. 

Money Planet is a resource that will help anyone to reach a new level of earnings 

Choose:
Investment training
Financial literacy lessons
Trading webinars
Business motivation
Trading Robot

Money Planet is a multilingual platform for studying investments. Everything is in an accessible form. Here even a beginner becomes successful.
https://t.me/+XxcgRQeMzy0xOGEy Open / Comment

2021-12-24 10:00:01 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚂𝚙𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜, 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝙸𝚝𝚜 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢

Spotify makes good use of a "freemium" model, offering up most of its services to users who don't want to pay... as long as they don't mind being interrupted by adverts.

Of Spotify's 380 million active users, 172 million actually pay for Spotify. The rest (more than 200 million) are ad-supported users.

But, as shown in the chart above, Spotify has a big incentive to convert those users into paid. Paid users brought in almost €2.2bn of revenue (~$2.5bn USD), almost 7x what Spotify made from advertising revenue.

About 73% of Spotify's revenue went on what it called "costs of revenue" — which is primarily what was distributed to record labels, artists, and music publishers.

Exactly how much Spotify pays artists is a) hard to find and b) likely to vary a lot from artist to artist, but estimates suggest that 1,000 streams of a song will net $3-5.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-12-23 10:00:01 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Apple Music and Spotify have released their lists of the most streamed songs of 2021.

2) The US Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge to a Mississippi law on abortions today that could overturn Roe v. Wade. Were that to happen, the percentage of people living over 200 miles away from an abortion provider would increase from 1% to 29%, according to analysis from Axios (now on Telegram: @AxiosTG).

3) Elon Musk sent an anxious email to SpaceX employees on Friday, detailing that the company faced a "genuine risk of bankruptcy" if the production situation on SpaceX’s Raptor engine line didn't improve.

4) A nuclear-fusion startup has landed a $1.8 billion Series B round of investment to help fund its development of what would be a true "breakthrough technology".

5) Getting a puppy for Christmas? Get some naming inspiration from this year's most popular dog names.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-12-22 22:10:02 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚑'𝚜 𝙷𝚒𝚝 𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚃𝚘 𝙶𝚎𝚝 𝙱𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝙰𝚕𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛

Now in 2022 and past 2021 Mariah Carey remains the reigning champion of Christmas music. Some things never change.

Her single "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was once again at the top of the Christmas hits list, racking up more than 30 million streams in the week ending December 9th — and that's just on Spotify, never mind the other major streaming platforms, radio plays, YouTube, CDs or vinyls.

Why do people love it so much?

With every year that passes “AIWFCIY” seems to get a stronger claim to "biggest Christmas song of all time", growing along with the rise of streaming platforms. But why is the song so persistently popular? A musicologist offered their thoughts a few years ago, citing the chord progression, the emotional hook at the start and the suspense that builds into the final verse. Whatever it is, it works.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment