Pound and Out | The Daily Peel | 9/27/22

Market Snapshot

Stocks attempted a rally after last week’s bloodbath but ultimately closed in the red. Just too many headwinds.

Across the pond, investors continue to dump the British pound on fears that tax cuts will add fuel to soaring inflation. UK bond yields spiked accordingly.

This week, we’ll get August’s new home sales, consumer sentiment data, and, most importantly, $BBBY earnings.

At the close, the Dow fell 1.11%, the Nasdaq dipped 0.60%, and the S&P dropped 1.03%.

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Let’s get into it.

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What's Ripe

Casino Stocks — The likes of Wynn, LV Sands, and Melco have been ripping throughout the last month on whispers that China could be easing C-19 restrictions, opening up the golden goose that is Macau.

A new e-visa program will make it easy for mainland Chinese to visit and gamble in the resort city, which would be a game-changer.

The moves in these names underscore just how important Macau is to their businesses.

At the end of the session, $WYNN was up 11.99%, $LVS rose 11.81%, and $MLCO gained 25.47%.

Chegg ($CHGG) — Bargain bin hunters liked what they saw with Chegg Monday on the backs of a bullish analyst report.

It’s given back all of its C-19 bubble gains and then some, as in-person learning has returned, and strong opportunities abroad present some nice upside from current levels.

$CHGG was up 9.08% by the end of the day.

What's Rotten

AMC Entertainment ($AMC) — Just a matter of time before AMC turns into APE Capital.

The embattled theater chain lives and dies based on retail investment.

They’re tapping into that well again with the issuance of hundreds of millions in APE preferred equity as they stare down a stark future.

Paper-handed apes saw through the move and dumped shares en masse.

$AMC closed the day down 14.46%.

Carvana ($CVNA) — The car vending machine company IPO’d in 2017 at about $15/share.

At its peak in Aug 2021, it hit $360. It’s now back at $24 and sinking by the day.

Even for a meme stock, that’s an epic rollercoaster ride.

Bulls would say this is the time to get in, but slowing sales and a cash inferno point to trouble ahead.

By the end of the day, $CVNA was down 6.57%.

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Who Wants a Factory Job? — If you look at most rich countries today, they’ve followed a pretty standard economic progression:

1. Move much of your rural, farming population into cities where they can get better-paid manufacturing jobs
2. Open up your economy to foreign companies, allowing them access to your domestic consumer market
3. Nurture homegrown companies to compete on the world stage
4. Transition to a high-paying service economy and outsource manufacturing to a country on a lower rung of the ladder

It’s pretty incredible how standardized this process has become and how well it has worked.

But that’s not to say it’ll work forever. Manufacturing is slowly but surely shrinking in importance to the global economy as people do more things digitally and robots make more stuff.

That means that the middle-income ladder could be getting pulled up from poor countries, especially in Africa, which has the demographics to catapult its economies like China or the other Asian Tigers were able to.

The news of China overhauling its Belt and Road initiative adds to this concern. It has already spent bookoo bucks on the program, with the intention of building up manufacturing capacity across developing countries that would benefit its own economy eventually.

The big question: will manufacturing remain the lynchpin for economic growth, or will something else take its place?

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