This week in Exponential Investor

Find out all the top news from Sam and the team

Find out all the top news from Sam and the team

 

This week's recommendations: • From old money to new money   • Burning in the UK and burning down the Bank of England   • Feeling the heat   • Ready to continue this conversation over on Facebook?   • A wee "dram" of reality for Chinese tech investors   • Podcast: "terrified" about the incoming climate apocalypse

From old money to new money   HEILIGENSTADT, VIENNA   Vienna has long been known as the City of Music.   It is not impossible that, at some point in the future, it will be known as the City of Crypto.   One of the fintechs (i.e. basically technology companies that do things that would traditionally have been done by banks or other conventional financial institutions) that are based in Vienna is a company called Bitpanda. Read more here

Burning in the UK and burning down the Bank of England   Last week the UK went into full meltdown.   Not figuratively. Literally. It was so hot in the UK that there were roads melting due to the "extreme heat".   As an Australian, a week of 30-degree days is not exactly what I would call "extreme". However, it's hot. And for a country not conditioned for such heat, it did cause a few hiccups.   But the UK hasn't been the only unusually hot country of late. Read more here

Feeling the heat   Cheshire, England   After a sweltering few days, the UK's most recent heatwave has finally come to an end… at least for now.   In many ways, markets are enduring a heatwave of their own at the moment. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continuing to crackdown on tech companies. UK house prices continue their seemingly unstoppable rise. And holiday-goers are shunning foreign travel and buoying up domestic airlines.   But, as readers in London will know all too well, periods of intense heat are often followed by flash floods… Read more here

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A wee "dram" of reality for Chinese tech investors   I've been away for a week, but before I get on to that, this chart really caught my eye this morning.   Source: Koyfin Cracking China? So what? Read more here

Podcast: "terrified" about the incoming climate apocalypse   After a couple of weeks hiatus (due to Sam being on paternity leave) the dynamic duo of Kit Winder and Sam Volkering are back in action for today's Exponential Investor podcast.   Today we tackle the EV sector and ask some questions about what's really going on in the sector and is the death of oil really what to expect? Read more here

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