Archives of “February 2021” month
rssDespite the pandemic, 5,632,000 millionaires were created in the world in 2020.
Germany reports 8,072 new coronavirus cases, 813 deaths in latest update today
The death count is still a little worrying but cases continue to level off below 10,000 so that is some good news

This is the fourth consecutive day that new cases is seen below 10,000 – the first time since October last year – so that is somewhat encouraging. Total active cases across the country eases further to ~164,300 and that is the lowest since 31 October.
Should things continue down this path, hospitalisations and deaths should also eventually trend lower but there will be a bit of a lag time to ease the burden on medical capacity.
As of yesterday, there were 3,846 (-111) virus patients requiring intensive care with there being 4,616 (17%) intensive care beds still available.
Despite the virus situation showing improvement, reports yesterday suggest that the government may only slowly and gradually lift restrictions due to fears of possible virus variants/mutations spreading across the country.
#Bitcoin is becoming less volatile.
Top-selling stocks are statistically losers, but the trend appears to be changing since early 2020.
Japan – Honda raises net profit outlook to US$4.4bn on recovering sales
Honda has raised its net profit outlook to 465 billion yen
- previous estimate of 390 billion yen
- for the 2020 fiscal year
Japanese stocks are just a touch higher, Nikkei up just under 0.1%, for the session so far.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose 4.6% y/y in January
Reuters with the info fro China’s Commerce Ministry
Foreign direct investment (FDI) +4.6% y/y in yuan terms
- +6.2% y/y in USD terms
No records for the Dow and S&P. Nasdaq and Russell 2000 have record closes
Modest changes for the major indices
The Nasdaq and Russell 2000 both closed at record levels, but the S&P and Dow could not hold onto gains and are closing lower (and not at records). All were only modest gains or losses.
The final numbers are showing:
- S&P index -4.33 points or -0.11% at 3911.26
- NASDAQ index up 20.057 points or 0.14% at 14,007.69
- Dow down 10.07 points or -0.03% at 31375.65
- Russell 2000 index up 9.9 points or 0.43% at 2299.66