Expedia, Booking, and Airbnb all tumbled together, beaten down by Muse. $Expedia(EXPE)$   $Booking Holdings(BKNG)$   $Airbnb, Inc.(ABNB)$   $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$   Muse is a personal AI assistant that actually gets things done. You can tell it, "Book my flights and hotel for Tokyo next month," and it will browse the web, compare prices, fill out forms, and place the order all on its own. How do these three companies make their money? By getting you to open their app or website, search, compare, and complete your booking, so they can take a cut of the commission. What the mar

Muthu boy today got damn crazy story to share.  Come, sit down, order one prata kosong first. While waiting for the crispy ninja prata, let me tell you about this Japanese doctor legend. 🤯👇 ​'Legendary Investor' Who Turned a Modest Stake Into 352 Million Passes Away: "Trading Even From His Sickbed" Tis uncle started with just $4,150 SGD. By the end of it? He grew his net worth to a staggering $352 MILLION SGD. This life script confirm more jinx than any movie. Even when kena stage four cancer, this madlad still stubbornly looking at stock charts from hospital bed until his last breath. Tajang, a widely followed individual investor in Japan who grew an initial capital of 500,000 yen (approx. $4,400 SGD / 4.4 million won) into a fortune exceeding 40 billion yen (approx. $352 m

Asia is staring down an absolute nightmare scenario, and nobody is talking about the ticking clock. Here is the brutal reality: Middle Eastern oil cannot reach Asia right now. * The Primary Chokepoint is Dead: Heavyweights like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE pump the lifeblood of global industry through the Persian Gulf and out via the Strait of Hormuz. With that strait completely blockaded, the main artery is severed. * Every Alternative is Sabotaged: The backup plan—pumping oil across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait—is totally dead in the water. Pipelines have been bombed and shut down, and the Houthis have locked down the Bab el-Mandeb. Even if those pipes get fixed, any ship heading out of the Red Sea into the Mediterranean hits a wall: the Me

@Optionspuppy @Ah_Meng @InverseCramer   Story time: 🧵👇 An orangutan at the San Diego Zoo became an absolute legend for repeatedly breaking out of his enclosure. His name was Ken Allen. The wild part? He didn't go on a rampage or try to flee into the city. Once he got out, he mostly just wandered calmly around the zoo. He'd explore the grounds, check out the other animals, and just vibe. Total tourist mode. Except for one major detail. Ken had absolute beef with another orangutan named Otis. During one of his breakouts, he marched straight over to Otis’s enclosure and started throwing rocks at him. 💀 The zoo staff was so ba

Out for dinner with my boss yesterday, and he was this close to ordering Lao Fu Zi Char Kway Teow. Remember when they used to sell medium for $6 and large for $8 ? Well, now $8 is the ONLY option on the menu. I literally had to intervene and warn him: Do NOT buy this, or I will scold you. The taste is dead average, the portion size is a total joke for $8, and it’s completely lost its touch.  That Michelin Bib Gourmand badge is just a giant scam sign. Save your money. $8 for Char Kway Teow is absolute robbery! 🚫🍝

Let me ask you a question. If every country in the world is in debt — the US, Japan, Europe, and even Singapore — who exactly is this money owed to?Have you ever thought that this question might actually have no clean answer?Because if every country is a debtor, logic says someone must be the creditor. But when you dig into the data, ask around, and flip through the reports, you discover something very strange: almost no country dares to openly admit that it is holding the world’s money. Every country is crying poor. Every country is borrowing. Yet the money that is being lent out still has to land somewhere on someone’s books.Last year the Institute of International Finance put out a figure: total global debt hit US$348 trillion. What does that number mean? If you take all 8.1 billion peo

​$Applied Optoelectronics(AAOI)$  closed Friday by announcing a new $600M ATM. Let's watch how the market reacts next week to gauge short-term momentum. ​This is super interesting: $AAOI just signed a brand new ATM offering facility for another $600 million. ​Here are the key details worth breaking down: ​1️⃣ The Old vs. The New: Under the previous May 14 ($600M) agreement, the company only sold 332,428 shares (raising about $49.2M) through June 30. They barely touched the full amount, yet they chose to open a brand new $600M facility on August 21 instead of using up the old one. ​2️⃣ The Numbers: • Base price: August 20 close at $129.10 • Pre-issuance shares: 84,906,289 (up slightly from 84.6M on Aug 18 due to