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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook made more than $74.6 million in 2024, a bump from the previous year.Cook's base salary of $3 million has remained unchanged in the past three years, but his total compensation increased 18% in 2023, the technology giant said in a proxy statement Friday.Cook earned $58.1 million in stock awards, $12 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation and $1.5 million in other compensation.Apple's compensation committee decided to increase the target value of Cook's equity award to $50 million from $40 million because Cook's 2023 pay would have been near the low end compared with benchmark data about peer CEOs' pay, the company said in the filing.Senior vice presidents Luca Maestri, Kate Adams and Deirdre O'Brien all received the exact same total compensation of $27,179,257. Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, meanwhile, received a slightly smaller pay package; his total compensation was listed as $27,177,812.

Microsoft's presence in enterprise software and cloud services is strengthening, with potential to attract new customers and adjust pricing for offerings.Office 365 and Teams are providing stability a

🌟🌟🌟This week Ratings Agency Moody cut its outlook on China's credit rating to negative from stable saying that the country faces an economic slowdown. However other global ratings agencies Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings made no changes. Fitch affirmed China's A+ rating with a stable outlook in August while S&P Global said on Wednesday December 6 that it has retained China's A+ rating with a stable outlook. Chinese EV stocks fell after the news of Moody's rating. However according to Reuters, foreign capital recorded a net inflow via the northbound trading link on Wednesday December 8 2023. $NIO Inc.(NIO)$ fell 1.4% on Friday. However Nio's share price bounce

I confessed. If there is any worse time to invest in Chinese stocks, it would be now. Why? (1) Geopolitically, China has choppy relationships with several countries (descending severity): United States. Taiwan. Japan. ASEAN countries - The Philippines and Vietnam. (2) Domestically, after many rounds of internal bashings - home-grown MNCs have been sufficiently subdued & drained of their resources (after many rounds of penalty fines) and too “weak” (owners stepped down, sidelined) to compete internationally. This is necessary (to whom i wonder) to ensure MNCs toll the line and do not have the will to revolt again. (3) Victim of extreme pandemic management. The fallacy of zero-infection & extreme lockdown measures employment (over extended period) to