Equity Monday: China boosts pressure on its tech sector as Duolingo's IPO looks to raise a few more bucks
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to Equity Monday for July 26th. This is our kickoff to the week, a time |
| 0:15.9 | in which we catch up on the news, and of course explore the numbers behind the headlines. |
| 0:21.1 | Let's start with the lay of the land. |
| 0:22.6 | Asian stocks were generally down today, partially in light of the latest salvo in China's |
| 0:27.1 | crackdown on its technology sector. |
| 0:29.3 | More on that shortly. |
| 0:30.8 | And European stocks fell while American stocks are set to open a little bit lower today. |
| 0:35.0 | But it's not all bad news. |
| 0:37.0 | Bitcoin is up around 12.5% in the last 24 hours thanks to an Amazon job posting that indicates the company may intend to form |
| 0:43.9 | some sort of blockchain policy over time. Now it's not clear what this job |
| 0:47.8 | posting really means and how soon Amazon may roll out what Bitcoin fans want |
| 0:51.7 | which is the acceptance of Bitcoin as a payment method on |
| 0:54.2 | Amazon's e-commerce store, but that uncertainty didn't stop crypto investors from bumping the value of a number of coins north, including Ether. Shares of Coinbase are up just a hair over 6% in pre-market trading as I write to you |
| 1:06.4 | in kind of a related trade. Now let's talk about that weekend. |
| 1:16.2 | Turning to the weekend we have a lot to get through so let's start with changes in the Chinese market and then talk about why one mobile gaming |
| 1:20.2 | company just backed out of its plans to go public. |
| 1:23.0 | First, China put rumored plans to force online tutoring companies to go non-profit into effect |
| 1:27.8 | this weekend, and now those same companies are also not allowed to go public. |
| 1:32.1 | The move was a pretty big blow against an education technology market that was up until 2021, |
| 1:37.0 | the example for a great many Ed Tech startups around the world, |
| 1:40.0 | and Ed Tech investing. It's worth noting. |
| 1:42.0 | How bad has 2021 been for Chinese Ed Tech companies? |
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