Hello and welcome back to Equity, the Tech Runge Podcast, where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

This is Alex, good morning. If my voice sounds a little bit tired, that's because last week we were all very busy in San Francisco at

Disrupt. If you want the full skinny on what went down well we have an episode

up from I think Friday going over observations and learnings it's a real deep dive and I really recommend it.

Anyways, today it's September 25th, 2023 and on the show today we have

global markets, Cisco and Splunk, why everyone loves Anthropic, Apple and India, and then a really cool

startup called Correcto.

Starting as we always do with a look at the world of money and stocks today are mixed in Asia where

embattled real estate developer Evergrand continues to emulate. This time it delayed a debt restructuring meeting due to what appears to be weaker than anticipated sales.

Stocks are down sharply in Europe today and are set to fall at the open here in the US. Now that's the bad news. Here's

the good news. Earnings this week, just two names. Too simple on Tuesday and

then Micron Technology this Wednesday. Basically it's a blank

on earnings this week which is great because this is also the very last equity

Monday of Q3 which means next week we'll start Q4 which means well we're right back to the start of

earning season and then from stocks to silly stocks let's talk about crypto

crypto prices are off a bit since we last checked in,

with Bitcoin falling 4.3% in the last seven days

and 2% in the last 24 hours to just over $26,000 per coin.

Ether is off a similar 1.5% today and 5.2% in the last week to about 1570 per token.

And just in case you were curious, I looked it up. The next Bitcoin halving is

two hundred and twenty seven days away. Look forward.

Next up my favorite part of the show what I call big news that matters and the biggest news last week was

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