Hello and welcome back to Equity, the Techronch Podcast, where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. This is Alex, good morning. I have to tell you up top, I am a little bit sick.

So if I sound congested or nasally, well that's because I am both those things.

Before we get into all things, tech, startups, and money, we do have a request for you, my dear friend.

We want to know how you would describe 2023 in a headline.

So think about that and then send us a tweet to at Equity Podcast.

We do this every year. We love your creativity. It's fantastic and good fun and we will read the best

ones on the show, give you credit and also tell everyone that you are brilliant. So,

2023 in a headline, Tweeted Us Equity Pod, best ones on the show.

Thank you in advance.

All right, today is December 11th, 2003, and we are going to talk about stocks and

crypto, the end of earnings for the year. And we are going to talk about stocks and crypto.

The end of earnings for the year.

Tic-Tox e-commerce push the latest on AI

and why FinTech is not quite dead yet.

Let's go.

Starting. quite dead yet. Let's go. Starting off with a look at the world of money. Let's start with

the stock market. Shares are mostly higher in Asia today despite concerns of deflation in China. Keep your eyes on that. Stocks are mixed in Europe and they are largely flat to start the week in pre-market trading here in the US.

And for everyone who is so sick of me listing out

114 different companies that are going to report earnings in the next five days,

today I have a very extensive list for you.

Oracle on Monday and then Adobe on Wednesday.

That's it.

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