Hello and welcome back to Equity, the Tech Runch podcast about the business of

startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

This is Alex good morning. Today is January 22nd, 2024. And on this Monday show to get you ready for

the week we have the start of earning season, crypto's fading ETF party, a new AI Unicorn, canvas upcoming massive secondary share sale and

falling cybersecurity fundraising amongst more.

It's a pack show this morning.

Let's go. Starting off, as we always do on Monday mornings with a look at the world of money and that means stocks in Asia shares are mixed today, though lower in China after the People's Bank of China, held rates steady.

Some folks want that bank to lower rates to stir economic activity, but lower rates would

put even more pressure on the Chinese currency.

Over in the EU stocks are mostly higher today and in the US

they are set to rise at the open according to pre-market training.

On the earnings front, this week a couple of big names.

Tuesday will bring us numbers from Netflix and Verizon.

Wednesday we'll hear from Tesla and IBM and then Thursday brings us Visa,

Intel, Nokia and App Folio.

And apology, I misspoke last week.

It's actually next week when big tech earnings are really going to kick off and we'll get a big taste of what the last quarter was like.

Next up, crypto, and let me say,. T.F. party is a bust so far.

I thought it very possible that after the Bitcoin Spot E. T. F. were approved, we would see a nice

rally in its value and then a rally in sympathy from other

tokens. Thus far, nope. Bitcoin is off 2% in the last day and 4% in the last week.

Ether is off 4%

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