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Cruian

>but 10-year returns are also not impressive and ten years is a long window in my opinion. The past 10 years for VXUS were several percentage points better than tyhe 10 year returns you'd have seen for QQQ, VOO, and even VTI not too long ago. During that time, it was emerging markets doing excellent. Then the US went on to have one of, if not the, best runs we've ever had and ewmerging leveled off. There's no predictive power in pasdt returns in the way you seeem to think there is. >The macro trends also do not seem great for international. China & Japan have demographic and currency problems. EU has those and government problems. It’s just specific regions like India and Latin America that show promise so that’s why I’m looking more at EM funds or regional funds as a potential pivot. The long term outlook for broad ex-US seems very poor to me. Most, if not all, of that should largely be priced in. What will mattere is how reality compares to market expectations.

Torkzilla

Most people ITT are hammering OP for citing only 3-year returns but 10-year returns are also not impressive and ten years is a long window in my opinion. International value stocks at every cap have done very well in the same time frame so I think it’s just that there is no worthwhile International growth stocks compared to US growth or Intl Value. The macro trends also do not seem great for international.  China & Japan have demographic and currency problems. EU has those and government problems.  It’s just specific regions like India and Latin America that show promise so that’s why I’m looking more at EM funds or regional funds as a potential pivot.  The long term outlook for broad ex-US seems very poor to me.

RaindropBebop

Last I checked, Google develops the most widely used mobile OS... I don't know where this "ecosystem superiority" argument is coming from or what data you have that supports that claim. If you're talking in terms of capturing customers and trapping them into using specific devices in limited and pre-described ways, sure. But even those days are numbered with EU and other legislation forcing these companies to support interop and making Apple's walled garden approach more difficult to maintain.

Hold_my_beef

Give me factual reasons to buy GME, I really wanna buy a small portion of shares.  But before I need to know why this business can last and save more customers. I'm EU resident so no gamestop there that's why I'm a asking. 

ExactLobster1462

U.S is forecasted to grow GDP by 7% in 2024. UK and EU will not grow 0.1% the entire year let alone quarter  Not even in the same damn Stadium let alone ball game

viceburg

Denmark is one of the few EU countries operating at a surplus in relation to GDP thanks to Novo. The other two are Ireland (corporate tax haven) and Cyprus (Russian money laundering).

rahulshtv

Fade AAPL. EU and Asian markets dint give into this shit. We will follow.

Drakkur

Why make a ton of assumptions when you can do the research yourself. The fact that you cast judgement without even knowing what the classes are is hilarious. Also where you live in the EU might have a lower cost of living where gyms can be that cheap. A decent gym here starts at $50 and good ones go up over $100. So the value to have access to classes from cycling to yoga, strength, etc. is the value of the subscription.

PsyNo420

Because you won’t buy a new phone/battery. Why you think they got sued in the EU

CurveAhead69

Unemployment rates in EU and US.

RandomGenerator_1

Now the election is the next binary event, "the soon". But seeing we did just make huge progress, Im expecting a lot of preperatory steps until then. From the US governmenr, from the EU, from companies, from lawsuits, from the media. Good times ahead, the direction has been chosen globally.

Bernie_Ecclestone

Apple doesn’t really do big name acquisitions since they’d be shot down under antitrust laws along with them already being on thin ice with EU regulators. They buy smaller companies that have underlying tech they want like the companies behind Siri and Touch ID for example. IMO those are a better use of their capital.

MelancholyKoko

US market will be closed to the Chinese EVs. Not sure about EU, but some tariffs to protect their industrial base. However every other market that doesn't have homegrown automakers aren't going to care whether the vehicle is Chinese, German, or American. China is going to achieve the cost savings of scaling (like the solar panel industry). I guess, corporations can make good money in the regulatory captured walled garden like the American truck industry. I'm staying away from automakers that rely on foreign market.

doesnamematters

I don't see they shit pants at all. On the opposite, Ford, GM, Mercedes and other brands all announced significant cutback on their EV expansion. The Chinese brand EVs made in China won't flood EU and US market in foreseeable future. EU and US markets won't let them in. And such policy is legit because China has had highest fees and taxes on import vehicles and parts. So EU and US can/should do same toward import Chinese vehicles.

doesnamematters

It really depends on how long Chinese government is willing to spend that much money to subsidize for sales growth. It is not sustainable in long run. EU is working to raise import tax on Chinese EV to 50% or higher. But I agree with you on there will be a lot of customers rush to get $10K new EV just for the price tag alone.

Divisi0n_S

China is growing stronger while US and EU are dealing with wars everyday

birbone

EU is very poor since the pandemic, so I doubt.

dritsn

Pretty sure AAPL sales increased in EU

maracajaazul

Remember when the US/EU were slamming Russia for breaking down anti war protest. Well they are no different from them

STMC83

I'm in EU, I have knock out long contracts. up 25% ATM

agedoak31

Thanks for the clarification. This is great to hear moving in the EU!

RandomGenerator_1

A list of something the government is looking for, and asks the market who can help with it. In this case they are looking for assistence from a party that can help create a cannabis policy, that can be used generically. And the EU has 450 000 euroos to spend for whichever country/company/city that can help.

prkchpsyring52

The US has more bans on food additives comparative to the EU

Stunning-Wolf_

The other small detail being, it’s not high quality with all their food coloring they use. Some of which are banned in the EU

RandomGenerator_1

The EU has launched a tender to create a cannabis policy toolkit that all EU members can use. It will be implemented over a period of 36 months. "Call for tender: Research and development services and related consultancy services CANNAPOL – European cannabis policy tool Estimated value excluding VAT: 450 000,00 EUR Deadline for receipt of tenders: 27/05/2024 16:00:59 (UTC+1)" https://twitter.com/EMCDDA/status/1783851496204898588

Sagonator

"aid" by mostly paying American contractors. The aid is money given to buy or produce the weapons from their military complex and deliver them. Its not like the money is leaving the nation. Even with the current huge aid package, it's still less than 10% of total military spending. So let's put this into perspective. Some EU countries have spend above 2% of their GDP just for Ukraine and are perfectly healthy, while the USA spends 4% of GDP for military and of those 4% - 10% or 0.4 of it are spend for aid, which doesn't even leave the country. Yeah I would say aid is not a factor.

IHathReturned

The USA and EU seized Russia's foreign currency reserves, setting a new precedent. Since then central banks worldwide have been stockpiling gold.

NoCat4103

The licenses have not even been issued yet. So obviously your friends are still going to illegal sources. Why are they not going to a pharmacy? Crossing the boarder with cannabis is highly illegal. And I think you should maybe actually talk to people planing on running such clubs. There are some highly professional people involved. Shit one of them used to be the head grower for Aurora. The none profit part is not an obstacle. It just means the club itself can not make a profit. All the industries surrounding the growing still can make money. And anyone who knows anything about cannabis knows they are those who make the most money. Landlord, lawyers, grow consultants, power company, nutrient suppliers, grow equipment whole sellers, etc It’s just a work around until EU law gets changed. The government realised that people will legally make money from this, and are trying to stop this with a law change this month but it’s not going to do anything. The clubs are required to test their product and follow the same German and European laws as anyone else making things for human consumption. I do not expect the limits for things like heavy metals, fungus, E. coli etc to be much less strict than for medical. The ministry of nutrition and agriculture is supposed to release the requirements shortly. There will be some people as you describe, but the vast majority will build their facilities to a very high standard. Because they are all wanting to show that they can do this, so that they get granted the permits for pillar 2. I am well aware of the costs. It’s nothing compared to the costs of a EU-GMP facility. And that’s there recreational will have an advantage over medical. I assume you know that the medical cannabis sold in German pharmacies is considered very low quality. It would not be able to be sold for the same prices in the recreational market in the USA.

ACiD_80

Dude, just accept it... its clearly over. Have toucseen the comfort and luxury you get in an EU made EV car... mercedes even has better self driving tech now, while having entered the game much later.

Defacticool

Climate adjustments are deflationary too, in the long run. They only provide a drag short term. The other factors you list are inflationary but also entirely due to selected policy. It's not impossible they're here to stay but the competitive advantage for firms still lie in globalisation and off-shooring (potentially AI adjusted), and the safe bet is therefore that the west will reaffirm globalisation in due time, for the same reason it was pro-global for all of the post ww2 era. Obviously there are still other risks that can counteract that, such as global war or the EU/US losing their democracies.

CrouchingMouse

Whatever the Zeug in that ship was, was sanctioned. Excuse the lack of specificity. Don‘t jump on your Cloud 9, because I confused LNG with oil/CNG/Fossil XyZ. My point is, the EU can anytime circumvent their sham Sanctions by changing the flag of the delivering Ship.

StuartMcNight

Russian LNG is not sanctioned in the EU. You are making shit up.

Warm_Tzatziki

US going crazy. West EU too. East Europe- chill and grill as it's 5/1

ItsSnuffsis

It's more likely that it's because a lot of shows in Europe gets distributed on other platforms. Each country here can have their own services thst license shows for their country etc. So a show on Netflix in the US could be on 10 different platforms throughout EU. The actual disposable income between average eu and US citizen is minimal.

CrouchingMouse

Yeah right. As if they can afford to. They’ll just import Russian uranium that was bought by other countries. EU is doing the same with Russian LNG, even though it’s in some sort of blacklist. Spain bought Russian LNG from Argentina, because that was „technically“ Argentinian LNG, because the flags changed. 😆😆

GGprime

Tesla, Ford, pretty much any big player got subsidized. Tesla entered the EU market many years ago, BYD entered in 2023 so the amount of total sales is irrelevant.

clockwork5ive

They probably will but the thing is it doesn’t matter. Within the first 30 min NYSE will correct whatever moves the socialists in the EU made.

NotMe357

Future looks strong as hell. I think we may go green not long after the market opens. But on the other hands people from EU go panic easily, so they'll probably panic sell and make market dump ever more 

PM_ME_Y0UR_BOOBZ

The mental gymnastics here is crazy lol rejecting official EU data and then using a different metric which also says that income inequality is way worse in the US than EU, and somehow that proves Americans are better off. Haha bless your heart

bullrfuk

Bols got a -3 stability hit at EU4

PM_ME_Y0UR_BOOBZ

US has a Gino index comparable to that of Central African countries. A minority of people are doing exceptionally well while a majority of the population is struggling to even save a few dollars a month. Wanna talk about home ownership? Do you know what percent of Europeans own homes? Across the board it’s 70% and there is only like 5 countries in the EU that has a worse home ownership rate. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/digpub/housing/bloc-1a.html#:~:text=In%20the%20EU%20in%202021,%25)%20and%20Croatia%20(91%20%25).

Ok-Board4893

> EU automotive is done and dead everything there is dead

code_x_7777

That's a great comment, thanks! I think many people are still mid-curving it with Nvidia - and miss out on the great investment opportunities (e.g., https://youtu.be/EU3CfiQp3AE?si=izFfv6kV5EncZ0oC) Thanks for the outstanding perspective by an industry insider - that's why I love Reddit!

unlock0

Does the EU index also exclude housing, food, and transportation like the US?

FrankyLifts

Good thing the EU is so weak in terms of personal spending compared to the US. No demand means prices have to eventually drop, right?

Affectionate-Idea690

Microsoft Unbundles Teams from Office Globally Following EU Pressure

lucius42

As a consultant in the automotive industry in the EU, I wouldn't touch their stock with a 100 meter stick. EU automotive is done and dead, they just don't want to admit it yet.

Brus83

Red day for me on the EU markets. 🤔 Bought up some EU stocks but already 2x leveraged so don’t want to deploy it all

BagMyCalls

Sure it is. but you need to enable the US stock markets, Nasdaq and NYSE. Your broker is probably EU oriented, most who don't have a margin account are very limited, no shorting, no options etc.

K-S-C-H-I

Chinas car manufacturers can definitely undercut other manufacturers when it comes to price. It is up to EU and local governments to impose tariffs on them so that existing large and small manufacturers can still develop in this field. However it might be possible that the scale and labor and material costs in China might be enough so that Chinese EVs will still be much cheaper.

dandan010

I'd argue this is an America-specific case. Sure there's an upward trend, but cases like Japan, the EU, and China have only made marginal gains (sometimes losses) over the past couple decades. Who knows what might happen if there's another 2008, or if treasuries lose their godlike credit rating. The US has only been a superpower for 80 years, and I don't think 80 years is long enough to say the S&P will keep going up.

Full_Ad6185

European Commission president **Ursula von der Leyen** has [suggested that a ban](https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/24/03/37886126/kevin-oleary-wants-to-buy-tiktok-and-is-scouting-for-investment-an-interesting-deal) on **TikTok** in the EU is a possibility. Com'on META, give me 10 points by open

-boatsNhoes

No lie, chicken wings are priced like steak in most EU countries. USA 16 chicken wings = 15$ raw at the supermarket. UK prime cut ribeye X2 = 15£

No-Split3260

Wait untill macro-economics conditions clear and there will be easy capital in the US and EU, then it will be booming again.

kaminoteter

I do invest in ESG funds (within liquidity constraints). These products trade with beta = 1 to their non-ESG counterparts, with a tiny amount of residual returns that are essentially random. The value is not in the alpha (don't think there is any for now) but in sending in message to the shareholders of BlackRock et al that decarbonization ought to be a priority for their portfolio companies. In some jurisdictions there could be alpha in the ESG products but only on very long timescales. It's hard to see how for example oil companies will operate profitably inside the EU in 2045.

snakesign

>Acting like the war set the EU back is pretty absurd.  Surely, it had some impact.

TheLatinXBusTour

Acting like the war set the EU back is pretty absurd. Their social policies and governments are the reason they lag behind the US in so much. People leave the EU to work in the US because it provide more opportunity and reward. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-just-harder-europeans-says-104346801.html

goldensunfelix

E*TRADE is my primary taxable account. Use it for paycheck and bill management been doing so since 2016 never had a problem with it. Direct deposit/debit work the exact same as bank account no intermediary. Decent (won’t say great because can’t do it for stock) dollar cost averaging for ETF’s/MF’s through their Automatic Investing Program. IBKR is hands down more powerful trading platform. You do however pay for that power. Also decent recurring investment tool but you pay for it even if you are on lite. DRIP did start allowing fractional share reinvestment but charges for DRIP. Best for international securities buying them on home market in UK, EU, SG, JP, CAN etc. dislike their cash management features but they don’t care about that because it’s not their focus, thus the debit cards getting cancelled. Have Fidelity for 401(k), HSA, and RSU from employer. Good but hate the interfaces and don’t feel like there is anything substantially better with them over E*TRADE to move my primary out of there. Have MS account for shits and giggles but after 2024 depending on Roth IRA Performance may roll it to IBKR where I have the rest of the Roth money.

Tairy_Hestickes

The EU is a shit hole for starters and to follow that up and finish off they’re hurting your profits more then anything right now with their unessential law suits my opinion fuckin starve them. But I also stand with Russia so

Tairy_Hestickes

Really starting to think these tech giants need to pull out of the EU and leave the cock suckers with nothing

OutlandishnessOk3310

Look at some of the currency grahps for GBP around the time they voted to leave the EU, value fall was c10% I seem to recall

Dream-404

I have used IBKR in the past, and currently use TastyTrade. I have no complaints about either. IBKR's desktop platform may seem a bit overwhelming given the sheer volume of features, and a less than intuitive design. But when you get acquainted with how it all works, the sheer level of customization is incredible. I don't particularly like TasyTrade's software, or web app, but I literally only log in to place trades then log out. So it's not really an issue since I use external resources for my own research & analysis anyway. Whatever you decide, DON'T use a British or EU broker. Spread Betting on Options is nothing like the real thing. For the few that actually have REAL Options trading: -They rob you on transaction fees. -They can't calculate buying power properly, as their software doesn't understand the dynamics of Spreads (Any Short Options are treated as if they are Naked, no matter what). -(Regarding Spread Betting at least) The Bids are higher than the actual market, the Asks lower.

grepje

Yeah, I would say investing in a non-hedged fund that’s traded here in the US would be the easiest option. For stocks you also have VGK, which is like VXUS but just for Europe. Haven’t invested in this personally, I’ve just done VXUS so far as well. I haven’t been able to find a non-hedged EU bond fund, but would be interested in one.

wearahat03

Based on your post history, you seem to be invested into BABA and Chinese stock. You may be letting this influence your opinion, or you believe in China and invested as a result of your belief. Are you seeking actual answers or confirmation bias i.e. you won't change your beliefs, you just want to look for support? Because asking if smart money has been moving into China after 1 day price change, or 1.5 months of going up is the same as me asking people if the US market was dead two weeks ago when the market went down that week. This is not the first time I've read a post like this, and I doubt it will be the last. I'm biased against the Chinese market for valid reasons. The risk level is high because of geopolitical issues. It's bad and will become worse. People who had investments in Russian equities saw it crash, frozen, and can't realize value from it 2 years after to this day, if it ever has any value again. While people would take the risk if Chinese stocks were performing well to 'compensate' them for risk-taking, it's literally the worst performing major equity market in the world. Outside of US stocks, my first preference would be EU, Japan, Canada and Australia because there is proper corporate governance and no geopolitical risk. They've performed substantially better than China.

strolls

> 2\. What is the real proof of me having these stocks and being an owner of those companies? I know people buy stocks and see them on their screens on brokerage platforms digitally but that's just doesn't seem convincing enough for him of truly having them and being an owner of companies (or is it convincing enough?) . In the old days I believe stocks were represented on paper and person who had them was the owner of a company and that was the proof. One could respond to this by saying that just because someone sends you a paper stock certificate, what does that mean? It's just a piece of paper, although historically stock certificates tended to be quite *fancy* pieces of paper. Realistically, most people today would hate that, having to wait to receive the stock certificate in the mail or to send it into a broker when you want to sell. Stock registration has become electronic because that's what everybody wants, same as nobody uses cheques anymore (at least not in UK and EU) and young people choose the bank with the most convenient app. People want their stocks registered electronically because they want to be able to invest $100 now and sell them whenever they want - they don't want to have to wait a week for the sale to take place. It's in nobody's interest to see you defrauded of your shareholding - yes, your ownership of the shares is enforced by the government, but this goes back literally hundreds of years to the stockmarkets in London and Amsterdam (and even before that). The corporate structure exists because it suits everybody for it to be that way - the owner of the company doesn't want to steal your shares off you, because you are a partial owner of the company, and all the other owners of the company are shareholders just like you; it's the trustworthiness of the share register that legitimises everybody's ownership, yours, Jeff Bezos's, the CEO's, everybody the same. Asking "how do I really know I'm the owner" - well, you could say the same thing about your car, your dog or your kayak; the legal structures and protections for owners are more sophisticated the more complex and valuable your property. You don't say "I'm not gonna buy a kayak because how will anybody know it's mine?"- you just buy it and use it, and it's yours.

Samjabr

agreed - US can't keep rolling this debt over from near zero rates to 5%+ (which is what allowed them to keep spending like drunken sailor whores) - That's why JPOW was trying to signal the market to front run them lowering rates - but I think they are done buying the bullshit. US can't arbitrarily lower rates, or no one will buy the debt. sure, maybe they will sell quite a bit since EU is planning to lower and Japan is signaling it will stand firm at near zero - but eventually, people are going to want to get paid a yield to hold ever increasing debt.

Hefty-Interview4460

I see many online saying this, and I understand. I fear though, that you're keeping it too close. I mean I'd say the same of France, it's all downhill and shit. But America has structural attributes: it's geographically far away from all the Eurasian drama. Think about it: for thousands of years the natives never had seen a soldier on a horse until we europeans arrived and murdered them all. Not fun, but they were safe for a LONG time. It's still, to this day, very safe. The US has political instabilities, and has had so for centuries, but... less than Eurasia... when Napoleon took 200k young French people to get murdered in Moscow, it created reverberating instability that eventually led to the biggest thread the US claim now: a communist Chinese dictatorship (France ended up forming the anarchist Commune of Paris, Russia slowly crumbled into chaos and both people ended up exchanging the socialist ideas through Marx theories, which China took on after the war between France and Germany invited Japan to fuck them ... what a mess). And even that initial invasion came from some other factors that form a series of drama over centuries. Basically we re way more diverse, more dense and we just clash a lot more than people from New York and Los Angeles do, which is twice the distance from Paris to Moscow. Just look at Russia and China still fucking with the EU, via land invasion, our old conflicts are still here in subbtle variations of the same fucking story. While the US bemoan inflation and the cost of "helping us" kill each other more efficiently. While we also have the exact problems of inflation and cost of war: america is just fundamentally safer long term for capital.

Front_Expression_892

Short term bearish on EU military stocks and long term bullish.

Fabafaba

EU might have something to do with that soon.

Front_Expression_892

Business as usual. Even if EU cuts rates, it is still much better to do business in the US, compared to the EU. Post-prexit UK is a joke. Kiwis are a small market. Developing markets are crazy. So people will bite the bullet and do businesses in the US and people from other places will try to migrate to the US and expose their markets to the US, even if the rates will be increased. The only thing that we should fear is Trump, if he really goes with the "tariff wars YOLO" plan. It does not mean that SPY will always go up. But it means that even with increased rates in the US and decreased rates in the EU, the US is still the better place for doing business.

insanecocksmell

stop your nonsense. BYD is having a large manufacturing site being built in Central EU..

gunfighterak

I've been renting from Hertz and plan to rent an electrical on a EU trip.

EmmaTheFemma94

There must be for example an EU ETF you can invest in. And then just add world/US to it. I think it's pretty weird that so many people wanna be so heavily in the US. I mean it's a big part of the world and it has outperformed for a very long time. But won't a higher return eventually mean a less likely return in the future?

StunningAssistance79

No credible person believes there will be a large scale conflict in Europe by 2030. Except the talking heads on media that come from think tanks funded by the military complex and defense ministers look to bloat their budgets, and small European nations look for that fat EU funding and grants from America.

jelhmb48

Both. Historically European countries have ordered a lot of US military equipment, but EU military companies are currently growing much faster because Europe wants to become less dependent on the US. (so ironically, Trump's call for Europe to stop relying on the US will eventually result in fewer orders for Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics and Boeing).

TheCoStudent

Are EU countries ordering from LMT/RTX/NOC or do they have their own companies?

proteinconsumerism

BRICS cannot coordinate because everyone is in it for them selves. EU and Britain was more aligned economically and politically and then brexit happened. I doubt BRICS can coordinate to unseat the USD.

Heringsalat100

There are so many good reasons to expect the US economy to perform better than e.g. the EU economy in the long-term that I don't understand why I should invest my money in anything else than the US. The US is king and the actual reference for a capitalist system with an insane number of innovations and their execution/offer to the broad market and very high efficiency. There is no reason to bet against the US. However, there are people who are saying "but diversification!". In my eyes, they are completely wrong since the US is the reference for performance, not a world etf with several bullshit countries regarding the political system/stability, regulatory environment, mindset, etc.

geneticdeadender

The US is the safest market in the world.  I could understand not putting it all in a single country outside the US, but there's no country safer. Besides, the S&P will give you global coverage. At this point I would go long in China or Russia. Israel or anywhere in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia vs. Iran is next on the War queue.  If China goes for Taiwan then expect that entire region to go haywire. China's neighbors hate them and for good reason. And Germany's industrial model is Kaput without natural gas. BASF already moved their operations out of Germany to Louisiana. Without cheap gas Germany will struggle and therefore the EU will struggle.  Meanwhile the US is building out it's industrial base and replaced by China with Mexico. Their labor is cheaper and more skilled and the logistics chain is hella shorter.  Universities better start teaching trade skills because that student debt is going to dry up. Blue collar work is going to explode and so will their wages.   And since unions appear to be anti-illegal immigration it looks like they are going Right. Sorry Dems: FAFO. Interesting times.

Front_Expression_892

It depends. Do you think that the high relative valuations of US equities are "pricing bias" or that non-US equities have a discount because they have higher risks? It only makes sense to diversify if you agree with the "pricing bias" camp or if you have private information about a near-future problem with the US economy that will, by magic, not cause a global meltdown. I am not saying that non-US equities are garbage and I personally own EU stocks that I believe are worthy the extra risk. But I would not nesseseriy buy a EU tracking ETF because of my personal position about "higher valuations are not a bias" (again, it is my personal belief and not backed by any futuretelling). Finally, I would like to note that I do not recommend any concentration, even in US, as the general wisdom is that diversification is important. Any conclusions to deviate from that principle should be taken individually and explicitly.

Potential-Dish6119

Hahaha I love the point about them being smarter than you. EM is predicted to out shine US, I hold EMIM, a EU ishares and a UK fund too. Also hold $FRIN

B23vital

Maybe not selling? I bought TUI, Easyjet, Ryanair, Wizz Air and British airways. I believe TUI and BA rose a bit but the big money was the budget EU airlines in the other 3.

sportsntravel

Sorry if it reads weird; I said both have approved vaccines between us/ eu. Astrazenenca is approved in EU [astra zenec](https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/pandemic-influenza-vaccine-h5n1-astrazeneca-previously-pandemic-influenza-vaccine-h5n1-medimmune) GSK is approved in the US [GSK](https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/h5n1-vaccine-approved-by-the-us-fda-as-pandemic-influenza-preparedness-measure/)

Zestyclose_Hippo_116

Can you share the names of the vaccines you found which were approved by both the us FDA and the EU? I'm on the europa.eu site and can't find anything about that

Swamivik

Why comment if you don't know BYD at all and just writing nonsense? BYD made 3 million cars last year and exported 240,000. It's main revenue is in China. EU is not significant for BYD at this time. In China only 33% of cars are EV. The Chinese government is making a significant push for the country to switch to EVs and get rid of Legacy cars. You can see from how China can lock down whole cities for Covid, the government is now pushing the country to fully switch to EV. It is why so many EV makers have sprung up because everyone want a slice of the growing market. In case you didn't know Tesla sold 670k cars in US and 603k cars in China in 2023 and the Chinese market is getting larger due to government directive whereas it is slowing down in the US. The losers are all the legacy car makers especially Japanese like Toyota and Nissan and it seem like Tesla since they are losing market share in China. In terms of exports, BYD is everywhere in Australia, Malaysia and South East Asian countries etc etc It is also building a factory in Thailand, Brazil and Hungary. It is like with most industries, there will be a lot of competition in the beginning and within a few years there will be a consolidation of a few major players left. BYD will be one of them. Buffett buy companies with good management. Why Charlie Munger turned down Tesla for BYD.

stockrot

The EU will follow the United States in a tarriff . Especially if they want funding of the war in their backyard. Russia and China are partners and want to play havoc with the US. So EU goes away... where does BYD sell cars ? Africa?, the saturated Chinese market? TSM isnt building advanced Chip manufacturing in the US because Tiawan like,s the weather in Arizona . And the US is helping them .Cathy Wood got lucky once and made a name for herself me personally I wouldnt invest a nickle with her . I will say she timed TSLA pretty good selling at the top and buying back in lately. The Geopolitcal situation is going to get more volitile so unless BYD can Thrive on Domestic sales I dont see them blowing up . China stocks have been flat to down ,just look at Alibaba.

sportsntravel

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Jazzlike-Tower-7433

We don't usually appreciate breathing fine until we have a runny nose. It's the same with democracy and freedom. You may be used to it, but these people are facing the choice of fighting for their freedom or living under the rule of Russia. It's the same kind of choice US had to make about 300 years ago, and you know what they've chosen. I have friends in Russia who are afraid of speaking about politics. We don't get that feeling in EU, which is what Ukrainians are fighting for. If Ukraine falls and my country gets attacked next, then I am tempted to join the army myself, for my family and country. I know it may sound stupid at first. If a bully hits you and you don't do anything about it, he will keep hitting you.

RBControlsGuy

Yeah the IMF is a fickle organization, I’d be concerned about how influence is trickled. Think about the EU, although the EU has benefits a glaringly negative impact is the fact you have an additional layer of bureaucracy that is not elected such as the case with officials of any given country. Money is influence and who is standing to gain from this, aside from that I think I can see the *potential* benefit and reason why the IMF shuns bitcoin. Do I think it has a reason to have had the growth it has had, no. The value is how you can transfer it to a usable currency like USD, I can pay for a house in bitcoin now because of the agreed upon amount of value in USD it has but if it were when bitcoin is just being introduced how could you convince anyone to get paid in bitcoin.

cosimonh

Chinese market is fucked. The population peaked, people too poor to afford more children. Workforce shrinking. The size of the middle class that can properly afford to buy stuff is a lot smaller than what people thought. Their government being hostile to the west is driving decoupling fast. Direct foreign investment has dropped by 90%. Government hijacking one of their biggest tech companies as well as new rules and policies that appear overnight has scared most investors away. Now they are also looking at their housing market bubble deflating where the majority of people's savings are located. There will be some companies that do well, but the majority will be losers so not worth the risk of investing. Even BYD being the biggest electric vehicle manufacturer was heavily subsided by their government to undercut Tesla and other EVs in order to force their way into European and US automobile market. EU is gonna start putting tariffs on these unfair trade practices.

RioBlancoJim

EU passport

aikhibba

I go to Spain every year to visit my parents and I still never met an American living there. They live in an area with lots of EU “expats” British, Germans etc. Locals aren’t fed up but quite the opposite. Their jobs all depend on these people moving there. They just keep building houses left and right. Huge developments with parks, playgrounds. Nonetheless all the houses have pools, AC and are quite nice. I thought about moving there but I’ll just stay put, and make money in the US for now.

Friendly-Monitor6903

With quota removal and now grow to the maximum of the In Country facilities as well as best strains the “Made In Germany “ growers Tilray, Aurora and Demecan have a huge advantage. All have been working to govt quotas and growing govt strains but narcotics classification is gone and experts predicts 10X increase to prescriptions and 4X larger market than Florida = $12B annually. Germany just the 1st major EU country legalized, 5 more EU countries close behind Germany.

hjablowme919

How did you get the OK to permanently relocate to Spain? I'm in the process of getting dual citizenship in Poland which will eventually allow me and my wife to move to the EU, but my understanding was without that it's a much more difficult process if you don't plan on working because there are income requirements.

FarrisAT

There's no actual proven evidence it's gotten worse. Simply that the competition has gotten better. There's also broadly less tracking by Google to satiate privacy concerns in EU, which has caused less cookies and worse "predictive results". I'd use Search Generative Experience if you want a search which is more predictive like the 2010-2020 Google before the privacy crackdown.

Itistruethough

I’m in here for a long term investment. They’ll be pumping out chips in the next 3 years all over the world as we get away from Chinese production, product should be flying off the shelves as fast as they can make it once their US/EU factories are online due to sanctions and defense agreements.

MediocreX

Tesla will never reach full autonomy. At least not in the EU where it's required that the system relies on more than just a bunch of cameras.

jarpio

People who buy gold do so as a hedge against the collapse of fiat currency. The question is, what will you actually be able to DO with your gold? You can of course sell it and redeem the value but in what currency will you convert your gold to? Euros and pounds will be equally useless if the dollar collapses because the UK and EU economies are wholly dependent upon the strength of the US economy. I think you’d see a collapse of the dollar collapse the price of crypto currencies around the world too, however I think it will also have the effect of making crypto much more accessible and thus much easier to adopt and use by the general public. Bitcoin and crypto in general would be a very popular alternative to what would inevitably be a central bank digital currency.

mspe1960

You cannot count on getting 5% in a MM or HYSA forever. And even if you could, you living expenses will go up over time and your income will not. If you will still be working, why are you fixated on living off the the $1MM? Invest the money in a normal slightly conservative fashion. Maybe 50% in stocks (half US half EU since you are living in Europe) and half bonds in a fund like BND. Your total balance will vary over time, but long term it will be up. And just the dividend form a fund like this should be close to $3K a month anyway, but with opportunity for long term growth.

justin_zander

EU *residents who are entitled to it. I posted [this link](https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/unemployment-and-benefits/country-coverage/index_en.htm) in another comment which focuses on working people, but it doesn't go into details about how each country decides on whether you're entitled to those benefits if you don't work.