Antarctica is the 1st continent completely encircled by 1 ocean (Source: Nat Geo)
- A record-breaking 41 women stand as CEOs on this year’s Fortune 500 list, including 2 Black women — Roz Brewer (Walgreens Boots Alliance) and Thasunda Brown Duckett (TIAA) — for the 1st time.
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- Kerrisdale Capital published a 20-page memo on why they’re short selling (AKA betting against) Virgin Galactic. Grievances include: “17 years of delays and disasters,” flights that run $250k+ for ~1 hour… Oh, and not actually flying in space.
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- FINRA data shows that margin debt (money people borrow to buy stocks) increased 13 months straight to ~$850B — more than 2x what it was in ‘08, and nearly 3x what it was before the dot-com crash.
- Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a 5th ocean. After 106 years of mapmaking, the National Geographic Society officially renamed the area around Antarctica the Southern Ocean, due to its unique ecosystem.