Movie ticket sales in US fell 5.2% in 2019 to 1.244 billion tickets, according to movie data provider The Numbers. This is a 21% plunge from the peak in 2002, when 1.58 billion tickets were sold, and a 14% drop from 20 years ago in 1999, and just a hair above where ticket sales had been in 1995.
US auto loan and credit card delinquencies trending higher https://blogs.wsj.com/dailyshot/2020/01/08/the-daily-shot-a-tweet-from-irans-foreign-minister-calms-markets/…
Waymo’s autonomous cars have driven 20M miles on public roads — that’s the equivalent of driving 800 times around the globe, making 40 trips to the moon and back, and accumulating 1,400 years of driving experience for an average American driver.
Waymo: “As we drive the next 10 million miles and beyond, we’ll continue to scale our fully driverless miles, grow our community of riders, and tackle new geographies and related complexities, empowered by our fifth-generation hardware suite.”
US companies and households have diverged in their debt habits, Gavekal writes. US corp debt has risen to all time high of $10.12tn.
