🎯 Apple products are struggling

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Welcome back to Trendline where I share top charts on investing & business trends. Let’s dive into today’s post.

1) Apple needs a new product: Apple’s products have been struggling in recent years. Iphone sales have been flattish, while sales for other product lines are declining. Vision Pro hasn’t been as much of a success and Apple has stopped working on cars. They need a new product. Seems like thats’s what they are going on announce on Feb 19.

2) Trade Imbalance between US and China: US and China are two places in the world with the most trade imbalance. US consumers far more than it produces and China produces far more than it consumes. Trump wants to change this.

3) Pandemic changed grocery buying habits: Lots of people used Instacart to buy groceries during the lockdown and many continued to do so afterward, resulting in a step change in gross transaction value (GTV) on Instacart. Note Instacart only operates in US and Canada

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4) IPOs to watch in 2025: SailPoint (SAIL), a $12 Billion+ IPO hit the markets yesterday. “SailPoint is the first big test of the tech IPO market in 2025, which is expected to see well-known names such as Stripe potentially debut as companies bank on a friendlier regulatory backdrop under President Trump.”⁠

5) Gold Prices and cost of production: Beautiful to see.