Notes You Need for October 19: Initial claims, Lyft and Google, Vale, iPhone8 sales, Black Monday anniversary

Notes You Need for October 19: Initial claims, Lyft and Google, Vale, iPhone8 sales, Black Monday anniversary

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. Today’s items include this one: “10:40 a.m.: Alphabet’s (GOOG) investment arm, CapitalG, has led a $1 billion round of investment in Lyft. The new round values Lyft at $11 billion. The funding is significant since Alphabet has been a big supporter of Uber and this investment suggests that Alphabet’s Waymo autonomous vehicle unit will work more closely with Lyft.”