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UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed on September 8 showing he bought $4.1 million worth of shares on September 4. He paid roughly $75.65 per share, picking up 54,325 shares in an open-market purchase. That is the kind of discretionary buy that carries real weight: no 10b5-1 plan, no grant, no option exercise. A company's second-highest-ranking executive reaching into his own pocket is a straightforward expression of confidence.
JPMorgan Chase filed the same day to disclose it had cut positions across several Hong Kong-listed names on September 2. Its stake in Kingdee International Software fell by 81.6 million shares, worth around $84.9 million. Holdings in Sunny Optical dropped by a further $70.8 million. The moves look like broad portfolio rebalancing rather than any stock-specific view, but the scale stands out.
In Turkey, the chairman of Burçelik Vana bought $12.9 million of his own company's stock on September 7 at the same time Bulls Portföy, an asset manager sitting on a 10% stake, was selling $13.6 million worth. The crossfire between a founding-family buyer and an institutional seller in the same session is worth watching.
US nonfarm payrolls hit 159 million in September, the highest on record since 1997. A strong labour market gives executives more room to act with conviction on discretionary buys like MacDonald's.
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