BREAKING: The S&P 500 closes at the highest level on record, up another +3.6% this week. The S&P 500 added +$2.5 trillion in market cap this week. x.com

Channel
The Kobeissi Letter
@kobeissiletter_official
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
258subscribers
-19 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002857912765 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @kobeissiletter_official |
| Created | Between 1 June 2025 and 30 September 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 4 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 4 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/kobeissiletter_official |
Topic
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 45% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026, 11:22 | 258 | -13 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 23:22 | 271 | -1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 20:37 | 272 | -1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 18:48 | 273 | -2 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 22:27 | 275 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 07:48 | 276 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 08:35 | 277 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 17:47 | 277 | first reading |
Engagement
18 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
1 reaction across 1 post, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 1 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Layoffs across the information sector are accelerating: The layoff rate in the information sector jumped +0.7 percentage points in June, to 2.3%, the 3rd-highest since the 2020 pandemic. This means that ~2.3% of employees in the sector were laid off or discharged during the month. Since November 2025, the layoff rate has more than doubled. In absolute terms, 63,000 workers were laid off or discharged in June, the…
Most people don't realize how big of a growth wave we are currently experiencing. So far, with 88% of S&P 500 companies reporting earnings, the index has posted +50.4% growth in earnings year-over-year. To put this into perspective, the already astronomical expectation of +23.1% growth has been more than doubled. This will mark the 2nd consecutive quarter of earnings growth above +25% and the 7th consecutive quart…
US productivity growth is accelerating: US labor productivity rose +1.4% annualized rate in Q2 2026, more than double the +0.6% expected. This follows an upwardly revised +0.8% increase in Q1, marking the 5th consecutive quarter of productivity gains. At the same time, US manufacturing productivity jumped +1.9%, driven by a +4.6% surge in output, the strongest increase since Q4 2021. However, these productivity g…
BREAKING: Global physical gold-backed ETFs posted +$3.0 billion in inflows in July, the largest monthly intake since April. This pushed global gold ETF holdings up +23 tonnes, to 4,068 tonnes, just below the all-time high of 4,176 tonnes posted on February 27th. European funds led, at +$2.1 billion, followed by Asia, at +$600 million, and North America, at +$71 million. This follows -$2 billion and -$9 billion in …
US refiners have shifted away from Saudi oil: US imports of Saudi Arabian crude fell to zero in July, marking the first full month without imports since 1985, according to preliminary US government data. This marks a sharp reversal from March, when US refiners were purchasing more than 800,000 barrels of Saudi crude oil per day. This comes as US refiners sought alternative supplies after the closure of the Strait …
BREAKING: Gold futures surge above $4,400/oz to their highest level since June 5th on news that the US economy lost -23,000 jobs in July. Gold is now up more than +10% in over the last month. x.com
BREAKING: The odds of a September rate hike fall to 40% after the US economy unexpectedly posts its 3rd biggest monthly job loss since the pandemic in 2020. Just days ago, markets saw at 70%+ chance of a September rate hike. Gold prices are surging above $4,400/oz on the news. x.com
BREAKING: The US economy unexpectedly loses -23,000 jobs in July, well below expectations of +85,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, below expectations of 4.2%. June's jobs number was also revised down by -37,000 jobs. This marks the 3rd biggest monthly job loss since the pandemic in 2020. x.com
BREAKING: Spot silver prices rise +5% toward $65/oz, now up over +12% this week. Gold futures are nearing $4,400/oz, now at a fresh 8-week high. x.com
BREAKING: Spot silver prices rise +5% toward $65/oz, now up over +12% this week. Gold futures are nearing $4.400/oz, now at a fresh 8-week high. x.com
Americans who own assets are winning. US household equity holdings are up to a record $74 trillion. Since 2020, this figure has surged +$48 trillion, or +185%. By comparison, US household equity holdings stood at $13 trillion at the start of this century. As a % of GDP, equity ownership is up to a record ~232%, more than tripling since the 2008 Financial Crisis To put this into perspective, this ratio peaked at …
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Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @kobeissiletter_official. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 4 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Kobeissi Letter” (@kobeissiletter_official), 258 subscribers as measured 4 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/kobeissiletter_official.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.