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| 💨 TL;DR | Jobs data came in soft The first rate cut may come in March 2024. Bitcoin hits a 19-month high A massive lithium discovery in California
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| | 📰 Market Headlines | Tech stocks held onto earlier gains, powered by a four-month high for Apple, to close 0.28% higher on the session at 14,255.21 points. The S&P 500, meanwhile, was essentially flat at 4,566.07 points, down just 0.06% for the day, while the Dow closed 80 points lower at 36,124.26 points. In Jobs data, the number of open positions in October fell to an 18-month low of 8.7 million, removing a significant level of wage pressures from near-term inflation forecasts. Traders are betting the Fed will make its first rate cut in March, around nine months after its last increase in July. Southern California's Salton Sea contains enough lithium to meet the nation's needs for decades. It has the potential to produce an estimated 375 million lithium batteries for electric vehicles — more than the total number of vehicles currently on US roads. The rare(ish) metal was down 4.6% on the news and is off 82% for the year. Asia’s first exchange-traded fund investing solely in Saudi Arabia’s equities market has listed on the Hong Kong exchange, attracting $1bn in initial investment.
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| 🎤 What you said last time | This a fairly apathetic response to yesterday’s poll, but ya’ll have a slight bias toward greed (god bless you). |
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| | | 📊 Stocks | | Want to invest like Buffet? With Public.com, you can emulate Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio with just a few clicks. | Winners and losers | America’s Car-Mart delivered both earnings and guidance that were much worse than expected, citing allowances for future customer defaults. Shares sank 26%. Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) will take up to $2.5 billion in charges for restructuring, along with an impairment related to its Gillette acquisition 18 years ago. Rio Tinto is investing $6.2 billion into a Guinean iron ore plant. The FTC is investigating Exxon Mobil’s planned $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources. British American Tobacco said it would take a hit of around $31.5 billion as it writes down the value of some U.S. cigarette brands IBM and Meta have formed an AI Alliance. I hope they get costumes.
| Ideas and analysis | We mentioned above that Lithium is down 82% for the year. Here are three stocks that might turn a profit anyway. Nvidia and Microsoft CEOs say industrial companies will benefit most from AI. Here are a few stocks to put on your watch list if you agree. Three stocks to play the cybersecurity boom.
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| | | | | | 🌍 Global Perspectives | 🇨🇳 Young Chinese consumers are feeling the pinch as much as their American counterparts. | 🇬🇾 🇻🇪 Subsequent to the questionable vote to appropriate two-thirds of Guyana, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is asking the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region. | 🇬🇧 The UK’s economy is in real trouble. | 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 Apple is looking to move battery purchases to India, snubbing China. | 🇦🇷 Javier “El Loco” Milei, Argentinian-president elect, pledged to kill the central bank, cut ties with China and slash public spending. He’s backpedaling now he’s won. |
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| | | | | | 📺 What to Watch Today | | How Suspects Allegedly Spent Billions in Singapore’s Money Laundering Scandal |
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