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Alts in your retirement fund in 2025 |
Announcing our new partnership with Alto. |
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📰 Market Headlines |
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Stocks reversed course to start 2025, as tech stocks led losses. |
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Jobless claims fell to 211,000, the lowest level since March. |
A US appeals court blocked the Biden administration's net neutrality rules, citing a lack of FCC authority. |
Meta's policy chief Nick Clegg stepped down, replaced by Joel Kaplan. |
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing the driver and injuring seven others. |
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🔮 Look ahead to next week. |
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Q4 GDP estimates are coming down while GDP growth for 2025 is ticking up in line (a lower base means more growth from the same output). |
Enough of the sensible stuff, though. |
Let’s talk Super Bowl ads (get $25 free using that link). There’s a market for which companies will advertise during the big game, and there’s money to be made by checking this site and this site frequently then sniping a market. The big money is around AI companies. |
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And Perplexity is probably a good bet regardless, given its recent fundraise and its history with Super Bowl ads. |
If you think the incoming GOP Congress will be as dysfunctional as the last one, you can bet against Mike Johnson retaining the Speakership. There’s also a 73% chance DJT’s controversial Defense Secretary pick will move forward. |
🧠 Make yourself heard |
2024 was the S&P’s second big year in a row. What’s going to happen in 2025? |
In 2025, the S&P 500 will |
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📊 Ideas, trends, and analysis |
Mortgage rates climbed to 6.91%, the highest level in nearly six months. 40% of students reported awareness of AI-generated deepfakes of someone at their school.
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😱 Fear and Greed Index |
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📊 Winners and losers |
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Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions |
No notable earnings this week. |
Market movers |
Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit over Siri recording private conversations. Skydance Media and Paramount Global called on the FCC to reject opposition to their $8.4 billion merger, labeling it "meritless." China proposed new restrictions on battery and critical minerals technology exports. Thomson Reuters acquired tax automation company SafeSend for $600 million in cash. United Steelworkers’ union rejected Nippon Steel's latest proposal to acquire US Steel, calling it a "Hail Mary pass."
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🌍 Global Perspectives | | 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 The US State Department approved the sale of $3.64 billion in advanced air-to-air missiles to Japan. 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine halted transit of Russian gas to Europe after a pre-war deal expired. 🇨🇱 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Chile's Antofagasta region at a depth of 104 kilometers. 🇮🇳 India began removing 337 tonnes of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal disaster site. 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 Argentina filed an ICC complaint against Venezuela over the detention of an Argentine security officer.
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📊 Crypto | | Spot ether ETFs logged record inflows of over $2 billion in December. KuCoin launched a new crypto payment tool for merchants. BlackRock's blockchain fund distributed $17.2 million in dividends since March. Solaxy's presale raised over $7 million, targeting Solana's network congestion.
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Man Who Called Nvidia at $1.10 Says Buy This Now... |
This company signed a major deal with Apple Nvidia and Google are invested in this company And its tech is found in products from Samsung and Google
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Click here for details. |
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🎤 What you said last time |
Today’s lesson is not to take the media narrative for granted. |
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🧠 Errata | Researchers discovered a 166-million-year-old dinosaur highway in England with nearly 200 tracks from massive creatures. Scientists found tiny bats surf on storms during migration. A garbage truck created chaos in Omaha after ignoring barriers and plunging into a 10-foot sinkhole, cutting power downtown for hours.
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📺 What to Watch Today |
 | Garbage truck crashes into hole in downtown Omaha |
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That’s all for today. Did I miss anything? Smash the reply button to let me know. | Cheers, | Wyatt |
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