Biden smacks down pharma companies.

*past 24-hour performance

💨 TL;DR

  1. Markets rebounded slightly ahead of today’s key jobs report.

  2. Economists think we’re already in a recession.

  3. Biden smacks down pharma companies.

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📰 Market Headlines

  • Wall Street closed higher following its first three-day losing streak since Halloween.

  • The S&P 500 rose 0.8% and continued to hang near its highest level since March 2022. The Dow rose 0.2%, and the Nasdaq added 1.4%.

  • Big Tech pushed firmly upward on the market, led by a significant gain for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Treasury yields held steady.

  • Unemployment benefits claims rose by 1,000 to 220,000 last week, in line with analyst expectations.

  • Crude oil was up $0.96, while Brent crude added $1.15.

  • Bloomberg economists say a recession probably began in October.

  • The Biden administration warned pharma companies that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make their own versions. Why drug prices are so high in America.

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99% of Americans will be financially worse off than they were pre-pandemic by mid-2024

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Winners and losers

  • Cerevel Therapeutics jumped 11.4% after AbbVie announced an $8.7 billion deal to buy the company and its pipeline of candidates for schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, and other diseases. AbbVie added 1.1%.

  • On Wednesday, Google released its AI model — Gemini — and will roll it out gradually. Shares are up 55% on the year. However, there are allegations that some of the demos were faked.

  • Broadcom forecast annual revenue below Wall Street estimates on Thursday, as weak enterprise spending and stiff competition cast a shadow on its acquisition of VMware.

  • JetBlue Airways raised guidance for Q4. Shares were up 15%.

  • Disney is building two new planned communities. One each in California and North Carolina. Prices are expected to start from the upper $1 million range to the lower $2 million.

  • Restoration Hardware (aka RH) swung to a surprise quarterly loss and said its bottom line is under pressure due to the frozen housing market. Things are so bad they’re delaying shipment of their paper catalog until “conditions…are more favorable.”

  • Robinhood announced it’s launching BTC and other crypto trading in the EU. Shares were up 2%.

  • Tesla lost its legal dispute with Sweden’s postal service as its spat with Nordic trade unions rumbles on.

  • Amazon is piloting a new grocery subscription offering for Prime members in three cities.

  • Gamestop, suffering from a bleak outlook, is looking to use spare cash to play the markets.

Ideas, trends, and analysis

📊 Income

  • After a dismal year, the bond market is rallying as investors celebrate the likely end of the Federal Reserve’s historic interest rate tightening cycle.

  • Bond traders who powered a ferocious rally in the $26 trillion US Treasury market are about to find out if they’ve gotten ahead of themselves.

📊 Crypto

  • Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) can’t return to the United Arab Emirates before sentencing.

  • Crypto is back.

🌍 Global Perspectives

🇨🇳 Even distressed debt funds are finding China uninvestable.

🇬🇾 🇻🇪 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 The US military announced it would begin air exercises in Guyana, and Brazil has mobilized troops to the borders of both Guyana and Venezuela. Earlier this week, Venezuelan President Maduro threatened to invade Guyana to seize its $1T in oil.

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened devastation in Beirut and southern Lebanon if Hezbollah joins the war.

🇯🇵 Updated data released today showed Japan’s economy shrank by 2.9% year-on-year in the July-September quarter, worse than estimated earlier.

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