✂️ Cuts are coming

🏰 And Disney won its fairytale proxy battle

I’m in Lousanne, Switzlerland today. If you’re here too, let’s grab a coffee.

🏡 Tap into home equity without borrowing

This week we're exploring a new alternative asset class that has quietly but swiftly materialized: home equity investing.

Home equity investments (HEIs) provide homeowners a lump sum upfront payment, without loading them up with debt.

​Hometap opens up access to this asset class. Fund managers, insurance companies, family offices and accredited individuals can now get a very unique type of exposure to the US residential real estate market.

Home equity investing is a fascinating concept that hasn’t really existed before — at least not in a broad consumer sense.

Now's the time for the industry to shine, and as you'll see in this issue, Hometap is carving an intelligent path forward.

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📰 Market Headlines

  • Fed Chair Powell reassured investors that rate cuts are coming and stocks ended slightly higher after a choppy session.

    • He reiterated the Fed's wait-and-see approach on rate cuts, noting recent data hasn't changed the overall economic picture.

    • The S&P 500 gained 0.14% while the Nasdaq rose 0.23%. The Dow slipped 0.09%.

  • Disney prevailed over activist investor Nelson Peltz in a bitter proxy battle, as shareholders backed CEO Bob Iger.

  • Taiwan's 7.2 magnitude earthquake, the strongest in 25 years, killed at least 9 and left 50 missing. However, TSMC looks earthquake-proof.

  • Crude oil prices steadied after the OPEC+ committee recommended no changes to the group's production policy.

  • Two men pleaded guilty to insider trading related to the merger that took Trump Media & Technology Group public.

🕶️ Market Vibes

🎰 Market Forecasts and Futures

Forecasts via ​Kalshi​, the prediction market.

😱 Fear and Greed Index

🧠 What do you think?

🎤 What you said last time

💬 Have your say

Shares of $DJT are down bigly over the last few days. Where does it go from here?

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📈 Trends you need to know

Search volume in Italy

$DJT has had a rough week, shedding around $4 billion in value. Did you read (and act on) our guide to $DJT options?

📊 Stocks

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Winners and losers

Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions

  • Levi Strauss exceeded revenue estimates with $1.6 billion and surpassed EPS forecasts, boosting shares by 7%.

  • BlackBerry exceeded Q4 expectations by 15%, propelling shares up 7%.

  • Dillard's full-year revenue fell 1.7%, but EPS beat expectations by 7%, causing shares to rise 1.5%.

  • Ondas Holdings revenue soared to $15.7 million, beating estimates by 4.7%, but EPS missed by 14%; shares still jumped 12%.

  • GSE Systems shares rose 12% after reporting a net loss of $8.72 million in 2023, an improvement from the $15.2 million loss in 2022.

Market movers

  • Spotify will hike subscription prices by $1 to $2 per month in several markets, including the US, UK, and Australia.

  • President Biden proposed tax hikes on corporations and wealthy Americans.

  • Apple has reportedly begun exploring personal home robot development after shutting down its electric vehicle project in February.

Ideas, trends, and analysis

🌍 Global Perspectives

  • Ukraine lowered its conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to boost troop numbers.

  • 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a national disaster as the country grapples with a prolonged drought crisis and faces a $2bn hunger relief bill.

  • 🇮🇳 A new survey shows Indian Prime Minister Modi's party could sweep away the opposition Congress in the upcoming election.

  • 🇨🇳 🇩🇪 A flood of cheaper Chinese industrial products is expected to slam into Germany and Europe as China looks to boost exports as domestic demand slows.

  • 🇿🇦 South Africa's Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula resigned after police raided her home during a corruption investigation.

📊 Crypto

🧠 Errata

  • The same crane helping clear the Baltimore bridge collapse once aided the CIA in a top-secret mission.

  • One of the world's oldest books, a 1,700-year-old Coptic codex, could fetch over $2.6 million at auction.

  • Swiss federal ministers are giving up their $4,000 annual ski passes after public outcry over government perks.

  • Two new Jurassic mammal species show how our jaws evolved into ears millions of years ago.

📺 What to Watch Today

This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen.

That’s all for today. Did I miss anything? Smash the reply button to let me know.

Cheers,

Wyatt

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