📈 The Dow cracked 40k

💥 Plus, 98% of Tesla owners ditched FSD tech after the trial period

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📰 Market Headlines

  • The Dow cracked 40,000 for the first time ever before settling down 0.1% by the end of the day.

    • The Nasdaq fell 0.3%, while the S&P 500 dropped around 0.2%

    • Fed officials from Cleveland, New York, and Richmond warned of prolonged higher interest rates, dampening the stock rally.

  • US jobless claims fell last week as labor market conditions remain tight.

  • Reddit struck a deal with OpenAI for training data and more. [Ed: when something is free to use, you’re the product]

  • Trump and Biden agreed to debate each other once in June and once in September.

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🎰 Market Forecasts and Futures

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😱 Fear and Greed Index

🎤 What you said last time

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📈 Trends you need to know

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📊 Stocks

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Winners and losers

Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions

  • Walmart reported better-than-expected Q1 results, pushing shares up nearly 7%.

  • Canada Goose shares soared 16% after reporting a revenue increase of 22%.

  • Applied Materials dropped 3.19% despite beating Q2 revenue estimates.

  • Baidu reported Q1 revenue growth of 1%, beating estimates. Shares rose 3.47%.

  • Take-Two Interactive shares fell 3.85% after reporting a year-on-year decline of 3.2%.

  • Deere & Co. beat Q2 EPS and revenue estimates, yet shares dropped over 3%.

  • JD.com reported Q1 revenue growth of 7%; shares traded up 4.43%.

  • Under Armour shares tumbled 16% as its revenue forecast fell short of estimates.

Market movers

  • Ford asked its EV suppliers to cut costs, saying "everything is on the table" as it aims for profitability.

  • The FDA approved Amgen's Imdelltra as a second or later-line treatment for advanced small-cell lung cancer.

  • Microsoft announced its custom Cobalt chips will launch next week, boasting a 40% performance boost over other ARM chips.

  • Goldman Sachs won a $43.4 billion outsourced CIO deal to manage UPS's North American defined benefit plan.

  • More layoffs:

    • Amazon axed over 100 customer service managers.

    • Phoenix Labs executed another round of layoffs, eliminating over 100 employees and canceling all projects in development.

    • Herbruck's Poultry Ranch announced mass layoffs of nearly 400 employees due to a bird flu outbreak.

Ideas, trends, and analysis

🌍 Global Perspectives

  • 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Putin and Xi condemned the US as a Cold War hegemon during Putin's state visit to China.

  • 🇬🇪 Georgia passed a controversial Russian-style "foreign agents" law, sparking mass protests.

  • 🇫🇷 🇳🇨 France declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia after protests over voting reforms killed 5, injured 60 officers, and led to 214 arrests.

  • 🇺🇸 🇰🇪 President Biden announced he will host Kenyan President Ruto in a historic state visit.

📊 Crypto

  • The US Senate voted to repeal controversial SEC accounting rules for crypto.

  • Morgan Stanley disclosed $270 million worth of spot Bitcoin ETF holdings in a filing with the SEC.

  • DTCC partnered with Chainlink on a pilot to integrate blockchain tech for transmitting mutual fund data.

🧠 Errata

  • Sea otters are using tools. [Ed: You thought Planet of the Apes was terrifying…]

  • Researchers in China have successfully frozen and thawed human brain tissue, breathing new life into cryogenics.

  • A candidate for West Virginia secretary of state was bit by a snake while removing campaign signs, hospitalizing her. [Ed: the article didn’t say whose signs they were]

  • A team of engineering students at Johns Hopkins University invented a silencer for leafblowers. [Ed: Yardwork is deadlier than ever]

📺 What to Watch Today

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Wyatt

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