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📰 Market Headlines
Equities slumped to start the final week of March, pausing after last week's record-setting rally.
The S&P 500 dipped by 0.3%, while the Dow Jones and Nasdaq also saw modest declines.
Big gains from last week put it 14% above its 200-day moving average, , which might indicate a pullback soon.
Investors and air travelers rejoiced after Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced his resignation. Stock cruised up 1.4%.
A ship collided with Baltimore’s Key Bridge, collapsing it.
🕶️ Market Vibes
🎰 Market Forecasts and Futures
Forecasts via Kalshi, the prediction market.
😱 Fear and Greed Index
🧠 What do you think?
Ethiopia’s buggy ATMs gave away $40 million in free cash over the weekend, and the government asked everyone to return the money. What would you do?
Would you return the cash?
🎤 What you said last time
All your favorites survived the weekend, though Vegas gives two-seed Tennesse a slight edge over one-seed UNC. NC State has the longest odds among teams still in the tournament at +12000 (0.8% chance).
📈 Trends you need to know
The Vietnam War has been slowly slipping from America’s collective consciousness over the last 20 years, but there are still 850,000 living American vets and over 1,600 MIAs who were never found. This Friday is National Vietnam War Veterans’ Day. If you know a vet from the war or a family who never got their child back, consider checking in on them. |
📊 Stocks
Get $20 free shares and options rebates for life if you create an account at public.com using code ALTSCO before March 31.
Winners and losers
Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions
Slim earnings today at the start of this shortened last week of Q1.
Trading of Fisker's stock was suspended on the NYSE after its acquisition deal with a major automaker fell through. Prices were down to just $0.09/share.
Market movers
The EU launched its first Digital Markets Act probes targeting Apple, Google, and Meta.
Qualcomm, Google, Intel, and others have poured $4 billion into 93 separate efforts to unseat Nvidia's AI dominance.
Dell Technologies cut its workforce following an 11% decrease in revenue in Q4 earnings.
Ideas, trends, and analysis
US new home sales unexpectedly fell to their lowest in over 2.5 years.
Home price growth has returned to pre-pandemic levels. [Ed: these two items seem related]
Dutch Bros might be your cup of joe after rebounding 40% from its 2024 low.
Land near nuclear power plants has become prime real estate for energy-hungry data centers fueling AI.
Morgan Stanley pointed out senior housing stocks as beneficiaries of the aging US population.
🌍 Global Perspectives
🇷🇺 The four suspects in the Moscow concert hall attack appeared in court and looked to have been beaten and possibly tortured.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 The US and UK accused China of global cyber espionage against millions of individuals and hacking U.S. energy companies.
🇫🇷 France raised its terror alert to the highest level after Islamic State claimed responsibility for Moscow attack.
📊 Income
Like Chipotle and its stock split? Order a side of these 2 dividend stocks.
Six safe large-cap dividend blue chips if you think a correction is coming.
With a huge 13% dividend yield, Annaly Capital is enticing, but big yields often mean big risks.
The best REIT dividend stocks to buy for 2024.
📊 Crypto
BlackRock launched a tokenized fund on Ethereum.
Senator Elizabeth Warren argued crypto is responsible for terrorism and "pig butchering" scams.
🧠 Errata
Saudi Arabia is building the world's first Dragon Ball Z theme park.
Chick-fil-A is dropping its "No Antibiotics Ever" pledge for chicken.
Chinese Government required even celebrity rappers to take drug tests before appearing on live TV. To be popular, you must be perfect.
📺 What to Watch Today
Watch a ship collide with the Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing it.
That’s all for today. Did I miss anything? Smash the reply button to let me know.
Cheers,
Wyatt
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