RIP Charlie Munger

*past 24-hour performance

šŸ’Ø TL;DR

  1. Charlie Munger, a legendary investor before he ever met Warren Buffet, passed away a month shy of his 100th birthday. RIP to one of the greats.

  2. Asian markets were bloodied while Europeā€™s were mixed.

  3. There are whispers the Fed may hike rates again as both home prices and consumer confidence continue to rise.

This company has reimagined fencing (yep, fencing)

There are sexy businesses, and there are unsexy businesses.

Snap, Peloton, and WeWork are sexy. They all have buzz and panache.

But you know what else these companies have in common? None of them are profitable!

Here at Swaggy, we like to find under-the-radar companies you wouldn't normally think about. And we found one in Perimtec.

Perimtec designs and installs modern fences. That's it. They sell direct-to-consumer across the US. That's what they do.

ā€‹And you know what? They're making real money. Check this out:

  • Annual run rate of $3.1 million

  • LTV to CAC ratio of 4.1

  • Raising at a valuation of $7.1 million (that's low!)

Fencing is becoming a more important part of home design. (Heck, I installed a new backyard fence for exactly this reason)

Perimtec is making an unsexy business as sexy as possible.

Consider investing in these guys.

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šŸ“° Market Headlines

  • Yesterday, the S&P 500 edged up 0.1% after hovering between small gains and losses. Itā€™s on track to close out November with its strongest monthly gain of the year. Meanwhile, the Dow rose 0.2%, and the Nasdaq eked out a 0.3% gain. Oil and gold also nudged higher while the dollar continued to slide.

  • Microsoft rose 1.1%, Tesla climbed 4.5% and Best Buy rose 2.4%. GE Healthcare Technologies closed 4.2% lower.

  • Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said she expects another Fed rate hike.

  • Consumer confidence topped analyst forecasts.

  • Nationwide, home prices rose by 0.3% in September and now stand 3.9% above its year-ago level.

  • American life expectancy rose in 2022 but is well behind pre-Covid numbers. Suicide rates hit a record high, with older men at highest risk.

šŸ•¶ļø Market Vibes

šŸŽ° Market Forecasts and Futures

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  • Standard Chartered expects the price of Bitcoin to surge to $100k by the end of 2024.

  • S&P Global Ratings says the Fed is likely to hike rates 25bps in December.

End-of-year forecasts

4,554

16,008

Macro forecasts

3.86%

3.34%

175,896

2% chance

1.98%

šŸ˜± Fear and Greed Index

šŸ§  What do you think?

Is the Fed done hiking rates?

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šŸŽ¤ What you said last time

Fewer than 30% of you were optimistic about all that Black Friday spending, with seven in ten saying either consumers are addicted toā€¦consumingā€¦or theyā€™re being pragmatic about discount shopping.

Worth noting: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon agrees consumers are addicted to debt.

Consumers canā€™t stop spending

ā€œConsumer debt is blowing the roof off, but spending is a "high" for many folks, and the bailouts showed folks how good it feels.ā€

šŸ“Š Stocks

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Winners and losers

  • Apple is ending its credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs.

  • Amazon is launching an AI-powered chatbot for AWS customers called Q.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have expanded their collaboration to deliver advanced infrastructure, software and services for generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovations.

  • Customers taking Red Lobster up on its Ultimate Endless Shrimp deal contributed to a quarterly operating loss for the chain.

  • Las Vegas Sands shares slid after it announced a secondary public offering of $2 billion of shares.

  • Record online Black Friday sales pumped Shopify shares nearly 5% yesterday.

Ideas and analysis

šŸ“Š Income

  • Global bonds are having their best month since 2008.

  • Spices and flavorings company McCormick & Co. is increasing its dividend by 7.7%.

  • A mid-cap fund that focuses on big dividends.

Want to party like itā€™s 2007? Check out public.comā€™s bond ETF portfolio designed to offer exposure to mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other securitized debt.

šŸ“Š Crypto

  • Whatā€™s next for Binance?

šŸŒ Global Perspectives

šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ The UK is struggling to attract talented workers post-Brexit.

šŸ‡ÆšŸ‡µ Airbnb is looking to fill homes left vacant by Japanā€™s declining population.

šŸ‡µšŸ‡° Foreign investment in Pakistan is at a four-year high, which has driven a 50% gain in the KSE-100 since June.

šŸ‡øšŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia will host World Expo 2030.

šŸ’Ž Wealth Watch

  • You may need to rethink where your retirement income will come from.

  • Why you may not be as rich (or poor) as you think.

šŸ—³ļø Outside the Box

  • A drug that will extend and improve dogsā€™ lives is on its way.

  • The vast majority of US workers admit artificial intelligence tools could replace them.

  • What are corporate boards of directors supposed to do, exactly?

  • Meet Greg Abel, Warren Buffett's successor and heir apparent to Berkshire Hathaway.

šŸ“ŗ What to Watch Today

šŸ“ˆ Trends you need to know

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The art scene in Saudi Arabia suffered in King Abdullahā€™s early years, but itā€™s making a comeback as part of the Kingdomā€™s Saudi Vision 2030.

Thatā€™s all for today. Did we miss anything? Smash the reply button to let us know.

Cheers,

Wyatt

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