Soft jobs data

*past 24-hour performance

💨 TL;DR

  1. Jobs data came in soft

  2. The first rate cut may come in March 2024.

  3. Bitcoin hits a 19-month high

  4. A massive lithium discovery in California

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  • Yet multifamily construction starts are down more than 70% in 2023.

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📰 Market Headlines

  • Tech stocks held onto earlier gains, powered by a four-month high for Apple, to close 0.28% higher on the session at 14,255.21 points. The S&P 500, meanwhile, was essentially flat at 4,566.07 points, down just 0.06% for the day, while the Dow closed 80 points lower at 36,124.26 points.

  • In Jobs data, the number of open positions in October fell to an 18-month low of 8.7 million, removing a significant level of wage pressures from near-term inflation forecasts.

  • Traders are betting the Fed will make its first rate cut in March, around nine months after its last increase in July.

  • Southern California's Salton Sea contains enough lithium to meet the nation's needs for decades. It has the potential to produce an estimated 375 million lithium batteries for electric vehicles — more than the total number of vehicles currently on US roads. The rare(ish) metal was down 4.6% on the news and is off 82% for the year.

  • Asia’s first exchange-traded fund investing solely in Saudi Arabia’s equities market has listed on the Hong Kong exchange, attracting $1bn in initial investment.

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😱 Fear and Greed Index

🧠 What do you think?

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🎤 What you said last time

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Winners and losers

  • America’s Car-Mart delivered both earnings and guidance that were much worse than expected, citing allowances for future customer defaults. Shares sank 26%.

  • Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) will take up to $2.5 billion in charges for restructuring, along with an impairment related to its Gillette acquisition 18 years ago.

  • Rio Tinto is investing $6.2 billion into a Guinean iron ore plant.

  • The FTC is investigating Exxon Mobil’s planned $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources.

  • British American Tobacco said it would take a hit of around $31.5 billion as it writes down the value of some U.S. cigarette brands

  • IBM and Meta have formed an AI Alliance. I hope they get costumes.

Ideas and analysis

  • We mentioned above that Lithium is down 82% for the year. Here are three stocks that might turn a profit anyway.

  • Nvidia and Microsoft CEOs say industrial companies will benefit most from AI. Here are a few stocks to put on your watch list if you agree.

  • Three stocks to play the cybersecurity boom.

📊 Income

📊 Crypto

  • Bitcoin topped $44k for the first time in over 19 months today. The catalyst is a growing belief that a BTC ETF will be approved in January 2024. The ETF will attract significant capital inflow from institutional investors, increasing demand for the supply-constrained coin.

🌍 Global Perspectives

🇨🇳 Young Chinese consumers are feeling the pinch as much as their American counterparts.

🇬🇾 🇻🇪 Subsequent to the questionable vote to appropriate two-thirds of Guyana, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is asking the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region.

🇬🇧 The UK’s economy is in real trouble.

🇨🇳 🇮🇳 Apple is looking to move battery purchases to India, snubbing China.

🇦🇷 Javier “El Loco” Milei, Argentinian-president elect, pledged to kill the central bank, cut ties with China and slash public spending. He’s backpedaling now he’s won.

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Cheers,

Wyatt

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