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📰 Market Headlines
Stocks finished mixed, with the Nasdaq reaching a record close, as investors digested a key November inflation report.
The Dow slipped 0.22%, The S&P 500 gained 0.82%, and Nasdaq advanced 1.77%, topping 20,000 for the first time.
US inflation climbed to 2.7% in November, the highest since July, with core inflation holding at 3.3%.
The Supreme Court rejected Nvidia's appeal of an investor lawsuit tied to crypto mining.
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced his resignation, clearing the way for Trump nominee Kash Patel.
Police recovered a detailed notebook from Luigi Mangione describing his plan to kill UnitedHealthcare's CEO at the company's investor day.
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📊 Ideas, trends, and analysis
Rent Inflation in the United States decreased to 4.70 percent in November from 4.90 percent in October 2024. Rent Inflation in the United States averaged 4.22 percent from 1954 until 2024, reaching an all-time high of 20.85 percent in June of 1980 and a record low of -0.73 percent in April 2010.
Rents slowed to their lowest pace in nearly 3.5 years.
Trump's incoming tariffs and mass deportation plans could threaten inflation progress in 2025.
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📊 Winners and losers
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Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions
Vera Bradley reported a 30% drop in Q3 sales; shares tumbled 13.9%.
Adobe forecast annual revenue was below Wall Street's estimate as shares dropped 6%.
Macy's accounting error scandal caused shares to drop 10%.
Market movers
Bank of America promoted 387 employees to managing directors.
Volkswagen offered Tennessee workers a 14% wage raise over four years and profit sharing.
Boston Dynamics cut 45 jobs, citing cash burn concerns.
LL Bean announced 50-75 layoffs due to retail landscape changes.
🌍 Global Perspectives
🇧🇷 Brazilian police dismantled a $166 million illegal mining scheme stealing gold from Indigenous lands.
🇰🇷 South Korean police raided the presidential office as prosecutors weighed insurrection charges against President Yoon.
🇦🇫 Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani died in a suicide bombing inside Kabul.
🇩🇪 Germany's far-right AfD party nominated Alice Weidel as its first-ever chancellor candidate while polling at 19%.
📊 Crypto
Commonware raised $9 million to build developer tools that break the one-size-fits-all mold.
Citi says stablecoins challenge the idea of Bitcoin ending the US dollar's dominance.
Fifth Circuit ruled the Treasury Department overstepped by sanctioning Tornado Cash's code instead of bad actors using it.
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🎤 What you said last time
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🧠 Errata
Archaeologists unearthed a 2,500-year-old shipwreck off Sicily's coast.
Scientists discovered the world's deepest blue hole in Mexico, plunging 1,380 feet into the ocean floor.
A Korean mathematician finally cracked the moving sofa problem after 58 years. [Ed: surely he could have got a friend to help if he’d just offered some pizza and beer]
Japanese artist Murakami blended AI and anime to reimagine 16th-century masterpieces.
📺 What to Watch Today
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Cheers,
Wyatt
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