🐂 All time high for the S&P and DJ

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📰 Market Headlines

  • The S&P 500 finally hit an ATH last week as equity indices rallied across the board. Futures are up significantly this morning. Next stop, 5,000.

  • Friday’s gains officially put the US into a bull market from the October 2022 low.

  • Traders are now anticipating a 47% chance of a Fed cut in March, down from 81% last week. That’s still way above the forecasts on Kalshi.

  • Two big macro reports come out this week that will guide the Fed:

    • December GDP on Thursday (2.3% on Kalshi), 2.4% via the Fed itself. A Dow survey has it much lower, at 1.7%. I expect it to come in slightly hot.

    • The PCE, an inflation measure the Fed prefers to CPI because it excludes irrelevant products like food and energy, is out Friday. Forecasts are around 3.0% YoY, up from 2.6% in November, and that feels about right to me.

  • Ron DeSantis dropped out of the Presidential election and endorsed Trump.

  • Congrats to the 49ers, Ravens, Chiefs, and Lions (not a typo), who all advanced in the NFL playoffs over the weekend.

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🧠 What do you think?

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It’s a two-horse race for the GOP presidential nomination, but Nikki Haley is moving in the right direction. Is it too late?

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Winners and losers

Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions

  • Sony has terminated its $10 billion merger with Zee.

Market movers

  • ExxonMobil has sued its investors to block a climate proposal.

  • OpenAI’s Sam Altman is raising billions to fund an NVIDIA competitor in the AI chips space.

  • Goldman Sachs has closed a $650 million fund to invest in the “golden age” of biotech innovation.

  • Hollywood might strike again.

  • Sports Illustrated fired most of its staff.

Ideas, trends, and analysis

🌍 Global Perspectives

🇨🇳 🇷🇺 China continues to defy Russian oil sanctions and has become the pariah regime’s biggest customer.

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Ukraine imposed its own explosive sanctions on Russian oil over the weekend, and Russia has begun to retaliate.

🇨🇳 Moody’s may downgrade China.

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 The future of China-US relations looks grim.

🇮🇱 Israel’s Netanyahu continues to isolate Israel from the international community.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is moving into solar power and is looking to become an AI tech hub.

🇮🇳 India’s middle and upper classes continue to consume more and more.

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🧠 Errata

📺 What to Watch Today

A Montana-esque fourth-quarter comeback for the 49ers’s Brock Purdy.

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