💸 Trump supporters gave him $58 billion

📱 And TikTok is still a thing

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📰 Market Headlines

Stocks surged as cooler inflation data eased concerns about Fed rate cuts, with Trump's inauguration in focus.

  • The S&P 500 and Nasdaq jumped over 3% and 2.6%, respectively, marking the S&P's best week since the November election.

American Express agreed to pay $230 million to settle DOJ fraud investigations and deceptive marketing claims.

President Biden granted final pardons to five people, including Marcus Garvey and Virginia House Speaker Don Scott.

TikTok restored service after a 14-hour blackout when Trump promised to pause the ban.

Sunday night, president-elect DJT launched a meme coin that hit $58 billion in market cap, rocketing him into the top 25 wealthiest humans on the planet.

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Search volume for the Trump meme coin has already begun to decline.

  • Americans expressed strong optimism about the economy in 2025 under Trump’s second term.

  • Crime rates plunged across major US cities in 2024, with Philadelphia seeing a 36% drop in homicides.

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Market movers

  • Perplexity bid to merge with TikTok's US operations, backed by SoftBank and Nvidia.

  • Apple stock dropped 4% on Thursday, marking its worst performance since August, following reports of weak iPhone sales in China.

  • NHTSA opened a safety probe into GM over engine failures affecting 877,710 SUVs and trucks.

  • Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned as CEO after just one year away.

  • Epoch AI faced criticism for failing to disclose OpenAI funding of its FrontierMath benchmark.

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🌍 Global Perspectives

  1. 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Three Israeli hostages reunited with their mothers after Hamas released them.

  2. 🇨🇴 Violence between rival rebel groups in Colombia's Catatumbo region killed 60.

  3. 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 NATO assembled a flotilla off Estonia's coast to protect undersea cables.

  4. 🇮🇷 Two Iranian supreme court judges were shot dead inside Tehran's supreme court.

📊 Crypto

  • Four new crypto ETF proposals flooded the SEC ahead of Gensler's departure, including ProShares' Solana Futures ETF.

  • Trump’s newly launched memecoin surged to a $15 billion market cap before falling below $10 billion.

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🧠 Errata

  • Archaeologists salvaged a 2,600-year-old Phoenician shipwreck off Spain's coast after 560 hours of careful diving.

  • Those mysterious red dots the James Webb Space Telescope spotted turned out to be supermassive black holes.

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