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And Microsoft gets put in a body bag
Hey there weekday warriors,
There is only one group Boeing still has some leverage with: its employees.
Enjoy the next 4 minutes and 28 seconds of blue-chip news and commentary.
Keep on snapping necks and cashing checks,
+ US stocks ārose Monday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 eked out record closes, extending a winning streak on Wall Street. Investors looked to Federal Reserve speakers and a key inflation reading for clues to the odds of another big rate cut.ā (Yahoo! Finance)
+ The 10-year Treasury yield āwas higher Monday as investors assessed the growth outlook following the Federal Reserveās jumbo rate cut last week.ā (CNBC)
+ Oil āclosed lower on Monday as worries about demand were compounded by disappointing euro zone business activity and a weak Chinese economy.ā (Reuters)
+ Bitcoin ārose to a one-month high on Monday, extending gains from the prior week as traders cheered an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, with a slew of more cues due this week.ā (Investing)
+ The three most talked about stocks on WallStreetBets in the past 24 hours were: 1) Nvidia +0.2% 2) Intel +3.3% 3) Intuitive Machines -12.2%
The market moves you need to know aboutā¦
+ Nuclear power is having a moment in the US. Just a few days after Constellation Energy said it was firing up Three Mile Island again, NANO Nuclear is launching a new subsidiary āto explore the potential commercial applications of its micronuclear reactor technology in space.ā Which sounds a lot like the plot from āArmageddon 2.ā Shares rose 8.8% on the news.
+ Danone wants to make it official with Lifeway. The French food giant offered to buy the ~75% of Lifeway that it doesnāt already own for $25 per share. Shares popped 16.3%ā¦ to right around $25 after the news broke.
āBest I can do isā¦ā
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Listen, I donāt like to point fingers, but werenāt Boeingās machinists the reason the companyās jets have been falling out of the sky and losing doors mid-flight?
ICYMI, Boeingās (+1.9%) factory workers are currently ~2 weeks into a strike. Theyāre demanding better pay and a re-instated pension. Super original, you guys.
The union already turned down Boeingās first proposal.
āBest and finalā
Yesterday, Boeing management came to the table with what itās calling its ābest and finalā offer. The airplane maker just went all ābest I can do isāā¦
30% pay raise over 4 years (12% upfront followed by three 6s)
Double the size of the ratification bonus to $6k
The next new airplane would be built in the Seattle area
It will NOT bring back the pension that Boeing got rid of more than 10 years ago
Throw in a 401k match, and Iāll shut down this newsletter, move to the Pacific Northwest, and learn how to weld fuselages (poorly).
Under pressure
Boeing would really like to get back to making jets that make headlines for all the wrong reasons, but the machinists are feeling the pressure tooā¦
You see, they got their final paycheck last week. And health insurance runs out at the end of the month. Running low on b*ner pills will make a middle manager think twice about how much more he really needs to squeeze out of his employerā¦
+ Dude, we get it, youāre a Mac guyā¦
D.A. Davidson just did the unthinkable: downgrade Microsoft (-0.4%) (to be fair, they didnāt cut the price target).
Itās a rare L for MSFT, which has been a popular pick on the Streetā¦ for obvious reasons. Despite Bingās best efforts, Microsoft continues to print money and is a member of the $3T market cap club.
But the analyst isnāt just bearish, he threw some major shade. He said the company that gave us #REF errors is ābeholdenā to Nvidia. In fact, he believes, āMicrosoft is so reliant on Nvidia that it's almost transferring wealth from its own shareholders to Nvidia shareholders.ā
Unfortunately for this dudeās career prospects, nobody gave a damn. Shares fell only slightly on the day.
+ Death and taxes generative AI startups raising massive rounds at outrageous valuationsā¦
The company behind Claude, Anthropic, is in talks to raise money at a $40B valuation. The company, which counts Amazon as an investor, is currently valued at ~$18B. Because you canāt create a bubble with down rounds, you guysā¦
Not that itās a d*ck measuring contest (spoiler: itās definitely a d*ck measuring contest), but OpenAI is in talks to raise $7B at a $150B valuation.
+ It appears that we have learned nothing from Friendā¦
After nearly two years of rumor and speculation, Jony Ive (the dude who designed the iPhone) has confirmed heās collabing with Sam Altman on a top-secret AI hardware product.
Itās still not entirely clear what the product will be. But weāll be getting it anyway, if for no other reason than theyāve already raised money from heavy hitters like Laurene Powell Jobs.
+ On the fence about getting a travel card? This just might be the perfect card for you. Itās time to make credit card miles your entire personalityā¦
+ Top 5 regrets people have on their deathbeds: What they can teach us about living healthy, fulfilled lives, from an internal medicine doctor. āI really wish I did more butt stuff.ā
+ 40-year-old CEO shares the No. 1 red flag she sees in employeesāavoiding it is āmore important than everā. Believe it or not, the biggest red flag is wearing square-toed shoes to an interviewā¦
+ These industries are most likely to hire faster now that the Fed cut interest rates. Hint: tech isnāt on the list. Mattress actresses.
š„ More men in their prime working years are neither working nor looking for jobs ā hereās why. Two words: sugar mama.
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āŖ Yesterday, we heard from a few Fed presidents.
ā© Today weāre keeping an eye onā¦
+ AutoZone reports before the open
+ Stitch Fix and KB Home drop earnings after the close
On Friday (and Thursday), I asked, āYou can get $5M OR you only need 1 hour of sleep per night for the rest of your life. Which are you taking?ā
Money won with 72.9% of the vote. I honestly thought "1 hour of sleep" was a no-brainer.
I love the self-awareness of the weekday warriors. LOTS of answers were something along the lines of, "I know I wouldn't use that time wisely anyway."
Hereās what some of you guys had to say (and my thoughts in italics)ā¦
Sleep: "With only one hour of sleep, you can start truly living the 10X life and hopefully make more than $5M. OR you can just stay up late and get up early every day and play video games so not a bad life."
Money: "Well I know myself enough to know I won't be using that extra 6 hours in the middle of the night to improve myself in any meaningful way, so $5M is the easy winner."
Money: "This is an easy one to me. Productivity more memories to makeā
Money: "The hell am I going to do in 23 hours that I don't already do? Give me the 5mil, let me clear my debt, buy a house and be able to live comfortably for at least six months before poor financial decisions take their hold and I'm broke again."
Sleep: "With zero tradeoffs, you can work hard enough to make that incremental $5m back and still have time with the wife and kids / time for the gym. Easy decision."
Money: "I would probably become less productive knowing I had more time to procrastinate."
Money: "If I only sleep one hour a night, when am I going to sober up?"
Money: "I know myself too well to pretend Iād do something useful with that extra time"
And hereās todayās questionsā¦
You get $1M per year but you have to eat three hotdogs every day for the rest of your life. If you skip a dog, or quit, you do a year in (white collar) prison. Do you take the deal?See the rules below. |
RULES OF THE ROAD: The hotdogs are free. You can still eat other stuff, but have to eat at least three hot dogs. Yes, you can put whatever you want on them BUT not use them in another recipe - they must be eaten in the traditional manner. No pigs in a blanket size, either. Let's assume there won't be any major health consequences related to the hot dogs.
Oh, and one more thingā¦
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