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Headline Round Up
*U.S. Economic Boom Continues with 3.3% Growth Rate for Q4 and 3.1% for 2023!
*Netflix Spikes 15% After Adding 13 Million Subscribers in Fourth Quarter. Inked 10 Year Deal with WWE for Wrestling Shows like RAW for $5 Billion!
*Tesla Reduces Growth Forecast for 2024.
*Tech’s Magnificent 7 Back on Top so Far in 2024.
*Insurance Costs/Rates Along with Company Profits Soaring.
*Shiny Happy People: Consumer Sentiment Surged to Largest Two Month Gain Since 1991.
*Boston’s Pricey Zip code, 02115, Hits $2,663 Per Square Foot. $8 Million for 3000 Square Feet?
*Bearish Options on Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) Made 1,000% in Two Weeks?
*China’s Government Bailing Out Its Own Stock Market? Existing Chinese Home Prices Fall Over 10% in December From The Previous Year.
*Toyota Chairman Doubts Electric Vehicle (EVs) will Reach 30% of Global Market Share.
*WeWork Bankrupt & Owes Approximately $23 Billion a Year in Rent for Long Term Leases. Seeks to reject or amend leases.
*Nuclear Power Generation on Track to Hit All Time High in 2025.
*Uranium Production Shortfall as World’s Largest Miner is Looking at Production Issues Over the Next Two Years.
*Ken Griffin’s Amazing Year: Citadel Made $8.1 Billion in 2023.
*Occidental’s CEO, Vicki Hollub, Sees Oil Supply Crunch in 2025 as Exploration for Longer-Producing Crude Reserves is Set to Lag Demand Growth.
*AllianceBernstein Forecasts March Rate Cut Says Get Out Ahead of Massive Potential Money Market Outflow Rush to Buy.
Mergers and Acquisitions
*Sunoco LP Buys NuStar Energy LP for $7.3 Billion in All Stock Deal.
Super Micro Computer, Inc., Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp., & Dell Technologies, Inc. (12/29/2023 – 01/26/2024)
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Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller Dallas Home Price Non-Seasonally Adjusted Index (01/27/2019 – 10/31/2023)
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Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Non-Seasonally Adjusted Index (01/27/2019 – 10/31/2023)
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University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (01/27/2019 – 01/31/2024)
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U.S. Real Average Hourly Earnings 1982 – 1984 U.S. Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted & U.S. Average Hourly Earnings All Employees Total Private, Sesasonally Adjusted (01/27/2019 – 12/31/2023)
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Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (01/27/2019 – 01/26/2024)
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Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Quarterly Earnings Analysis By Sector (11/16/2023 – 02/15/2024)
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Profit Report
Wall Street Journal: AI Explained Plus AI Movie and Music Selection.