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Headline Round Up
*Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Spikes This Week on U.S./China Trade Negotiation Progress.
*Trumps Middle East Tour & It’s Economic Impacts!
*Perplexity AI (Artificial Intelligence) Valuation Surges to $14 Billion in Fresh Funding Raise.
*Producer Price Index Deflation for April While Consumer Price Index Inflation Nears Federal Reserve’s 2% Target.
*U.S. Collected $16.3 Billion in Customs Duties During April!
*Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Warns of Higher Longer Term Interest Rates Due to “Supply Shocks” From Administration’s Policy Challenges While Ignoring Healthy April Numbers?
*D.C. Washington Homes for Sale Surge 25% Amid Federal Layoffs & Zillow Now Anticipates 2025 Home Price Declines vs. Previously Expected Modest Increase.
*April Home Listings Highest Since 2019, But Spring Homebuying Season Slowest Since The Pandemic in 2020?
*Manhattan, New York and Connecticut Housing Markets Are Hot While Texas and Florida Not?
*UnitedHealth Group’s Care’s Very Bad Horrible Week. Meet The New CEO of UnitedHealth Andrew Witty, Same as The Old Boss?
*Caveat Emptor: Apollo Global Management, Inc. and Franklin Templeton to Offer Private Assets for 401k’s?
*Chinese Money Launderers Move $50 Million in Cash Over Four Years Buying Dollars from the Sinaloa Drug Cartel at a Discount & Selling Them at a Premium Largely to Chinese Nationals! Illicit cash floods U.S. banks California branches!
*Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. Shares Hurt After Worse Than Expected Q1 Losses.
*Draft Executive Orders Considered to Speed Nuclear Plant Construction Leaning on the U.S. Military.
*South Korea Winner of Nuclear $9 Trillion Comeback as Country Builds Best Large Scale Atomic Energy Industry Outside of China & Russia.
*Pharmaceutical Stocks Lower on Trump’s Vow to Cut U.S. Drug Prices!
*Warren Buffett Reveals Why He Stepped Down As CEO of Berkshire Hathaway!
*TikTok Platform Goes Viral: Chinese Manufactures Offering Luxury Brands Direct to American Ladies? Did Katrina get her “Chui Vuitton” Purse Yet?
SPDR Standard & Poor’s 500 ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) Trust – Daily (12/31/2024 – 05/16/2025
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) Trust – Daily (04/01/2025 – 05/16/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
The Atlanta Federal Reserve GDPNow Real GDP Estimate for Q2 2025 (05/16/2025)
– Courtesy of The Atlanta Federal Reserve
U.S. Consumer Price Index – Urban Consumers Month over Month, Seasonally Adjusted (04/30/2023 – 04/30/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
U.S. Producer Price Index – Finished Goods, Seasonally Adjusted, Month over Month (04/30/2023 – 04/30/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Member Ranked Returns YTD (12/31/2024 – 05/16/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
The McGowanGroup’s Total Return Units Allocation Pie Chart (05/16/2025)
– Courtesy of The McGowanGroup
Profit Report
Warren Buffett retires as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway!
Preston’s Lane
The controversial & alleged luxury fashion scandal of 2025 along with the Chinese takedown of European brands!
