📈 Rest in Peace, Charlie Munger

Investing genius, Charlie Munger, dies at age 99, Biden tells corporations to ‘stop price gouging’, Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses, Harvard/Penn/MIT presidents called before Congress, and Bill Ackman bets Fed will cut rates in Q1...

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The Fast Five → Investing genius, Charlie Munger, dies at age 99, Biden tells corporations to ‘stop price gouging’, Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses, Harvard/Penn/MIT presidents called before Congress, and Bill Ackman bets Fed will cut rates in Q1…

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Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 11/28/2023.

MARKETS:

  • Stock futures rise with optimism about Fed halting rate hikes.

  • Dow futures up 34 points (0.1%), S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also gain 0.1%.

  • Las Vegas Sands shares fall 4% as largest shareholder plans $2 billion share sale; NetApp surges 11% on strong earnings.

  • Regular trading sees modest gains: S&P 500 up 0.1%, Nasdaq Composite adds 0.3%, Dow inches 0.2% higher.

  • Fed Governor Waller's comments boost confidence in inflation control.

  • Fed funds futures hint at possible rate cut next spring.

  • Wednesday highlights: Q3 GDP data, October wholesale inventories; earnings from Hormel Foods, Dollar Tree, and Salesforce.

EARNINGS

  • Intuit reported better-than-expected Q1 earnings and revenue but missed estimates for the current quarter (Read More)

  • PDD Holdings shares rocketed 18% after beating Q3 earnings and reporting a stronger-than-anticipated doubling in revenue thanks to its discount platform Temu (Read More)

  • What we're watching this week:

  • Today: Salesforce, Dollar Tree, Snowflake, Foot Locker

  • Thursday: Kroger, UiPath, TD Bank, Dell

  • Friday: Bank of Montreal

  • Full calendar here

NEWS BRIEFING

Charlie Munger made a fortune on his own before becoming vice chairman of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. “We think so much alike that it’s spooky,” Buffett once said of Munger.

President Joe Biden took aim at corporations for charging prices he said were artificially high.

  • Musk’s Cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla (Read More)

  • Shein’s IPO raises fresh questions on alleged forced labor in its supply chain (Read More)

  • Disney’s Bob Iger plays down asset sales, vows to build modern version of company (Read More)

  • Harvard, Penn, MIT presidents called before Congress on antisemitism (Read More)

  • Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses (Read More)

  • Fed’s Waller, Bowman opens door to another interest rate pause in December (Read More)

  • Goldman says sharp drop in volatility is opportunity for hedging (Read More)

  • OpenAI rival Hugging Face says it’s seeing more client interest after Sam Altman fiasco (Read More)

  • Russian court extends detention of WSJ reporter (Read More)

  • Thanksgiving TV broadcasts drew record-breaking ratings, even as industry grapples with cord-cutting (Read More)

  • 2024 election to boost dollar on trade-war tension, JPMorgan says (Read More)

  • George Santos faces third House expulsion vote (Read More)

  • Bill Ackman bets Fed will cut interest rates as soon as first quarter (Read More)

CRYPTO

  • Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao stepped down as chairman of Binance.US’s board (Read More)

  • Coinbase CEO says that Binance settlement will turn the page on crypto’s “bad actors” (Read More)

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