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Warm Up - Superbowl teams are set - Eagles and Kansas City (spread +1.5 KC) - Markets have a very amateurish feel to them - crypto patterns of intraday rush and bust --- Meme Stocks moving again - Seems that the Church of Whats Hot Now - back in Biz (AI names) -- Latest Google, Baidu and Microsoft all announced AI integration today (catnip for traders) - There is a Sushi Terrorist on the loose - Hustle Bros are latching on and sucking your wallets - A new FED word to watch

Market Update - Blowout Jobs report - what in tar-nation? - Another fraud uncovered - India - State of the Union Speech - going after the wealthy... - Powell speaks - Whipsaw

Golf Fitting this week.. - Pretty interesting technology - Callaway Paradym X

MARKETS! - The S&P 500 index rose 1.6% last week with the communication services and technology sectors leading a broad climb amid better-than-expected quarterly results from some companies and a slower pace of rate increases from the Federal Open Market Committee. - The market benchmark ended the week at 4,136.48, up from last Friday's closing level of 4,070.56. The index is now up 7.7% for the year to date but down 8.1% from a year ago. - This feels like an attempt to move off bottom like everyone in the pool from March/April 2020. (But this is a different time)

Fed Speak - There was irrational exuberance - Transitory inflation - Green shoots - quantitative easing - not thinking about thinking about thinking about... - Average inflation targeting - balance outlook - And Now, introducing the work - disinflation... Powell used dozens of times in last speeches...

Earnings Update - The slowdown in YoY revenue growth... Tesla: slowest since 2020 Amazon: 3rd slowest in company history Microsoft: slowest since 2017 Netflix: slowest in company history Google: 3rd slowest in company history Facebook: 2nd slowest in company history Apple: slowest since 2016 - BP on Tuesday reported a record profit of $28 billion for 2022 while boosting its dividend in a sign of confidence as it sharply raised overall spending plans and scaled back ambitions to reduce oil and gas output by 2030.

MEME Stocks Moving again - BBBY (looking at potential bankruptcy) up 100%  today. - AI Stocks on the move - KOSS, GME, AMC all rocking....

 Fed decision  and Employment Report? -- Odds rise after the the BLS employment report - 500k + new hires (estimates were for +250k) - labor participation rate rising - 3.4% unemployment rate (lowest since 1969) - USD jumps, Rates turn higher - Thoughts?

State of the Union Speech - CNBC reports President Biden will call for quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks and a 'billionaire minimum tax' in his State of the Union speech tonight

Earnings  and corporate -Amazon, Google, Apple -all had questionable earnings reports - Apple showed worst revenue groth in years and years - stock came off then buyers stepped in for some reason - Amazon was down as AWS missed - Google (Alphabet) just bad all the way around. - FORD - ugly outlook, loss and not at all what GM looked like. - Dell slashing 6,000 jobs (5% of workforce) ----!!! Company up initially on the news, then falls 3% during session ------ ALERT, Job cuts may no longer be seen as a good thing (Investors were rewarding companies) - HP cutting 6,000 jobs - Chipotle - Misses on earnings (top and bottom) - guidance soft (slowing growth/comps) - Zoom cutting salaries for execs by 20%

India - New discussion - Hindenburg Research (Short sellers) wrote report of biggest scam and fraud in corporate history about Adani -- Accused company of stock manipulation, unsustainable use and tax havens - Adani is India conglomerate whose founder was 2/3 richest person in Asia - Gautam Adani (founder) and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi are from the same state. - 50-60% drop in the company values (all associated - Getting so bad, Parliament was shut down for a couple of days - $110 Billion in losses since the Hinderburge Report --- Also of interest is the question about: How did Hindenburg play this as difficult to get direct exposure to companies in Indian market

Call for TikTok Ban - Governor Abbot (TX) looking to ban on devices conducting state business - Other states have been making similar statements - Funny part: every time we hear about ban on  TikTok, knee jerk reaction is to bid up SNAP (makes no sense)

AI names still kicking - ANY mention of AI is brewing up a storm - Change of name, align with CHATGPT or another name - zoom - Going to be some great shorting opportunities

AND AI ... - Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, became the first world leader to publicly use ChatGPT on Wednesday after delivering a speech partly composed by the AI, the Jerusalem Post reported. - It is like children with a new toy - According to Sky News, the AI-written section began: "I am truly proud to be the president of a country that is home to such a vibrant and innovative hi-tech industry." - Combine this with Deep Fakes - it will be all over

Powell Speaks - Today's market action was interesting... Powell opens his mouth and markets scream higher. - I listened - nothing at all was said to make that happen, on fact, seemed pretty dour and no stray from his previous discussions - Once he finished (he talked about the potential need for a long grind with higher rates), markets turned down hard.. 400 point swing on DJIA, 1.6% on S&P 500 - Listen! People! You are not paying attention!

Hustle Bros - Newest pitch: ChatGPT coaching and help - Showing you how to create automated newsletters, write non fiction books, invest in real estate - Make MILLIONS (essentially sitting on your ass) - No Brainer - guaranteed! - " You no longer need to develop the skill as long as you have AI"

MUSK - Found not-liable of the famous "420 secured Tweet" --- With that out of the way, watch how aggressive he will get -as that seemed like a pretty serious violation - Now complaining that the last couple of months has been tough on him - Twitter now trending toward breakeven, rescued it from bankruptcy, while also fulfilling his roles at other companies - "Wouldn't wish that pain on anyone," he wrote. "Twitter still has challenges, but it is now trending to breakeven if we keep at it. Public support is much appreciated!" ---- Who pays $44 billion for a company that was on the brink of bankruptcy - seems like poor financial management? - TESLA - raised prices on Model Y after Biden admin tweaked the tax credit availability (stock up) ----- TESLA dropped prices a couple weeks ago - stock up (so doesn't matter, as long as there is news)

Drug Companies - CLIFF - Pharmaceutical companies that made billions from the pandemic over the past two years selling vaccines and treatments are now up against a steep COVID cliff and investor pressure to spend their windfalls wisely. - Western drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc, Gilead Sciences Inc , AstraZeneca Plc and Merck & Co are estimated to have brought in about $100 billion in revenue from COVID vaccines and treatments in 2022. - Company and analyst estimates suggest sales from COVID vaccines could fall by nearly two-thirds this year due to built up product inventories around the world including in the countries that pay the most. - Strategists are now desirous of these companies to use their gains for consolidation / M&A

And this... - Sushi Terrorist - A teenager, dubbed a ‘sushi terrorist’, caused the stock value of a Japanese restaurant to plunge after he was filmed licking the top of a communal soy sauce bottle and contaminating a piece of food on a conveyor belt. - He also licks the rim of a teacup before placing it back on a shelf and touched a piece of sushi after licking his finger. - Meanwhile - everyone seems okay eating a piece of RAW FISH or

Flat Earther - Flat Earthers seem to beleive that Photoshop and CGI is used by NASA to prove earth is a sphere - Claims that $52 million a day is given to cover up the flat earth reality while there are startving kids in Africa ---- What is going on?

Crypto - Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, will suspend U.S. dollar deposits and withdrawals, the company said Monday - "We are temporarily suspending USD bank transfers as of February 8th," a Binance spokesperson told CNBC. "Affected customers are being notified directly." The company said "0.01% of our monthly active users leverage USD bank transfers" and added that "we are working hard to restart service as soon as possible." - The start of something???

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