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- Top 4 stories today: 🌎 1. Worldcoin, Sam Altman's cryptocurrency, launches ❌ 2. Twitter rebrands to X, to introduce personal finance features ❤️🩹 3. Longevity VC increases 23% to $282M in Q2; much below Q1 2022's $4.5B 👧 4. Barbenheimer brings in $235.5 in first weekend
- Top 3 stories to start your day: 🧠 1. Llama 2 released by Meta: available for commercial use, similar to GPT-3.5 💻 2. Microsoft 365 Copilot to cost $30/user/month, stock +4% 📈 3. Bullishness among individual investors reaches November 21 high
- Top 7 stories to start your day: 1. Threads reaches 100M users in 5 days, a record 2. New class actions filed against OpenAI, Meta 3. U.S. suggests it wants to deescalate trade war with China 4. CPI is expected to drop and core CPI to remain high (Wed)
- Truflation shows U.S. inflation at 2.22%. Reports of the U.S. government faking inflation (which would mean faking real GDP) are greatly exaggerated.
- This Wednesday at 2 PM, the Fed will likely stop its rate hike cycle. Markets are pricing in 76% odds of the Fed keeping rates at 5.00% - 5.25%.
- TRUMP FACES 37 CRIMINAL COUNTS --COURT RECORDS
- DRUCKENMILLER SEES CORPORATE PROFITS DOWN 20% TO 30% DRUCKENMILLER SAYS THE FED WILL END UP WITH HIGHER TERMINAL RATES
- MICROSOFT IS BRINGING OPENAI’S GPT-4 AI MODEL TO US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
- Is the SEC out to kill crypto, by suing Binance and Coinbase? Will customers lose their money? Here is what you need to know:
- 6 charts that explain the debt ceiling deal. 1. The timeline looking forward. - The Senate has only 4 days until the Treasury runs out of money.
- Fresh off Erdogan's reelection, the Turkish lira hit another all-time low, at 0.0497. We will have more details in tomorrow's newsletter.
- NVIDIA has the highest forward P/E of semiconductor stocks in the U.S.
- Debt ceiling deal got sealed on Saturday, as expected. ✅ Next step: House vote, likely on Tuesday 🤔 Expect bipartisan approval, with significant defections from both sides.
- TURKEY INITIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS SHOW ERDOGAN AT 48.94%, KILICDAROGLU AT 51.06% WITH 57.06% OF BALLOT BOXES COUNTED -GAZETE DUVAR, CITING ANKA NEWS AGENCY DATA
- Most important points from the FOMC minutes, suggesting markets are wrong on pricing in cuts. *FED MINUTES SHOW OFFICIALS SPLIT ON SUPPORT FOR MORE HIKES *FED OFFICIALS STRESS DATA-DEPENDENT APPROACH, CUTS UNLIKELY *FED: OFFICIALS SAW TIMELY DEBT LIMIT INCREASE AS ESSENTIAL
- Fresh news from Yellen: YELLEN REITERATES TREASURY MAY RUN OUT OF CASH SOON AS JUNE 1 YELLEN: TREASURY AND BIDEN WILL FACE TOUGH CHOICES IF CONGRESS DOESN'T ACT TO RAISE DEBT CEILING YELLEN: THERE WILL BE SOME OBLIGATIONS WE WILL BE UNABLE TO PAY
- BREAKING: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will announce his 2024 presidential campaign in a Twitter Spaces livestream with Elon Musk on Wednesday evening, according to people familiar with his plans: Bloomberg. Thoughts?
- [BAT] MICROSOFT CEO NADELLA PUTTING CHATGPT IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT, COMPARING IT TO THE INTERNET AND THE IPHONE
- Microsoft has started a trend of scheduling events on the same day (and time!) as Google. Wonder why…
- MCCARTHY TELLS LAWMAKERS TO STAY WITHIN 24 HOURS: REP. HERN OK, good news.
- MCCARTHY TO REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS: WE ARE NOWHERE NEAR A DEBT CEILING DEAL YET -PUNCHBOWL Punchbowl has direct access to McCarthy, so this is likely accurate.
- 30-year yield hits 4%. First time since March. Is this country risk going up?
- McCarthy and Biden met yesterday on the debt ceiling, but they achieved NO DEAL, with just 9 days until 1 day. Now, they will talk everyday, until there is a deal. So, will the U.S. default?
- MCCARTHY: WE DON'T HAVE A DEAL MCCARTHY ON BIDEN MEETING; SAYS DECISIONS HAVE TO START BEING MADE 11 days to June 1 and no deal.
