🥐 France’s govt falls

It’s another holiday in Spain. Wish me luck.

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📰 Market Headlines

Markets retreated across the board as investors braced for today's jobs report.

The Dow dropped 0.55%, S&P 500 fell 0.19%, and Nasdaq slipped 0.18%.
Weekly jobless claims rose to 224,000, higher than the expected 215,000, while the trade deficit narrowed 11.9%.

A federal judge rejected Boeing's plea deal tied to the 737 Max crashes.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake off California's coast triggered and lifted tsunami warnings for parts of the West Coast. There was no tsunami.

The French government was toppled in a no-confidence vote brought by opposition parties.

🧠 Make yourself heard

DJT's tough talk on tariffs is

🤗 All talk, he'll back down

💣 Gonna happen, he's going nuclear

🐶 Real but the bark is worse than the bite

🧠 What’s next: Prediction markets

DJT loves tariffs, and prediction markets think he will use them — a lot.

What are the odds he will impose tariffs on foreign trade from both friends and foes?

🇨🇳 China – 83%

🇪🇺 EU – 65%

🇲🇽 Mexico – 78%

🇨🇦 Canada – 70%

The odds of him placing “large tariffs” are lower, at only 60%, so maybe it’s only a symbolic trade war.

📊 Ideas, trends, and analysis

Remember the Hawk Tuah girl? She (allegedly) scammed a bunch of idiots out of their money

🕵️ Notable

Buy-now-pay-later usage hit a record high on Cyber Monday, accounting for nearly $1 billion in sales.
The US reported a record number of whooping cough cases over Thanksgiving week, with 364 infections.

😱 Fear and Greed Index

📊 Winners and losers

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Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions

BMO posted Q4 net income of $2.3 billion despite a $1.5 billion provision for credit losses; shares fell 6.7%.
Ulta Beauty raised its annual profit forecast after strong holiday demand, sending shares up 11.5%.
Dollar General missed Q3 earnings estimates; shares retreated 0.1%.
TD Bank reported Q4 EPS of $1.97 but warned of challenging 2025 earnings growth as shares tumbled 6.7%.
Lululemon beat Q3 estimates as revenue jumped 9%, and shares surged 8%.

Market movers

Citi's Cary Kochman retired after nearly 14 years leading the bank's M&A group.
VW workers in Germany planned to strike for four hours on Monday, protesting plant closures.
Smith+Nephew cut 150 jobs in Tennessee as part of a business efficiency drive.
FedEx axed 341 employees in North Carolina, closing a Durham ship center and reducing Raleigh staff.

🌍 Global Perspectives

🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made his first EU visit since the Ukraine invasion to Malta.
🇸🇾 Syrian opposition forces captured Hama, the regime's second major city to fall in a week after Aleppo.
🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Amnesty International accused Israel of genocide in Gaza after the forced displacement of Gaza's residents.
🇵🇾 🇨🇳 Paraguay expelled a Chinese envoy for urging lawmakers to cut ties with Taiwan.

📊 Crypto

Plena super app launched on Solana blockchain, bringing gasless transactions and account abstraction to 1.3 million users.
Dubai's alleged crypto scams have raked in billions as the city becomes a global hub for fraud.

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🎤 What you said last time

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What you had to say:

“Too much greed in the market! When everyone predicts something, the opposite happens. Everyone was expecting a recession, and we had a meltup! Now everyone is so greedy at some point soon, we’re going to see a recession.”

🧠 Errata

A Canadian man who leaped on a polar bear attacking his wife is recovering in the hospital from severe injuries.
Murder hornets have buzzed their way to Europe for the first time, spotted in Spain.
A Chinese man was trapped in a well in Thailand for three days as villagers mistook his cries for ghostly sounds.