Welcome to your Monday Market update! This weekly special edition covers the “Big Picture” factors at play in this week’s headline — so you can stay ahead of the trends with ease!
During those 65 weekend hours, Elon Musk’s people and Twitter’s people will have “material conversations” about the former’s deal to buy the company. (During market hours they’d have to share everything publicly, given their potential impact on the company’s share price.) But we’re interested in the bigger picture. The longer term. The endgame. On the stock price front, the impact on Twitter’s share price is already baked in. Unless something derails the deal … entirely possible, as you’ll see … TWTR will cease to trade at $54.20 a share, about 4% upside from Monday’s closing price. But as Jay Gould discovered, the path to media’s commanding heights is never smooth.
Welcome to your new Monday Market update! This weekly special edition covers the “Big Picture” factors at play in this week’s headline — so you can stay ahead of the trends with ease!
“You’re going to want to sit down for this…”OK, that’s not exactly what a White House official said to prepare the nation for Tuesday’s report on consumer inflation. But it was pretty darn close. Instead, their choice of words was: “We expect March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated” and they weren’t lying.
Most market participants knew that the Fed would increase interest rates by 0.25%. What they don’t know is if all this is leading to a recession. And if it does, how do you even plan for it? Today, Ted Bauman breaks down the Fed’s press release to answer your many questions.
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