A positive talk between President Trump and Chinese President Xi also boosted markets. Plus: Novo Nordisk stock slides after trials for its weight-loss drugs don’t show promise on Alzheimer's disease. Katherine Sullivan hosts.
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We enter Thanksgiving week with a plate full of reckless predictions featuring Zoom (reports today), Best Buy (reports tomorrow morning), and Deere & Co. (reports tomorrow morning).
Rick Munarriz, David Meier, and Tim Beyers:
- Forecast a “miss, beat, or beat and raise” for ZM, BBY, and DE earnings reports this week.
- Look at the potential growth drivers for each.
- Play another round of Faker or Breaker with three stocks stuck in turnarounds - are they in dark clouds we can see through?
Don’t wait! Be sure to get to your local bookstore and pick up a copy of David’s Gardner’s new book — Rule Breaker Investing: How to Pick the Best Stocks of the Future and Build Lasting Wealth. It’s on shelves now; get it before it’s gone!
Companies discussed: ZM, BBY, DE, AI, HNST, YELP
Host: Tim Beyers
Guests: Rick Munarriz, David Meier
Producer: Anand Chokkavelu
Engineer: Dan Boyd
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Unrest has broken out in MAGA, and Mike Johnson looks like he’s losing control of the House—which means that Trump could be losing control of the party. And the fear of Trump is morphing into loathing because Republicans are not winning. Meanwhile, DOGE has ended in another total Elon failure: Not only was no money saved, the program’s biggest success was cutting assistance to the world’s most vulnerable people. Trump has only been ‘fixing’ the government to work for his grift. Plus, Mamdani showed real political skill in meeting Trump, but the left needs to cool it with its take that Trump is a populist. As MTG pointed out, he definitely is not.
If the new “Wicked” movie makes you wish you could be whisked off to the Emerald City, you might want to visit Chicago’s Driehaus Museum. Their latest exhibit showcases rare items from the 1939 musical “Wizard of Oz,” replica costumes, and gives visitors an inside look at how L. Frank Baum’s beloved classic was adapted from book to screen. We talk with the museum’s executive director Lisa Key about what else visitors looking for an Ozian fix can expect.
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In this installment of our weekly politics series, “If You Can Keep It,” we discuss what these divisions in the Republican party mean for the midterm elections and for its future.
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Plus: Novo Nordisk’s stock slumps after its said semaglutide didn’t slow Alzheimer’s disease in two late-stage clinical trials. And former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has launched a precious-metals company. Alex Ossola hosts.
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The Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria says 265 people are still missing after a mass kidnapping from a school in Niger state on Friday. Among those unaccounted for are dozens of nursery and primary school children and 12 members of staff. The Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, ordered the recruitment of an extra thirty thousand police officers in the latest attempt by the federal authorities to bring an end to the chronic insecurity in the north of the country. Also: American-led hopes of a breakthrough in the Ukraine peace talks have been tempered by European leaders who have stressed that Russia must come to the table. A suicide bombing attack kills several people in Pakistan at a paramilitary headquarters in Peshawar. Police said the bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the compound and two other attackers were shot dead. The US designation of the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation comes into force as Washington ramps up its pressure on the president Nicolas Maduro. South Korea's most prolific online sex criminal is sentenced to life in prison, after being convicted of exploiting dozens of people by spreading thousands of sexual abuse materials using an encrypted messaging app. And how conservation efforts in Kenya are starting to revive the fortunes of endangered Black rhinos.
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The U.S. economy is often buoyed by consumer spending. In China, however, consumer spending is a much smaller part of economic output. And while the government there tries to stimulate spending, young people there are grappling with high unemployment and stalling wage growth. Plus, we'll discuss expectations for inflation and economic growth, as well as consumer shopping figures for this upcoming Black Friday.
