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It would see the S mini trading up about 0.87% right now just over that 5,000 mark. And I believe one second, SPX were trading, yeah, 4,998 currently that 5,000 mark is pretty huge, at least psychologically speaking, pretty interesting stuff going on. Again, I really think this market is just pushing higher prices and they really want it as well. Let's look at the Russell up about 0.15% today, not as much as the other equities, but still trading in 1964, the NQs of about 1.12%, the Dow futures trading of about 0.5% right now. The gold contract staying pretty flat around this 2050 area. Of course, beginning of this month, I've been with you since then, but we were up at 2,084 and then we came back down. We got a little bit of motion in the gold contract, again, before coming back down to that 2050 area. Excuse me. Silver, we're trading at 2230, of course some downward movement as well. A lot of this is kind of have to do with the dollar right now, right? The dollar, we had a huge tick up in it above the 104 level. I think it was sitting comfortably at 104.41, but we're kind of tracing back down at least to 104.05 currently. Let's take a look at poor copper down about 1.2% today, 373 on the contract. Again, this movement in the test it's doing is kind of looking at a 404 price for the copper futures contract and we'll see how that shakes out going forward. Crude oil, 73.90. I think this whole market is super interesting, at least with oil, right? I mean, I'm surprised we aren't seeing these $95 levels. I was kind of bringing this up in the office. Of course you had so much disruption in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is posturing themselves to try to reduce the amount of oil they're pushing out. Of course you have issues with Russia, disputes between Venezuela and I think IANA over some of their areas over there. You can essentially pull oil out of. But you know, really, I mean, America, we are drilling. I think we just got a bunch of permits for the Permian Basin. Of course, tons of oil out there and they're going to install frack lines as well. So when those oil rigs go off for whatever reason, they can just, or let's say, just price spikes due to some kind of outside supply issue. They can just turn on those fracking pipes and it can stable out price. It's pretty fascinating, honestly. Long story short is we're going to be the top producer of oil for quite a while to come now. All right, we can take a look. Tesla, I mean, 10-year bond, let's, you know, when Powell spoke last Wednesday, we had a drop down to about 3.8% in the yield. I'm looking at Tesla right now, but that's what this was here and we had a 3.8% in the yield and now we've kind of come back up a little bit, trading about 4.1% rate on the 10-year. Tesla trading 188.41, some OK news coming from them. Of course, quite a fall down since the end of last year. Some demand for EVs are expected to go down. Tesla cost a lot of money for them to produce some stuff. There was a huge kind of news story that came out and it seemed to go away pretty quickly, but you know, the batteries weren't charging in Chicago when they had that deep freeze. And that's a unique thing that's not going to just affect Tesla. I mean, it's going to affect any lithium-ion battery car and that's more of an issue of, I guess, chemistry than, you know, engineering. And so it'll be interesting to see how they try to pivot away from that. Furthermore, Tesla came out and said that the whole market is in trouble regarding Baidu and their production of EVs. And if there's not some kind of government, I suppose, work or barriers to entry imposed that the Chinese EVs could sweep the market because they could produce it so much cheaper. You had also, let me get the number on it, Ford is going to start creating smaller and cheaper EVs in Tesla will as well. And that's going to be super interesting to see come out. I still think the infrastructure isn't fully there for the rest of the country to kind of adopt EVs. But nonetheless, there is a massive push from government agencies to kind of get these things rocking. And I think these cheaper prices will kind of help in the coming years. I think this year is going to be pretty tough for the automotive industry. Anyways, you had so much purchasing the last few years. A lot of people currently defaulting on auto loans will just talk a little bit about going forward. But this could be cause for at least some green day in Tesla. Steel Dynamics, yeah, up 4.1% today, just a really neat stock. Again, I talk about it every time, but very nice. I wonder if we're going to start creating a new trading balance between this 110 area. Again, you had this shoot up. The highest we have is 128. That was in December 18th. Traversal back down to the 110 area. And then it seems like we're moving back again that last day with volume. We had a high on that day about 127.70. So we'll see if we test that again. Again, if that happens for me, I'm going to be watching a movement back down to that 110 area and then a rejection at that level. And see if we can see a new kind of trading channel form for Steel Dynamics. Of course the dollar, as I was just saying, trading at 104.05. Again, kind of lagging with the metal market there. QQQ's trading at 432.46 up 114. Google up 0.95% Meta. A lot of interesting stuff going on with Meta that we can talk about going forward. Of course, everyone loved the dividend. Everyone loved the stock buy back. I mean, who doesn't, if you're an investor. A super unique challenge going into this presidential election in Meta has been, at least Zuckerberg has been pretty vocal about it, is the risk that AI plays, right? So misinformation and then really, in a way, making kind of subtle, how do I say it? Like kind of more like subtle propaganda in a sense, right? Like you have all these different interests online. You can just be random groups of people even and they can use AI and really get their perspective out there and kind of get what they want to say. Now you get into sketchy situations where they're releasing misinformation. So Meta is going to be really focusing on that in the coming election cycle and it will be pretty much a case study to see how rest of these large tech firms that have social media platforms should be addressing this going forward. Furthermore, Meta also said, Zuckerberg said that they're going to stay very slim and focus a lot on AI, which again I think is pretty good for the company going forward. We have earnings today with Disney. We'll talk a little bit about them when we get back. Folks stay right there. 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You have the Governor of Louisiana saying that they're going to work to increase gas production in Louisiana as well. Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping this really does create cheaper gas prices going forward. I mean, this is some pretty good stuff. All right, anyways, let's take a look going forward. I think we were on Disney, 9875, this is a troubled equity, or has been in the recent past. They're having issues with their streaming, they're having issues with some of the content they're producing. You had the CEO come out, okay, Bob Iger. He came out and said that they're trying to pivot, you know, really, I think what he's trying to do is just overhaul Disney and how they're going to operate, right? So he came out and said recently that the writing that they've been doing for all their movies have been focused way too much on social commentary and trying to get some kind of moral across now, of course, Disney movies, since, I mean, even when I was a kid and I had like the VHS, Beauty and the Beast or whatever, there's always some, obviously, you know, moral in the story, right? But what he's saying is that they're just sacrificing good storytelling to try to signal some kind of belief or position or opinion and how that needs to stop. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of, you know, push back he gets from his writers on that. Furthermore, they're going to start cracking down on password sharing the same way that Netflix did. Just some big, let me really pull this up real quick. If I can find the article. Okay. So, oh, come on. I'll try to find it on the next break. Essentially you have the different interest groups that are involved with Disney are suggesting a lot of different approaches, essentially, which I think is unique, yet black well, essentially, suggesting that Disney should kind of try to split into three separate entities, right? If you're streaming entity, you have the real estate entity, which black well is suggesting they essentially put into a REIT and just allow people to invest in it, which is a unique idea. And then obviously the theme park segment as well. Okay, here we'll go over this. Alright, so essentially they're reporting the fiscal first quarter results on Wednesday. The company will also post earnings a day after it announced it's going to work with ESPN, which would partner with Fox and Warner Brothers to launch a joint sports streaming service, which has been really huge for Fox as well. We can talk about that. In the past few months, Disney has been suddenly addressing investor concern over streaming losses and its slumping share price. That involves essentially the password crackdown that they're trying to go into. The company has started to crackdown of the password sharing and increased its cost-cutting measures by $2 billion to a target of $7.5 billion and then unveiled plans to invest roughly $60 billion in its parks business. Disney's stock has climbed 9% this year, which has been great for holders. Yeah, I think it will just be hard to see. I think they were stretched very thin. I think that they had some poor management for a while before Idra came back in. Focusing on the parks is going to be massive for them. I went to Epcot recently and I don't, I'm not a Disney guy or anything like that, but I did go to Epcot for a birthday and it was fantastic and I had great time and I spent way too much money at it. I think driving visitations to those are going to be huge. The streaming service I just get weird with, right? I mean obviously they have massive publishing rights with Star Wars and Avatar films. I think it's Avengers as well. But consolidating all of that and putting it into its own streaming platform, I don't know, made a ton of sense anyway, we'll see what kind of shakes out with that. Of course we'll kind of cover what's going on with their earnings on TFNN as well. Let's talk a little bit about Roblox today. Let me see. They popped up quite a bit, 11.96% today just because they didn't lose as hard. The reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter Wednesday that beat consensus estimates on the top and bottom lines. Losses per share were realized at 52 cents versus 55 cents. And revenue also bookings that which includes sales and deferred revenue totaled in about 1.13 billion versus the 1.08 billion expected, which is pretty solid. Again one of the major developers, this is essentially what Zuckerberg was basing in a lot of ways the metaverse off of, right? Roblox you can go in, you can build all these different kind of worlds. People can get into these worlds. They pay for industry. They pay for different kind of goods or items in the game. But this is such a massive company. I mean Roblox, listen to this. The reported full year revenue of 3.5 billion versus essentially 3.41 billion. The company's full year loss per share was only 187 compared to 191. I mean you know 3.5 billion for a video game company is and let's say two video game company with the unique title, right? Like I mean you see things like that from Activision, Blizzard, EA2 who has the rights to publish FIFA games. I mean they obviously get huge amount but I mean Roblox is its own concept and this is really just a network of different people getting together, creating different experiences for each other and again it has its own economy. This is what it's selling, these Robux. So and this is a move on pretty high volume as well. Not bad for that stock at all. So I think that's a good thing. Yeah, seeing strength and international as well as national platforms. The company provided guidance for 2024 in the first fiscal quarter. The company expects first quarter bookings between 910 million and 940 million and a net loss ranging from 342 to 347. It guided to full year 2024 bookings between 4.1 billion dollars and 4.28. That's obviously higher than the year before. Anyways this company is going to continue to grow. We see people still spending a lot of money especially on things in the virtual world. Pretty fantastic for Roblox and it's just unique too because I think this is again one of those companies that you know kind of embodies this new economy we're going into right. I mean you know you tell I think like I could tell my grandad right that this company is making that much money just because it has its property inside of it that structures itself out the way that the you know the market does. I think you would just be blown away by that and it really is pretty impressive. So all right let's shift over to talking about vehicles a little bit. Look at Ford Motors of about 6.09 percent today we'll talk some about that. The Ford Motor Company is working on inexpensive small electric vehicles to stem its electric vehicle losses and take away Tesla and Chinese automakers. Chief executive officer Jim Farley revealed the plans to analysts Tuesday after the automaker announced adjusted earnings per share of just 29 cents as more than double the 13 cents analysts expected on average birth quarter revenue of 46 billion surpassed the 40 billion analysts expected pretty crazy. Hordes recalibrating its EV strategy to move away from the large expensive EVs because high prices are changing car buyers to go electric. Interesting we'll talk a little bit more about that along with Toyota and Tesla when we come back. 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spending on EV vehicles I think we spoke about that last time that I was on the money that they are putting forward to it are going to be focusing a lot on these cheaper vehicles and this is a way for them to essentially compete with China and Tesla simultaneously they'll be increasing the production of newer gas vehicles but they're going to be using this the profit from those to really fund a long term switch over that's neat for them instead of just throwing out the EV because I do believe that EV is going to be the future and again that's not like a logical that's not logical that's not like I believe that's the right or wrong thing to do it's just you can see all these different forces are pushing for a world that is using EV cars and I mean you're going to see China flood I mean they're already flooding Europe with these kind of talks started really taking off in the media I was in Belgrade Serbia and you had Chinese guys there business people who were trying to sell EV now this wasn't just for personal use this was going to be trucks for manual labor and all that but they were there giving these super low prices on EV vehicles and that is going to expand out and it already is in the general consumer market they're going to be able to out price all the investments that they're putting in while still focusing on kind of incremental essentially improvements on their EV technology so then when the time really comes to focus in on EV I think is actually posing them to be pretty strong when that when that hammer really does drop anyways trading up 6% right now let's take a look at some more companies in the vehicle area take a look at Toyota one second all right so up about 2% today nice little gap up on February 6 and some pretty high volume as well all right so essentially they're doing the gas hybrid and it the stock is soaring on that basically because it's working pretty well take a look if I can get any more information on you our computer is loading a little bit well when I can get that loaded more about it let's pivot over to GM as well they're poised to spend quite a bit of money going forward essentially into the production of these vehicles as well they're up only moderately today of course had a big jump up on January 30th they're planning on spending 19 billion over roughly the next decade to source critical materials for their use in the vehicle batteries from LG Chem a long-term supply contracts will see LG Chem supply GM with more than 2,000 tons of cathode materials from 2026 to 2035 the contract is likely one of the largest and not the largest EV supply deals the GM is excuse me that GM assigned I'm really curious on this because I think every year these new iterations of EV vehicles are going to have better tech and so I would be kind of interested to see a little bit more and I couldn't find anything that had the you know anything in this exact I think one of the major problems you have right now is that EV batteries weigh a ton okay I think that there are going to be better methods even in like five years of doing these lithium batteries whether they're solid state or something new like we talked about using chitin or something and what I get concerned is when you see some plan this long and with this much money if there's no ability for that good that's being delivered to adapt I think probably be in a hard spot. Let's take a look at this a little bit more long-term supplier contract we'll see LG chem supply GM with more than 500,000 tons of cathode materials that's nickel cobalt magnies and aluminum from 2026 through 2035 that supply would be enough to power 5 million units of EVs with ranges of more than 300 miles the cathode materials from the LG plant that's currently under construction in Tennessee will supply GM's joint venture battery cell plants in North America including three joint plants and LG so again this is just to try to show everyone that EV is going to be the future or at least all these major players see it as such as well. Pretty cool to see. All right let's take a look at Uber finally profitable so they had a big jump as well let's talk about this Uber reported fourth quarter results Wednesday that beat analysts estimates on the top and bottom lines here's how the company did 66 cents versus 17 cents and 9.9 billion versus 9.76 billion Uber reported net income of 1.4 billion compared with 595 million in the same quarter last year Uber's net income includes a 1 billion net tailwind thanks to unrealized gains from reevaluations excuse me reevaluations of its equity investments the company's revenue for the quarter was up 30% from the same quarter last year Uber's gross bookings came in at 36.6 billion the CEO said 2023 marked a year of sustainable profitable growth for Uber. Yeah we continue to see consumer strength and especially consumer strength as it relates to services which I think is super interesting because you have something going on currently with McDonald's and Taco Bell to a lesser extent where people are complaining about McDonald's said this right essentially people are complaining about how expensive McDonald's food is getting and it has been for a long time they tried to kind of reposter themselves as a more quality over quantity type company when they're coming out with all those artisan or you know artists inspired chicken sandwiches that were super expensive and everyone's like what the heck man I don't go to McDonald's to buy something like that right but that's what we're pursuing and now with just the increase in inflation I mean you've seen out to eat costs increase 5% where at home costs are increasing something like 1.7% like roughly in that area and McDonald's said you know going forward that they're going to see a problem 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for once in the break we're talking about essentially what's going on with mortgage rates and housing demand take a look at this housing demand is increasing mortgage rates and closer to 7% squeezing many would be buyers out of the market ahead of the pivotal spring season the mortgage bankers association index of mortgage applications rose 3.7 percent last week compared with the previous week according to new data published Wednesday increase was entirely due to home buyers who refinanced their mortgages weird applications for a mortgage to purchase a home fell 1% compared with the previous week as high mortgage rates were going to be a little bit lower than the previous week because of low housing supply application volume remains down at 19% compared to the same time last year of course this is kind of the point of these higher rates you're supposed to be getting a cooling effect purchase activity has been strong to start 2024 compared to the final quarter of 2023 however activity is still weaker than a year ago because of low housing supply the data also showed that the average rate of the popular 30 year loan surged 29 basis points last Friday at the largest one day jump in more than a year okay and essentially too I mean you know in a lot of ways this is going to obviously push down the price of housing by how much is kind of hard to say I think it's going to be a little bit much harder to say but I think it's going to be a little bit harder to say but I think it's going to be a little bit harder to say but I think it's going to be a little bit harder to say but I think there will be a positive overall we'll see kind of how that fixes itself going forward we'll talk about a little bit on the auto loan delinquencies let's take a look too on that a growing number of Americans are falling behind on their car payments an ominous sign okay is it though let's see car loan delinquencies tumbled in the early days of the pandemic as the government sent trillions of stimulus money however delinquencies have progressively ticked higher as sky high prices for used in new cars alike forced consumers to take out bigger loans and drain taxes in December about 7.69% of auto debt moved into delinquency the highest level since 2010 it's very interesting it's a little bit perplexing while we're seeing these increases in delinquency rates particularly for certain types of borrowers I think the price of cars is one clue that there might be some stress in that space I mean that's what everyone was talking about for a while and this is let me look at this the average cost of a new car is around nearly $50,000 and it's only going to get worse from there and you know people were still buying cars that's the insane thing like it was they were still buying cars and financing them at these levels and I think that signals that they can keep creating cars and producing them for that kind of cost okay so while this price is down about 2.4% from the beginning of 2023 it remains 1.8% higher than the same month three years ago before the crisis began I haven't seen any data on what Ford or Tesla is trying to produce their cars for but I can't imagine again it's anything significantly cheaper I mean I would say probably like a $35,000 is probably roughly what a cheap car is going to be a $38,000 anyways I think things are just going to continue to get more and more expensive on the long run it is nice because wages have been keeping up but again I am concerned that this is we are seeing like a v-shape movement in the economy of course there are always people who make more and people who make less and so on and that just creates this economic strata that we see but I mean what do you say to someone who makes $45,000 a year and that doesn't necessarily change in the coming years and the new cars are about $50,000 and used cars are going to be expensive too I mean anyways I think that it will be interesting to see what happens with that and I think that will probably cause issues going forward I want to talk about what I like to talk about usually which is cyber security and let's take a look at Palo Alto networks up about 6.71% today even Fortinet let me see is this ticker yeah this up 3.6% today and then CrowdStrike think that this is the ticker for CrowdStrike beautiful wow 5.4% listen this stuff is going pretty nuts let's take a look Palo Alto really is the one that I like looking at this company has done so well over the past six months and again I think this proves how relevant investment in cyber security is and it's going to continue really I think Fortinet is massive as everything transitions especially in the OT sector so you know what IT would be in a factory or production setting Fortinet really has the grip around all of that especially the security aspect behind it which is different than IT security super interesting to kind of get into if you're not familiar with that and then Palo Alto is used by governments and all this kind of stuff anyways talk a little bit more reporting its first quarter results Tuesday after the close Fortinet beat expectations one second we'll pull Fortinet instead of 43 cents per share on profit on 1.4 billion in sales the company earned 0.51 on 1.42 billion okay Fortinet's guidance for the first quarter and for 2024 as a whole holds I don't think it's going to be too bad I mean this analyst doesn't like it but I really think here okay for instance what I can talk about and kind of give you an example of why this is going to be really interesting is something in cyber security there's something called shadow devices and what that is is it it's something that creates a blind spot in the security system of network because it's brought from outside of the network and it's not necessarily malicious or anything like that it's just something that is sitting on the network and that could be a laptop it could be a cell phone you know anything that connects to the internet that that isn't controlled or seen by the IT network and AI is that right I mean listen let's look at what happened with Samsung right where they had that hack maybe about I think it was like a year ago or something but the developers for some of their new OS were using AI to write script for them or write code for them that's a huge no-no and because what happened is hackers were somehow able to lift that understand what AI what JADGBT wrote and then we're able to compromise the data that is based on that think about this right like you have your own company let's say like even the financial firm and you have all this sensitive information maybe like an accounting or maybe a business deal that you're trying to do and you have some young analyst who's plugging in all that data in a JADGBT I mean that those servers aren't on prem right I mean maybe a lot of cloud isn't on prem but like that's not there's nothing that really saves you from that just going out into somewhere right and this is the problem that you're going to start seeing and so what do I think comes from this well one I think you get companies like for the net who are able to develop things on the network that are able to detect that a little bit better and kind of shut that down of course that's also up to I.T. at what they implement but then furthermore I think this is where you get companies like Google and Meta who come in big time and are able to essentially give like what I would call like a like the seed to a bonds I tree right now you can sit there and you have this this bare bones AI and you're able to develop it on prem within the company in a way that fits your needs all the data is secure it operates the way you need to and this is going to be a really interesting thing in AI I mean chat GBT I think is going to get as we know it is going to get knocked out of the workforce in the next four years because of the security risk folks they too will be right back are you ready to take your trading to 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Tiger TV that's T F N N dot com and hit watch Tiger TV all right welcome back folks talking about AI before we went to the break let's take a look at Palin's here up 7.5 percent today truth to the words that the wilder the haircut of the CEO the better of the tech company Alex Karp has been running this company in one of the best ways possible let's take a look at here Palin's here shares surged more than 90 percent after hours trading that was on Monday earnings were eight cents adjusted versus eight cents expected and then the revenue this is really where they were hitting it hard 6.08 versus 602 million the revenue in the first quarter increased 20 percent to 608 million versus 508 million versus the year prior the company reported net income of 900 excuse me 93.4 million or 4 cents per share compared with 30.9 million wow I'm a letter to shareholders Palin's here CEO Alex Karp said the company's expansion and growth have never been greater especially his demand for large language models in the U.S. continues to be unrelenting military deals help with that too Palin's here has been rolling out its artificial intelligence platform and Karp said the company carried out nearly 600 pilots with technology in 2023 it's about a six times increase pretty nuts Palin's here said it expects to report between 612 million and 616 million revenue during the first quarter and forecast revenue for the full year of 2.65 billion and I think I think for defense that's really where Palin's here is going to shine obviously the consumer market is huge but they can continue to secure those contracts and all of the military AIs being slowly built on kind of Palantir tech like I mean you just get locked in with that I mean it's massive for Palantir and thankfully you know I've held this stock for so long and it beat me up and I didn't let it win I don't even know when I last yeah I think I bought it like around here yeah so long ago and then this happened but thankfully we're moving 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