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The first five days of President Donald Trump’s presidency felt like five years.

Plot twist: he’s already in his third term.

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Market Review:

Wall Street saw mixed results to close out the week, with the S&P 500 slipping from a record high to 0.3%, after hitting new intraday highs. The Nasdaq dropped 0.5%, while the Dow fell 141 points, or 0.3%.

Despite Friday’s losses, the major indices posted their second consecutive positive week, buoyed by excitement over President Trump’s return to office and expectations of pro-business policies. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both gained about 1.7%, and the Dow rose 2.2%.

Investors also monitored corporate earnings, with Novo Nordisk jumping 8% on positive drug news, while Texas Instruments slid 7%. Next week, attention turns to big tech earnings and the Fed’s meeting, where no rate hikes are expected.

Market Preview:

Next week on Wall Street will be a busy one. On Monday, new home sales for December are due. Tuesday brings durable goods orders and the S&P Case-Shiller home price index for November, alongside consumer confidence data for January.

Then there’s Wednesday, the marquee day of the week, with the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate decision due. Investors are near-certain the central bank will push pause on the rate cuts, as it has projected just a handful of cuts all year. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s subsequent press conference will be closely watched for clues as to whether the plan has changed.

On Thursday, we’ll get advanced estimates for the Q4 GDP, along with initial jobless claims for the previous week and pending home sales for December. The big week will close out strong on Friday with the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the PCE price index.

Was President Biden secretly a pro-billionaire president?

Or… perhaps more shockingly…

Is the economy a complex ecosystem subject to countless market forces upon which presidential administrations ultimately have a very limited impact?

😱🤯😂

As someone with more than a passing knowledge of SEO…

I’m not surprised. I’m sure there’s some rhyme or reason to Gemini’s Google Search summaries. But I don’t think HubSpot Academy has cracked it yet.

Turns out, the Girl Scouts leadership are not exactly girl scouts.

Ba dum tss!

(On a separate but related note, I’m sorry to admit I am responsible for providing roughly half of that revenue in Samoas alone.)

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We were mostly joking earlier about the billionaire thing. But it’s starting to look like Biden may have actually been the better president for the energy sector — and not just clean energy either.

Last week, we noted how America’s gas production dominance intensified in the past few years. And now natural gas giants are raising a stink about Trump’s rollback of clean energy initiatives. (Yes, really.) So it’s possible “drill, baby, drill” won’t be as big of a boon to Big Oil as the Street seems to think.

I’ve heard Exxon (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) commonly mentioned as “Trump trade” candidates. I wonder what the short interest looks like? 🤔

Gotta admit, “Gulf of Guadalajara” really rolls off the tongue.

Fun fact: the Gulf of California is thought to be one of the most diverse seas on earth.

How diverse, you ask?

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