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Wall Street Breakfast

Market drifting higher, punctuated by dramatic tech earnings

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Market drifts higher punctuated by dramatic tech stories (0:35). Mag 7 resurgence (3:30). The catalyst that took Bitcoin past $100,000 and what may be coming (5:15). Bifurcation between tech stocks and blue chippers (8:00). Jobs, Fed, rates, and earnings (9:40) Black Friday and retail numbers (13:25).

Episode transcripts: seekingalpha.com/wsb

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0:00.0

Brian Stewart. Welcome back to Wall Street breakfast. Great to be talking to you again as we head into the weekend.

0:17.8

Yeah, lovely to talk to you again. So what are you digesting this week? What are you, what are you seeing? What are you feeling? What are you

0:25.5

feeling like is the most important thing to share with investors? So I think if I was going to

0:31.3

sum up market activity in the last couple weeks as briefly as possible, I'd say it's a drift

0:36.8

higher, punctuated by a few dramatic

0:41.7

tech earning stories that have done enough to sort of stoke the larger AI fire enough

0:50.1

to keep the upward momentum churning. So specifically Marvel came out.

0:56.2

They've risen 31% in the past week.

0:59.0

This is after a strong earnings for the semiconductor company,

1:01.6

boosted largely by AI.

1:03.9

As an example of that, their data center sales rose almost,

1:07.2

it almost doubled from last year.

1:09.7

Similarly, an interesting story along this front would be Salesforce, which had kind of a

1:17.1

mixed earnings results, actually.

1:18.7

It missed on earnings, it beat on revenue, and then had soft guidance as it related to

1:24.2

the estimates going into the results.

1:26.7

However, investors took it all in stride that drove

1:29.8

the stock higher by about 11% the day after earnings report. And this was largely because of

1:35.8

momentum and its AI platform agent force. So that was a real glass half full situation where

1:42.0

investors had decided that any hint of AI momentum, AI progress is

1:47.6

going to drive a stock higher, even if the overall results are a little questionable.

1:53.4

Anything else to point to in terms of the tech sector or things that may give more color to

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