Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street brunch, our Sunday look ahead to this

week's market-moving events along with the weekend's top news and analysis.

Hello, today is Sunday, September 22nd, and I'm your host, Kim Khan.

Investor events highlight the coming week as a third quarter wraps up.

Meta platforms will hold its annual Meta Connect event on

Wednesday. The event will focus on the company's reality labs division and is expected

to include reveals of future hardware and software that could include

augmented reality glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will give the keynote address

expectations or for him to talk about Meta's broader artificial intelligence plans and the integration of Meta AI,

even possibly with the glasses. Seeking Alpha Analysts, VBar, says MetaStaw continues to outperform

expectations and just broke out of the six-month trading range.

I believe that shares are likely to continue to appreciate along with the market,

as well as due to what is likely to be a positive earnings report next month.

On Thursday, Southwest Airlines hosts its investor day,

and key topics will include 2025 guidance expectations

and updates on the order book and fleet modernization.

Crucially, the event will also showcase how Southwest is making major strategy pivots

for the first time in 50 years, with the introduction of assigned seating,

red-eye flights, and extra legroom seats.

The changes are being made to attract new customers to the carrier in the wake of activist moves from

Elliot management. Bank of America expects Southwest Airlines management to provide more details on the financial benefits of the strategy reset and the near-term impact on cashburn and debt during the transition period.

Shares of Southwest are up 8.5% over the last six weeks.

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