Brian Stewart, our director of news at Seeking Alpha, welcome back to Wall Street Breakfast.

Always nice to talk to you.

Thanks, really nice to talk to you.

Yes, likewise. So we're at the end of another week.

We've got holiday season. Lights are out. People are feeling good for the most part. We talked

about that a little bit last week, how despite some disappointing data, people are out spending.

This week, we've seen various amounts of good news. We had NASDAQ hitting a nice number. We saw some

inflation data come out. We saw some reports of specific stocks. Where do you see the most important

news of this week? Yeah, I think NASDAQ 20,000 can't be ignored as a headline for this week.

It's obviously a big round number.

Though in terms of just narrative kind of juice, it does kind of just fall onto more of the same.

It's the NASDAQ inching higher in a year where it's been just sort of melting up through the year.

So we're up 30% year to date

on the NASDAQ. The latest move higher has been the inflation data was sort of in line

with what people expected. It was a little higher. The annual inflation rate was a little higher

in November than it was in October, but nothing to kind of set the Fed on a new direction. So just sort of same old, same old was enough to take it over the line.

And what are you thinking stockwise? We saw various movements, a lot of news in the tech sector for sure. What are you thinking are the most pertinent

stock stories this past week? Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your opinion of it,

Tesla is just the stock that can't be ignored. I would see it as sort of the MVP of the fourth

quarter here so far. It's up another 18% in the past week. And if you kind of take

the lens out to look at the Tesla story over the last couple months, it's been pretty extraordinary.

The stock was closed at just below 214 on October 23rd. That was the date before its last

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