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Wall Street Breakfast

State of the Union

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business, Investing, Business News, News

3.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Biden says in the State of the Union economy is building 'from the bottom up.’ Zoom (ZM) jumps as CEO says company will lay off 1,300 workers. Microsoft (MSFT) tops $2T market cap as it unveils AI-powered Bing, Edge browser.

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0:00.0

Two more tech companies are laying off workers and for the past three years you've probably been using one of those companies services every day.

0:09.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:15.9

Good morning, today is Wednesday, February 8th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan,

0:20.6

our top stories. President Biden in his second state of the Union address

0:25.2

said that the economy is building from the bottom up. He said we're just

0:29.2

getting started as he talked about new legislation designed to support and improve U.S.

0:34.7

manufacturing and infrastructure.

0:37.9

More job cuts on the way in tech.

0:39.7

eBay says it's laying off 4% of its workforce and Zoom Video Communications is letting go 15% of its employees.

0:48.5

And today is stock of the week Wednesday.

0:51.1

Stephen Kress is the head of quantitative strategies at Seeking Alpha. Every year he releases a top 10 list of stocks and last year's list did very well.

1:01.0

The cube of stocks outperform the S&P 500 by almost 10%. It was really big outperformants and we picked some of our favorites last year.

1:13.0

and those stocks exploded to the upside last year.

1:16.0

So we had some really good picks.

1:18.0

Today we'll dive into one stock on the list.

1:21.0

We begin with the State of the Union address.

1:24.0

Speaking before a joint session of Congress, President Biden delivered his second State of the

1:29.2

Union address. He said that despite the fact that inflation weighs on Americans' minds every time they go to the gas station or grocery store,

1:37.0

the nation's economy is on the upswing.

1:40.0

And he reiterated his mantra of wanting to build an economy from the bottom up.

1:44.8

Biden acknowledged inflation as being a global problem, but stressed that it is coming down.

1:50.7

During the 9 PM speech, the president also hit on topics ranging from climate crisis to legislation

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