The Week Ahead: Russia's New Ruble And Investing In Garbage
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 19 February 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest consumer events of the year will take place next week in New York City.
And why garbage stocks, like Waste Management (NYSE:WM), could be the next big play for investors.
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Stocks to Watch: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4579610-stocks-to-watch-retail-gets-tested-with-walmart-home-depot-and-cagny-conference-on-tap
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Russia's new digital currency: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3937846-russians-central-bank-to-roll-out-digital-ruble-pilot-in-april
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning. Today is Sunday February 19th. Welcome to this edition of Wall Street Breakfast. I'm Lauren Izo. |
| 0:15.2 | Coming up on today's show, Russia's Central Banks says it will roll out a digital |
| 0:20.5 | currency pilot following in Japan's footsteps. |
| 0:24.4 | One of the biggest consumer events of the year will take place this week in New York City, |
| 0:29.2 | and why garbage stocks like waste management could be the next big play for investors. |
| 0:35.0 | But first, before we get to our top stories, let's take a look at what's expected at the markets this week. |
| 0:41.0 | Two retail heavyweights could provide the headlines for the |
| 0:45.3 | holiday shortened trading week. Walmart and Home Depot are both due to report |
| 0:50.5 | Q4 earnings on February 21st, with analysts anticipating solid numbers for the |
| 0:56.6 | holiday quarter and cautious guidance for the year ahead. |
| 1:01.1 | While the retail sales report for January was stronger than anticipated, the conference |
| 1:06.0 | call cadence from Walmart and Home Depot on current trends could impact the broad market. Notably, both stocks trail the S&P 500 index for the early part of the year. |
| 1:18.0 | On the economic calendar, updates include the latest PMI prints existing home sales FOMC minutes |
| 1:25.4 | Q4 GDP revision and the highly anticipated core |
| 1:29.9 | CPE prices read on inflation. The corporate calendar is loaded as the Cagney conference is typically |
| 1:37.0 | chock full of guidance updates from consumer companies and the Barclays Industrial Industrial Conference will include appearances from dozens of airline, trucking, and logistics companies. |
| 1:49.0 | Williams companies will also hold a key investor event. |
| 1:53.0 | We'll hear all about that later in the podcast. |
| 1:56.0 | First, let's get to our top stories. |
| 1:59.0 | The Bank of Russia is going to launch a pilot program for digital currency on April 1st, according to local news |
| 2:06.3 | reports. |
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