“Viagra for Women” gets FDA approval, McDonald’s fresh beef investment pays off, and Caesers gets acquired to create the biggest US casino operator

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business, News, Finance, Pop Culture, Business News, Tech

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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McDonald’s Quarter Pounder was launched with fresh beef a year ago — and that just propelled McD’s to its first gain in burger market share in 5 years. Caesars merged with Eldorado to create the biggest casino in the US, but activist investor Carl Icahn is the real story. And what’s being called the “Viagra for women” just snagged FDA approval, so we look into why the pharmaceutical company’s stock fell.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack, this is Snack, daily is Tuesday, June 25th.
0:06.2	Market's dip, this is the best one yet.
0:07.9	Really good one.
0:08.9	Great story, you like this one a lot.
0:10.1	The first story, big news for the quarter pounder.
0:12.5	McDonald's just gained burger market share for the first time in five years.
0:16.3	All about fresh beef on this one we're jumping to down.
0:18.9	Second story, Casino Giant Caesars just got acquired by Eldorata.
0:22.4	Very nice.
0:23.4	But we're more interested in the puppet master behind this deal.
0:26.2	It's a man named Carl Icon in a concept called activist investing.
0:29.8	Third story, a drug called Vilece.
0:32.1	It just got approved by the FDA and everyone's calling it the Viagra for women.
0:36.4	We'll talk about it if that's actually true at Wall Street.
0:38.7	Definitely didn't think so.
0:40.2	Before we jump into that, we got to talk about some data we were able to get for you
0:42.7	guys from our buddies over at Venmo.
0:44.6	Venmo just came out with its first ever, hopefully first annual set of etiquette tips for
0:49.8	how to send payments on Venmo.
0:51.3	We're talking recommendations on proper payment to protocol when you're splitting your
0:55.6	brunch or your rent or anything.
0:57.2	This is a survey that Venmo did with a bunch of Venmo users and 76% of them would prefer
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