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Brian Stewart, Seeking Alpha's Director of News, always great to talk to you on a Friday in these wonderful Wall Street Roundups.

Great to have you.

Thanks. Great to be here.

So last week we were talking about Walmart earnings and how that was something to look forward to

and perhaps a telling tale of what's going on in the broader economy. Is that a good place to start?

Or would you want to start somewhere else? No, that's good.

I was trying to think of a metaphor for what the market feels like right now.

And I was kind of thinking back, there was a story a few years ago, I don't know if you remember

this, where there was a little kid at Disney World who got eaten by an alligator.

I sort of picture the kid looking across the lagoon.

The magic kingdom is sort of glimmering in the horizon and all of a sudden a predator,

he didn't know was there, gobbles him up.

And I think that's the market we're living in is like AI and like a technological utopia

is like just across the water, but there's things below the

surface that we're afraid are going to attack us. I think that a lot of the stories from this

week kind of underlying that. I think Walmart's there too on a very kind of lower level.

The stock didn't move much after earnings dipped a little bit. It was already down

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