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Wall Street Breakfast

Wall Street tunes into the Masters

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Pure golf stocks, apparel makers and gaming names could see a Masters bump. (0:16) Wholesale inflation runs a little cooler in March. (1:20) Amazon CEO says AI will be built on the cloud. (3:45)

Show Notes
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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action news and analysis.

0:10.0

Good afternoon, today is Thursday April 11th and I'm your host Kim Khan. Our top story so far.

0:15.7

The Masters tease off in Augusta, Georgia today and estimated a hundred and 23 million people now play golf up 30% since 2016 with 531 million rounds played in

0:26.2

2023. On Wall Street many traders will have one eye on the Bloomberg

0:30.4

terminal and one eye on the coverage. Here's a look at the stocks that are tied to the sport.

0:35.2

Pure golfing focus stocks typically fly under the radar, but golf's biggest weekend puts a spotlight on names

0:40.9

like Top Golf Calloway and a Kushinet holdings which owns

0:44.4

title list. Nike and Under Armour make golf equipment and apparel while Dick's

0:48.9

sporting goods is a high-volume retailer of equipment and with with Lealize Sports Betting expanding, every major

0:54.8

sporting event draws attention to casino and gaming stocks. Coming off March

0:58.8

Madness, the Masters offers another chance to cash in for names like Draft Kings, Penn Entertainment, and Las Vegas Sands.

1:05.7

In today's trading, cool wholesale inflation data prompted some equity buying pre-market, but the

1:10.9

major averages are now mixed without much conviction either way.

1:14.6

Treasury yields are also mixed with the short end up slightly and the longer and lower.

1:19.3

The March producer price index came in a little cooler than expected with a 0.2% rise and the annual

1:24.8

rate dropping to 2.1%. The core PPI, which excludes food and energy prices,

1:29.8

also rose 0.2%, in line with forecasts, but the annual rate ticked up to 2.4%.

1:36.0

Eugenio Alaman, chief economist at Raymond James,

1:40.0

noted energy goods prices were down by 1.6%. This means that the increase in energy prices within the

1:45.6

consumer price index for March was not due to an increase in the cost of energy goods,

1:50.0

but perhaps to strong demand. Although the PPI is less important for monetary policy than consumer prices,

1:56.0

the weakness in PPI could indicate potentially better consumer inflation numbers in April,

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