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WSJ Your Money Briefing

WSJ’s Take On the Week: The AI Trade’s Next Phase Is Here. Are You Ready?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For YMB listeners, here’s a special presentation of WSJ’s Take On the Week: Co-hosts Gunjan Banerji, lead writer for Live Markets, and Telis Demos, Heard on the Street’s banking and money columnist, cut through the noise and dive into markets, the economy, and finance—the big trades, key players and business news ahead. This week, Telis and Gunjan dig into the latest on the Trump trade, the crypto rally and what upcoming retail earnings reports from Target and Walmart could signal about American consumers. Later, Dominic Rizzo, portfolio manager of T. Rowe Price’s Global Technology Equity Strategy, joins the show to talk about artificial intelligence investment and tech stocks, including companies such as AMD and Synopsys and those in the Magnificent Seven like Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft. And of course the sector’s shining star, Nvidia. Have an idea for a future guest or episode? How can we better help you take on the week? We’d love to hear from you. Email takeontheweek@wsj.com or the hosts at telis.demos@wsj.com and gunjan.banerji@wsj.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, YMB listeners, we've got something special for you.

0:03.3

WSJ's Take On the Week is back.

0:05.6

The weekly podcast has returned with two new hosts and even more insight and analysis about the world of money and investing.

0:12.5

The first episode dives into AI, crypto, and what Walmart and targets upcoming earnings mean for U.S. consumers.

0:20.3

Take a listen, and be sure to tune in on Sundays for new episodes of WS.J's Take On the Week.

0:29.5

I'm Gunjin Banerjee, lead writer for markets here at the Wall Street Journal.

0:33.2

And I'm Telestimos. I write for the journals heard on the street call.

0:36.4

This is WSJ's take on the week,

0:38.5

the show where we give you a leg up on the world of money and investing. That's the stuff that we

0:42.6

think and talk about every day here at the Wall Street Journal. And every week, we're going to

0:46.9

bring you into those conversations. They're going to be with insiders, they're going to be about

0:50.8

markets, economy, and finance. And for today's show, we're going to dive into big tech stocks and artificial intelligence,

0:57.5

and of course what's been the splashest event of earning season, Invidia, which reports in just a few days.

1:03.9

We chatted with a really big AI bull, Dom Rizzo.

1:07.8

He's a tech portfolio manager at Tiro Price, and he shared with us why he thinks

1:12.4

AI is the biggest productivity enhancer since electricity. Electricity, that's a big one.

1:17.9

I use that. I'd say so. And which companies specifically he thinks could be some of AI's

1:23.2

unexpected winners. You're going to hear that conversation in just a few minutes. Before that, though,

1:28.1

let's get to what's been happening in the news and in markets. There's been a ton going on with

1:32.5

crypto and we have some upcoming earnings from Target and Walmart. But first, for about two weeks

1:39.3

post the U.S. presidential election, and the Trump trade still seems to be on everyone's minds. Tell us, what do you think?

1:45.6

Do you think it's already losing steam? Well, first let's break down what is the Trump trade, right? The

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