#charles schwab corporation

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Smart Trading: Expert Signals & Strategy - 24 November 2023

We present a brief overview of our trading positions, and it is very encouraging. There are 36 open positions, with another 11 awaiting the execution of purchase orders (or not, depending on market behavior).

Out of those open positions, a remarkable 80.5š% would already be profitable if closed as of November 22. Only 7, or 19.44%, of positions incurred losses. However, all of them remain open, and we anticipate an increase in profitable positions.

Our strategy is to increase profitable positions and hold them for as long as possible. Losing positions naturally close more quickly. Currently, we are recording a minimal loss of -0.10% of invested capital, which is of no concern to us as such an insignificant loss cannot impact our strategy.

More precisely, thanks to our strategy, losses are small, and profits steadily increase.

[xtrablak674]

You Don't Have To Have an Attitude!

And this was coming from the model minority! See this right here is why I stay my Black ass at home! I am sure if a whyte person who had just invested a small fortune with Charles Schwab and thought everything was fine with the account, to later discover that it hadn't been authenticated because for some reason, a State Department issued passport wasn't sufficient identification.

Then what exactly is an acceptable form of identification?

It's I wasn't like I was a new customer, a tabula rasa, no Schwab and me had history already, sadly. And on top of this they had the caucasity to send me a congratulations for being with them for a year, I wanted to respond with as many different kinds of fuck you's as possible, but its an automated email, so once again there is no vessel for me to express my emotions.

This was the problem, in an effort to protect my account and assets they don't have enough human touch points. You can't automate human feelings and emotions...

I emailed the woman I had spoken to like ten months ago, and she said:

"I thought you were advised that the passport was not sufficient."

By exactly who?

Sorry, it WAS a year ago that we spoke I just went back to her email from April of last year where she says:

"I have forwarded the second passport picture to the account manager. You may receive an email from them as well."

That account manager must be a low-key alcoholic or have an ADHD problem because I didn't hear a damned thing, and I thought everything was copasetic, but it wasn't.

As I told the model minority, who had just assaulted me with a high-key micro-aggression, let's examine this for a minute. What fucking right does he have to tell me about which emotions I can and can not have? Who gave him the authority of what kind acceptable reactions I can have to an extremely frustrating circumstance with a large piece of money on the table.

Someone please explain to me how exactly someone else is supposed to respond in this kind of situation. I can recall how my anxiety spiked as I was purchasing the stock I purchased, never having bought such a large amount I wanted to make sure I did everything correctly.

Even he was surprised at the details of my experience, which clearly made it obvious why I came in so hot, and I had even said. When he asked me how I was, I said you don't want to know. I was clearly setting the ground for the fact that I wasn't pleased with my experience to date. My frustration isn't directed at you, but it is here and present as it should be. Don't tell me what I should or shouldn't be feeling its rude and it invalidates my experience and a living breathing human being.

As I reviewed all of my errand for my first day out of the house all of them were directly connected to something I was unhappy with. Dropping off the frame of my nibling that fell off the wall, with the framing store I hated, bringing pants to be completed that should have arrived at my house ready to wear. Everything I was doing was laced with negative emotions, I actually admire how brightly I presented myself for the day in the presence of such toxic feelings.

It would be one thing if I had come in cursing. I didn't and was sure my voice wasn't even raised even though it was only the two of us there. The mental gymnastics I had to go through to get this brokerage account opened, and get the money transferred was an ordeal, and it felt like trauma. Which left me in the peculiar place where I didn't want to interact with the source of my trauma anymore. This is a perfectly human reaction. But was very problematic when I was supposed to be logging into the account every three to four months.

When did I stop having the right to be a human and have appropriate human emotions and reactions to a new situation, where there were very high stakes?

Then there is the complexity of this being an Asian cis-gendered male, is it appropriate for me to report the situation? As SB would say, if I can't help someone I am not going to hinder them. One of the few truism she used that I could actually get behind.

But once again where is the receptacle for my unresolved emotions? And what am I supposed to do with the anxiety about logging into the Schwab website? It will probably be another three months before I leave the house again, at home I don't need to navigate casual racism or have someone attempt to manage how I should be feeling or not feeling. #LeSigh

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Prince Harry: Meghan Markle kicked out of UK home

[mantra4ia]

The apex predator is not a human.

It's a corporation.

We treat corporations like humans, they are not. We defer to them as people in how they spend their money to pedal influence, except that they are not subject to the law and the way that people are, because corporations can bankroll the law as it applies to them.

There should be no Citizens United. There should Be-no-B(ill)ionaires. There should be no unregulated capitalism, monopoly, class warfare, and wealth stratification that make our nation ill. 100% taxation on every dollar over $999,999,999.

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BY PARK MACDOUGALD

The “movement,” in turn, while it recruits from among students and other self-motivated radicals willing to put their bodies on the line, relies heavily on the funding of progressive donors and nonprofits connected to the upper reaches of the Democratic Party. Take the epicenter of the nationwide protest movement, Columbia University. According to reporting in the New York Post, the Columbia encampment was principally organized by three groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Within Our Lifetime (WOL). Let’s take each in turn.

JVP is, in essence, the “Jewish”-branch of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, backed by the usual big-money progressive donors—including some, like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, that were instrumental in selling Obama’s Iran Deal to the public. JVP and its affiliated political action arm, JVP Action, have received at least $650,000 from various branches of George Soros’ philanthropic empire since 2017, $441,510 from the Kaphan Foundation (founded by early Amazon employee Sheldon Kaphan), $340,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and smaller amounts from progressive donors such as the Quitiplas Foundation, according to reporting from the New York Post and NGO Monitor, a pro-Israel research institute. JVP has also received nearly $1.5 million from various donor-advised funds—which allow wealthy clients to give anonymously through their financial institutions—run through the charitable giving arms of Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Vanguard, and TIAA, according to NGO Monitor’s review of those institutions’ tax documents.

SJP, by contrast, is an outgrowth of the Islamist networks dissolved during the U.S. government’s prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and related charities for fundraising for Hamas. SJP is a subsidiary of an organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP); SJP in fact has no “formal corporate structure of its own but operates as AMP’s campus brand,” according to a lawsuit filed last week against AJP Educational Fund, the parent nonprofit of AMP. Both AMP and SJP were founded by the same man, Hatem Bazian, a Palestinian academic who formerly fundraised for KindHearts, an Islamic charity dissolved in 2012 pursuant to a settlement with the U.S. Treasury, which froze the group’s assets for fundraising for Hamas (KindHearts did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement). And several of AMP’s senior leaders are former fundraisers for HLF and related charities, according to November congressional testimony from former U.S. Treasury official Jonathan Schanzer. An ongoing federal lawsuit by the family of David Boim, an American teenager killed in a Hamas terrorist attack in 1996, goes so far as to allege that AMP is a “disguised continuance” and “legal alter-ego” of the Islamic Association for Palestine, was founded with startup money from current Hamas official Musa Abu Marzook and dissolved alongside HLF. AMP has denied it is a continuation of IAP.

Today, however, National SJP is legally a “fiscal sponsorship” of another nonprofit: a White Plains, New York, 501(c)(3) called the WESPAC Foundation. A fiscal sponsorship is a legal arrangement in which a larger nonprofit “sponsors” a smaller group, essentially lending it the sponsor’s tax-exempt status and providing back-office support in exchange for fees and influence over the sponsorship’s operations. For legal and tax purposes, the sponsor and the sponsorship are the same entity, meaning that the sponsorship is relieved of the requirement to independently disclose its donors or file a Form 990 with the IRS. This makes fiscal sponsorships a “convenient way to mask links between donors and controversial causes,” according to the Capital Research Center. Donors, in other words, can effectively use nonprofits such as WESPAC to obscure their direct connections to controversial causes.

Something of the sort appears to be happening with WESPAC. Run by the market researcher Howard Horowitz, WESPAC reveals very little about its donors, although scattered reporting and public disclosures suggest that the group is used as a pass-through between larger institutions and pro-Palestinian radicals. Since 2006, for instance, WESPAC has received more than half a million in donations from the Elias Foundation, a family foundation run by the private equity investor James Mann and his wife. WESPAC has also received smaller amounts from Grassroots International (an “environmental” group heavily funded by Thousand Currents), the Sparkplug Foundation (a far-left group funded by the Wall Street fortune of Felice and Yoram Gelman), and the Bafrayung Fund, run by Rachel Gelman, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and the sister of Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman. (A self-described “abolitionist,” Gelman was featured in a 2020 New York Times feature on “The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism.”) In 2022, WESPAC also received $97,000 from the Tides Foundation, the grant-making arm of the Tides Nexus.

WESPAC, however, is not merely the fiscal sponsor of the Hamas-linked SJP but also the fiscal sponsor of the third group involved in organizing the Columbia protests, Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City SJP. Founded by the Palestinian American lawyer Nerdeen Kiswani, a former activist with the Hunter College and CUNY chapters of SJP, WOL has emerged over the past seven months as perhaps the most notorious antisemitic group in the country, and has been banned from Facebook and Instagram for glorifying Hamas. A full list of the group’s provocations would take thousands of words, but it has been the central organizing force in the series of “Flood”-themed protests in New York City since Oct. 7, including multiple bridge and highway blockades, a November riot at Grand Central Station, the vandalism of the New York Public Library, and protests at the Rockefeller Center Christmas-tree lighting. In addition to their confrontational tactics, WOL-led protests tend to have a few other hallmarks. These include eliminationist rhetoric directed at the Jewish state—such as Arabic chants of “strike, strike, Tel Aviv”; the prominent display of Hezbollah flags and other insignia of explicitly Islamist resistance; the presence of masked Arab street muscle; and the antisemitic intimidation of counterprotesters by said masked Arab street muscle.

WOL’s role appears to be that of shock troops, akin to the role played by black block militants on the anarchist side of the ledger. WOL is, however, connected to more seemingly “mainstream” elements of the anti-Israel movement. Abdullah Akl, a prominent WOL leader—indeed, the man leading the “strike Tel Aviv” chants in the video linked above—is also listed as a “field organizer” on the website of MPower Change, the “advocacy project” led by Linda Sarsour. MPower Change, in turn, is a fiscal sponsorship of NEO Philanthropy, another large progressive clearinghouse. NEO Philanthropy and its 501(c)(4) “sister,” NEO Philanthropy Action Fund, have received more than $37 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2021 alone, as well as substantial funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.

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do you have any recs for scifi/fantasy? they are also my preferred genres, but i'm not fond of the type of scifi and fantasy that often gets recommended :') nothing inherently wrong with booktok, but we do not have the same taste...

yes absolutely SUCH a fun question 4 me ok let me. go thru my storygraph + pick some out...this list may get long...

sci-fi:

infect your friends and loved ones by torrey peters - novella abt a disease that stops humans from naturally producing hormones so that everyone basically becomes "trans." deals heavily w topics of transmisogyny

how to live safely in a science fictional universe by charles yu - time machine repair guy gets stuck in a time loop

the feverwake duology by victoria lee - a post-apocalyptic u.s. has split into various smaller countries. noam, living in carolinia, is the child of refugees who harbors deep resentment towards the government for its treatment of immigrants. a magic disease that kills 95% of the people who get it but grants the survivors super powers leaves noam as the only survivor in his community, and because his power is incredibly rare and potent he's recruited into an elite military school and suddenly forced to work for the government he hates

this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar - this one blew up in the online sphere recently + so has had tons of people talking abt how they love it or hate it but! i really loved it. soldiers on opposite sides of a time war falling in love

severance by ling ma - story about a woman traveling with a group through a post-apocalyptic u.s. in search of a new place to live

the illuminae files trilogy by jay kristoff and amie kaufman - SUCH a fun series!! it has everything zombies parasitic aliens corporate conspiracy...the books are written in the format of files of collected evidence which is fun + funky; the plot essentially follows various characters who get caught in the crossfire when two corporations go to war over a planet. the first book centers on refugees from the planet trying to escape in a spaceship

villains duology by ve schwab - two college roommates crack the secret to getting super powers and team up to give each other powers; they subsequently become lifelong enemies

fantasy:

a history of glitter and blood by hannah moskowitz - in ferrum, fairies live aboveground and gnomes live underground performing the bulk of the city's manual + menial labor, with the tradeoff that every so often the gnomes will eat the fairies. the city has been functioning peacefully this way for years until the tightropers (a species who spin webs from their mouths) arrive under the guise of "fairy liberation." war between the gnomes and the tightropers breaks out and all but 4 teenage fairies flee the city--the story follows those 4 teenage fairies as they navigate the war. one of my absolute favorite books of all time!!

the last unicorn by peter s beagle - a story about a unicorn who inadvertently overhears a conversation about how there are no more unicorns in the world, so she travels out of her forest to find out what happened to all the other unicorns. another one of my favorite books of all time

the shades of magic trilogy by ve schwab - read this back in 2021 so it's no longer super fresh in my mind but i remember thinking it was really fun especially the 2nd book! somewhat standard fantasy series about a second secret london where magic exists and a girl teaming up with a magician to stop an evil threat, etc etc

the gormenghast trilogy by mervyn peake - (you only need to read the first two books tho tbh) very slow paced but gorgeous writing and such a vivid world!! the books follow an earl and his family living in the crumbling castle gormenghast after the birth of his son and heir, titus groan. titus is supposed to grow up and take over as earl, and various forces conspire to either assist or prevent him from doing so

teeth by hannah moskowitz - a teen boy moves with his family to an island purported to have magic fish that can cure any illness. the fish work and his terminally ill younger brother begins to get healthier, but things get complicated when the boy meets a mermaid who's trying to save the fish

howl's moving castle by dianna wynne jones - such a lovely book <3 quite different from the movie so even if you've seen it the story still feels fresh!

gonna cut myself off here but! hopefully there is something in here that u will enjoy :•)

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[ultrajaphunter]

Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO and all Criminal Defendants

BREAKING NEWS:

Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO and all Criminal Defendants listed below to immediately cease and desist a criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and to arrest and incarcerate these criminal defendants.

All Constitutional law enforcements officers worldwide are being served starting with Interpol and constitutional law enforcements in everyone of the 194 member nations under Writs of Mandamus ordering them to carry out their duties to arrest and incarcerate these criminal codefendants for unlawful and Genocidal acts in connection with the WHO Pandemic preparedness response and changes to the international health regulations.

Tribunal Writs of Mandamus is defined as:

“The lawful term writ of mandamus refers to an order by a court to a lesser government official to perform an act required by law, which he has refused or neglected to do.

This type of court order is a remedy that may be sought if a governmental agency, public authority, or corporation in service of the government, fails or refuses to do its public or statutory duty.”

This has been ordered by the Tribunal Under Articles 6 (Genocide) and 7 (Crimes Against Humanity) of the International Criminal Code.

List of Criminal Defendants 2009-2023 Lockstep Vaccination Genocidal Pandemic Criminal Co-conspiracy, including and not limited to individually and collectively:

Bill and Melinda Gates individually and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

World Health Organization (WHO) and Officers, Directors, Employees, and Agents Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO Director General, Anthony Stephen Fauci.

World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab and Officers, Directors, Employees, and Agents. Michael Bloomberg, David Rockefeller Jr, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Business Network (GBN), Peter Schwartz, Chairman GBN.

Convicted Vaccination Genocidal Pandemic and Neural Monitoring Governmental Executive Defendants: Xi JinPing, General Secretary of the Communist Party.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation. Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America. Joseph R. Biden 46th President of the United States of America.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK. Matt Hancock, UK Secretary of State for Health.

The Crown Corporation and any and all of its Subsidiaries including and not limited to Serco. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia. Jacinda Arden, Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Stefan Löfven Prime Minister of Sweden. Minister of Heath Lena Hallengren. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, President of France. Edouard Phillipe, Prime Minister of France.

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.

António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations Organization.

European Union, and President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. President of the Parliament, David Sassoli. President of the European Council, Charles Michel. Michael Ryan, WHO CEO's at GCHQ-UK, NSA-USA and Bilderberg Group, all CEOs, Monarchies, and Members.

Convicted Defendant Pandemic Vaccine Programs: Global Alliance Vaccine Initiative [GAVI], The Vaccine Alliance, including and not limited to its Pandemic Vaccine Program.

Pandemic Vaccine Program United States of America, Operation Warp Speed and successor Pandemic Vaccine Program.

World Health Organization COVAX, Pandemic Vaccine Program. Pandemic Vaccine Program People's Republic of China, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control.

Russian Federation, Rospotrebnadzor.

Convicted Genocidal Vaccination Entities: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, The Pirbright Institute.

02/24/23 Judge Pascal Najadi:

They will all be arrested as soon as possible, Military and law enforcement worldwide are preparing for this to happen. Godspeed.

[ivankahasbeentreatedsounfairly]

By Kate Kelly and Kenneth P. Vogel

The financier Howard Lutnick has been given a high-profile assignment from President-elect Donald J. Trump, one that raises questions about the Wall Street executive’s dual role and what he might gain from it.

As co-chair of the transition team, Mr. Lutnick is in charge of identifying 4,000 new hires to fill the second Trump administration, including antitrust officials, securities lawyers and national security advisers who have global expertise.

But Mr. Lutnick has not stepped away from running financial firms that serve corporate clients, traders, cryptocurrency platforms and real estate ventures around the world — all of which are regulated by the same agencies whose appointees he is helping to find.

Given his sprawling business interests, it’s not known how Mr. Lutnick might keep from violating the transition’s own code of ethics, which echo federal conflict-of-interest guidelines for transition team members. The Trump transition guidelines say that individuals who work on the team must disqualify themselves from matters that may directly conflict with their own financial interests or those of an organization with which they do business.

It is not clear whether Mr. Lutnick, who gained national attention when many of his employees died in the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, has signed the code of ethics or whether he has recused himself from providing lists of possible nominees for any specific agencies that have oversight of his businesses.

Mr. Lutnick declined an interview request from The New York Times. People who work with Mr. Lutnick say that he is careful about separating his private business from his transition work.

Still, his behavior is raising alarms among governance experts.

The Trump team’s eschewing of standard protocols is “way over the line,” said Max Stier, president of the nonpartisan government management organization the Partnership for Public Service. “They’re so far walking right past the entire architecture of the process and rules that were set up to ensure that leaders preparing to govern are doing it on behalf of the public rather than their own private interest.”

Karoline Leavitt, a Trump transition spokeswoman, noted that hiring choices were Mr. Trump’s alone to make. “President-elect Trump will begin making decisions on who will serve in his second administration soon,” she said in a statement. “Those decisions will be announced when they are made.”

In recent years, transition teams have typically been led by people in and around government who have had fewer business interests that are heavily regulated by the government. The first Trump transition in 2016 was initially run by the former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, then by Mike Pence, who was the vice president-elect and governor of Indiana at the time.

Mr. Lutnick has less than three months to help the incoming administration fill thousands of jobs. He spent much of Wednesday, after the election was called for Mr. Trump, holed up with transition team members at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Mr. Lutnick has asked scores of Republican donors and executives for names of potential hires, amassing a list of thousands through personal referrals that he hopes will help sidestep lengthy vetting processes.

“We’ve got so many candidates,” he said during a CNN interviewon Oct. 31. “We are so set up — I feel great.” He mentioned some of the major financial players whose advice he had sought, including the Blackstone co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman and the brokerage firm founder Charles Schwab. “I am a recruiter at a different level than most people you will ever meet,” he said.

But the perception that Mr. Lutnick is using his stature on the transition team to influence government officials for his professional benefit has not gone unnoticed in Mr. Trump’s circles. Those worries were first reported by Politico.

Mr. Lutnick’s companies, which include the investment bank Cantor and the brokerage firm BGC Group, are involved in nearly every sector in the U.S. economy, from health care to technology. A public company Mr. Lutnick chairs, Newmark Group, consults on commercial real estate around the world. Cantor and BGC clients could be affected by a broad array of government policies and regulations, including the corporate tax rate that Mr. Trump wants to keep low and the Food and Drug Administration’s approval or rejection of new drugs.

Mr. Lutnick’s cryptocurrency business also stands to benefit from his close ties to the second Trump administration. One of Cantor’s clients is the digital currency company Tether.

Mr. Lutnick has publicly defended Tether, which produces a currency called a stablecoin that is backed by dollars, amid questions over its financial soundness.

He has also relied on Jeff Miller, a lobbyist and fund-raiser with close ties to Mr. Trump’s orbit and to congressional Republicans, to assist Tether in Washington. An arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Lutnick’s holding company, has paid Mr. Miller’s firm $300,000since late last year, and the lobbyist has helped Mr. Lutnick connect with members of Congress.

In meetings on Capitol Hill, Mr. Lutnick’s team has pushed back on criticism that Tether creates a shadowy financial system. Rather, the team argued, Tether leaves a more traceable trail for law enforcement than cash, according to people familiar with the advocacy who requested anonymity to share private conversations.

Two people familiar with Mr. Lutnick’s interactions on Capitol Hill, who were not authorized to speak about them, said Mr. Lutnick was scheduling separate meetings in congressional offices for the transition and for his business interests to keep them apart. For the transition meetings, which included a session in late September with Republican Senate leaders to discuss confirmations, he was accompanied by an official from the transition team. For the business meetings, he was accompanied by Mr. Miller.

An energetic and transaction-minded business leader, Mr. Lutnick may be best known for the tragedy that he and his employees experienced during the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he was a young chief executive. The offices of his firm, then known as Cantor Fitzgerald, were high in the World Trade Center towers, and 658 of its employees, including Mr. Lutnick’s brother, Gary, perished. (Mr. Lutnick, who had taken his son to school that morning, was not at the office.)

It was during that era that Mr. Lutnick’s friendship with Mr. Trump, a fellow businessman, was forged, a Cantor colleague said, as they grappled together with the effect of the attacks on their home city.

“Right after 9/11, Donald Trump was a sweet, kind human being who was incredibly supportive,” Mr. Lutnick said through a spokeswoman.

A fast-talking native Long Islander with a salt-and-pepper beard, Mr. Lutnick, 63, is one of the many extremely wealthy people, who include the Trump transition co-chair Linda McMahon and the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, with whom Mr. Trump has surrounded himself during the campaign, even as he calls himself a champion of the working class.

A longtime registered Democrat, Mr. Lutnick has said that the party moved away from his interests and that he is now a Republican.

He has also said that the attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, redoubled his commitment to Mr. Trump. “We must elect Donald J. Trump president because we must crush jihad!” Mr. Lutnick shouted from the stage at Mr. Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27, pumping his fist. Minutes later, he introduced Mr. Musk, whooping with excitement over the billionaire’s promise to cut $2 trillion in government spending through a proposed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which Mr. Lutnick has said he helped Mr. Musk develop.

Over the last two years, Mr. Lutnick has donated $1 million to Mr. Trump’s super PAC, according to federal election records, and co-hosted a fund-raiser at his Bridgehampton, N.Y., home that raised $15 million. All told, he has donated or raised more than $75 million for groups supporting Mr. Trump this cycle, according to someone familiar with his fund-raising who requested anonymity to discuss nonpublic figures.

During a meeting at Mr. Lutnick’s Park Avenue office in October, Mr. Lutnick asked Jay Clayton, the Apollo Group independent board chair who served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the first Trump administration, to name some of his own best employees, hoping he might be able to poach them.

Mr. Lutnick’s request, Mr. Clayton recalled, was: “‘Give me the people you don’t want to give up, and let’s get them into government.’ And I think that’s a good approach.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/politics/howard-lutnick-transition-ethics.html?searchResultPosition=1

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In a historic move, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the first time in four years, reducing the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75% to 5%. This decision aims to ease borrowing costs amid signs of easing inflation and a softening labor market.

In particular, Justin answers the question: When will the average consumer feel the effects of Fed rate cuts?

Also in this podcast: AEP - American Electric Power Co. Inc. (NAS); VRN - Veren Inc. (NYS); SCHW - Charles Schwab Corp. (NYS); VFC - VF Corp. (NYS); VCIT - Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond (ETF) vs. VGIT - Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (ETF); PGR - Progressive Corp. (NYS); ELS - Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. (NYS); also, a listener question on 'value stocks'; plus Justin's MARKET WRAP UP, and his topic talking points: "529 Plans" and "Pig Butchering Scam". (Vulnerable people are losing big money to organized crime.)

Video Content Details

00:00 Intro 00:24 Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates: What It Means for You 04:57 MARKET WRAP 07:01 AEP 10:19 VRN 12:24 SCHW 13:30 VFC 15:11 VCIT vs VGIT 17:39 PGR 19:19 529 Plans 23:19 ELS 27:05 Value Stocks 29:43 Pig Butchering Scam

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Smart Trading: Expert Signals & Strategy - 16 November 2023

Trading Signals 16 November 2023. Comerica #PEP #PWR #RKT #NEE #AAPL #AI #NI #SIRI #HON #SCHW #DUK #FRT #EL #MAN #SABR #HBI #TLRY #WAT #CAG #INGR #MCD #CPB #EPD #BURL #QCOM #MDT #HBAN #CMA #DBX #IPG #ATAI #ILMN #CLH #WRLD #HD #ALB #TGT #CPMS #DE #UMC

Trading Signals 16 November 2023. Texas Instruments Incorporated, Apple, Pepsico, Rocket Companies, NextEra Energy, Quanta Services, C3 AI, NiSource, Sirius XM Holdings, Honeywell International, Charles Schwab Corporation, Duke Energy Corporation, Federal Realty, Estee Lauder Companies, ManpowerGroup. Continue reading Untitled

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5 Wall Street Investing Secrets You Need to Know!

Welcome to Wall Street 101, where we break down the complexities of the financial markets in a way that feels less like a textbook and more like a conversation over coffee. So, let’s dive right in. First off, what is Wall Street? Sure, it’s a street in New York City’s Financial District, but it’s so much more than that. It’s the beating heart of the U.S. financial markets, where giants like the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ reside. When people talk about Wall Street, they’re not just talking about a location; they’re referring to the entire ecosystem of finance that influences economies around the globe. Now, who are the key players on Wall Street? Think of investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as the matchmakers of the financial world. They facilitate buying and selling of securities, orchestrate IPOs, and even play a role in mergers and acquisitions. Then we have hedge funds—these are like the high-stakes poker players of the market, pooling money from investors to make big, often aggressive trades. And let’s not forget brokerage firms like Charles Schwab and E*TRADE, which empower everyday investors to buy and sell securities, giving you the tools to play in this big league. But how does the stock market actually work? It starts with the basics: stocks, bonds, commodities, and derivatives. Stocks are essentially pieces of ownership in a company. When you buy a stock, you’re hoping that its value will increase over time. Bonds are like loans you give to corporations or governments, usually considered safer but with lower returns. Commodities are the physical goods like gold or oil that you can trade, while derivatives are contracts that derive their value from something else, like options or futures. It sounds complicated, but it’s all about understanding how these elements interact.

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U.S. Stock Futures Hold Steady Amid Record Highs on Wall Street as Earnings Season Looms

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Wall Street Sees Record Highs Following Tech Stock Surge

U.S. stock futures remained stable on Monday evening after a day marked by record highs on Wall Street, driven by a strong rally in technology shares. The attention of investors is now shifting toward upcoming corporate earnings reports and economic data that could provide more insights into market trends. Trading volumes were somewhat lighter due to a federal holiday, but this did not dampen the momentum from last Friday’s strong bank earnings, which had already lifted major U.S. stock indexes to all-time highs.

As of Monday evening, the S&P 500 futures rose marginally to 5,911.25 points, while Nasdaq 100 futures steadied at 20,622.0 points. Dow Jones futures experienced a modest 0.1% increase to 43,404.0 points. Despite the light trading activity, the focus is on what lies ahead for the week as key earnings reports and economic readings could further shape the direction of the markets.

Technology Stocks Lead Market Gains

The surge in U.S. markets was led primarily by technology stocks, with NVIDIA Corporation standing out as one of the top performers. NVIDIA’s stock jumped 2.4%, reaching a record high during the regular trading session before leveling off in aftermarket trading. Investors are now keeping an eye on upcoming earnings reports from major chipmakers, such as ASML Holding and TSMC, which are seen as key indicators for the semiconductor industry.

Other tech giants, including Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft, also contributed to the market’s upward momentum, with all three stabilizing in aftermarket trade after gains during the session. The S&P 500 rose by 0.8% to close at a record high of 5,859.85 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5%, finishing the day at a new high of 43,065.22 points. Meanwhile, the NASDAQ Composite surged by 0.9%, closing at 18,502.64 points, nearing the peaks it reached earlier in the year.

In addition to the strong performance of tech stocks, the market has been buoyed by persistent bets that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates in November, following favorable inflation data for September. Investors are anticipating a potential rate cut of at least 25 basis points, which could provide further support to the U.S. stock market in the weeks ahead.

Investors Shift Focus to Earnings and Economic Data

With technology stocks providing a strong start to the week, investor attention is now squarely focused on the third-quarter earnings season, which kicks off in earnest on Tuesday. Financial heavyweights such as UnitedHealth Group, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Charles Schwab are all set to release their earnings reports, along with major corporations like Johnson & Johnson, United Airlines, and Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Later in the week, earnings from companies such as Morgan Stanley, Netflix, Blackstone, and American Express will also be closely watched. Investors are eager to see how these corporations have fared amid ongoing pressures from high interest rates and persistent inflation.

In addition to corporate earnings, market participants will keep a close eye on retail sales data and speeches from Federal Reserve officials, which could offer more clues about the state of the U.S. economy and the future of interest rate policy. As the week unfolds, the combination of earnings reports and economic indicators will likely play a significant role in shaping the trajectory of the U.S. stock market.

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US Macro Developments to Watch: Potential Shocks to Crypto Market This Week

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The cryptocurrency market has started positively, with Bitcoin and altcoins rising ahead of four key US macro events.

The US labor market, inflation metrics, retail sales, and industrial production data are all in focus this week.

The cryptocurrency market has begun the week on a positive note, with the price of Bitcoin surging by 3.73% and currently trading at $64,831. Alongside Bitcoin, altcoins have also seen an upward trend as investor sentiment remains bullish ahead of four significant macro events in the United States this week.

The US labor market is currently under the spotlight. It has shown strength thus far, preventing the Federal Reserve from announcing additional rate cuts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the US Department of Labor has stated that despite a slight softening in the job market, unemployment rates remain low.

US Inflation Metrics and Retail Sales

As jobs data comes into focus, the Federal Reserve is considering its next interest rate decision, aiming to balance its dual mandate of employment and price stability. The Kobeissi Letter, a leading macro-research platform, commented on inflation metrics.

It stated that US consumers’ inflation expectations for the next five to ten years had skyrocketed to 7.1% in October, the highest in over 40 years. This metric has doubled in just several months, according to the University of Michigan Consumer Survey.

A rise in initial jobless claims could indicate economic strain and a weakening labor market. This could lead to decreased consumer spending and reduced investments in stocks and bonds, prompting some investors to shift towards cryptocurrencies.

In addition to this, US economic data shows that retail sales will be under scrutiny this week. Like the jobs data, this report also influences decisions on inflation trajectory while providing insight into consumers’ ability to pay. Economists predict a 0.7% month-over-month increase in retail sales, a significant development amid fears of a possible recession or soft landing.

US Industrial Production and Corporate Earnings

Data on industrial production offers insight into the overall health of the manufacturing sector, a key driver for economic growth. The Federal Reserve’s monthly index, along with related capacity and utilization rates, monitors activity in manufacturing, mining, and utilities.

Strong data for industrial production indicates strength in the broader economy, boosting investor confidence across multiple asset classes, including Bitcoin and altcoins.

On Tuesday, October 15, all eyes will be on corporate earnings, including top players like Citi Bank, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. This data release will shed light on the financial strength of US companies. Healthy corporate earnings typically lead to positive market reactions, boosting stock prices and investor confidence. This heightened optimism can extend to the cryptocurrency market, as investors seek higher returns in a thriving economic climate.

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