DAILY UPDATE: FTC Insulin Prices, Open AI Funding, Disney Slack Hack and Private Equity Banks

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The Federal Trade Commission hit the three largest companies that negotiate drug prices with a lawsuit claiming they’ve artificially inflated the cost of insulin for patients. The companies—UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, CVS Health’s Caremark, and Cigna’s Express Scripts—together administer ~80% of all US prescriptions, the agency said. The suit alleges they increased profits by steering patients toward higher-priced insulin with bigger rebates so they could pocket the cash that drug companies gave back.

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OpenAI has so many interested investors it’ll have to turn some away from an expected $6.5 billion funding round that values the company at $150 billion.

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Disney employees will have to stop using Slack in the wake of a hack that leaked the company’s chat logs.

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Visualize: How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt, from the Financial Times.

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DAILY UPDATE: Iger Survives as Ulta Beauty and Stock Markets Stall

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Ulta Beauty plunged after its CEO revealed that, despite the resilience of the beauty category, sales have slowed.

And, Walt Disney’s current rulers will continue to oversee the kingdom. The company’s board, helmed by CEO Bob Iger, defeated activist investors and Nelson Peltz who had hoped to replace current board members and steer the company in a new direction.

Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500 index rose 5.68 points (0.1%) to 5,211.49; the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 43.10 points (0.1%) to 39,127.14; the NASDAQ Composite® ($COMP) added 37.01 points (0.2%) to 16,277.46.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield fell more than 1 basis point to 4.351%.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) declined 0.28 to 14.33.

Energy shares remained one of the market’s strongest performers behind strength in WTI Crude Oil (/CL) futures, which rose a fifth consecutive day and ended above $85 per barrel, the highest since October. The Philadelphia Oil Service Index (OSX) jumped1.6%, extending its year-to-date gain to almost 14%. 

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DAILY UPDATE: Name Brand Drug Prices Up as Corporate Earnings Week Awaits

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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As the federal government seeks to rein in drug prices, pharmaceutical companies this year have been raising prices on hundreds of name-brand drugs. A new analysis by the drug research firm 46brooklyn Research found that companies increased prices on 910 branded drugs in January, although the median increase was 4.7% – the lowest drug inflation rate in more than a decade, the analysis shows.

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Whether you’re into (McDonald’s), (Disney), (Ford), (Chipotle), or paying extra for medicine (Eli Lilly), there’s an earnings report for you this week. A strong earnings season so far has helped push the major stock indexes to four straight weekly gains.

And, while Meta’s historic stock-pop hosted the headlines last week, Nvidia has quietly put together a phenomenal start to 2024. The chip-making giant added nearly $300 billion in market value in January, its biggest monthly gain ever. That’s one reason the S&P 500 is kicking off the week at a record high.

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DAILY UPDATE: NASDAQ Down but U.S. Dollar Up

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Last week, the NASDAQ snapped its eight-week winning streak, but it’s still on pace for its best and has nearly erased its total losses from 2022. Over in the media world, everyone (Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global) is struggling except Netflix.

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But, the U.S. dollar rose to a 15-month high against the ruble this Monday after dramatic weekend events in Russia, which saw an aborted mutiny by heavily armed mercenaries. The dollar index also found some safe-haven support on lingering worries that the protracted monetary tightening cycles from major central banks would further hurt the global economic outlook.

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DAILY UPDATE: Disney, MSFT and Lyft Down but US Markets Mixed

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Nelson Peltz, the activist investor and head of Trian Fund Management, called a cease-fire after a month long proxy fight with Disney. Peltz said he was happy with the restructuring plan CEO Bob Iger announced and will no longer try to grab a seat on the board of directors. Along with his restructuring plan, Disney said that Toy Story, Frozen, and Zootopia will all get more sequels in an effort to boost the company’s streaming numbers.

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Microsoft Corp., implementing the layoff of 10,000 workers announced cut jobs in units including Surface devices, HoloLens mixed reality hardware and Xbox, according to Bloomberg and people familiar with the matter.

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Shares of ride-hailing firm Lyft plunged following a downbeat profit forecast. In fact, Lyft had its worst day ever after it shared a dismal outlook during its earnings call this week. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives called it “a Top 3 worst call” out of the thousands he’s listened in 22 years. The company’s shares fell about 36% after forecasting it’ll make between $5 million and $15 million this quarter—rather than the $85 million that analysts expected. Meanwhile, Uber is coming off its “strongest quarter ever,” according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to their highest in more than a month following an auction on Thursday of 30-year bonds that saw weak demand. [US].

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Finally the S&P 500 gained 8.99 points, or 0.22%, to end at 4,090.49 points, while the NASDAQ Composite lost 71.12 points, or 0.60%, to 11,718.46. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 169.88 points, or 0.50%, to 33,869.76. The NASDAQ posted its first weekly fall this year, while the S&P 500 ended the week lower in a week dominated by hawkish commentary from U.S. Federal Reserve officials and earnings reports from more than half of the S&P 500 constituents.

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