DAILY UPDATE: Zuck’s Testimony and Pfizer’s Liver as Stocks Fizzle Out

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Mark Zuckerberg testified as the trial for the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta over its purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp began yesterday.

Pfizer said it would end development of its daily weight loss pill after a patient reported liver damage.

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  • Stocks started the day strong but the rally eventually fizzled out as reports of trade talks between the US and EU making “little progress” left all three major indexes in the red.
  • The dreaded death cross has arrived: The S&P 500’s 50-day moving average is now below the 200-day moving average for the first time since 2022, a bearish technical indicator that has investors worried.
  • 10-year Treasury yields fell to a one-week low, letting traders breathe a small sigh of relief after tariffs upended the status quo last week.

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

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FATAL: Narcissism

BY DR. DAVID EDWARD MARCINKO MBA MEd

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Imagine if Narcissus had a social media account. Fatal narcissism is what happens when self-love goes off the rails. It’s not just about admiring your reflection; it’s an all-consuming need for admiration and validation. Think endless selfies and humblebrags.

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While a bit of narcissism is normal, fatal narcissism is like a black hole – it sucks in all attention and gives nothing back.

So, if my Instagram looks like a shrine to my own greatness, you might be witnessing fatal narcissism in action.

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DAILY UPDATE: Medicare, Google & Meta, FTX and the Rising Markets

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FTX was ordered to pay $12.7 billion to customers. All customers will recoup their deposits that were locked when the crypto exchange went under in 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission just said last Thursday.

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Read: How one-hour patient home visits allowed insurers to collect $15 billion from Medicare between 2019 and 2021. (the Wall Street Journal)

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What’s up

  • Sweetgreen popped 33.33% after a strong earnings report coupled with forecasts of higher-than-expected sales in 2024.
  • Doximity soared 38.70% thanks to a beat-and-raise quarter from the medical platform that has been investing in its own DoximityGPT AI model.
  • Nikola rose 8.21% after a surprisingly strong quarter in which sales soared 318%.
  • Unity Software jumped 8.22% despite revenue coming in lower year over year, but it was still higher than Wall Street expected.
  • Take-Two Interactive Software surged 4.35% after it beat earnings estimates last quarter, but no word yet on how its Gearbox acquisition is helping its bottom line, nor when GTA 6 is going to be released.
  • Expedia traveled 10.21% higher due to an earnings beat, with the company sidestepping a consumer spending slowdown quite nicely.

What’s down

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Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500® index (SPX) rose 25 points (0.5%) to 5,344.16, ending the week little changed; the Dow Jones Industrial Average® ($DJI) rose 51 points (0.1%) to 39,497.54 to end the week down about 0.6%; the NASDAQ Composite® ($COMP) ended 85 points higher (0.5%) at 16,745.30, leaving it about 0.2% lower for the week.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) dropped five basis points to 3.944%.
  • The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) declined three points (13%) to 20.7.

Google and Meta teamed up to target teens with ads for Instagram on YouTube, going against Google’s own rules, the Financial Times reported.

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META: Violating the DMA?

Europe can’t stop penalizing US tech firms.

The European Union or EU has charged Meta with violating its Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new law regulating digital platforms, through its “pay or consent” model. That model, which Meta introduced in November to comply with the DMA, allowed European users of Instagram and Facebook to pay for a subscription instead of seeing ads. The EU now says these options prevent users from consenting to the use of their personal data.

Meta is the second US-based Big Tech company to be charged for violating the DMA, after Apple got nailed last week.

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DOWN: Facebook, Threads, Instagram and Messenger

PARENT META OUTAGE

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Facebook, Instagram and Messenger have gone down in what appears to be a huge outage at parent company Meta.

Users found themselves unable to load the apps or websites as normal. On Facebook, affected users found they had been logged out and were unable to get on, while Instagram refused to work at all.

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SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE “Meta Verified”

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According to Alexandra Bruell at alexandra.bruell@wsj.com the aim of Meta Verified is to increase security and authenticity across the company’s services, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Sunday in social-media posts. It is also meant to “help up-and-coming creators grow their presence and build community faster,” according to a Meta spokesperson.

The service will cost $11.99 a month for Facebook and Instagram accounts that sign up from a web browser, or $14.99 a month for subscriptions through devices running Android and Apple Inc.’s iOS system, according to Meta. Tests of the service will begin in Australia and New Zealand this week. 

In the coming months, the company expects it to roll out in the U.S. and eventually other markets, according to the spokesperson.

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