 | Good morning. The 25th James Bond movie finally has a title, No Time To Die. To celebrate, we'll give you four cocktails. You have to decide whether they're traditionally shaken or stirred. - Manhattan
- Cosmopolitan
- Daiquiri
- Martini
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 | S&P | 2,900.78 | -0.78% | | | | NASDAQ | 7,948.56 | -0.68% | | | | DJIA | 25,965.70 | -0.65% | | | | | | 10-YR | 1.546% | -6.4 bps | |  | GOLD | 1,517.60 | +0.40% | | | | OIL | 56.18 | -0.05% | | | *As of market close - U.S. markets: As you'll read, President Trump stole most of this section's thunder. But the Dow snapped a three-day winning streak.
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Francis Scialabba | After a tumultuous couple of weeks, the Trump administration is considering adding some magic powder to juice the U.S. economy. Big picture: The economy's been gangbusters before and after Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2017. Unemployment is hanging at a 50-year low and consumers continue to spend as freely as ever. However, equal parts trade war, economies faltering in Europe, and yield curve inversion have conspired to create a cocktail of recession anxieties. Earlier in the week, Trump took out frustrations on his favorite punching bag: the Fed. But yesterday he confirmed he's thinking about "various tax reductions" of his own while arguing the economy is fine without resorting to those moves. Option No.1: Payroll tax cut Trump said he's considering a temporary cut to the payroll tax. - What that is: U.S. worker income up to $132,900 annually is docked 6.2% to fund Social Security and 1.45% to fund Medicare.
- Pros: A cut could potentially add billions to Americans' take-home income.
- Cons: It would probably add to the deficit and drain Social Security.
Option No. 2: Capital gains tax cut Trump also floated a capital gains tax reduction, indexing the tax to inflation. - What that is: A tax levied on profitable investment sales.
- Pro: A cut would benefit wealthy investors.
- Con: Without first getting congressional approval, it would likely be challenged in court the moment Trump signed it.
What went unmentioned... ...were concerns about the U.S.-China trade conflict, which is causing major economic worries. Last month, the Fed released a report concluding the trade war may be limiting business spending. Hugging it out with President Xi would probably provide the boost Trump's looking for. Bottom line: A faltering economy could seriously impair Trump's campaign for reelection. The state of the economy can make or break an incumbent; just ask Jimmy Carter in 1980.     |
CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP | Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation yesterday after blaming his own interior minister of sabotaging the country's institutions. It's how Ned Stark would have done it. That interior minister is Matteo Salvini, the surging star and leader of the far-right League party. Last summer, his party linked up with the populist Five Star Movement to form a government, but around two weeks ago Salvini said, "hey fellas...this isn't going to work out" and called for snap elections. What's not working out in Italy: - Economic growth is what economists like to call "nonexistent."
- With a Mt. Everest of public debt that's more than 130% of GDP (second in Europe only to Greece), Italy's debt burden breaks EU rules. The country has to figure out its budget by this fall.
There's the rub: Salvini's clashed with Brussels over the EU's fiscal requirements. "I don't want Italy to be a slave to anyone, and I don't want Italy to be given a long chain like a little dog," he said. Looking ahead...expect either snap elections or the formation of a new coalition that freezes Salvini out. |
Giphy | Yesterday, Facebook users in Ireland, Spain, and South Korea got first dibs on a new privacy tool that disconnects their activity on other websites from Facebook's data collection. FB tracks me when I'm not on the site? Welcome back to our collective privacy awakening of 2k18. Facebook has embedded business tools on other sites—like those facilitated logins—that scrape your internet activity even when you're not on its platforms. The new tool, called "Off-Facebook Activity," shows users which apps/sites send their browsing data to FB. Users can then dissociate their personally identifying information from Facebook's activity-tracking data, and reconnect later if they're missing the companionship of a toothpaste ad. - Zuck announced the tool in May 2018, but it was delayed as Facebook figured out how to redesign its information processing systems. After all, it's hard to build privacy tools when your business is grounded on knowing everything users do.
Reality check: Facebook's acting like it's doing everyone a big privacy favor...but remember it's reacting to various regulatory inquiries and a user base that's decided privacy is en vogue. |
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Netflix | 18 years ago today, Nickelback released "How You Remind Me." We suggest you mark the event with a documentary that will remind you about how globalization has affected the Midwest. American Factory, created by filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, is available on Netflix today. - Gone Hollywood: The doc is the first title released from Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama's production company.
Some backstory... The beginning: In 2008, GM shuttered a plant that assembled trucks outside of Dayton, OH, leaving around 2,700 employees without work. The middle: In 2014, a lifeline. A Chinese billionaire invested in the plant and hired over 1,000 Americans to work alongside Chinese employees at Fuyao Glass America, an automotive glass maker. Bognar and Reichert decided to chronicle the shift in a feature-length film, spotlighting the cultural differences between Chinese and American employees on issues like working conditions and time off. The end: Reviewers say the resulting film is an even-handed exploration of global commerce at a time when it's as relevant as ever. You can watch it tonight. Socializing is for nerds. |
FogCam | This month, the oldest operating internet webcam will shut down, the site's administrators said Saturday. FogCam started as a student project at San Francisco State University (go Gators) and, barring a few location changes and maintenance updates, has faithfully broadcast campus images since 1994. FogCam was inspired by the first internet webcam, a coffee pot livestream created by scientists at the University of Cambridge. By today's standards, FogCam's pretty simplistic. But in 1994, when the internet was pay-per-minute, it was cutting edge. FogCam's basically a lock for the Smithsonian Guggenheim Museum of Internet History. Zoom out: Early webcams gave internet users their first taste of streaming. In the decades since, they've sped up, streamlined, and democratized video communications. FogCam co-founder Jeff Schwartz said Adam Curry used it as a model for his website (something called "MTV"). And another early webcam of a fish tank—created by Netscape's founding engineer Lou Montulli—served as a testbed for internet improvements that laid the foundation for e-commerce, GIFs, and uploaded photos. |
- Apple (+0.00%) said its Apple Card is now available to all U.S. customers.
- Walmart (-1.55%) is suing Tesla (-0.43%) over alleged solar panel-sparked fires at about seven Walmart locations.
- Huawei is facing a "live-or-die moment," founder Ren Zhengfei wrote in a company memo.
- St. Louis is getting an MLS expansion team to start play in 2022. It'll be the first female-majority-owned team in league history.
- U.S. banking regulators approved changes to the Volcker Rule in a win for Wall Street.
- Marvel's Kevin Feige won't be producing any more Spider-Man films as Disney and Sony Pictures couldn't agree to financial terms, reports Deadline.
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There's 1 8x8 square, 4 7x7 squares, 9 6x6 squares, 16 5x5 squares, 25 4x4 squares, 36 3x3 squares, 49 2x2 squares, and 64 1x1 squares. Total = 204 Shaken or Stirred - Manhattan: Stirred
- Cosmopolitan: Shaken
- Daiquiri: Shaken
- Martini: Stirred
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