Becker Private Equity & Business

In this episode Scott Becker shares the lasted news and stats on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode Scott discusses:

President Biden Nominated Fed Chair Powell to a second term as Chair.

Treasury yields on the 10 year bond rose nearly 10 basis points to close at 1.625.

Growth and tech stocks faltered yesterday on news of Powell's pick.

The equity markets initially jumped on the news of Powell's reappointment but then the S&P 500 and Nasdaq dropped significantly.

Samsung is building a huge chip making plant in Texas.

Comcast which is the owner of NBC Universal's Peacock NBCUniversal owns Hulu with Disney but has the right to pull Hulu from Disney+ and only have the content on Peacock.

Goldman points to these 5 stocks as stocks to avoid due to high labor costs to earnings.

Zoom stock fell nearly 4 percent on news of slowing growth.

Bank of America rose yesterday on the Fed Chair reappointment as bank stocks tend to do well as interest rates and borrowing costs rise.

For the first time in months, we are seeing some car commercials.

Blackstone finished down 1.4 percent yesterday at 144 on the Fed news.

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The House passed the $2 trillion bill for spending.

Pension funds keep raising their private equity exposure.

In this episode Scott discusses:

Buying crypto is not like buying other stocks.

Expect extreme periods of volatility.

Know your risk tolerance when investing.

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The Nasdaq rose Friday while the S&P 500 and Dow fell.

Futures for each of the indexes point up this morning.

The 10 year treasury yield fell nearly 10 points between Thursday and Friday to open today near 1.536.

The House passed the $2 trillion bill for spending.

New Covid cases are averaging close to 100,000 a day and as expected the new surges are in places not hit as bad this summer.

Pension funds keep raising their private equity exposure.

Gas prices reached $6 dollars a gallon this week in CA for the first time.

The WSJ reports "Global Supply Gridlock Starts to Ease".

Consumer confidence plummets even though corporate results are high.

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CVS closing 900 of its 10000 stores.

Austria introducing general vaccine mandates and lockdowns.

Macy's jumped 21.2 percent on great revenues and news of looking at spinning off its e-commerce operations.

Kohls jumped 10 plus percent on great earnings.

S&P500 and Nasdaq rose yesterday.

The 10 year treasury yield fell to 1.586.

The house passed a nearly 2 trillion dollar spending bill.

Becker's Healthcare podcast surpassed 4 million downloads this week.

In this episode Scott Becker shares the lasted news and stats on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode Scott Becker shares 5 notes on his investment journey in Bitcoin.

In this episode Scott discusses:

Thoughts on the Fed Chairman situation

New jobless claims

Thoughts on Alpha investing

Investing with private equity funds

In this episode Scott Becker shares an update on Target results.