Welcome to the 228th edition of The Weekly Bull Report.
This will be our last edition for 2022. Our first edition in 2023 will be on January 08.📆
We thank you all for your continued support and wish you all a fantastic festive season filled with love and happiness.❤️
Here’s a shortlist of the content we found interesting and informative over the past week…
🤔 Interesting Articles & News:
POLITICS
- Remembering our Covid-19 journey – the hardships and our spirit of perseverance 😷
- BlackRock has been targeted by a political attack-style campaign for Being ‘Woke’.
ECONOMICS
- Nothing here I want to post until January.
CULTURE
- Do you underestimate the impact of being kind?
- No TikTok: Sacred sites in Nepal start to ban the video-sharing app. 📱
- Fleetwood Mac singer Christine McVie dead: ‘Songbird’ legend was 79. (RIP)
SOCIETY
- Disney fires CEO Bob Chapek after woke war with DeSantis.💼
- Brexit has worsened shortage of NHS doctors, analysis shows.
- CNN connects Daylight Savings Time to ‘Structural Racism’.
- Kirstie Alley, Emmy-winning Cheers’ and ‘Veronica’s Closet” star, dead at 71. (RIP)
TECHNOLOGY
- What can blockchain do for increasing human longevity?
- Walmart overtakes Amazon in shoppers’ search for Black Friday bargains
- Apple and Elon Musk’s Twitter are on a collision course📱
- 3D printing can aid in the production of radiopharmaceuticals.
- AI homework.
MEDICINE & SCIENCE
- You’ve damaged your gut microbiome–Now what?
- Exercise addiction is a real mental health condition, yet still poorly understood.🏋️
- MRI reveals significant brain abnormalities Post-COVID.🧠
- Taking NSAIDs such as ibuprofen or naproxen for arthritis may make inflammation worse over time.
- Using Ketamine to treat Anorexia.
- How CBD can help reduce inflammation in the body.
- Two new genes that raise a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease have been discovered by researchers at Cardiff University.
- Cellular “Glue” to regenerate tissues, heal wounds, and regrow nerves.
- Colon Cancer: New study shows dietary changes shrink tumors.
- Why does the Alzheimer’s brain become Insulin-Resistant?
CANNABIS & PSYCHEDELICS
- Can tripping save the planet?
- What psychedelics can’t explain.
- Does Thailand really want to become a cannabis tourism hot spot? (still so early in the game and very disorganized – makes for great opportunities. Jeff just got back from a 3-week exploratory visit)
- Why are cannabis beverages struggling to take market share from flower and edibles?
- Selling the Priceless Mushroom: A history of psilocybin mushroom trade in the Sierra Mazateca.
- Access to psychedelics passed in Colorado. Now what?
- DEA proposes even higher 2023 production quotas for psychedelics like MDMA and Psilocyn.
- Cannabis as a treatment for Covid-19.
- Meta-Analysis of Intravenous vs Intranasal Ketamine.
- Ketamine: Could this anesthetic be the key to treating neurological disorders?
- Study looks at how ketamine acts as a switch in the brain.
- Neuroimaging correlates of treatment response with psychedelics in Major Depressive Disorder.
- Europe’s first THC adult-use Cannabis trial set to launch in January 2023.
SPORTS
- Sir Clive Woodward slams state of English rugby after South Africa loss 🏉
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The Heated Debate: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi – who’s the bigger threat?⚽
Noteworthy Stocks & Assets:
- Microsoft buys near 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud deal. (no potential conflict here) 🤣
- Auditing giant Mazars Group suspends work with Binance, crypto companies. (nothing to see here👀)
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Earnings spotlight:
Monday, December 19 – Heico (NYSE:HEI) and Steelcase (SCS).
Tuesday, December 20 – Nike (NKE), General Mills (GIS), FedEx (FDX), CalAmp Corp. (CAMP), and Blackberry (BB).
Wednesday, December 21 – Micron Technology (MU), Rite Aid (RAD), and Toro Company (TTC).
Thursday, December 22 – Paychex (PAYX) and CarMax (KMX).
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IPOs expected to start trading this week:
None 0️⃣
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What Moved the Markets:
U.S. Indices
Dow -1.7% to 32,920. S&P 500 -2.1% to 3,852. Nasdaq -2.7% to 10,705. Russell 2000 -1.9% to 1,763. CBOE Volatility Index -0.9% to 22.62.
S&P 500 Sectors
Consumer Staples -1.4%. Utilities -0.6%. Financials -2.5%. Telecom -2.5%. Healthcare -1.8%. Industrials -1.1%. Information Technology -2.7%. Materials -2.3%. Energy +1.7%. Consumer Discretionary -3.6%.
World Indices
London -1.9% to 7,332. France -3.4% to 6,453. Germany -3.3% to 13,893. Japan -1.3% to 27,527. China -1.2% to 3,168. Hong Kong -2.3% to 19,451. India -1.4% to 61,338.
Commodities and Bonds
Crude Oil WTI +4.2% to $74.5/bbl. Gold -0.4% to $1,803./oz. Natural Gas +5.9% to 6.611. Ten-Year Bond Yield -0.2 bps to 3.488.
Forex and Cryptos
EUR/USD +0.53%. USD/JPY +0.11%. GBP/USD -0.92%. Bitcoin -2.4%. Litecoin -12.7%. Ethereum -6.8%. XRP -7.9%.
Top S&P 500 Gainers
Moderna (MRNA) +9%. Halliburton (HAL) +9%. Universal Health Services (UHS) +7%. PulteGroup (PHM) +5%. Schlumberger (SLB) +5%.
Top S&P 500 Losers
Charter Communications (CHTR) -20%. Tesla (TSLA) -16%. Trimble (TRMB) -13%. United Airlines Holdings (UAL) -11%. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) -11%.
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🎯 Stocks On Our Radar:
- AgeX (NYSE: AGE) 📈 – $3.00 target
- Portage Biotech (NASDAQ: PRTG) 📈 – $45 target
- Agronomics Ltd (OTC: AGNMF) 📈
- Regent Pacific Group Ltd. (HKG: 0575) 📈
- ThreeD Capital Inc. (IDK.CN) (OTC: IDKFF) 📈
- Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR: NYSE) 📈Big (beta) upside. $25 target
- M2Bio Sciences (OTC: MRES) 📈
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🏆 Quotes That Inspire Us:
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain” – Dolly Parton 🌈
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📖 Word Of The Week:
Fervor – intense and passionate feeling. Noun.
❔ Did You Know:
📚 Books We Are Reading:
- Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World – by Tim Ferriss.
- Crushing It: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence – and How You Can, Too – by Gary Vaynerchuk.
- The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty – Clayton M. Christensen
- Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again – by Eric Topol
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🤣 One-Liners:
Q: Why did the can crusher quit his job? Because it was soda pressing.
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📽 A Must Watch & Listen:
- Diana Chapman: Trusting Your Instincts [The Knowledge Project Ep. #130]
- Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics. [The Knowledge Project Ep. #108]
- Jeff’s latest Internet Bull Report interview: Watch It Here.
- Social psychologist Emily Balcetis goes in-depth on understanding how people’s perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals.
📆 Upcoming Events:
None for you today but will share many in 2023.
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The IBR Team
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