Welcome to the 210th edition of The Weekly Bull Report.
Here’s a shortlist of the content we found interesting and informative over the past week…
🤔 Interesting Articles & News:
POLITICS
- UBS accused of role in embezzling Congolese millions. 💰
- The next UK prime minister will be announced on Sept. 5. 🇬🇧
- Italian PM Mario Draghi offers resignation after coalition falls apart. 🇮🇹
- Don’t expect Biden’s Saudi trip to bring down oil prices. 🛢
- The battlefield for control of Congress is small. Here’re the 20 counties that will decide the midterms. 🇺🇸
ECONOMICS
- Morocco – a top fertiliser producer – could hold a key to the world’s food supply. 🔑
- Bank of America slashes U.S. GDP forecast again: -1.2%. 📉
- The euro and the dollar are under half a penny away from parity for the first time in 20 years. 💶
- IMF warns of ‘Darkening Economic Outlook’ in call for tighter controls. ⛈
- Bank of America forecasts a recession this year with economy shrinking 1.4%. 🏦
- Inflation hits 9.1 percent in June, new 40-year high. 📈
CULTURE
- NFT of mRNA vaccine research to go on sale. 💉
- No, your consumers don’t want lectures on climate change, BLM and LGBTQ+. 🌈
- Van Gogh self-portrait found hidden behind another painting. 🖼️
- NASA releases first breathtaking images taken by James Webb space telescope. 🔭
- Earliest known images of two biblical heroines unearthed in Israel. 🇮🇱
- Cavers discover 200-year old mine, untouched since the moment it was abandoned. 🔎
SOCIETY
- Bernie Ecclestone: Former F1 boss to be charged with fraud over assets worth more than £400 million. 🏎
- London is now the most surveilled city in the western world. 👁
- The Earth’s 8 billionth inhabitant will be born on Nov. 15. 👶
- Uber broke laws, duped police, and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals. 🙊
- How Uber won access to world leaders, deceived investigators, and exploited violence against its drivers in battle for global dominance. 💥
- 6 Starbucks stores in LA area among 16 closing in US amid safety fears. ☕️
- Businesswoman Ivana Trump, First Wife of Donald Trump, passes away at 73. 🙏
- Bill Gates says his pledge to give away his wealth (to his own charity) will erase him from list of world’s richest people (great tax maneuver). 💸
TECHNOLOGY
- Researchers in China said their ‘mind-reading’ AI can measure loyalty to the Communist Party. 🇨🇳
- MSU researchers unveil 3D printing technology that could advance biofilm science. 🖨
- The first image from the James Webb Space Telescope took less than a day to capture, and it’s the deepest infrared view of the universe we’ve ever seen. 🔭
- From search engines to predicting protein structures, A.I. increasingly drives innovation—and raises ethics questions. ❓
- Japan proposes a wild concept for making artificial gravity on the moon. 🌒
- After an AI bot wrote a scientific paper on itself, the researcher behind the experiment says she hopes she didn’t open a ‘Pandora’s box‘. 📃
- Higgs boson at 10: Deep dive into the mysterious, mass-giving particle. ⚛️
MEDICINE & SCIENCE
- Cumulative effects of LDL-C reduction in mitigating cardiovascular risk. 🫀
- Hot stuff: Spicy foods can’t harm you, can they? 🔥
- Only seven percent of adults have good cardiometabolic health. ✅
- Intro to lipids & lipoproteins: why there is no ‘bad’ or ‘good’ cholesterol. 🤔
- What causes heart disease? (the number one killer in the developed world) ❤️🩹
- How morning coffee changes the brain. ☕️
- ‘Systemic Catastrophe’: MIT Senior Researcher warns Glyphosate is a slow kill. 🚨
- Inaccurate pulse oximeter readings tied to less supplemental oxygen for darker-skinned ICU patients. 👩⚕️
- What causes the brain’s emotional hub to switch to negative states? 🎭
- Can you outrun a poor diet? 🏃♀️
- Africans make up a tiny portion of genomics data: Why there’s an urgent need for change. 🌍
- Antidepressants are overprescribed and linked to suicide risk. 💊
- How old is your brain? Seeking new epigenetic measures of brain aging. 🧠
- Researchers find FDA-approved drugs that curb Alzheimer’s symptoms. 🔬
- Consumption of extra virgin olive oil during pregnancy increases the level of antioxidants in breast milk and in infants. 🫒
- Non-invasive stimulation of eye as potential treatment of depression and dementia. 👀
- Africa is a treasure trove of medicinal plants: Here are seven that are popular. 🌱
- Scientists cloned mice from freeze-dried skin cells, opening the door to biopreservation. 🐭
- Statins increase diabetes risk by 38%. 📈
CANNABIS & PSYCHEDELICS
- Ann Shulgin, pioneer of psychedelics in therapy, dies at 91. 🙏
- Some US states have begun the process to decriminalize psychedelics for use in healing therapy. 🇺🇸
- How common is pediatric cannabis use and what are the risks? 🌿
- Psychedelics may be your ticket to self-actualization. 🧘♀️
- Classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, and other serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR) agonists evoke acute alterations in perception and cognition. 🧠
- Indonesia could issue a fatwa that medical marijuana is halal – thanks to a mother’s love. 🇮🇩
- How to Change Your Mind: The documentary that wants you to think again about LSD. 🎞
- PSYCH Symposium: London 2022 – Between Receptor and Mind: How Psychedelics Work In the Brain. Watch It Here. 🧠
- Ketamine for psychedelic mental health healing grows in popularity. 👏
- Access to psilocybin in Canada. 🇨🇦
SPORTS
- Tennis star Ons Jabeur is Tunisia’s ‘minister of happiness’. 🎾
- ‘You’re looking for a lack of fluff’: Why Wimbledon uses 55,000 tennis balls a year. 🎾
- Kenya loses 2025 World Athletics Championships bid to Japan. 🇯🇵
- Australia’s Michael Matthews wins Tour de France stage 14, Vingegaard retains overall lead. 🚴
💲 Noteworthy Stocks & Assets:
- Why the hype around NFTs should not make us lose sight of the legal issues in terms of copyrights. 👩⚖️
- From $10 billion to zero: How a crypto hedge fund collapsed and dragged many investors down with it. 💰
- Celsius’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing dashes hopes that customers barred from withdrawing funds will ever get their money back. 🤷♂️
- The chief brain behind Tesla’s acclaimed self-driving program is out—and that spells trouble for Musk. 🚘
Earnings spotlight:
Earnings spotlight: Monday, July 18 – Bank of America (BAC), IBM (IBM), and Goldman Sachs (GS).
Earnings spotlight: Tuesday, July 19 – Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Netflix (NFLX), Hasbro (HAS), Silvergate Capital (NYSE:SI).
Earnings spotlight: Wednesday, July 20 – Tesla (TSLA), Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT), CSX (NASDAQ:CSX), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB), and United Airlines (UAL).
Earnings spotlight: Thursday, July 21 – AT&T (T), Philip Morris International (PM), Travelers Companies (TRV), Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ), Union Pacific (UMP), Snap (SNAP), and
Earnings spotlight: Friday, July 22 – Verizon Communications (VZ), American Express (AXP), Twitter (TWTR), and HCA Healthcare (HCA).
IPOs expected to start trading this week:
The analyst quiet period expires on Golden Sun Education Group (GSUN) on July 18. The IPO lockup expires on the same day on Yoshitsu (TKLF).
What Moved the Markets:
U.S. Indices
Dow -0.2% to 31,288. S&P 500 -0.9% to 3,863. Nasdaq -1.6% to 11,452. Russell 2000 -1.6% to 1,741. CBOE Volatility Index -1.7% to 24.23.
S&P 500 Sectors
Consumer Staples +0.1%. Utilities -0.1%. Financials -0.9%. Telecom -3.3%. Healthcare -0.5%. Industrials -1.2%. Information Technology -0.3%. Materials -1.3%. Energy -3.1%. Consumer Discretionary -1.%.
World Indices
London -0.5% to 7,159. France +0.1% to 6,036. Germany -1.2% to 12,865. Japan +1.% to 26,788. China -3.8% to 3,228. Hong Kong -6.6% to 20,298. India -1.3% to 53,761.
Commodities and Bonds
Crude Oil WTI -6.9% to $97.57/bbl. Gold -2.1% to $1,706.5/oz. Natural Gas +17.9% to 7.115. Ten-Year Treasury Yield -0.2 bps to 2.92.
Forex and Cryptos
EUR/USD -0.95%. USD/JPY +1.81%. GBP/USD -1.41%. Bitcoin -3.3%. Litecoin +1.4%. Ethereum +2.5%. XRP -1.1%.
Top S&P 500 Gainers
Southwest Airlines (LUV) +8%. Citigroup (C) +7%. United Airlines Holdings (UAL) +6%. NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) +6%. The Boeing Company (BA) +6%.
Top S&P 500 Losers
Match Group (MTCH) -13%. ServiceNow (NOW) -12%. Enphase Energy (ENPH) -10%. SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG) -10%. APA (APA) -8%.
🎯 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) 📈
🏆 Quotes That Inspire Us:
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
– John Naisbitt
📖 Word Of The Week:
To postulate means to assume or claim something (such as an idea or theory) as true, especially for the purposes of starting a discussion.
The famous science-fiction author often postulates in interviews that we live in but one of an infinite number of parallel universes.
❔ Did You Know:
Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.
📚 Books We Are Reading:
- Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing – by Jeffrey Rediger.
- Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes – by Ilan Kelman.
- Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light – by Matt Gaw.
- Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft – by Peter Westwick.
- Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change – by Syukuro Manabe & Anthony J. Broccoli.
🤣 One-Liners:
- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
- Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up.
📽 A Must Watch & Listen:
- How medicine is failing a nation in pain. 💊
- When we’ll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them. (fascinating)
- How is one of the most senior dealmakers in Europe navigating inflationary pressures? Watch here. (Goldman Sachs)
- Too much pleasure can lead to addiction. How to break the cycle and find balance.
📆 Upcoming Events:
Fierce MedTech Summit 🧬
The only event where medical device marketers will gather alongside product development, engineering, and R&D professionals to share the leading-edge tools and strategies that will propel increased effectiveness in their roles.
August 08-09, 2022 | In-person Event | Minneapolis, MN, USA
Our very best wishes for a brilliant upcoming week! 💪
Respectfully yours,
The IBR Team
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