Hawk Tuah Crypto Scam? | United Healthcare CEO Single Stock Risk| Unemployment Breakdown | +29% S&P Years More Common| MicroStrategy vs. Bitcoin
By Derek Moore
Show Summary:
Derek Moore and Jay Pestrichelli cover markets including the news on the CEO of United Healthcare, the Hawk Tuah meme coin alleged scam, unpacking the latest unemployment report, how markets go up 29% or more in a year more often than you’d think, and how the rotation of voting members of the FOMC might be hawkish in 2025. Plus, checking in on the ratio of returns of MicroStrategy vs. Bitcoin. Plus, looking at the 53-month drawdown in the US Aggregate Bond Index and corresponding ETF.
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Topics Include:
- Hawk Tuah crypto meme coin alleged scam, pump and dump, rug pull etc (alleged)
- What is a pump and dump, or rug pull?
- Why would anyone buy a meme coin?
- Reacting to the news on United Healthcare’s CEO being murdered
- Understanding single stock risk and hedging
- Reviewing the components of the latest unemployment numbers
- Difference between the household and establishment employment survey
- Was there more unemployment or more new entrants that drove the number?
- US Aggregate Bond Index ETF AGG’s years long drawdown
- Bitcoin vs MicroStrategy relative performance since the recent all-time high in MicroStrategy
- Looking at the relative ratio of performance on the way up and since it’s retraced
- Who’s out and who’s in at the Fed FOMC voting committee in 2025
- US Average Hourly Earnings
- Bloomberg’s AI program to identify how many S&P 500 companies mentioned job cuts
- Contribution to the US Unemployment rate
Charts Discussed in This Episode
Source: Charlie Bilello
Source: BLS
Source: BLS
Source: Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
Source: Charlie Bilello
Source: FRB, BofA Global Research
Source: Bloomberg
Mentioned in this Episode
US Unemployment report (the one with the unemployment rate percentage)
Jay Pestrichelli’s book Buy and Hedge
Derek’s new book on public speaking Effortless Public Speaking
Derek Moore’s book Broken Pie Chart
Contact Derek derek.moore@zegainvestments.com
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