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Ironic that we live in an age when it’s easier than ever to be plugged in, connected, and informed, and folks are just turning their backs on whatever else is going on around them. Of course, here on Slope, we’ve got RNeo, so we’re covered.
A week ago, I did a post noting that Netflix had broken its lengthy ascending price channel, which should be interpreted as a negative sign. This morning, the huge business news is that the same NFLX has bought Warner Brothers, which led to this curiously defensive declaration by the management:
I did a podcast a few days ago with Andrew Horowitz in which, among other things, I share my views about 2026. Feel free to give it a listen by clicking here.
Yesterday evening’s Nvidia earnings slapped on trillions of dollars of recovered market value to stocks around the world. The chart of the /ES below shows the beneficial effect of the NVDA news (green arrow). This was augmented, but only slightly, by the jobs report which showed the unemployment rate had increased to 4.4% (more realistic figure: 24%) and that monthly earnings had increased less than expected (0.2% instead of 0.3%). Thus, as shown by the red arrow, the /ES got up to about a triple-digit overnight increase, with the /NQ up almost 500 points. Zowie!
