Welcome to Morning Brief. I'm Julie Hyman. Here's what you need to know today.First up, US stocks are trading near record highs ahead of key economic data, including the US jobs report and the latest read on inflation. This morning, we already got an economic data report. Retail sales from December showing no growth.And we're going to talk much more about the state of the consumer throughout the show. Plus, investors are betting on another century of Google parent Alphabet. According to reports, Alphabet se ...

million monthly active users. That's what Spotify had last quarter. That was an increase of 11%.And Spotify says this quarter it could go up by another 8 million or so. Paid subscribers. Spotify last quarter also went up by about 10% to 290 million.That's for the premium subscribers. Margins were a record 33.1%. By the way, that subscriber number was also a record number for those monthly active users.The company rolled out some new AI features, wrapped. There was a lot of engagement there. They also introd ...

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Let's talk about the precious metals. It's been volatile, Phil. We got gold here.We're back above 5,000. So, dip buyers, they stepped in here, Phil. What do you see ahead for gold near to intermediate term, Phil.What are the levels you're watching. >> I mean, we see a scenario where gold hits 6,000 in 2026. It's really driven by that continued central bank buying, the private investor ETF flows, the Fed easing with that first interest rate cut most likely in June.You know, we saw a setup here today where wh ...

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I heard you on the earnings call a little while ago about a week. 60% of that c your customer base earns over 100,000 a year average household income. Are we just at a point in the economy where that consumer if you make over 100,000 hey you just need some free food.No. I think there's a bit of a bit of misinformation that's been communicated over the last few days. What I said distinctly on the earnings call is that 60% of our consumers average household income is over $100,000 a year and they're still spe ...

Hello and welcome to Asking for a Trend. I'm Josh Lipton and for the next half hour, we are breaking down the trends of today that'll move stocks tomorrow. There's a lot to keep track of, so we're focusing on what you need to know to get ahead of the curve.Here are some of the trends we'll be diving into. It was a recordbreaking day on Wall Street. The Dow holding above 50,000 as investors gear up for a busy week.We've got the takeaways of the trade today. Plus, the race to go public is heating up between s ...

I'm actually very overall like globally positive on what it's going to do. If your dog is missing, it's going to be like, "Jamie, you know, this dog that was posted that is missing looks like this dog in front of your house. Do you want to contact your neighbor?" Hell yeah, of course. And by the way, if you say no, I mean, you're just a bad person.But the cool thing is actually to be serious is like you can say no. No one knows you said no and your privacy is fine. But if you want to enter into the neighbor ...

Hello and welcome to market domination overtime stocks closing the day higher here. Our very own Jared Lickery has the latest moves. >> Thank you.We got another record in the Dow second day above 50,000 and these 18 points, a whopping 18 points is good for another record close. So, we move on to the Nasdaq Composite up uh just short of 1% or 207 points there. And the S&P 500 up about half a percent.The equal weighted S&P 500, not up a lot, but that's good enough for a record high right there. And I'm going ...