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.

 

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

 

Mentioned in this Episode

 

US Unemployment report (the one with the unemployment rate percentage)

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

 

Derek Moore’s book Broken Pie Chart https://amzn.to/3S8ADNT

 

Jay Pestrichelli’s book Buy and Hedge https://amzn.to/3jQYgMt

 

Derek’s book on public speaking Effortless Public Speaking https://amzn.to/3hL1Mag

 

Contact Derek derek.moore@zegainvestments.com