Francesca Fontana
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2,691 appearances
52 recordings
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first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
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And we got to see how some of those updates played out in the stock market.
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First up, Tesla.
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Early in the week, Trump said that its CEO, Elon Musk, will co-lead the quote-unquote Department of Government Efficiency, which is a new commission that he said will operate outside of the federal government and aim to cut spending and streamline bureaucracy.
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So Trump and Musk are deepening their ties.
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And as we saw, their relationship made Tesla's stock a big winner of the Trump trade.
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Dedicated listeners will recall me talking about the stock's big rally around Election Day, including a 15% pop on November 6th.
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So investors have some optimism that the new administration will be good for Tesla.
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But they're also weighing some of the possible consequences for the broader electric car industry, like higher tariffs.
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Tesla's share swung between gains and losses throughout the week, and on a weekly basis, the stock ended basically flat, about 0.2% lower.
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And at the end of the week, we had Pfizer and Moderna.
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Big pharma stocks around the world were selling off after Trump chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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as his Health and Human Services Secretary.
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RFK, who could face a tough confirmation battle, is a vocal vaccine skeptic, and he's promised sweeping changes to food and drug regulation and government-funded scientific research.
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So in the wake of that news, Pfizer shares fell 2.6 percent on Thursday, erasing roughly $4 billion from its market value, while Moderna shares dropped 5.6 percent.
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And on a weekly basis, Pfizer lost 7.2 percent and Moderna sank 21 percent.
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And in non-election news, two stocks that had some great earnings reports this week were Spotify and Disney.
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Let's start with Spotify, the streaming audio giant whose platform you might be using to listen to this episode.
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So Spotify notched its third consecutive quarterly profit
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And the company said it's on track to be in the black for the full year for the first time.
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And that was music to investors' ears because Spotify has really been focusing on its bottom line and making a big effort to control costs and prioritize profits.
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