Toby Howell
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Yeah, people were annotating charts of futures plunging with each sentence he was saying and how it was affecting the market.
It was just a big switch up of what many people thought were going to happen.
Remember, oil dipped below $100 a barrel for the first time in weeks on Tuesday after Trump said that he expected U.S.
military to wind down operations against Iran in two to three weeks.
So the expectation that this speech was just going to further that sort of line of thinking.
Instead, he said almost the exact opposite.
Two passed the verge in the woods, and Trump took the one of further escalation and prolonged uncertainty.
Oil jumped 7%.
Futures are down bigly.
Wasn't what people wanted to hear.
Moving on, if you think a Reese's cup isn't hitting like it used to, you are not alone.
Brad Reese, the grandson of Reese's founder H.B.
Reese, went full LinkedIn warrior back in February, publishing an open letter calling out Hershey for quietly swapping real milk chocolate for cheaper ingredients across a bunch of Reese's products.
He took to a podcast and delivered a beautifully dramatic quote.
If Reese's can no longer be Reese's, then what else in our society is no longer sacred?
The pressure got to Hershey's, and yesterday the company announced it's going back to classic recipes for all Reese's products starting next year, which means real milk chocolate and real dark chocolate.
Hershey's didn't actually mention Brad Reese or the public firestorm he started, but many are making the connection.
Neil, does complaining really loudly on LinkedIn actually work?
The first line of the New York Post piece about this was him a liars, which was just absolutely incredible.
It feels like a really good scam to me because one, I wouldn't think twice about throwing up on Everest.