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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Public.com presents The Rundown, your daily market update in under 10 minutes. My name is Zaid Admani, and today is Thursday, April 9th. In today's episode, we'll break down yesterday's massive ceasefire rally and why oil prices are already bouncing back. We'll also tell you about Meta's brand new AI model and Eli Lilly's weight loss pill that just hit shelves today.
Then stick around to the end of the show to find out how many private jets are expected to fly in for the Masters. We got a great show for you today. Let's go. Stocks absolutely ripped higher on Wednesday following the Iran ceasefire.
Chapter 2: What caused the recent surge in stock prices?
The S&P 500 jumped 2.5%. The NASDAQ was up 2.8%. And I'll even give a shout out to the Dow, which jumped 1300 points. The biggest one day jump for the Dow since April of last year. Every single sector was in the green yesterday. Except for energy, and that's because oil prices tanked on the hopes that the Strait of Hormuz would now reopen as part of the ceasefire agreement.
WTI crude fell 16% yesterday from $112 a barrel down to $94 a barrel. That was the biggest single day drop for oil since the pandemic in 2020. So the market was celebrating yesterday as if the war is over and Hormuz is fully open. But I gotta say, this ceasefire is pretty fragile. There are already claims of the ceasefire being violated and Iran is threatening to close Hormuz again.
So oil prices are now climbing back to $100 a barrel this morning. It'll be interesting to see how the markets digest the latest developments, given how fragile a ceasefire is. I do find it pretty wild that the S&P is less than 3% away from record highs, despite all the uncertainty. And you know, we are about to enter a busy period for the markets.
Tomorrow morning, we are getting the March CPI report, which will give us our first data point on the impact that higher gas prices are having on inflation. Economists are estimating the CPI in March to jump to 3.4%, up from the 2.4% in February. So we'll break down the CPI report tomorrow morning. And the next week, earnings season is kicking off.
So we'll have a lot to discuss over the next few weeks. So it's a great time to get subscribed to the podcast and tune in every day to stay in the loop. Let's run through some headlines. starting with Meta. Meta dropped a new flagship AI model yesterday called MuSpark. It's the first model out of Meta's new super intelligence lab, and the early results are pretty solid.
The new model performs significantly better than the previous model, and according to benchmarks, the model is nearly as good as the top models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on Thread saying that Spark is the first model in the new Muse family of models.
He said that Spark is strong in areas related to personal super intelligence, like visual understandings, health, social content, shopping, and games. The new model is already available on Meta's AI app, and it's gonna be rolling out on Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta smart glasses.
Zug seems to be going after the casual users here because he admitted that Spark isn't good at coding, which is something that ChatGPT and Claude are really good at. But he also said that Meta is working on a more powerful model code named Watermelon that's gonna close the gap on coding as well. So I'm looking forward to trying this model.
I mean, Meta has spent billions of dollars on AI, so I'm glad to see they've released something. Now, I'm still not sure if all that AI CapEx is going to end up paying off, because I think it's going to take a lot for people to switch from ChatGPT and Claude to Meta's AI. But look, Zuck is showing no signs of cutting back on AI spend.
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