Unusual Whales

Following all the market activity, big or small, and reporting on it. Financial journalism isn't dead in the ocean.

Trump said: "I'm just notifying John Deere, $DE, right now. If you build in Mexico, we're putting a 200% tariff on everything that you wanna sell into the United States so that if I win, John Deere is gonna be paying 200%"

Apple, General Motors, John Deere, and Facebook share two key traits: they are iconic American companies, and they have faced the ire of former President Donald Trump. Trump, more than any modern U.S. president, has directly targeted individual businesses, threatening them with boycotts, revoked federal contracts, and massive tariffs.
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“If Harris was elected [I] would pull my money from the market. I’d go into cash, and I’d go into gold because I think the uncertainty regarding the plans they outlined would create a lot of uncertainty in the markets and lower markets"

“If Harris was elected [I] would pull my money from the market. I’d go into cash, and I’d go into gold because I think the uncertainty regarding the plans they outlined would create a lot of uncertainty in the markets and lower markets." A recent analysis by
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One of every five hotels in NYC a shelter, contributing to a shortage of tourist lodging, with hotel rooms costing an all time high per night

Dozens of hotels, from once-grand facilities to more modest establishments, closed to tourists and began exclusively sheltering migrants, striking multimillion-dollar deals with the city. The humanitarian crisis became the hotel industry’s unexpected lifeline in New York; the hotels became a safe haven for tens of thousands of asylum seekers.
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