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Money, Markets & Mischief

Presented by: Your Overdraft Protection Plan (a.k.a. Denial)

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1810
June 09, 2025

18: A tribute to the Enlightenment — the age of clarity, reason, and fresh ideas.
10: A 10x return on your awareness. Stay sharp, act smarter.

☀️ Good Morning:

To everyone who survived three weddings, two baby showers, and one existential crisis this weekend—this one’s for you. Meanwhile, Wall Street showed up to work in aviators and a swagger, as if it didn’t just ghost us in April.

Let’s talk markets, AI messiahs, and why inflation is the guest that overstays its welcome.

📊 Markets, but Make It Spicy

Index

Value

Move

S&P 500

6,000.36

📈 +2.02%

Nasdaq

19,529.95

📈 +1.13%

Dow Jones

42,762.87

📈 +0.51%

Bitcoin

$105,659.12

🚀 +13.09%

10-Yr Treasury

4.51%

⬇ -6.3 bps

S&P 500 broke 6,000 again, like your cousin who keeps saying they’re “going vegan” only to reintroduce bacon on weekends.

🔍 1810 Take:

Big Tech is in beast mode again, pushing the markets higher like they’re back in 2021. Circle’s IPO exploded like someone added Red Bull to a stablecoin—now up 247% in days. It’s 2000-dot-com-vibes minus the dial-up.

Translation: If you bought the dip, congrats—you now qualify for emotional support therapy for having survived Q1.

💰 Finance Corner: New Week, Same Fed Drama

🧾 Inflation Incoming

This week we get CPI on Wednesday, PPI on Thursday, and a heavy dose of Jerome Powell Face™ by Friday.

Expect the Fed to hold interest rates, but don’t be surprised if they hint at future cuts in a tone more passive-aggressive than your mom asking why you're still renting.

💡 Quick Hits:

  • Consumer sentiment drops Friday — AKA the nation collectively shrugs and says “meh.”

  • If inflation ticks up, we’re back to explaining to our landlord why 8% rent hikes aren’t "market rate," they're just mean.

🍏 Apple Bites AI... or Chokes?

WWDC25 kicks off today, but investors are acting like Apple forgot to study for the test.

  • They're expected to open up Apple Intelligence to developers.

  • Rumors of updates to Translate and an iOS upgrade dubbed “Siri Finally Says Something Useful.”

📉 But Apple stock? Down bad. Worst of the “Magnificent Seven” this year. Someone call Tim Cook a therapist.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Trade Talks, Rare Earths, and Rare Patience

US-China trade reps are in London this week, arguing over rare earths and semiconductors like divorced parents negotiating who gets the dog.

U.S.: "Let us buy magnets."
China: "Stop banning our jet engines."
Everyone else: "Are EVs getting cheaper yet?"

Stay tuned. There’s a 90-day tariff truce. Think of it like a long-distance relationship—optimistic, doomed.

🧵 Meanwhile in Memeland…

  • Circle (the stablecoin peeps) IPO’d and became unstable in the best way possible—+247%.

  • Bitcoin hit $105k, likely because someone whispered “ETF” again.

  • AI tokens are mooning, despite ChatGPT still not knowing where your AirPods are.

1810 Forecast: Memecoins might surge again. Keep one eye on the charts, one on Reddit, and a third on your therapist.

🎭 Cultural Capital

  • Tony Awards dropped—Sarah Snook and Darren Criss took home wins. Hamilton did a 10-year medley. Somewhere, Lin-Manuel Miranda is emotionally breakdancing.

  • French Open: Gauff and Alcaraz took the W. Game, set, net worth.

🔮 Prediction of the Week:

By Friday, if CPI is lower than expected, markets will party like it’s QE again. If it's higher? We’ll all pretend to understand bond yields again. Expect tech stocks to either skyrocket or dramatically faint.

Forward this to one friend who needs to understand markets with memes, not jargon.
Or don’t. But then you’ll owe us coffee.

📬 Final Word

This week, don’t just scroll through numbers. Ask why. Ask how. Then probably scroll anyway because Twitter’s faster. Or X. Whatever.

And hey—just remember, we’re all just one CPI surprise away from becoming macroeconomic conspiracy theorists.
—Team 1810

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