💼 🔍 LINKEDIN WANTS YOU TO STOP APPLYING FOR JOBS. LinkedIn is rolling out new AI-driven features to streamline your job search. These tools analyze your profile to match you with better-fit roles and offer personalized resume tips. The goal? Fewer applications, more interviews.
AI-Powered Job Matching: LinkedIn's AI analyzes your profile and job listings to suggest roles that align with your skills and experience, helping you focus on quality applications.
Personalized Application Assistance: The platform offers AI-generated writing suggestions for your resume and cover letters, tailoring them to specific job descriptions to increase your chances of success.
Conversational Job Search: LinkedIn introduces a more interactive job search experience, allowing you to engage in conversational queries to find roles that fit your career aspirations.
These tools aim to reduce application fatigue by emphasizing personalized, targeted job searches, ultimately improving your success rate in the competitive job market. Source: Engadget.
hello, future. it’s me, kev.
…and this is a dispatch from the digital frontier. It’s time to meet the future NOW — with the latest on markets, tech, and freedom. The day is 15. The year is 2025. The planet is Earth. My name is Kevin Cirilli —> LinkedIn.
Back to the future...
FUTURES
📈🔥 WALL STREET SOARS: INFLATION COOLS, BANKS CASH IN! 💵 Stocks surged as December’s inflation slowed and big banks flexed strong earnings.
📉 INFLATION EASES: Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose just 0.2% in December, dropping the annual rate to 2.3% 📉🛒. The Fed’s rate hikes seem to be working!
💰 BANKS WIN BIG: JPMorgan Chase 💼📈 posted a 12% profit jump, with Wells Fargo 🏦 and Citigroup 💳 smashing earnings forecasts.
🤖 TECH TAKES OFF: Nvidia 🚀💻 soared 4.5% after revealing a new AI partnership 🤝🧠, powering up the Nasdaq!
⚠️ WHY YOU CARE: Cooling inflation + booming bank profits = a market ready to roar into 2025! 📊🔥 But will the Fed hit pause on rate hikes? Stay tuned.
Source: AP News.
💰🚀 BIG BANKS CRUSH Q4 EARNINGS! Major U.S. banks have reported stellar fourth-quarter results, signaling a robust financial sector as we head into 2025.
—> 🏦 Key Highlights:
JPMorgan Chase (JPM): Earnings per share (EPS) soared to $4.81, with revenue hitting $42.77 billion, driven by increased investment banking fees and market revenue.
Goldman Sachs (GS): EPS surged to $11.95, with a 23% revenue increase, reflecting strong performance in investment banking and trading.
BlackRock (BLK): Achieved a 23% earnings increase, benefiting from substantial asset inflows.
Citigroup (C): Exceeded profit estimates and announced a $20 billion stock buyback, indicating confidence in future performance.
—> 📈 MARKET IMPACT: These impressive earnings have bolstered investor confidence, contributing to a positive outlook for financial stocks this year. Source: Investor's Business Daily.
CRYPTO
🚨💼 TRUMP'S SEC TO OVERHAUL CRYPTO RULES, FREEZE ENFORCEMENTS. Top Republican officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are gearing up to revamp cryptocurrency policies as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.
Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda plan to initiate changes that could clarify when cryptocurrencies are considered securities. They are also reviewing ongoing crypto enforcement cases, with the possibility of freezing or withdrawing those not involving fraud.
KEY POINTS:
🔍 Policy Clarification: The SEC aims to provide clearer guidelines on cryptocurrency classifications, potentially easing the regulatory landscape for digital assets.
🛑 Enforcement Review: Pending crypto enforcement cases may be paused or dismissed, signaling a shift towards a more crypto-friendly approach.
👤 Leadership Change: Outgoing SEC Chair Gary Gensler, known for his stringent crypto regulations, will step down on January 20. Paul Atkins, a pro-crypto advocate, is expected to succeed him, indicating a significant policy shift.
—> WHY YOU CARE: This anticipated regulatory overhaul could reshape the U.S. cryptocurrency landscape, fostering innovation and potentially boosting market confidence. However, the process may take months, and dismissing enforcement actions could face legal challenges. Source: Reuters.
SPACE
🌕💎 WHO STOLE THE MOON? AN INTERGALACTIC HEIST UNFOLDS 🚀🕵️♂️
💥 ANOTHER MOON ROCK GONE MISSING. Somewhere between the stars and Earth’s museums, another priceless Apollo-era moon rock has vanished. NASA’s keeping quiet, but whispers are growing louder.
🕶️ THE PLOT THICKENS: Gifted to nations as cosmic goodwill in the 1970s, these lunar relics were meant to inspire. Now? They’re slipping through the cracks. Some turned up in private vaults. Others? Lost to history—or stolen by those chasing celestial paydays.
💰 BLACK MARKET BUZZ: Billionaires, black-market collectors, or... something far stranger? Rumors swirl of secret buyers willing to drop millions for a piece of the Moon. Or maybe it’s an inside job. Or worse... it’s not even on Earth anymore.
🌑 WHY IT MATTERS: This isn’t just space dust. These rocks are keys to unlocking the Moon’s past and our solar system’s future. Losing them isn’t just theft—it’s sabotage against science itself.
🛸 WHERE IS IT NOW? On a collector’s shelf? Locked in a vault? Or drifting back to the stars? One thing’s certain: the hunt is on. 🌌🔍 Source: Daily Galaxy..
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🚀💥 🧬 QUANTUM STOCKS SURGE AFTER MICROSOFT'S ‘QUANTUM-READY’ ALERT! Quantum computing stocks exploded Wednesday after Microsoft urged businesses to get “quantum-ready” in 2025. The announcement sent shares of Rigetti Computing 📈, D-Wave Quantum 🚀, and IonQ 🔥 soaring.
—> 🧠 MICROSOFT’S BOLD CLAIM: “We are at the advent of the reliable quantum computing era,” said Mitra Azizirad, Microsoft’s tech chief. Translation? Quantum isn’t sci-fi anymore—it’s about to change everything.
—> 📉 THE COMEBACK: After tanking last year when Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg cast doubt on quantum timelines, these stocks are back in the game.
—> ⚠️ WHY YOU CARE: Quantum computing could unlock solutions to problems we can’t even comprehend yet. Microsoft’s bet could signal a tech arms race—and massive market shifts. Source: CNBC.
GEOPOLITICS
🚨🇨🇦 🔥 TRADE WAR BREWING? CANADA PREPARES $105B TARIFF HIT ON U.S. GOODS. Canada has drafted a massive C$150 billion ($105B) tariff list targeting U.S.-made products if President-elect Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian goods.
—> 🛑 WHAT'S AT STAKE: The product list is under wraps for now, but if history repeats, expect tariffs on politically sensitive U.S. goods—think whiskey 🥃, washing machines 🧺, and more.
—> ⚖️ TRADE TENSIONS RISE: This response dwarfs Canada’s 2018 retaliatory tariffs (C$16.6B) after Trump’s steel and aluminum levies.
—> ⚠️ WHY YOU CARE: A full-blown tariff war could disrupt supply chains, spike prices, and rattle markets. Global trade is back in the crosshairs. Source: Bloomberg.
ONE MORE THING
🧴 SKIN CANCER CREAM OF THE FUTURE: Just rub it on. This groundbreaking cream could replace surgery and radiation for high-risk patients, protecting against skin cancer with a simple swipe. Revolutionary, lifesaving, and one step closer to reality. Source: Interesting Engineering.
With gratitude,
Kev
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