9 stories we are watching today.
1. Tesla jumped nearly 18% this week as the Department of Transportation expedited rules for self driving cars. The stock jumped 9.8% Friday. It’s good to have friends in high places. Listen Monday at the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.
2. Clarity of goals and purposes is one big critical key to success. This is as important as anything. Then one needs to execute on those goals. Also don’t listen to the naysayers.
3. The markets jumped this past week as President Trump brought the temperature down on each the tariff discussions and on the discussions of terminating Fed Reserve Chairman Powell.
4. The S&P 500 is now down 6% year to date. The Nasdaq is down nearly 10% year to date. It could be worse.
5. T-Mobile got crushed Friday and dropped more than 11% on a softening perceived outlook for this year.
6. Apple and Alphabet Inc. each rose more than 6.5% this week. Palantir Technologies jumped 20% as fears of DOGE/government cuts continue to ease.
7. We kick off the Becker’s Healthcare Annual Meeting Monday with the largest group of health system leaders speaking we have ever had. Kudos to our amazing agenda team and the health system community. We also have Coach Nick Saban, Michael Phelps, Kevin O’Leary and one of my all time favorite to visit with Venus Williams speaking.
8. We are super thankful to recent great guests on the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast and on the Becker PE webinars. Thank you to Aniket Bhardwaj Charles River Associates, Chris Felderman Palm Tree LLC and Sean Carson of Sales Empowerment Group. A special thank you also to Craig Castelli Caber Hill Advisors and to Dr Darryl Jacobs Partnership Solutions International (Partsol).
9. I was interviewed Thursday on a great podcast and the interviewer said he has done an AI search and the search showed that I have recorded more than 7000 podcasts over the last several years. I was both wowed and also thought I need to work more on the business than in the business. In any event, it is what it is.