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As much as we love stocks, sometimes the Big Macro really does drive the market. Emily Flippen and Ron Gross discuss stronger-than-expected GDP sending stocks higher, Tesla ending the year on a high note, Chevron's record profits and huge buyback plan, Visa and Mastercard delivering strong profits (again), and the latest from Intel, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, and Johnson & Johnson. Also, 19 minutes in, Deidre Woollard talks with Corrado Russo, head of global securities at Hazelview Investments, about real estate, REITs, and a part of the market investors might want to avoid. And at 30 minutes in, Emily and Ron discuss Chipotle's plan to hire 15,000 workers for "burrito season" and share two stocks on their radar: Mercedes Benz Group and Domino's Pizza. Stocks discussed: TSLA, INTC, CVX, MSFT, LUV, MA, V, JNJ, REXR, CMG, MBGYY, DPZ. Host - Chris Hill; Guests - Emily Flippen, Ron Gross, Deidre Woollard, Corrado Russo

Major banks are teaming up like The Avengers to take on powerful forces: Apple Wallet and PayPal. Jason Moser discusses Spotify becoming the latest company to announce layoffs, seven large banks combining forces to create a digital wallet product, and how and why Apple and PayPal have such a large lead in this industry. Also, 12 minutes in, Asit Sharma and Rickey Mulvey discuss corporate governance and an under-the-radar pop culture company going through some fundamental changes. Stocks discussed: SPOT, WFC, BAC, JPM, COF, PNC, USB, TFC, AAPL, PYPL, DIS, MSGS, PG, FNKO. Host - Chris Hill; Guests - Jason Moser, Asit Sharma

Do you have a plan for a dream life? As with businesses, it helps to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve in order to stay focused: 'wandering through' is not a recipe for success! What stands in your way? Doubts about your capability, or whether you 'deserve' success? Even if those reservations are subconscious, this episode may help you to steer the way through them and build confidence in achieving your end dream result.

Adam Cox is joined by Chris Hutchinson, CEO of Canopy, to discuss the issues facing renters who want to build towards home ownership, and how using rental passports and credit score-building tools can help. Chris explains how paying rent, bills or subscriptions on time can help build a credit score, and provides, tips to those looking to buy a home. https://www.canopy.rent

Adam Cox is joined by Reshma Malde, from John Bell & Croyden, pharmacists to the Royal Family, to celebrate their 225th anniversary. They discuss how pharmacies have changed since 1798, and the remedies still in use from 200 years ago. She explains how pharmacies are becoming so vital to the well-being of communities, and what she thinks pharmacies will look like in the future. https://johnbellcroyden.co.uk/

Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University wonders where and what are the benefits of Brexit, three years after the UK left the European Union. He looks at a fascinating set of numbers analysing housing trends over the past two hundred years. And, 100 years since the founding of the BBC, he explains why he admires the BBC, despite – or because of – its ability to irritate all sides equally at once.

James Cameron-Wilson canters through a b.o. down 33%. #2 is comic thriller M3GAN about a robotic doll which James thought funny and thought-provoking. Babylon, fun but way too long is doing poorly at #3 while Empire of Light, with Sam Mendes directing his own script is #7, depsite Olivia Coleman, Colin Firth and Toby Jones. James loved it, being in seventh heaven, as he was with Tár at #8 with Cate Blanchett playing a leading conductor. James found it mind-blowingly eloquent and that it made him "proud to be human".

Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a UK self-driving bus & hydrogen-powered plane, about AI narrating Apple books and impersonating anybody after 3 seconds, about jumpers that can confuse facial recognition tech, an American SUV for dangerous school runs, electrified spoons, a GE pot plant to purify the air and how Ferrari are making ther electric cars produce the familiar petrol engine sound.

Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor updates Simon Rose on the latest news from the tech sector. Tesla's shares jumped on strong earnings, Microsoft had mixed results and Netflix performed better than expected. She discusses the figures and explains that, although 2022's woes for tech shares may have been overdone, investors in the sector in 2023 are still likely to be in for a bumpy ride.

The Resolution Foundation's paper 'ISA ISA Baby' released last week drew a scathing response from This Is Money, and understandably so. Their analysis of the inadequate attention given to building savings and investment in low-income families was very much on target, but they chose to accompany it with an ill thought-out and uninformed attack on the most successful long-term savings and investment plan in the United Kingdom, the Individual Savings Account. The route to a more egalitarian form of capitalism is not by attacking aspiration by penalising those who are successful and thrifty. Savings are not just for a rainy day — they bring economic freedom. Background music: 'Resolution' by Wayne Jones