It’s been quite a week for the Ellison family! Oracle’s massive rally on Wednesday made cofounder Larry Ellison’s fortune rise by $89 billion to $383 billion, the biggest single-day gain ever. Then yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported the Ellison family is backing a bid by the newly merged Paramount Skydance (which Larry's son David Ellison heads) to buy all of Warner Bros. Discovery. If the deal goes through, it would bring together HBO, CNN, DC Studios, and Warner Bros.’ film library with Paramount+, Nickelodeon, and MTV, all under one very big umbrella. 

Disappointing US economic data didn’t stop the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 from posting record closing highs again yesterday. A jump in initial jobless claims and slightly firmer-than-expected inflation were easy hurdles for bulls, who sent the overwhelming majority of the S&P 500 upward on Thursday.

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Yesterday, language-learning app Duolingo rose by the most in nearly a month after analysts painted a more bullish picture of the company despite a dearth of news otherwise.

A quick check-in with analysts covering the stock on Wall Street found most of them flummoxed as to the reason behind the uptick Thursday.

After stepping in it with the AI talk, Duolingo has at least been able to achieve a reset around the conversation about the polyglot app. 

Duolingo’s not the only potential winner here, for what it’s worth. 

Analysts said that given “Apple’s recent changes to U.S. App Store rules that allow developers to steer payments to the web where fees are similar to typical credit card fees rather than Apple’s 30% fee for in-app purchases and 30% fee on subscriptions for the first year and 15% thereafter, we expect mobile app companies including Duolingo, Life360, and Grindr Inc. to unlock meaningful cost benefits.”

Over 10,000 people have already invested in Pacaso. The same firm that has backed large-cap S&P 500 companies has invested too. And now, everyday investors like you have a chance to invest before the opportunity ends on Sept. 18.

Created by a former Zillow exec who sold his first venture for $120M, Pacaso brings co-ownership to the $1.3T vacation home industry.¹

They’ve generated $1B+ worth of gross real estate transactions and service fees since inception across 2,000+ owners. That’s good for more than $100M in gross profit since 2021.² They’ve even reserved their Nasdaq ticker, $PCSO.³

But time’s running out and the investment opportunity closes next Thursday. 

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A much weaker-than-expected piece of labor market data, coupled with a mildly hotter-than-anticipated inflation report, took some wind out of the sails of US stocks yesterday morning — but not for long.

The data itself? Not great: 

The pricing of Federal Reserve interest rate policy over the next 15 months, when compared to what inflation swaps and the stock market were trading, suggested that traders did not think more easing from the central bank would be a catalyst for an ongoing inflation problem, nor that the magnitude of cuts was symptomatic of underlying economic ills.

Sure, the knee-jerk reaction to the report was a dip, but trading recovered instantly and the day itself proceeded generally unremarkably into the afternoon. For a market with weaker sentiment powering its sails — potentially not one currently in the thrall of the resurrected confidence fairy — this could have been a bad report. That’s certainly not where things are at today. 

The idea of a “K-shaped recovery” — relatively affluent Americans doing well, while those lower on the income spectrum struggle mightily — was in vogue as the US economy emerged from its Covid-induced recession in 2020. A few years of better wage growth for lower earners helped put a dent in this trend, but now the “K-shaped economy” is back in a big way.

See the chart.

They’re a private company, but Pacaso just reserved the Nasdaq ticker “$PCSO.”³ Pacaso brings co-ownership to the $1.3T vacation home industry.¹

They’ve already made more than $110M in gross profits to date.² No surprise the same firms that backed large-cap S&P 500 companies already invested in Pacaso. Join them before Pacaso’s investment opportunity ends on September 18.⁴

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¹ Pacaso estimates the U.S. market at $1.3 trillion and the European market as $500 billion. See website for further details. 

² Pacaso was founded in 2020. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. For more details on the gross profit for 2021-2023, please see management discussion of the financial condition section of the offering circular (p.41). For more details on the 2024 gross profit, please see the 1-K Financial Statements section (p.12).

³ Pacaso recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($PCSO). Reserving the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals.

⁴ The minimum investment is $1,035.52 when including the 3.5% investor fee. This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular and related risks at invest.pacaso.com.

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