Mike Wilson of Morgan Stanley is back for his quarterly appearance! We discuss Nvidia earnings becoming a big macro event (2:00), the AI gold rush (6:45), finding relative value (10:00), interest rates (13:40), active vs. passive investing (23:40), the labor market (25:15), bank stocks (27:00), energy stocks left for dead (30:00), similarities to the late ‘9 ... Show More
Yesterday
Dan Ives: The $1 Trillion Buying Opportunity In Tech
Dan Nathan sits with Dan Ives, head of Technology Research at Wedbush. They delve into Q1 market earnings, guidance for 2026, and the implications on CapEx and stock market reactions. The discussion expands to OpenAI’s influence, disruptive technologies, and tech stocks like Micr ... Show More
56m 2s
Feb 9
What We Learned From The Software Sell-off | He Said, She Said with The Wall Street Skinny
Dan Nathan, Guy Adami, Kristen Kelly and Jen Saarbach discuss the recent happenings in the stock market, with a focus on the significant shift in sentiment towards SaaS companies. They explore how AI investments and the ensuing financial implications are affecting market valuatio ... Show More
37m 51s
Feb 6
Jim Chanos: The Bears Are Out Of Hibernation
Dan Nathan and Guy Adami welcome Jim Chanos, founder of Chanos and Co, to discuss a wide range of investment and market topics. They delve deep into Chanos' investment strategies, including his focus on short selling and hedging, as well as his views on the AI CapEx and its poten ... Show More
1h 10m
May 2024
Talk Your Book: Growth Stage Debt Investing
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Kyle Brown, CEO, President, and CIO of Trinity Capital to discuss how the Trinity Capital structure works, how venture debt investing works, understanding execution risk vs technology risk, Trinity's 5 income-generati ... Show More
32m 49s
Feb 2024
Talk Your Book: Putting a Floor on the Nasdaq 100
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Bruce Bond, Co-Founder and CEO of Innovator Capital Management to discuss: behavioral finance, and the popularity of defined outcome products during bull markets, how equity floor ETFs work, Innovator's latest defined ... Show More
37m 46s
Nov 2024
A Once in a Lifetime Investment Opportunity (EP.385)
On episode 385 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: Warren Buffett's massive cash pile, the performance of the average stock this year, the Polymarket whale, markets in everything, Twitter replies now and then, the cost of college is going down, Bitcoin is ... Show More
1h 12m
Jun 2024
Talk Your Book: Growth Stock Concentration
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are live from Charleston, joined by Kathleen McCarragher, a Portfolio Manager for Jennison Associates and Harbor Capital to discuss market concentration within the S&P 500, how growth managers combat high-flying stocks within the i ... Show More
38m 33s
Apr 2024
Talk Your Book: Hedging Your Portfolio with Options
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Eric Metz, President, and Chief Investment Officer of SpiderRock Advisors to discuss, the pending acquisition by BlackRock, covered call performance in a bull market, tax benefits when utilizing options, what's drivin ... Show More
31m 56s
Mar 2025
Is a Recession Coming? (EP.402)
On episode 402 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: GDP growth rolling over, the probability of a recession is rising, timing a bear market, Ray Dalio's crash calls, the crypto strategic reserve, the bull market in convenience, why we need Social Security, ... Show More
1 h
Apr 2025
Jesse Felder: Stocks, Bonds & the U.S. Dollar Are All Breaking
Are we heading into a full-blown reset across financial markets? In this explosive interview, Jesse Felder, founder of The Felder Report, joins James Connor to issue a dire warning: stocks, bonds, and the U.S. dollar are all dangerously mispriced, and a major repricing event may ... Show More
56m 58s
Mar 2025
Talk Your Book: A Better 60/40 Portfolio
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by JD Gardner, CIO and Founder of Aptus Capital Advisors to discuss who Aptus is, shifting to riskier portfolios using options, using single stock options to hedge risk, misconceptions a ... Show More
36m 30s
Oct 2024
The 1990s Really Were Better (EP.382)
On episode 382 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: an unbelievable run for the stock market, diversification vs. hedging, an unprecedented surge in household wealth, the new normal of negativity, some nostalgia for the 1990s, the stock market doesn't care ... Show More
51m 49s
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Jason Duko, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager at PIMCO to discuss: PIMCO's outlook on ... Show More
