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Aug 22
44m 5s

Financial innovation is now a Fed proble...

Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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The Kansas City Fed set this year's Jackson Hole theme as financial innovation and its implications for payments and policy, arriving alongside a stablecoin float above $307 billion. We will break down what tokenized money and instant payments actually change about the plumbing of the financial system, and what investors should and should not read into it.

Today's Stocks & Topics: VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX), Market Wrap, Sandisk Corporation (SNDK), How to Identify Winning Stocks?, Nucor Corporation (NUE), Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD), Financial innovation is now a Fed problem, Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA), Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund (VEU), Key Benchmark Numbers: Treasury Yields, Gold, Silver, Oil and Gasoline, Sonos, Inc. (SONO), IMAX Corporation (IMAX), State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), Taxable Account.



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