This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Here are 12 stories that were following this morning, and this is December fourth, 2023. The first thing is, the market's points relatively down this morning, more than one %, and that's based on more hesitation about whether rate cuts are really going to come next year and when they'll come and so forth. So we're fed watching, but futures point down, the markets point down this morning, not insignificant. Second, the markets here today having a fantastic year, they surged tremendously in the last five to six weeks. The NASDAQ is up about 37 % year to date. The S&P, 20.15 %, and the DAO, 9.38 %. So overall, a great year in the markets. Third, Bitcoin has moved past $40,000 and is now up more than 140 % year to date. So it's really surged as well. Fourth, the five largest market cap stocks and what they're up here today, so I'll go through this twice, the Apple at 47 %, Microsoft up 56 %, the Alphabet, Google up 50 %, AMA is on up 75 %, and the video up 220 %. Again, the top five and what they're up, Apple, 47 %, Microsoft, 56 %, Alphabet, Google, 50 %, Amazon, 75 %, and the video that's crept back into the top market cap stocks up 222 % year to date.

Fifth, we did a podcast late last week on seven lessons to be learned from Elon Musk. That did tremendous in terms of downloads. Tesla itself is up 94 % year to date. Sixth, we have another podcast today on your first job is not your last job, trial and error and learn to love structure and work are the concepts we'll talk about in that one. Seventh, Becker's healthcare podcast ranked first in the overall Apple business of rankings this week. It is now past 12 million overall downloads, so doing just tremendous thrilled about that. Eighth, a couple of those listen to guests at the Becker's healthcare podcast. Don Cienko, Chief Integrity Officer at Cleveland Clinic. Justin Oppenheimer, brilliant leader at Hospital for Special Surgery. And finally, Onesus Stephas, leadership, Pharmacist at Northwell Health, just to give you a smatter of them. Ninth, great to watch the mission work at One World Surgery of Michael Redley and the commitment to SEL to One World Surgery, surgical mission, just fantastic. 11th Roche is trying to buy obesity drug maker, Carmat, Therapeutics, which they have a billion. The race for this space, the market for drug fueled weight loss is on fire.

And my guesses will continue to be on fire for a long time. It's the holy grail and a lot of health reasons for it as well, not just vantage reasons, just fantastically fascinating. Thank you. The 12th story we're following today is out of the five largest US firms by revenues. Walmart up 8.85 % year to date. Amazon up 75 % year to date. Again, Amazon and Apple are also two of the largest market cap stocks. Third, Berkshire Hathaway, the firm built by Warren Buffer to Charlie Munger, up 15.59 %. Apple, up 47 %. And UnitedHealth Group, the huge mega insurer and provider, up 3.2 %. Again, those are 12 of the stories we're following today. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much.