Meta is reportedly building its own prediction markets platform, oil prices are falling as tensions in the Middle East cool, and we check in on the Equity Mates Community Portfolio at the halfway point of the year. Plus, our quest to get Warren Buffett on the podcast continues & we need your help... (and, ideally, a fax machine if anyone has one).
In this episode:
00:00 – Meta’s prediction markets play
04:55 – Oil prices & what it means for petrol prices
08:24 – Community Portfolio: halfway performance review
11:46 – Biggest winners, biggest losers & portfolio decisions
14:17 – Should the Community Portfolio sell Bitcoin?
15:56 – The latest update in our quest to get Warren Buffett on the pod
21:23 – The Decade Ahead series tease
Stocks & ETFs Mentioned: Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), Brent Crude (ICE: BRN), West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Betashares Diversified All Growth ETF (ASX: DHHF), Pro Medicus (ASX: PME), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), Telix Pharmaceuticals (ASX: TLX), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Bitcoin, PWR Holdings (ASX: PWH), ResMed (ASX: RMD), NanoVue, PlaySide Studios (ASX: PLY), Link Minerals, GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM)
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