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You made it halfway. It’s the final trading day of the first half of 2026. With half a year down, we thought it might be a good time to reflect on your New Year’s resolutions to see how you’re measuring up.

Here’s our progress report for inspiration:

  • Clean keyboard for real ()
  • Learn what “overnight oats” are (  )
  • Memorize the actual words to Auld Lang Syne (  )
  • Get the cat at the bodega to let us pet him (  )
  • Upload consciousness to AI to live on after death (  )

Dave Lozo, Sam Klebanov, Molly Liebergall, Matty Merritt, Neal Freyman, Abby Rubenstein

In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into SCOTUS saying Lisa Cook can keep her job, Comcast splitting up, and the personality trait that bosses who oppose WFH have in common.

MARKETS

Nasdaq

25,820.15

S&P

7,440.43

Dow

52,182.74

10-Year

4.374%

Bitcoin

$60,368.00

Alphabet

$351.28

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*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 6:00pm ET. Here's what these numbers mean.

  • Markets: The Dow closed above 52,000 for the first time ever, powered in part by a company that joined the index yesterday that you’ve probably heard of: Google’s parent company, Alphabet. And it wasn’t the only tech stock having a good day, which pushed the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 up after losses last week.
 

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