Around The Horn -- Hump Day -- August 16, 2023

OFF THE NET -- Biking. Back shortly.

Locator: 45477B.

Tell me again Americans are broke. Shoppers boost retail sales for fourth straight month. GDPNow with revised reading later today. Pulling money out of their 401(k)s to buy shoes or putting it on credit?

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Tech Today

NVDA: $500, target. Multiple sources. Up about $3.50 pre-market.

INTC: scraps Tower acquisition. The WSJ. China scuttles the deal.

Tower Semiconductor: another Israeli semiconductor company, Foundry.

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New Mercedes

Link here.

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Got Nielsen?

TV now accounts for less than half of US viewing for the first time. Link here.

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Got Covid?

Brits: new Covid variant -- talking masks again.