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border-radius:15px"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 25px">Netflix is sort of like the monster from <em>Stranger Things</em> in that itβs actively trying to take over the world and wants to control your brain. | Netflix</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">THE WEEK IN MARKETS</td></tr><tr><td class="body-text" align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 0"><strong>Dog Days</strong><br>Last week, we found out the markets are a golden retriever. Weβll explain. On Wednesday, Fed chair Jerome Powell announced the U.S. central bank probably isnβt going to cut interest rates in March like everyone assumed (because: strong economy). Cue the sadness. Markets immediately fell 1%. But hours later they reversed, and the major indexes finished the week positive (after towering earnings calls from Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft). The Nasdaq gained 1.1%, and the S&P 500 rose 1.3% to a new all-time high. (The light-on-tech TSX was flat.) Right now, it seems like no matter what happens stocks are in a good mood, since corporate earnings have been so consistently positive. Kind of like a golden retriever. Woof.</td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:30px 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="today-one-number" style="background-color:#32302F; border-radius:12px; padding:0"><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:130%; color:#fff; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #fff">THE WEEK IN ONE NUMBER</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent one-number-small" style="font-family:Futura-CondensedExtraBold,'Roboto Condensed',Arial Condensed,sans-serif; font-weight:900; font-size:96px; letter-spacing:-.04em; line-height:100%; color:#D7EC84; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 16px">46%</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="body-copy" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#fff; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 30px">The growth in Canadaβs <a href="#" style="color:#fff; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">gig workforce</a> last year. With immigration way up and unemployment slightly rising, job-seeking newcomers are turning to companies like DoorDash and Uber.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="in-this-issue-list" style="padding:30px 0 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:22px; line-height:150%; color:#5C8145; text-align:left; padding:0 0"><span style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600">IMPORTANT</span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 .75em"><strong>Why is the U.S. economy outshining Canadaβs?</strong> Data out last week suggested that the Canadian economy grew by about <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">1.5%</a> last year. Which is <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">pretty not bad</a>. But the U.S. economy outpaced not just Canadaβs but <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">most other rich nationsβ</a>, growing a swole 2.5%. Why? Economist <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">David Rosenberg</a> argued that the Chips Act, a US$53 billion shot in the arm to Americaβs semiconductor industry, has a lot to do with it. Also, the U.S. spent more on COVID stimulus, as a percentage of its GDP, than most <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">other countries</a>, so thereβs that too.<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>You might have to road trip for life-saving drugs.</strong> Manulife, Canadaβs largest health-insurance company, struck a deal with grocery oligarch Loblaw to cover <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">260 specialty drugs</a> <em>only</em> if patients buy them at a Loblaw-owned pharmacy, e.g., Shoppers. A <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">UBC professor explained</a> that Manulife will get a βkickbackβ for directing customers to Shoppers. The problem is that rural Canadians might have to schlep hours to buy their cancer, MS, or Crohnβs meds, which is why Quebec has banned so-called preferred-pharmacy deals. (Manulife says the arrangement will drive down costs.) Critics also worry competition could suffer.</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:22px; line-height:150%; color:#5C8145; text-align:left; padding:0"><span style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600">INTERESTING</span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 4px"><strong>Mind-altering drugs, meanwhile, are getting easier to buy. </strong>In a first for Canada, Biotech company PharmAla has been granted a <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">dealerβs licence</a> to sell MDMA (aka ecstasy) to treat patients with psychiatric conditions like PTSD. Following the lead of some U.S. states, Alberta introduced regulations last year that allow the drug to be used in <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">therapeutic treatments</a>, and therapy clinics have started to <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">open</a> across Canada in hopes of <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">making bank</a> off tripping out.<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>Facebook turned 20. </strong>And its parent company, Meta, marked the occasion by announcing that it <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">tripled profits</a> last quarter, which sent its stock price up 20% Friday and ballooned the companyβs market cap by US$196 billion. Thatβs the biggest <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">one-day value gain</a> in Wall Street history, and itβs a testament to Mark Zuckerbergβs skill at developing an addictive platform, in Facebook, and at making savvy acquisitions of others like it (Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.). Of course, Metaβs addictive apps have also wreaked havoc. Early last week, for instance, in a U.S. Senate hearing, Zuck <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">apologized</a> for the <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">harm</a> Metaβs platforms have caused children. And now the company is pivoting hard into <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">AI</a>β¦<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>Chinaβs stock slump gets extra-slumpy. </strong>After slipping for months, Hong Kongβs Hang Seng Index has now sunk so low that if you would have invested in it back in 2000, your money would have grown a big fat 0%. Just for comparison: the TSX is up 150% since Y2K, and U.S. stocks are north 450%. Chinese stocks are suffering largely because Chinese consumers and businesses feel <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">gloomy</a> about the countryβs outlook and arenβt spending much, while President Xi has <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">not committed to a major stimulus package</a>. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><em>β Sarah Rieger</em><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:'FuturaPT','Roboto',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">FROM OUR SPONSOR</td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" class="whats-up-this-week" style="padding:0"><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" style="padding:30px 0"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/65c00c95a6a70d004e0cd033/original.png?1707084949" width="540" alt="RRSP 0.5% match" border="0" class="responsive" style="display:block; margin:auto"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/65c00c950baa95004d297a3e/original.gif?1707084949" width="540" alt="RRSP 0.5% match" border="0" class="responsive" style="display:block; margin:auto"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><a href="#"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/65c00c9503cd76004d6d8e09/original.png?1707084949" width="540" alt="RRSP 0.5% match border=" class="responsive" style="display:block; margin:auto"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:18px; line-height:130%; color:#32302f; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302f"><span style="font-weight:600">THE FOMO INDEX</span> <span style="font-style:italic">by Stacey Woods</span> </td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:30px 0 10px">IMPORTANT</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-index-chart" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π€</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Syphilis cases are surging. If you develop a sudden rash or urge to write 19th-century poetry, get tested. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="center"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π¨π³</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Negative takes on Chinaβs economy are being deleted online, so donβt believe everything you read on UnbiasedChina.com. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="18" valign="top" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:none"> </td><td width="1" valign="top" align="center" class="arrow-bg" style="background-color:#5c8145; line-height:1px; font-size:4px"> </td><td width="18" valign="top" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:none"> </td><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="right"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π </td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Ho-ho-hold the door! Leonβs Furniture plans to build a neighbourhood with 4,000 housing units near its headquarters in Toronto. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">β‘</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Proposed refurbishment of Pickering, Ont., nuclear plant could provide more power, new jobs, and a great episode of <em>This Old Reactor</em>. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td width="75" align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:0">CRASH <br>& BURN</td><td valign="middle" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 0 0 1px"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 0 1px; display:none"> </td></tr><tr><td height="1" valign="top" align="center" style="background-color:#5c8145"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 0 0 1px"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 0 1px; display:none"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="40" valign="middle" align="center" aria-hidden="true" style="padding:0; color:#32302f; text-align:center"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68ae57b004d1e3646/original.png?1671122902" width="20" height="20" alt="" border="0" style="display:block; margin:0 auto"> </td><td valign="middle" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 1px 0 0"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 1px 0 0; display:none"> </td></tr><tr><td height="1" valign="top" align="center" style="background-color:#5c8145"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 1px 0 0"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 1px 0 0; display:none"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="75" align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:0">TO THE <br>MOON</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="center"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">β</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Amazon cancels its US$1.4-billion plan to buy parent company of Roomba. Doesnβt want to scare the cat. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">πΈ</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Judge blocks Elon Muskβs US$56-billion Tesla pay package. Guess that second bedroom addition is off. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="18" valign="bottom" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:none"> </td><td width="1" valign="top" align="center" class="arrow-bg" style="background-color:#5c8145; line-height:1px; font-size:4px"> </td><td width="18" valign="bottom" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:none"> </td><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="center"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">βοΈ</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">βTaylor Driftβ wins Minnesotaβs annual snowplow-naming competition. βGwyneth Plowtrowβ didnβt even make the finals. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="right"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">ποΈ</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">All the games that are fit to play: 8 billion plays last year helped the <em>New York Times</em> stay afloat. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:10px 0 15px">WHO CARES</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">WHATβS UP THIS WEEK</td></tr><tr><td class="body-text" align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 0"><strong>Estee Lauder (Monday) and e.l.f. Beauty (Tuesday) announce earnings. </strong>Their performances will affect the β<a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">lipstick index,</a>β followers of which believe cosmetics sales do well during tough economic times as consumers opt for small luxuries over big ones. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>Itβs Lunar New Year (Saturday).</strong> An impending winter storm might put a damper on Chinaβs biggest travel holiday and hurt whatβs usually a <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">reliable economic booster</a>.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:30px 0 30px"><a href="#"><img width="540" border="0" class="responsive" src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/65c00c95c58470004c2eca5d/original.png?1707084949" alt="You deserve a new favourite podcast" style="display:block; border-radius:15px"></a> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class="big-important-story"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">THE BIG IMPORTANT STORY</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="in-this-issue-list" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:14px; line-height:100%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 0">THATβS SHOWBIZ, BABY</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="headline" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:40px; line-height:100%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:8px 0 25px">Netflix Won the War on Churn. Now What?</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="body-copy" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:0 0 30px">The streaming wars have been raging for years, but, after much blood, sweat, and binge-watching, Netflix now seems to be approaching something akin to victory. Itβs the only streaming service that doesnβt <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">churn customers</a> like crazy β and the only one <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">making money</a>, which is why it seems to be on the verge of crushing traditional Hollywood once and for all. So how did Netflix pull this off? And what now? Puckβs Hollywood insider <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Matt Belloni</a> explains in this Q&A adapted from our (very good; please listen) <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">podcast</a>. (Youβll have to check out the full episode for his Oscar takes.)<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>First, how would you describe the streaming business right now? </strong>Itβs complete chaos. Five years ago, we were in the heat of peak TV. Then, in 2022, interest rates rose and streaming services suddenly needed to generate a profit. The trouble is that nobody knows how to make money except Netflix. Thatβs why weβre in an age of panic and consolidation. Disney bought Fox. Amazon bought MGM. <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Paramount</a> is probably going to be merged or bought this year. Itβs unclear who is going to make it to the other side of this deep chasm and emerge as one of the three or four global streaming services that will likely dominate the next 20 years of media and entertainment. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>How</strong> <strong>did</strong> <strong>Netflix evolve to have such a strong position? (And Iβm hoping you can explain why it bought the rights to WWE.) </strong>Well, when Netflix started, it was a repository for old movies and TV shows licensed from studios. Then, in 2011 or so, it began ordering its first HBO-style shows, including <em>House of Cards</em>. It was a hit. Then Netflix ushered in this era of peak TV or whatever you want to call it. Next, in 2015β2016, it decided to get into the movie business and said, <em>Okay, how do we get top talent?</em> The answer was that they overpaid people and made passion projects like <em>The Irishman</em>. That was the second phase. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span>Now weβre moving into a third phase where Netflix has added an advertising tier, which is something they said theyβd never do. But because theyβve gone there, theyβre moving into live events and sports, which are huge ad vehicles. Thatβs why they recently partnered with <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">WWE</a>, and theyβre going to lean into live stuff and make fewer original movies.<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>So Netflix destroyed cable to become cable? </strong>Exactly. But not just cable in this country; cable around the world. One cable channel to rule them all. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>If Netflix is in such an enviable position, why add an advertising tier? </strong>Well, Netflix really only does one thing: video. And it needs money because itβs competing against Amazon and Apple, whose core businesses arenβt content. Amazon is a US$1.6 trillion e-commerce site. Apple is a hardware company worth US$3 trillion. So thatβs what Netflix and the Hollywood studios are up against. Take <em>Killers of the Flower Moon</em>. That movie cost US$200 million to make and it grossed about US$150 million worldwide. If it was a Paramount release, weβd all be talking about what a huge bomb it was. But weβre not, because itβs an Apple movie and the money just doesnβt matter. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>What happens if Apple gets bored and decides </strong><em><strong>You know what, this was fun, but we actually donβt care about content</strong></em><strong>? </strong>If Apple or Amazon decide theyβre done with Hollywood, itβs going to be catastrophic, because theyβve been propping up the market for years now. You are talking about every Hollywood agentβs worst nightmare.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">OTHER VERY GOOD READS</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="non-essential-list" style="padding:15px 0 25px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:15px 0 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="nonessential-item" style="padding:15px 0; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px; display:block"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td width="73" aria-hidden="true" valign="middle" class="goomoji good-reads-icon" style="padding:0; 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