🔢 By the Numbers

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

  • 🍎💰 Apple’s new $110 billion stock buyback – the largest in US history – is worth more than the combined market caps of DoorDash and Spotify ($106 billion). (Read more)
  • 🏡 The share of US renters who believe they’ll one day be able to afford a home has fallen to a record low 13.4%, per new New York Fed data. (Read more)
  • 🏇 Last weekend’s Kentucky Derby saw its closest three-horse photo finish since at least 1947, with all three horses separated by a single nose (the smallest possible margin). (Read more)
  • 📊 President Biden’s job approval rating last quarter (38.7%) was the lowest of any elected president at that point in their tenure since at least 1956. (Read more)
  • 🌎 The Earth experienced its hottest April on record this year, extending its record hot streak to 11 straight months. (Read more)
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