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📈 MarketsThe Fed held rates steady for a third straight meeting. Futures climbed 0.7% overnight on a stronger-than-expected jobs report. Oil slipped on demand signals from Asia.
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The Senate passed a $940 billion infrastructure and clean energy bill Saturday morning in a 61–38 bipartisan vote, sending it to the House after six weeks of committee negotiations. The final version strips two earlier amendments — one on broadband funding thresholds and one on rural EV charging mandates — that had threatened to cost swing votes on both sides of the aisle.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the chamber would take up the bill "no earlier than July 7," giving members time to return from recess. Three House Republicans have already publicly committed to voting yes, which likely puts it above the threshold needed to pass.
The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark rate unchanged at 5.25–5.5% for the third consecutive meeting on Friday, with chair Jerome Powell citing "mixed signals on inflation" and noting that the committee sees no urgency to act in either direction. The decision was unanimous.
Markets shrugged off any concern. S&P 500 futures were up 0.7% overnight after May's non-farm payroll report beat expectations at 218,000 jobs added — analysts had penciled in 185,000. The unemployment rate held at 3.9%.
Worth watching: Thursday's CPI reading will be the next major data point. A second consecutive month below 3.1% could shift the Fed's language meaningfully at July's meeting.
The Boston Celtics evened the NBA Finals with a convincing 108–94 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 4 Sunday night at TD Garden. Jayson Tatum led all scorers with 34 points and 11 rebounds, while Jalen Williams — who had been unguardable through the series — was held to 18 points on 6-of-18 shooting. Game 5 is Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
Copa América quarterfinals are now set after Sunday's group stage concluded. The standout matchup is Argentina vs. Uruguay on Thursday in Miami — a classic rivalry that hasn't met in the knockout stage since 2021.
Apple quietly closed its largest acquisition of the year Friday, purchasing San Jose-based Verdant Labs for approximately $2.1 billion. Verdant specializes in low-power inference chips designed for on-device AI applications — precisely the architecture Apple needs for its next generation of Apple Intelligence features. Neither party commented beyond a brief confirmation.
Amazon, meanwhile, confirmed layoffs of 1,400 workers across its US logistics and last-mile delivery teams, citing "a shift toward automated fulfillment" at several fulfillment centers. The cuts represent roughly 0.4% of Amazon's US workforce. Affected employees were notified Friday and will receive 60 days' severance.
A two-year follow-up study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 94% of patients who received the first approved CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease reported zero severe vaso-occlusive crises since treatment. The therapy, developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, edits patients' own stem cells to restore normal hemoglobin production. The EU's European Medicines Agency is now conducting an expedited review.
Separately, researchers at the University of Wyoming published a study showing that Dsup — a protein found in tardigrades, the microscopic animals famous for surviving extreme conditions — can be introduced into human kidney cells in a lab setting and significantly reduce radiation-induced DNA damage. The finding has potential implications for cancer radiation therapy and long-duration spaceflight.
Director Ava DuVernay's long-gestating epic "The Long Way Round" opened to $54 million domestically over the weekend, the best opening of her career. Critics have been largely enthusiastic, with the film sitting at 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film follows three generations of a Louisiana family across 100 years and runs three hours and four minutes.
Kendrick Lamar launched his "Grand National" world tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena Saturday night before a sold-out crowd of over 70,000. The show ran two hours and forty minutes and featured a guest appearance from SZA. He plays a second Rose Bowl date tonight before moving to the Bay Area midweek.
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There's a specific kind of frustration that comes from spending twenty minutes on your phone first thing in the morning and walking away feeling worse informed than when you started.
That was us, every day. Open Instagram or X to "catch up," and somehow forty-five minutes later you've seen seventeen takes on yesterday's controversy, three things designed to make you angry, and approximately zero pieces of actual information you needed. Close the app. Realize you still don't know what the market did overnight or what happened in the game last night.
The problem with going directly to news sites wasn't much better. Every outlet has its own view of what's "important today." Front pages are stacked with opinion columns dressed as news, five different versions of the same story, and enough breaking alerts to make anything feel urgent. Finding the two things you actually cared about meant clicking through twelve things you didn't.
We also noticed that the topics we wanted to stay on top of — markets, science, sports, politics — never lived in the same place. Multiple apps, multiple notification streams, multiple rabbit holes. Fragmented by design, because fragmentation is good for engagement numbers, even when it's bad for actual readers.
The Rooster's Crow started as a shared Google Doc. A morning summary: here's what happened in the categories we care about, written plainly, no agenda. It took us about twenty minutes each morning. After a few weeks, friends asked to be added. Then their friends. So we turned it into a newsletter.
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Former wire service editor. Spent a decade summarizing complex stories under tight deadlines. Believes brevity is a form of respect.
Built consumer products at two startups before realizing everything he'd worked on was optimized for time-on-platform rather than value delivered.
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