Darden is a restaurant company featuring a portfolio of differentiated brands that include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V's.
This Week’s Calendar
**Monday, Dec. 15**
* Homebuilder confidence index (December)
* More Data to Watch: Empire State manufacturing survey (December)
* Federal Reserve Officials Speaking: Fed Governor Stephen Miran, New York Fed President John Williams
* Key Earnings: Navan (NAVN)
**Tuesday, Dec. 16**
* U.S. employment report (November)
* More Data to Watch: U.S. retail sales (October), Business inventories (September), S&P flash U.S. Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) (December)
* Key Earnings: Lennar (LEN)
**Wednesday, Dec. 17**
* Federal Reserve Officials Speaking: Fed Governor Christopher Waller, New York President John Williams, Atlanta Federal President Raphael Bostic
* Key Earnings: Micron Technology (MU), Jabil (JBL), General Mills (GIS)
**Thursday, Dec. 18**
* Consumer Price Index (November)
* More Data to Watch: Initial jobless claims (Week ending Dec. 13), Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey (December)
* Key Earnings: Accenture (ACN), Nike (NKE), Cintas (CTAS), FedEx (FDX), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Birkenstock (BIRK), CarMax (KMX), KB Home (KBH), BlackBerry (BB)
**Friday, Dec. 19**
* Existing-home sales (November)
* More Data to Watch: Consumer sentiment - final (December)
* Key Earnings: Paychex (PAYX), Carnival (CCL), Conagra (CAG), Lamb Weston (LW), Winnebago (WGO)
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My prediction for tomorrow is that Darden (DRI) will announce a $800b over 3 years plan to place AI kiosks in Olive Garden restaurants. NVidia will underwrite the costs and Palantir will data mine the kiosks.
Each company will see a $400b market cap jump, and TSLA will see a $500bn increase. My puts will expire worthless and bulls will tsk tsk me for not having seen this coming.