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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. These are seven of the stories that we're following today. The first story, and it's the big story of the day, is the Fed says they're open to rate cuts. They have their Jackson Hole meeting today. This is driving the markets higher today. And we're watching how the markets close. But currently the NASDAQ's up about 1.66%. The S&P is up about 1.5%. Second, Nvidia is seeing some headwinds this week with chip sales to China, and It's down about 4% this week. Though it's going to recover a little bit today. Its market cap remains way above 4 trillion. Third, Zoom, the conferencing system surges on great demand. The company now projects revenue for the year 4.83 to 4.84 billion. An amazing growth story, an amazing sustainability story. Post Covid 2, the stock points up more than 5% today. I find Zoom to be by far the easiest platform to work with. In fact, we're working on it now. That's three so far. The markets are up in the Fed rate cuts, potential rate cuts. Nvidia seeing some headwinds in Zoom surges. Fourth, Motley fool calls Microsoft its favorite dividend stock by far, not because of a high dividend necessarily, but because of its stability and where it's at. Fifth, Berkshire has sold more than about 70% of its apples for the last two years. Apple had long been one of its largest holdings. That's sort of fascinating to watch as well. That's fifth. Sixth, Barron's says that healthcare stocks are at the lowest point in 30 years and it may be time to start buying. Just to give you a flavor for some of those stocks, United is down 40% year to date. Centena's down 52% year to date. Surgery Partners is up 8% and HCA is up 34% year to date. Finally, seventh, the president is finding it a lot harder to find common ground between Russia and Ukraine than he would like. The sides remain entrenched. We give him a lot of credit here for being fully engaged and trying, but he is finding it more intractable than he might have expected. Thank you for listening. Listening to the Becker business and the Becker Private Equity podcast. Thank you very, very much.