Is Stagflation Creeping Into the Picture?

GDP data released this week shows an economy that slowed to a crawl in the fourth quarter of 2025 as inflation picked up. That’s not a good sign now that oil prices have nearly doubled this year and job cuts continue. We discuss what this data says about the economy and what we’re going as investors.

Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Jason Moser discuss:

- Q4 2025 GDP data

- Uber’s autonomous momentum

- Adobe’s earnings

- Executive free agents

- Stocks on our radar

Companies discussed: Alphabet (GOOG), Adobe (ADBE), Tesla (TSLA), Target (TGT), Costco (COST), Best Buy (BBY), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), NVIDIA (NVDA), Boeing (BA), 3M (MMM), Netflix (NFLX), Globus Medical (GMED), Aerovironment (AVAV).

Host: Travis Hoium

Guests: Lou Whiteman, Jason Moser

Engineer: Dan Boyd

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