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Apple's New Smart Display Confirms What This Startup Knew All Along

Apple has entered the smart home race with its new Smart Display, firing a $158B signal that connected homes are the future.

When Apple moves in, it doesn’t just join the market — it transforms it.

One company has been quietly preparing for this moment.

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Market Overview
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Year To Date Performances:

1. Retail sales rose 0.2% in February, rebounding from January’s steep drop but falling short of expectations for a 0.6% gain, while core sales, which feed into GDP, increased a solid 1%. Online and health-related spending helped offset declines in restaurant and gas station sales. Inflation matched the monthly sales increase, indicating stagnant real growth. Meanwhile, economic uncertainty persists as Trump’s tariff policies raise concerns about inflation and growth, and the New York Fed’s manufacturing index plummeted, signaling potential trouble ahead. Some analysts still expect upward GDP revisions, but recession fears remain elevated.

2. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the Trump administration’s economic policies, claiming they are preventing a “guaranteed” financial crisis caused by years of unsustainable government spending. While acknowledging there are “no guarantees” against a recession, he downplayed recent market turmoil, which saw the S&P 500 enter a correction, arguing that pullbacks are normal and Trump’s pro-business policies will drive long-term growth. The administration’s fiscal focus includes spending cuts, agency downsizing, and deregulation, despite February’s budget deficit surpassing $1 trillion. Bessent insists the administration is steering the economy toward sustainability rather than collapse.

3. Canada is flexing its economic muscle against President Trump’s tariff threats and controversial statehood comments with a wave of nationalist consumer and policy responses. From grocery stores promoting “Shop Canadian” campaigns to the LCBO banning U.S. alcohol, Canadians are pushing back in ways that directly hit American businesses. Ontario even threatened a 25% surcharge on electricity exports, though it paused after U.S. officials agreed to negotiate. Travel to the U.S. is also dropping, and Tesla lost access to certain B.C. rebates. The unified response of Canadians against US Tariffs has economists increasingly concerned about the impact to the US economy. The U.S. Travel Association has been vocal about their concern after a 23% year-over-year decline in Canadians driving into the US in February. A 23% decline in Canadians travelling to the US would result in nearly $5B in lost revenues and 25,000+ lost jobs.

4. Headlines

   1. PepsiCo has purchased Poppi, a prebiotic soda brand, for over $1.6B.

   2. Ahead of a potential IPO, Klarna has closed a deal with Walmart to replace Affirm as its exclusive provider of buy now, pay later loans.

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