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Corporate America is giving mixed signals on the consumer. We’ll round up the latest company commentary and speak with Lidl’s US CEO about what he’s seeing on the food inflation front. Plus, Beyond Meat’s CEO joins us for his first live TV interview since the depths of the pandemic. We’ll wrap up the company’s disappointing quarterly results and look ahead to what’s next. And Gen Z is increasingly choosing trade schools over traditional 4-year colleges. We’ll speak with the CEO of one publicly traded company that’s benefitting from that boom.

Jefferies’ David Zervos says traders are living in rate cut la-la land and joins Kelly to make his case. Plus, office loan defaults are nearing historic levels, and the Empire State Building’s landlord says that’s creating a once-in-a-lifetime buying opportunity. And the likes of Stanley Druckenmiller are starting to trim Nvidia –should you? We’ll ask one of the biggest bulls on Wall Street.

Stanley Druckenmiller says rate cuts should be entirely off the table and that the Fed fumbled the football on the 5-yard line with the game on the line. We’ll look at the path forward for the Fed. Plus, Disney nearly broke even on streaming, but missed revenue estimates for a fourth consecutive quarter. We’ll ask Oscar-winner Brian Grazer about the future of Hollywood. And Apple unveiling its first iPads since 2022, but today’s news is only an appetizer for next month’s big event.

This year’s “Woodstock for Capitalists” is in the books, and we’ve got one Berkshire shareholder to weigh in on Buffett’s latest moves. Plus, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says Starbucks needs to fix its stores to win back customers, but Bank of America is sticking with its buy rating on the stock and joins us to make her case. And, we’re tackling Disney, Simon Property Group and Lucid in Earnings Exchange.

A weaker-than-expected jobs report following a more dovish-than-expected Powell this week... did it just change the rate cut timeline for the Fed? Plus, there was one thing overshadowed in Apple’s blowout earnings report that has Needham’s Laura Martin worried. We’ll ask her what it is and what Apple can do to alleviate her concerns. And Starbucks, Disney, Block and Under Armour have all been helmed by boomerang CEOs, but has that helped or hurt the companies? We’ll ask our trader in 3 Buys & A Bail.

We’ll break down Fed Chair Powell’s message to the markets and tell you how to position from here. Plus, freelance job platform Upwork is moving higher on earnings and strong guidance. We’ll speak with the CEO about the labor trends she’s seeing. And Apple headlines today’s earnings after the bell, but we’ll also get the action, the story, and the trade on Hershey and Cloudflare in Earnings Exchange.