If this is such a great economy, why did Cisco and Palo Alto just cut cut guidance for 2024?

If this is such a great economy, why did Cisco and Palo Alto just cut cut guidance for 2024?

More real world dissent to Wall Street’s view that everything looks great for 2024. On Thursday Cisco Systems (CSCO) shares closed down 9.83% after the networking giant offered up significantly weaker-than-expected guidance for 2024. Wall Street analysts called the guidance “disappointing.” And the same day cybersecurity favorite Palo Alto Networks (PANW) dropped 5.42% after the company lowered its billings forecast for the fiscal 2024 year.

Notes You Need for September 25: MSFT market fuel, cost of car ownership, Goldman fine, Micky Dee franchise fees up, CSCO buys SPLK

Notes You Need for March 29: German inflation, TSLA production short again, Facebook, ACXM, soybeans vs. corn, AT&T vs CSCO

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. A representative entry resembles this from today: “10:40 a.m.: Tesla (TSLA) is coping with what looks like another quarter of lagging production for its Model 3. Deutsche Bank is projecting that production averaged just 800 cars a week in the first quarter. The weekly run rate, the bank’s analysts say, is now approaching 1,100 cars. That’s well short of the 2,500 cars a week that CEO Elon Musk had targeted for the first quarter. I’m not sure that this will be a big surprise to Tesla investors.”