2025's market movers

Bessent, Trump focus on 10-year yields, traders see tariffs and inflation as 2025's market movers, MicroStrategy rebrands to: Strategy, Trump to help spark a nuclear energy ‘renaissance’, and US Crypto Czar, David Sacks, calls Bitcoin an ‘excellent store of value’...

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Market Briefing
February 06, 2025

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The Fast Five → Bessent, Trump focus on 10-year yields, traders see tariffs and inflation as 2025's market movers, MicroStrategy rebrands to: Strategy, Trump to help spark a nuclear energy ‘renaissance’, and US Crypto Czar, David Sacks, calls Bitcoin an ‘excellent store of value’…

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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar

  • Today:
    Initial jobless claims, 8:30A

  • Tomorrow:
    Unemployment report, 8:30A
    Wholesale inventories, 10:00A

Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, February 6:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 2/5/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 40.96% for Week of January 30 2025

Previous week: 43.43%. Updates every Friday.

Market Wrap:

  • Stock futures were flat after back-to-back gains for major indexes..

  • Chip stocks slid post-earnings, with Qualcomm, Arm, and Skyworks dropping.

  • Dow gained 317 points Wednesday, boosted by Nvidia's rally.

  • Tariff fears eased after Trump paused duties on Canada and Mexico.

  • Weekly jobless claims data due today.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

  • Today: Eli Lilly (LLY), Peloton (PTON), Tapestry (TPR)

    • Amazon.com (AMZN) - earnings of $1.49 per share (+49% YoY) on $187.3B revenue (+10.2% YoY)

HEADLINES

Treasury Secretary Bessent said the Trump administration’s focus with regard to bringing down borrowing costs is 10-year Treasury yields, rather than the Fed’s benchmark short-term interest rate.

Traders across the globe project that tariffs and inflation will have the biggest impact on global markets in 2025 as they brace for volatility.

  • Wall St ends higher as investors digest earnings (more)

  • Record high imports pressure US trade deficit (more)

  • Gold dealers sell BOE bullion at big discounts in tariff turmoil (more)

  • Oil down as US crude inventories swell (more)

  • Crypto Czar David Sacks calls Bitcoin an ‘excellent store of value’ (more)

  • Trump to help spark a nuclear energy ‘renaissance,’ investor says (more)

  • Musk’s DOGE team mines for fraud at medicare, medicaid (more)

  • Ford CEO calls for ‘comprehensive’ tariff analysis for all countries (more)

  • Google opens its most powerful AI models to everyone,in virtual agent push (more)

  • Bitcoin treasury pioneer MicroStrategy rebrands with a new name: Strategy (more)

  • Morgan Stanley selling $5.5 billion of X debt on demand surge (more)

  • Apollo plans to build the first marketplace for private credit (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Teladoc Health to acquire Catapult Health in $65 million deal (more)

  • SoftBank nears deal to acquire chip designer Ampere (more)

  • Horizon Infusions, a network of ambulatory infusion centers, received an investment from Rubicon Founders (more)

  • Prescient Logistics, LLC, d/b/a RepScrubs, a healthcare compliance company, received an investment from Pittco (more)

  • Appfire, a software provider that enhances and connects platforms, acquired Flow, enterprise software for software engineering intelligence (more)

  • Smarsh, a comms data and intelligence company, acquired CallCabinet, a cloud-native compliance call recording and analytics tech company (more)

VC

  • Semgrep, an application security platform, raised $100M in Series B funding (more)

  • Nextworld, a provider of enterprise platforms, raised $65M in Series F funding (more)

  • Fay, a digital nutritional therapy company, raised $50M in Series B funding, at a $500M valuation (more)

  • Ivo, an AI-powered contract review solution, raised $16M in Series A Funding (more)

  • GenLogs, a freight Intelligence platform raised $14.6M in Series A funding (more)

  • INFI USA, an AI-driven self-service software platform, raised $12M in Series A funding (more)

  • Little Otter, a company specializing in digital whole-family mental health care, raised $9.5M in funding (more)

  • Miist Therapeutics, a physics-based developer of inhaled medicines, raised $7M in funding (more)

  • GetWhys, an AI-powered customer insights platform, raised $2.75M in Seed funding (more)

  • Pickleheads, a platform for pickleball players to connect and organize games, raised $2.5M in Seed funding (more)

  • Comma, an integrated period care company, raised $2M in Seed funding (more)

  • Astra Security, a security platform with continuous vulnerability scanning and pentests, raised an undisclosed amount in funding (more)

CRYPTO

  • US wants to bring stablecoins onshore, Trump’s crypto czar says (more)

  • BlackRock to launch Bitcoin ETP in Europe (more)

  • ‘Altseason’ ended in 2024: Bitcoin dominance should hit 71% before it returns (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚫 The SEC is making moves to squash the size of its crypto enforcement unit.

🤔 UnitedHealth raises concerns over Bill Ackman's post on X with SEC.

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