The 2 Best Stocks to Play Trump's "Stargate"

The first is a little-known company that already got a takeover offer from Nvidia.

The second is a firm that's trading at just $19 a share and has an 8% yield.

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BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 28.42% for Week of February 13 2025

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- from Behind The Markets

Market Wrap:

• S&P flat, Dow -0.37%, Nasdaq +0.41% as trade, inflation weigh

• Markets up for the week, S&P +1.5%, Nasdaq +2.6%, Dow +0.6%

• Trump’s tariff memo eased concerns, calming investors

• Retail sales fell 0.9% in Jan, worse than expected

• 10-year Treasury yield slid to 4.478%, boosting sentiment

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: Toll Brothers (TOL)

• Wednesday:

  • Klaviyo (KVYO) - earnings of $.06 per share (-33.3% YoY), on $257.2M revenue (+27.6% YoY)

• Thursday: Rivian (RIVN)

  • Walmart (WMT) - earnings of $.65 per share (+8.3% YoY) on $178.8B revenue (+4.0% YoY)

  • Booking Holdings (BKNG) - earnings of $36.01 (+11.1% YoY) on $5.2B revenue (+8.3% YoY)

Full calendar here »

HEADLINES

DOGE Prepares to Audit US Gold Reserves at Fort Knox

Xi Holds Rare Meet with Top Chinese CEO's Amid US Tech Rivalry

• Stocks near record highs as investors await Fed minutes (more)

• Oil holds advance with OPEC+ possibly delaying supply increase (more)

• Goldman Sachs raises year-end gold price forecast to $3,100 (more)

• Traders sell bonds, buy defense stocks as European leaders meet (more)

• Goldman sees AI as a $200 billion game changer for China markets (more)

• DeepSeek drives $1.3 trillion China stock rally as funds pile in (more)

• Berkshire cuts Bank of America, buys Constellation Brands (more)

• Broadcom, TSMC exploring deals that would split up Intel (more)

• HSBC investors back CEO's investment banking retrenchment (more)

• Southwest Airlines to cut 15% of corporate jobs in cost-saving push (more)

• Musk says Grok 3 will be released Monday, outperforming all chatbots (more)

• Uber sues DoorDash, alleging anti-competitive tactics (more)

• OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s startup is fundraising at $30 bln+ valuation (more)

• Shein is said to face investor pressure to slash valuation to $30 billion (more)

TOGETHER WITH THE MOTLEY FOOL

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• BASF seals $1.15 billion Brazil deal with Sherwin-Williams (more)

• General Atlantic buys into Dubai-based Huda Beauty’s perfume arm (more)

• Owens Corning to exit glass reinforcements business in $755M deal (more)

• flyExclusive Inc., a provider of jet charter experiences, acquired Jet.AI Inc., a private aviation and AI company (more)

• Anguleris, a construction tech company, acquired Concora Spec, a provider of a product specification platform (more)

• Uscreen, a video monetization platform for the creator economy, raised $150M in Investment from PSG

VC

• Apptronik, an AI-powered humanoid robotics company, raised $350M in Series A funding (more)

• Abridge, a gen AI platform for clinical conversations, raised $250M in Series D funding (more)

• Prenuvo, a proactive whole-body MRI screening company, raised $120M in funding (more)

• Antithesis, an autonomous software testing company, raised $30M in funding (more)

• Terrain Biosciences, a design-build company, raised $9M in Seed funding (more)

• Surus, an institutional-grade asset management and custody platform for onchain finance, raised $8M in Seed funding (more)

• BEKhealth, an AI-powered chart abstraction and patient-matching platform company, raised $4M in funding (more)

• VoiceCare AI, a healthcare admin general intelligence company, raised $3.85M in funding (more)

• CarbonZero.Eco, an agtech company empowering CO2 removal through Biochar, raised $3.5M in Seed funding (more)

• Mattoboard, a 3D interior design platform, raised $2M in Seed funding (more)

CRYPTO

• Jerome Powell acknowledges Bitcoin as ‘Digital Gold’ (more)

• Milei stumbles into crypto memecoin scandal before key US trip (more)

• Bitcoin 'death crosses' pile up to spark $92K BTC price support retest (more)

• Solana shorts spike amid memecoin scandals (more)

BULLISH BITES

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