BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 36.78% for Week of JUL 24 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures dip: S&P -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.3%, Dow -43pts (0.1%)
• Amazon slides >6% on weak guidance; Apple up 2% on beat
• Trump issues new tariffs from 10% to 41%, plus 40% on transshipped goods
• S&P & Nasdaq fell for 3rd straight day after record intraday highs
• Big Tech strong, but macro & policy fears weigh
• Today: July jobs report due: +100K est., jobless rate to rise to 4.2%

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week. (*) indicates before the bell

• Today: *Chevron $CVX ( ▼ 0.16% ), Exxon Mobil $XOM ( ▼ 1.79% )

See full calendar here »

A MESSAGE FROM STANSBERRY RESEARCH

Bombshell new exposé from the two men who predicted the
rise of Amazon, Nvidia, Shopify, Tesla, and Bitcoin: 

A New National Emergency Is
Engulfing America

It’s not a war – not officially, not yet. But Washington is invoking emergency powers… issuing executive orders… and funneling trillions into a rapid economic mobilization.

To discover what’s really going on – and which stocks could be impacted – WATCH NOW

HEADLINES

Figma More than Triples in NYSE Debut

SEC Debuts ‘Project Crypto’ to Bring US Financial Markets ‘On Chain’

• US stocks stall as early enthusiasm ebbs (more)

• Trump outlines sweeping new tariffs for dozens of trade partners (live updates)

• Investors react to Trump's new reciprocal tariffs announcement (more)

• Trump seeks pitches from bank chiefs on Fannie, Freddie stock offerings (more)

• Trump gives Mexico 90-day tariff reprieve as deadline looms (more)

• Oil hits pause as traders parse Trump’s Russia threats, US data (more)

• Meta, Microsoft roar higher on strong earnings as AI spending booms (more)

• Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021 (more)

• Reddit shares jump as much as 20% on second-quarter sales/guidance beat (more)

• Coinbase falls after revenue misses estimates on low volume (more)

• Exxon, Chevron profits to drop to lowest point since pandemic (more)

• Robinhood ‘hulk smashes’ earnings as push to diversify revenue pays off (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• US Army signs up to $10B contract with Palantir

• CSX working with Goldman Sachs to explore strategic options

• Quick Custom Intelligence receives 8-figure investment from Curve Partners

VC

• Anaconda, a provider of enterprise AI infrastructure and open-source tools, secured over $150M in Series C financing

• fal, an infrastructure platform for real-time generative media, raised $125M in Series C funding

• Carbyne, a provider of cloud-native emergency communications and response solutions, raised $100M in funding

• Noma Security, a platform for AI and agent security, raised $100M in funding

• SAFE, a cyber risk quantification and autonomous third-party risk management platform, raised $70M in Series C funding

• Saphyre, an AI-powered software platform for automating finance operations and trading workflows, received $70M in Growth funding

• Wallarm, a company specializing in API and AI security, raised $55M in funding

• Augmodo, a spatial AI startup using wearable SmartBadges and 3D store mapping, raised $37.5M in Series A funding

• Pacaso, a vacation-home marketplace, raised over $35M from more than 10,000 individual investors through a Reg A+ offering

• Cline, an AI coding agent company, raised $32M in combined Seed and Series A funding

• Stable, a layer 1 blockchain network for USDT, raised $28M in funding

• MyPrize, a free-to-play social casino service, raised $21M in funding, at $250M valuation

• PlayerZero, a predictive software quality company, raised $20M in Seed and Series A funding

• Knit, an AI-powered platform to conduct consumer research, raised $16.1M in Series A funding

• Echo Software, a startup building enterprise-grade software infrastructure, raised $15M in Seed funding

• Daloopa, an AI-powered fundamental data platform provider, raised $13M in funding

• Command Zero, an autonomous and AI-assisted cyber investigation platform, raised $10M in funding

• Metaforms, an AI platform provider for market research agencies, raised $9M in Series A funding

• Solidec, a clean chemical manufacturing company, raised $2M+ in Pre-Seed funding

• Moonshine AI, a startup focused on developing voice AI solutions, raised an undisclosed amount in funding

CRYPTO

• Saylor’s new $4.2B Bitcoin plan aims to reassure skeptics (more)

• Monster week for crypto treasury firms with $8 billion buying blitz (more)

• BlackRock ETF nabs $4 billion for a crypto trade beating Bitcoin (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚨 America’s new national emergency... will you be left behind? * 

✍️ How Figma made design everyone’s business.

🏀 Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars.

🤖 The 10 jobs least and most threatened by AI.

👻 The era of ghosting job candidates is slowly ending.

DAILY SHARES

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