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Musk’s $1 billion Tesla stock buy erases loss for the year, Trump wants an end to quarterly earnings reports, Alphabet enters $3 trillion market cap club, China says Nvidia broke antitrust law, and Jack Ma returns with a vengeance to ‘Make Alibaba Great Again’...

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Market Briefing
September 16, 2025

 

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The Fast Five → Musk’s $1 billion Tesla stock buy erases loss for the year, Trump wants an end to quarterly earnings reports, Alphabet enters $3 trillion market cap club, China says Nvidia broke antitrust law, and Jack Ma returns with a vengeance to ‘Make Alibaba Great Again’…

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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar

  • Today:
    Retail Sales, 8:30A

  • Tomorrow:
    Fed Interest Rate Decision, 2:00P
    Powell Press Conference, 2:30P

Your 5-minute briefing for Tuesday, Sept 16:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 9/15/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 28.03% for Week of SEP 11 2025

Previous week: 32.69%

Market Wrap:

  • Futures flat: S&P -0.1%, Nasdaq -0.1%, Dow -37 (0.1%)

  • S&P closed above 6,600 for the first time

  • Alphabet +4% and Tesla +3% led gains

  • Trump struck positive tone on China trade talks

  • Tomorrow: Fed decision, 100% odds of at least 25 bp cut

  • Retail sales, import prices, housing data due today

EARNINGS

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It even has a name: The Mar-a-Lago Accord.

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Dir. of Research, Stansberry Research

HEADLINES

The move coincided with Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm’s remarks on the merits of awarding Musk around $1 trillion worth of stock for achieving certain milestones.

President Trump said companies should not be forced to deliver earnings reports on a quarterly basis, saying he preferred a six-month schedule he cast as saving businesses time and money.

  • Indexes end higher ahead of Fed meeting; Tesla and Alphabet rally (more)

  • Trump Fed pick Stephen Miran clears key Senate hurdle (more)

  • US, Britain to announce more than $10 billion in deals (more)

  • Trump suggests TikTok agreement is reached (more)

  • Trump tariffs are fueling inflation, congressional budget chief says (more)

  • Banks borrow $1.5B from Fed's repo facility in sign of funding pressure (more)

  • China finds Nvidia broke antitrust law (more)

  • Alphabet enters $3 trillion market cap club (more)

  • Tesla’s stock erases loss for the year, soaring 85% from April low (more)

  • CoreWeave’s stock rallies on disclosure of $6.3B order from Nvidia (more)

  • BYD’s $45 billion stock wipeout raises doubts on China outlook (more)

  • Fading Labubu frenzy wipes $13 billion from Pop Mart shares (more)

  • Jack Ma returns with a vengeance to ‘Make Alibaba Great Again’ (more)

  • Anthropic finds businesses are mainly using AI to automate work (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Blackstone to buy Pennsylvania power plant for about $1 bln

  • California Resources to buy Berry Corp in $717M deal amid regulatory shift

  • Chord Energy buys Bakken assets from Exxon for $550M

  • National Bank Holdings buys Vista for $36M

  • Stan Store receives investment from Gary Vaynerchuk

  • OMNIA Partners receives investment from CapitalG

VC

  • Divergent Technologies, a creator of the divergent adaptive production system, raised $290M in Series E funding

  • Apex, a spacecraft manufacturer offering productized and configurable satellite bus platforms, raised $200M in Series D funding

  • Arch, a company developing a digital way to track private market investments, raised $52M in Series B funding

  • GreenLite, a construction technology company, raised $49.5M in Series B funding

  • MarqVision, an AI-powered managed service platform for brand control, raised $48M in Series B funding

  • GEOH, a provider of practice management software and services for home care agencies, raised over $30M in Growth funding

  • Opticore, an AI computing company developing a photonic computing chip, raised $7.5M in funding

  • Nestimate, an analytics platform that empowers 401(k) plan fiduciaries to implement income solutions, raised $3M in funding

CRYPTO

  • SEC, Winklevoss’ Gemini to resolve crypto lending lawsuit (more)

  • Bitcoin fans slam billion-dollar rush for altcoin balance sheets (more)

  • Citigroup sees Ether falling to $4,300 by year-end (more)

  • Dogecoin inches closer to Wall Street with ETF set for launch this week (more)

BULLISH BITES

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