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The Fast Five → Biden signs 45-day funding bill to avert shutdown, trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried begins tomorrow, student loan payments are back, once unthinkable bond yields now the new normal, and Humane’s ‘AI Pin’ makes its debut at Paris Fashion Week…

Here’s your 5-minute MarketBriefing for Tuesday:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 10/2/2023. Bitcoin as of 10/1/2023.

MARKETS:

  • Stock futures nearly unchanged.

  • Short-term agreement in Washington averts government shutdown.

  • Dow down 0.2%, S&P 500 up 0.01%, Nasdaq up 0.67%.

  • 10-year Treasury yield tops 4.7%, highest since October 2007.

  • September marked by disappointing stock performance.

  • Key reports including payroll data and earnings season ahead.

  • Today: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for August, with expectations of 8.8 million job openings.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

NEWS BRIEFING

The Senate passed a last-minute spending bill Saturday night averting a government shutdown. The measure was signed into law by President Joe Biden late Saturday night.

Bankman-Fried, who once promoted himself as the ethical face of cryptocurrencies, faces multiple fraud and money laundering charges.f

  • Big tech spared as bond selloff rattles stocks (more)

  • US bond market signals the end of an era (more)

  • Student loan bills resume for 40 million Americans (more)

  • US warned China to expect updated export curbs in October-US official (more)

  • Fed Chair Powell visits York to talk about the economy with business leaders (more)

  • US manufacturing sector nears recovery; construction spending solid (more)

  • Trump's civil fraud trial in New York explained (more)

  • China Evergrande shares set to resume trade today (more)

  • Euro Falls to Weakest Level This Year While Dollar Gains Show No Sign of Easing (more)

  • Canada Stocks Erase 2023 Gain, Fall Further Behind US Peers (more)

  • GM furloughs another 160 workers due to UAW strike (more)

  • World’s second richest man LVMH's Bernard Arnault under investigation in Paris over connections to Russian oligarch (more)

  • Microsoft CEO calls Google mobile search argument 'bogus' (more)

  • WeWork Misses $95 Million in Interest Payments (more)

  • UAW workers and Mack Trucks reach deal to avoid strike (more)

  • Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries, factory 'downtime' to blame (more)

  • Airbnb Is Fundamentally Broken, its CEO Says. He Plans to Fix It (more)

  • Hedge funds using computers to sell up to $30 billion of stocks soon - UBS (more)

  • Venture capital is opening the gates for defense tech (more)

  • Kaiser Permanente workers say deal unlikely to avert strike (more)

  • Retail theft proving to be 'very serious issue' for industry (more)

  • Spirit Aero CEO resigns as former Boeing exec named interim head (more)

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DEALFLOW

  • Bain Capital reportedly considers U.S. LBM stake sale at $7B value (more)

  • Bain, Cinven are said to pick banks for €10 billion Stada exit (more)

  • Bain Capital invests in Masan (more)

  • Bill Ackman interested in a deal to take Elon Musk’s X Public (more)

  • Wells Fargo sells $2 billion stake in Norwest Fund Investments (more)

  • SingTel to sell stake in Trustwave for $205 million (more)

  • Cultivate Power, a distributed solar and storage project developer, raised a $10M investment from Generate Capital (more)

  • Kafene, a provider of a point-of-sale financing platform, raised additional $12.6M in Series B funding (more)

  • AI Clearing, a provider of an AI-powered autonomous construction progress tracking and quality control platform, raised $14M in Series A funding (more)

  • Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI), an artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on empowering clinicians, optimizing care pathways, and improving patient outcomes, received $31M in Series C financing (more)

  • League One Volleyball (LOVB), a volleyball professional league, raised $35M in funding (more)

  • Farther, a wealth management firm, raised $31M in Series B funding; valued at $131M (more)

  • Health Data Innovations, a healthcare data integration platform for care providers and payers, received an investment from Hughes & Company (more)

  • BXVentures, a venture studio and climate tech specialist, launched a global climate tech venture studio fund (more)

  • Titan Flood, a managing general agent (MGA) specializing in the private residential flood market, received an investment from K2 Insurance (more)

  • Qube Technologies, a provider of continuous emissions monitoring technology, received a Series B funding from Riverbend Energy Group (more)

M & A:

  • Slate Capital-backed O’Donnell Metal Deck acquires Tombari Structural Products (more)

  • Rithm Capital purchases Specialized Loan Servicing (more)

  • ZCG-backed Unimed buys MedSupply Florida (more)

  • Advent, Warburg Pincus acquires Baxter’s BioPharma Solutions Business (more)

  • TPG acquires Forcepoint’s G2CI cybersecurity business (more)

  • Stanley Capital Partners purchases Roboyo (more)

CRYPTO

  • ‘Shocking’ leak blows up mystery of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto (more)

  • Ether-futures ETFs are making their US debut in industry victory (more)

  • Ex-SoftBank executive sets up stablecoin to dodge high inflation (more)

  • Bankrupt Celsius says restart is Crypto customers’ best option (more)

BULLISH BITES

🎃 The $650M+ Spirit Halloween Business
Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months → Trunge

♟. The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes
As the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit’s Big Three drags on, a classic behavioral theory provides a way to figure out how long they may continue → Wired

🧨 Why the Impact From Higher Rates May Still Be Coming → Bloomberg

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