BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 25.44% for Week of April 17 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures: S&P -0.5%, Nasdaq -0.6%, Dow -186 pts (-0.5%).

• All major indexes booked 3rd loss in 4 weeks; Dow, Nasdaq -2%+.

• UNH -22% on weak earnings; Nvidia extends slide on $5.5B charge.

• Fed warns tariffs may hit growth, complicate inflation fight.

• 100+ S&P firms report this week, incl. TSLA, GOOGL, BA.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Tuesday: Bank of America $BAC ( ▲ 0.21% ), Citigroup $C ( ▲ 1.85% )

  • Tesla $TSLA ( ▼ 0.08% ) - earnings per share of $.42 (-6.7% YoY), on $21.5B revenue (+1.1% YoY)

• Wednesday: AT&T $T ( ▲ 0.48% ), Boeing $BA ( ▲ 3.47% ) 

  • Chipotle $CMG ( ▲ 0.19% ) - earnings of $.28 per share on same-store sales growth of 2.2%

• Thursday: American Airlines $AAL ( ▲ 0.43% ), Intel $INTC ( ▼ 1.56% ), PepsiCo $PEP ( ▲ 1.96% ), Procter & Gamble $PG ( ▲ 2.55% ), Southwest $LUV ( ▼ 0.48% ) 

  • Alphabet $GOOGL ( ▼ 1.42% ) - earnings of $2.01 per share (+6.3% YoY) on $89.2B revenue (+10.7% YoY)

See full calendar here »

SIGNALS

Forward-looking investment ideas we’re paying attention to:

• Where to Invest $1,000 →

• The Biggest Financial Story Nobody Else is Talking About (yet) →

• This $20 Company is More Critical to AI than Nvidia →

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HEADLINES

This Week: Tesla, Alphabet Report Earnings Amid Tariff Angst

Zuckerberg, Dimon Are Among Top Sellers Ahead of Tariff Stock Rout

• Trump’s approval rating on the economy tanks (more)

• Global trade war hangs over Vance’s India visit (more)

• Gold soars to record high on trade war concerns, weaker dollar (more)

• Oil falls after Iran says talks with US to continue (more)

• China to retaliate against countries that work with US to isolate Beijing (more)

• China's export controls are curbing critical mineral shipments to the world (more)

• Fidelity, Goldman find tariff haven in Asian consumer stocks (more)

• Google makes history with rapid-fire antitrust losses (more)

• US chipmakers fear they are ceding China’s AI market to Huawei (more)

• DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers (more)

• Bill Ackman makes big bet on Hertz becoming tariff winner (more)

• Bankers get creative to sign M&A deals in Trump's trade war (more)

• Making sense of venture capital's AI paradox (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Capital One, Discover deal approved by US bank regulators

• Checkr, a background checks platform, acquired Truework, a leader in income and employment verification

• Futureverse, a gen AI and open gaming technologies provider, acquired Candy Digital, a provider of a fan experience platform

• Revel, a comprehensive hardware control platform, raised $30M across two funding rounds

VC

• Exaforce, an Agentic SOC platform, raised $75M in Series A funding

• Crux, a capital markets tech company, raised $50M in Series B funding

• Goodfire, an AI interpretability research company, raised $50M in Series A funding

• Toku, an account receivable SaaS platform, raised $48M in Series A funding

• Revel, a comprehensive hardware control platform, raised $30M across two funding rounds

• Assort Health, an AI platform for managing patient phone calls, raised $26M in funding

• Meadow, a company providing student financial services, raised $14M in funding

• Cy4Data Labs, a data protection company, raised $10M in funding

• 1Fort, an AI platform for business insurance, raised $7.5M in funding

• Glider, a financial orchestration layer for building automated onchain investment portfolios, raised $4M in funding

• Risa Labs, an oncology AI company, raised $3.5M in funding

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin whales absorb 300% of newly mined BTC supply — Is $100K next? (more)

• Hidden Road wins broker-dealer license after Ripple acquisition (more)

BULLISH BITES

🤖 Why DOGE is the only thing that can save AI *
📊 Trump moves you might have missed last week.
🪺 Easter traditions crack because of high egg prices.
🙏 Your "please" and "thank you" could be costly for OpenAI.
⚾️ Atlanta Braves face $19M tax-hike battle over player pay.

DAILY SHARES

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