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Wall Street heavyweights flag risk of market pullback, Burry reveals Nvidia and Palantir puts, retail traders post worst day since April, Denny’s stock up 50% after buyout bid accepted, and Apple prepares to enter low-cost laptop market...

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Market Briefing
November 05, 2025

 

Good morning.

The Fast Five → Wall Street heavyweights flag risk of market pullback, Burry reveals Nvidia and Palantir puts, retail traders post worst day since April, Denny’s stock up 50% after buyout bid accepted, and Apple prepares to enter low-cost laptop market…

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Calendar: (*Shutdown may affect key data. All times ET) - Full Calendar »

  • Today:
    Non-Farm Employment, 8:15A
    ISM Services PMI, 10:00A

  • Tomorrow:

    Unemployment Claims (tentative)

Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, Nov 5:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 11/4/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑44.03% for Week of OCT 30 2025

Previous week: 36.86%

Market Wrap:

  • Futures mixed: Dow +36pts (0.1%), S&P –0.2%, Nasdaq –0.4%.

  • Tuesday: S&P –1.2%, Nasdaq –2%, Dow –251.

  • Palantir –8% post-earnings; valuation fears hit AI theme.

  • Some see tech pullback as temporary; AI capex still strong.

  • Investors lean on ADP, ISM, mortgages amid data blackout.

  • McDonald’s reports today; ~82% of S&P beats so far.

  • S&P 500 tracking ~12% blended Q3 earnings growth.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

Forget about AI… There's a hot new trend on Wall Street… and it's all thanks to President Trump. His administration has begun to fast-track the operations of a handful of companies… Accelerating their potential profits.

That's why legendary investor Louis Navellier is now recommending these three stocks that are being fast-tracked »

HEADLINES

CEOs of Wall Street heavyweights Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, on Tuesday cautioned that equity markets could be heading toward a drawdown, underscoring growing concerns over sky-high valuations.

Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Mgmt disclosed bearish wagers on Nvidia and Palantir just days after the hedge fund manager posted a cryptic warning to retail investors about market exuberance.

  • Retail traders post worst day since April as tech rally stumbles (more)

  • Trump's tariffs head to the Supreme Court (more)

  • Job openings in October slumped to the lowest level since Feb 2021 (more)

  • Asian markets pull back as stretched valuation fears jolt Wall St (more)

  • Apple prepares to enter low-cost laptop market for first time (more)

  • AMD outlook underwhelms investors following AI-fueled rally (more)

  • Major Tesla investor rejects Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay deal (more)

  • Denny’s stock up 50% after company agrees to be taken private (more)

  • Palantir stock drops 6% on valuation concerns (more)

  • Supermicro plummets as earnings, revenue fall short (more)

  • IBM cutting thousands of jobs in the fourth quarter (more)

  • Pfizer, Novo bidding war for Metsera intensifies in takeover saga (more)

  • Anthropic projects $70B in revenue by 2028 (more)

  • Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing (more)

  • a16z pauses famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff (more)

  • Sequoia Capital's Botha steps down as top boss (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Eaton to buy Boyd Thermal for $9.5 bln

  • Starbucks to sell control of China business to Boyu Capital in $4 bln deal

  • Ovintiv to buy NuVista Energy in $2.7 bln deal

  • CBRE buys Pearce Services for $1.2 bln to grow infrastructure portfolio

  • Intuitive Machines to broaden space business with $800M deal for Lanteris Space Systems

  • CareScout completes acquisition of Seniorly

VC

  • Alleviate Financial Solutions, a financial services company, received a $150M growth investment

  • Hippocratic AI, a gen AI healthcare agents company, raised $126M in Series C funding at a $3.5B valuation

  • Sunflower Labs, the creator of the Beehive autonomous security drone system, closed a $16M Series B funding round

  • Mine Vision Systems, a vision-driven mapping & analytics company for underground mining operations, raised $12.5M in Series A funding

  • Parable, an intelligence platform for enterprise operations, raised $11M in Seed funding

  • Portal26, a GenAI adoption management platform, raised $9M in Series A funding

  • Downstream, an equipment rental, waste management, and site services marketplace, raised $8M in Series A funding

Investors Can’t Afford to Miss This

To carry out Trump's Executive Order #14196 initiative, the administration will have to partner with a handful of U.S. companies that control the "reserve accounts" sitting on trillions of dollars' worth of untapped natural resources. I've spent months digging into this – and I've identified three companies that have already been granted "emergency status" and fast-track approvals. I believe their shares could skyrocket once new capital starts moving into the sector.

- A message from InvestorPlace Digest -

CRYPTO

  • Bitcoin plummets below $100,000 for first time since June (more)

  • Crypto’s retail era rattled with ETFs facing $89,600 pain point (more)

  • Tom Lee’s big crypto bet buckles under mounting market strain (more)

  • Washington fueled the Bitcoin bubble, Peter Schiff says (more)

BULLISH BITES

🗽  Zohran Mamdani wins NYC's mayor race.

🤖 "Layoff boomerangs" suggest replacing workers with AI isn't sticking.

🎓 Palantir thinks college might be a waste. So it’s hiring high-school grads.

❤️ Wait, people actually use Facebook Dating?

DAILY SHARES

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