BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 40.33% for Week of JUL 31 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures flat: S&P -0.1%, Dow flat, Nasdaq -0.2% on AMD drop
• Snap -15% rev miss; AMD -5% EPS miss; Arista +14% beat
• S&P down 5 of last 6; Dow down 6 of last 7
• Tech lagged: Nasdaq -0.7%; small caps up: Russell 2000 +0.6%
• Today: Disney, Uber, McDonald’s, Airbnb, DoorDash, Lyft
• Fed speeches: Boston’s Collins, SF’s Daly

EARNINGS

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

• Today: *McDonald's $MCD ( ▲ 0.08% ), *Shopify $SHOP ( ▼ 2.47% ), *Walt Disney $DIS ( ▼ 1.99% ), Airbnb $ABNB ( ▼ 8.02% ), DoorDash $DASH ( ▲ 5.0% ), Duolingo $DUOL ( ▲ 13.75% ), Uber $UBER ( ▲ 3.87% )

• THU: *Eli Lilly $LLY ( ▼ 14.14% ), *Warner Bros Discovery $WBD ( ▼ 7.27% )

  • Constellation Energy $CEG ( ▼ 0.61% ): expected EPS of $1.82 (+8.3% YoY) on $4.88B revenue (-10.7% YoY)

• FRI: Wendy's $WEN ( ▼ 0.8% )

See full calendar here »

A MESSAGE FROM WEISS RATINGS

The Mainstream Media is Wrong About A.I.— Again

The mainstream media got it wrong … yet again.

A.I. has recently turned the tech world on its head.

And the media jumped to hasty conclusions.

But as usual, there's one huge thing they missed.

And it could make a crucial difference for many investors.

Go here to learn what everyone else missed.

Sincerely,
Eliza Lasky — Weiss Advocate

HEADLINES

Countries Scramble for Deals as Thursday Tariff Deadline Looms

NFL to Acquire Stake in ESPN as Part of Blockbuster Deal With Disney $DIS ( ▼ 1.99% )

• Stocks fall as US services flash warning signals (more)

• Trump narrows Fed chair candidates to four (more)

• Distrust in US inflation data threatens $2 trillion market (more)

• Trumps claims discrimination by banks ahead of ‘debanking’ crackdown (more)

• Trump threatens pharma tariffs of up to 250 percent (more)

  • New semiconductor tariff plan coming as soon as next week (more)

• Bets on Fed rate cuts are sweeping through the US bond market (more)

• US services activity flatlined in July, ISM data shows (more)

• AMD reports weaker-than-expected earnings even as revenue beats (more)

• Super Micro shares plunge 15% on weak results (more)

• Caterpillar warns of $1.5B hit as tariffs to hurt profit more in second half (more)

• High-grade firms finance new M&A with more equity and cash, less debt (more)

• OpenAI releases lower-cost models to rival Meta, Mistral and DeepSeek (more)

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PACASO

Former Zillow exec targets $1.3T

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Barcode scanner maker Zebra in $1.3B deal to buy Elo Touch

• Ryan acquires LHL Property Auditors

• Triv receives investment from MEXC Ventures

• Elevate Patient Financial Solutions receives investment from Audax Private Equity and Parthenon Capital

• Glassbox receives investment from Poalim Equity

VC

• beatBread, a music funding platform, secured an additional $124M in credit and equity capital

• Grasshopper, a digital bank services company, raised $46.6M in funding

• Lyric raises $43.5M Series B for supply chain tech

• Pantomath, an AI-powered automated data operations platform, raised $30M in Series B funding

• ketteQ, a provider of adaptive supply chain planning solutions, raised $20M in Series B funding

• D-Tools, a provider of business management software for the systems integration market, raised $12M in Series C funding

• OffDeal, an investment banking platform provider, raised $12M in Series A funding

• Jeh Aerospace, an aerospace manufacturing startup, raised $11M in Series A funding

• OLarry, an AI-powered tax firm for new high-net-worth individuals and businesses, raised $10M in Series A funding

• Raise Robotics, a startup that builds robots that automate hazardous tasks on construction sites, raised $7.8M in Seed funding

• RunReveal, a security data platform provider, raised $7M in Seed funding

• Wattch, a provider for commercial and distribution-scale solar and battery storage, raised $6M in Seed funding

• Joinable Labs, a time-to-intelligence acceleration platform provider, raised $2M in Seed funding

• Resolvd AI, a provider of a solution that automates complex reconciliation workflows, raised $1.6M in a Pre-Seed funding

• CFEX, a provider of automated bilateral contract settlement technology, raised an undisclosed amount in new funding

CRYPTO

• ‘Time is now’ for US to lead global crypto race, says CCI chief (more)

• SEC's guidance on liquid staking tokens a win for DeFi, institutions (more)

• Coinbase slides as crypto play takes double-digit fall from July record (more)

BULLISH BITES

⚡️ Nvidia’s Huang: AI is going to need "100 times more" of this * 

🚀 How Palantir won over Washington—and pushed its stock up 600%.

💼 Summer rerun: How the job market slowdown mirrors 2024.

🤖 New study reveals which jobs are most at risk from AI.

🎾 The U.S. Open’s caviar chicken nuggets are back.

DAILY SHARES

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