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The Fast Five → Wall Street remains bullish on AI, gas prices climb toward $5.00 a gallon, Anthropic unveils AI agents targeting financial services, AMD rallies anew after blockbuster forecast, and Intel and Micron are poised to break major milestones…
📌 $6,786 from Gold Skimming? The former $900 million hedge fund manager Larry Benedict, has discovered a way to make money from gold… WITHOUT buying a single ounce. Read on to learn more…
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Today:
Non-Farm Employment Change, 8:15A
Tomorrow:
Unemployment Claims, 8:30A
Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, May 6:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 5/5/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures higher Dow +120, S&P +0.4%, Nasdaq +0.8%
Trump pauses “Project Freedom” citing Iran progress
Oil falls WTI -2% on easing tensions
Tuesday gains S&P +0.81%, Nasdaq +1.03%, Dow +356
S&P, Nasdaq hit fresh record highs
AMD +14% after strong outlook and earnings beat
Earnings: Disney, Uber, CVS with ADP jobs
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: Arm Holdings $ARM ( ▲ 2.75% ), Bllue Owl Technology $OTF ( ▲ 1.48% ), DoorDash $DASH ( ▼ 3.73% ), *Uber $UBER ( ▼ 1.33% )
THU: Coinbase $COIN ( ▼ 2.58% ), CoreWeave $CRWV ( ▲ 1.96% ), *Howmet Aerospace $HWM ( ▲ 1.25% ), *McDonald’s $MCD ( ▲ 0.38% ), NuScale Power $SMR ( ▼ 2.55% ), *Tapestry $TPR ( ▲ 1.18% )
*Canadian Natural Resources $CNQ ( ▲ 0.57% ) - EPS of $1.08 (-7.4% YoY) on $10.17B revenue (-7.1% YoY)
He Doesn't Buy Gold. He "Skims" It.
A former hedge fund manager ranked in the top 1% by Barron's has developed a three-step strategy to profit from gold — without buying a single ounce.
His followers have had the chance to collect $2,975… $3,781… and even $6,786 at a time. With a 73% win rate.
He calls it "Gold Skimming." And he's just revealed the full strategy for the first time.
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HEADLINES
The new tools — 10 in total — are aimed at professionals across banking, insurance, asset management and financial technology.
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Oil prices fall a second day as Trump alludes to possible peace deal (more)
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Samsung hits $1 trillion valuation as AI rally lifts shares over 10% (more)
Super Micro jumps 18% on guidance beat as revenue more than doubles (more)
Intel and Micron are poised to break major milestones (more)
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DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Vodafone buys out UK mobile partner CK Hutchison in $5.8B deal
Crypto exchange Bullish to buy Equiniti for $4.2B
Fathom receives investment from CVS Health Ventures
USFibers receives strategic investment
FastSpring receives strategic investment from LLR Partners and Accel-KKR
VC
Blitzy, an autonomous software development platform, raised $200M in funding
Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company, raised $140M in Series B funding
DeepInfra, a cloud platform for AI inference, raised $107M in Series B funding
RadixArk, an AI infrastructure company building open, scalable systems for frontier models, raised $100M in Seed funding
Astrocade, a games creation platform, raised $56M in Series A and Series B funding
Latus Bio, Inc., a biotech company engineering scalable gene therapies, raised $43M in Series A funding
Magrathea, a company that extracts magnesium metal from waste brines and seawater, raised $24M in Series A funding
Nace.AI, a metamodel that autonomously improves enterprise workflows, raised $21.5M in Seed funding
Trillium Renewable Chemicals, a bio-based chemical manufacturer, raised $13M in Series B funding
illage, a health system provider for specialty pediatrics, raised $9.5M in funding
XCaliber Health, an agentic OS built to reduce administrative burden and improve quality of care, raised $6.5M in Seed funding
Astrada, a data layer service for autonomous finance, raised $3.8M in Seed funding
Pacific Hybreed, an aquaculture biotechnology company, raised $1M in funding
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