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The Fast Five → Wall Street awaits word on ‘Board of Investment’, Cerebras climbs 75% after year’s biggest IPO, US says China wants more of its oil, Xi tells US CEOs that China will open up more, and SpaceX and the coming stock tsunami…
📌 Look out for a package from Bastrop, Texas. It could arrive any day — and it's from Elon Musk. It's part of a project he's waited 27 years to launch, which could be 15 times bigger than SpaceX, Tesla and xAI combined. And it's going live right now »
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Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, May 15:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 5/14/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 31.73% for Week of MAY 07 2026
Previous week: 38.31%
Market Wrap:
Futures flat Dow -10, S&P flat, Nasdaq +0.06%
S&P closed above 7,500 for first time ever
Dow reclaimed 50,000 as records continue
Applied Materials +2% after earnings beat
AI frenzy continues driving market leadership
Investors watching US-China summit developments
Major indexes tracking another winning week
EARNINGS
Nothing watched today. Full earnings calendar »
15X Bigger Than SpaceX: Elon’s New Launch
While the rest of the market goes crazy for "the mother of all IPOs", a new Elon Musk innovation is quietly being rolled out nationwide.
It's been 27 years in the making, and it could have a radical impact on how millions of people manage their money… and even collect Social Security.
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HEADLINES
OpenAI and Anthropic are eyeing IPOs later this year, and SpaceX is aiming to go public in June.
Chinese investments into “non-strategic, non-sensitive” US companies would get fast-tracked regulatory approval under an agreement being ironed out in Beijing.
Dow jumps to recapture 50,000; S&P posts first close above 7,500 (more)
Miran to step down from Fed Board, paving way for Warsh as Fed chair (more)
Bessent says US, China discussing ‘Board of Investment’ (more)
US says China wants more of its oil to cut Middle East reliance (more)
Xi tells US CEOs on Trump visit that China will open up more (more)
China will order 200 Boeing jets, Trump tells Fox News (more)
Oil prices jump after Trump says China agreed to buy US crude (more)
Dollar poised for largest weekly rise in months as Fed hike bets increase (more)
Gold heads for weekly loss on oil-driven inflation fears (more)
Asian shares fall as US yields hit one-year high (more)
How Cerebras could upend the AI chip trade (more)
Nvidia gains 20% in seven days, nearing $6 Trillion market value (more)
SpaceX and the coming stock tsunami (more)
Apple-OpenAI alliance frays, setting up possible legal fight (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Appian buys Namibia copper project eyeing $400M mine
Siemens buys Italy's MERMEC businesses to strengthen rail tech portfolio
VC
Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics company, raised $400M in funding
Credibly, AI-powered working capital and fintech solutions for SMB's, received over $260M in financing
Create Medicines, Inc., a developer of in vivo immune programming and mRNA-LNP cell therapies, raised $122M in Series B funding
BlueWind Medical, a developer of implantable tibial neuromodulation (ITNM) devices for urgency urinary incontinence, raised $47.8M in funding
equipifi, a Buy Now, Pay Later platform for banks and credit unions, raised $34M in Series B funding
Ampa, a portable TMS platform for depression, raised a financing of undisclosed amount
Optura, an enterprise healthcare platform for measuring return on ROAI™, raised $17.5M in Series A funding
Turnkey, a secure crypto wallet infrastructure platform, raised $12.5M in funding
Urologic Health Inc., a developer of urodynamic and bladder function monitoring devices, raised $11M in Seed funding
Synthetic, an autonomous AI bookkeeping service for software startups, raised $10M in Seed funding
Graphon AI, an intelligence and relational representation layer for enterprise AI, raised $8.3M in Seed funding
Ranger AI, an agentic revenue operations platform for industrial tendering, raised $8.4M in Seed funding
Origin Lab, a gaming technology platform, raises $8M in Seed funding
Saile, an automated healthcare staffing and clinician credentialing platform, raised $2.2M in pre-Seed funding
Mongoose AI, a developer of AI agents for health insurance plans, raised a Seed funding of undisclosed amount
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
⚡️ The energy squeeze behind the Iran war and AI boom.
🇺🇸 Andreessen Horowitz is spending on politics like no other.
😡 r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC’s proposal to weaken quarterly reporting.
🍸 Death to the $20 cocktail.
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