Bull market ahead

Intel soars after Nvidia makes $5 Billion investment, strategists predict bull market path after rate cut, Powell warns: 'There are no risk-free paths now', jobless claims drop by most in almost four years, and Trump threatens licenses of TV stations...

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Market Briefing
September 19, 2025

 

Good morning.

The Fast Five → Intel soars after Nvidia makes $5 Billion investment, strategists predict bull market path after rate cut, Powell warns: 'There are no risk-free paths now', jobless claims drop by most in almost four years, and Trump threatens licenses of TV stations…

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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar

  • Today:
    none scheduled

  • Monday:
    none watched

Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, Sept 19:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 9/18/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 28.03% for Week of SEP 11 2025

Previous week: 32.69%

Market Wrap:

  • Futures: S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.2%, Dow +50 (0.1%)

  • Cracker Barrel plunged on weak Q4, rebrand fallout

  • Fed cut 25bp as expected; S&P -0.1%, Nasdaq -0.3%, Dow +260

  • Powell: cut is “risk management,” not pivot

  • Fed sees 2 more cuts this year, 1 in 2026 — fewer than traders hoped

  • WTD: S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.5%, Dow +0.4%

EARNINGS

Nothing watched today. See full calendar here »

BREAKING: Trump's New Dollar Surpasses
Visa & Mastercard

A new digital dollar NOT issued by the Federal Reserve processed $27 trillion last year — more than Visa and Mastercard combined. The largest issuer is so massive, analysts estimate it ranks ahead of Mastercard among America's top 20 public companies.

HEADLINES

Nvidia agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel and said the two will co-develop chips for PCs and data centers, a surprise move to help prop up an ailing archrival that sent Intel shares soaring.

Stocks keep hitting record highs — and the Federal Reserve just gave them another reason to climb.

  • Stocks hit records as investors cheer Fed rate cut, Nvidia's Intel bet (more)

  • Trump threatens licenses of TV stations that criticize him (more)

  • Powell warns: 'There are no risk-free paths now' (more)

  • US jobless claims drop by most in almost four years (more)

  • Corporate bond dealmaking jumps day after Fed rate cut (more)

  • Foreign holdings of US Treasuries at all-time high in July, China's sink (more)

  • FTC sues Ticketmaster, Live Nation over ticket resales (more)

  • Nvidia just spent over $900M 1`to hire Enfabrica CEO (more)

  • Microsoft to spend $4 billion on second Wisconsin data center (more)

  • CrowdStrike pops nearly 13% on upbeat long-term guidance (more)

  • FedEx shares jump on better-than-expected earnings (more)

  • Notion rides AI boom to $500M in annual revenue (more)

  • AT&T looking to sell at least $4 billion in high-grade bonds (more)

  • China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294K to train (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel for ~4% stake

  • Jumpmind receives strategic investment from Lone View Capital

  • DMD Systems Recovery receives strategic investment from Tailwind Capital

VC

  • EV Realty, a scalable charging solutions provider for commercial truck fleets, raised $75M in growth funding

  • Aleph, an AI-native FP&A platform provider, raised $29M in Series B funding

  • Immuto Scientific, a biotech company developing an AI-enabled target discovery platform, raised $8M in Seed 2 funding

  • MoldCo, a clinician-led digital health platform standardizing mold detox, raised $8M in Seed funding

  • Phia, an AI-powered shopping agent services provider, raised $8M in Seed funding

  • Vibranium Labs, an AI-powered incident management solutions, raised $4.6M in Seed funding

  • LendOS, a fintech platform for private credit lifecycle operations, raised Series A funding

CRYPTO

  • Bullish jumps as approval paves way for crypto exchange expansion (more)

  • Coinbase CEO says banks are fighting stablecoin rewards with ‘boogeyman’ issues (more)

  • Dogecoin is still here—and now there's an ETF that tracks it (more)

  • Kevin Durant can’t unlock his Coinbase Bitcoin account. His agent is thrilled. (more)

BULLISH BITES

🏦  Fed meeting hints at new future of the central bank.

💰 Oracle’s Ellison made his $365B fortune by breaking every rule of wealth management.

🏃🏻‍♂️ The war over downhill running.

🍻 Robert Redford got U2 drunk before I interviewed them. It was awesome.

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