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Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, September 14:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/11/2026. Bitcoin as of 9/13/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow -179 (-0.4%), S&P -0.6%, Nasdaq -1.2%
Fri: Dow -1.6%, S&P -0.8%, Nasdaq -0.7% for the week
AI stocks faced pressure after weekend developments
OpenAI pushed back plans for an IPO
Oil jumped 2% after Saudi Arabia shuttered a key pipeline
Markets see an 86% chance of a Fed rate hike
Focus shifts to the Fed’s September policy meeting
EARNINGS
Slow week, here’s what we’re watching:
WED:
Lennar $LEN ( ▲ 2.18% ) - Earnings to fall 35% YoY to $1.30 per share. Revenue forecast to fall 4.5% to $8.4B
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HEADLINES
Elevated consumer prices, along with a stronger-than-expected jobs report this month, has traders of the Fed funds future rate betting on a rate hike next week.
A new moment of truth for AI stocks.
Stock futures fall as investors weigh AI safety concerns, oil gains (more)
Wall Street says stay with stocks despite late ‘90s dot-com vibe (more)
Speculators turn net long on yen for first time since February (more)
Shares skid in Asia as oil rises, rate hikes loom (more)
Saudi pipeline outage threatens loss of 4% of global oil supply (more)
Trump calls $5,000 payouts 'easy' to fit into federal budget (more)
Inflation outpaces wage growth again, squeezing Americans' paychecks (more)
Taxing high earners to help fund Soc. Security gains bipartisan attention (more)
AI's most powerful CEOs call for slowdown (more)
Washington scrambles to meet calls for AI guardrails (more)
OpenAI’s Altman says no IPO in 2026, firm to prioritize safety (more)
Anthropic has chosen the Nasdaq for its IPO listing (more)
Nvidia in talks to invest in Anthropic's mega IPO (more)
Larry Ellison nixes plan to offload up to $7.5B worth of Oracle stock (more)
Tesla to unveil long-delayed Roadster on Oct. 1 (more)
NFL and midterms set up prediction markets for a critical fall season (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Danish IT recycler T1A acquires FlexIT with backing from Eurazeo
Vheda Health receives $47M investment from Agora
Verily Health receives investment from NVIDIA in undisclosed amount
VC
Antioch, a provider of a simulation platform for physical AI, raised $32M in Series A funding
Cymphony, an AI governance and security platform, raised $30M in funding
GenHealth.ai, an AI platform building AI agents that improve the medical back office, raised $16.5M in Series A funding
Piston, a cardless payments platform that connects commercial fleets and gas stations, raised $15M in Series A funding
Buildcheck AI, an AI-powered construction design review platform, raised $12M in Series A funding
Enigmata, a cryptographic technology platform, raised $6.5M in Seed funding
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