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BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 21.58% for Week of March 20 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures flat: Dow steady, S&P & Nasdaq +0.1%.

• S&P notched 3rd straight gain; Nasdaq +0.46%, Dow flat.

• GameStop +8% after board approves Bitcoin investment plan.

• Consumer confidence hits 12-year low, but hard data still solid.

• Key data: Feb durable goods orders.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: Chewy $CHWY ( ▲ 1.55% ), Petco $WOOF ( ▲ 12.84% ) 

  • Dollar Tree $DLTR ( ▲ 2.96% ) - earnings of $2.21 per share (-12.3% YoY), on $8.4 billion revenue (-2.3% YoY)

• Thursday:

  • Lululemon $LULU ( ▲ 1.12% ) - earnings of $4.60 per share (+19.2% YoY) on revenue of $21.9 billion (+0.9% YoY)

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HEADLINES

Consumer Confidence in the Economy Hits a 12-Year Low

GameStop Echoes Strategy in Doubling Down on Bitcoin

• S&P 500, Nasdaq notch 3rd straight day of gains (more)

• Stagflation on the radar for the US economy (more)

• Treasury plans ‘substantial’ layoffs as part of DOGE push (more)

• Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers (more)

• US adds dozens of Chinese entities to export blacklist (more)

• Dollar unmoored as traders unsure on tariffs (more)

• Oil companies prepare for a showdown with Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' agenda (more)

• US bond investors weigh 'convexity' risk in recent Treasury yield decline (more)

• BlackRock is launching a Bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe (more)

• JPMorgan, Affirm to offer merchants buy-now, pay-later products (more)

• Private equity is coming for America’s $12 trillion in retirement savings (more)

• Private equity joins fight to overhaul Delaware corporate law (more)

• Waymo will launch Washington, D.C., robotaxi service in 2026 (more)

• KKR founders help drive its quest to become a ‘Mini Berkshire’ (more)

🤫 There’s a dirty little secret about Nvidia that most investors aren’t aware of »

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• AT&T in talks to buy Lumen's consumer fiber unit (more)

• Bain Capital to buy Ambienta’s software firm Namirial (more)

• Energage, an Exton, a HR technology company, acquired TalentQuest, a leader in personalized talent management solutions (more)

• VisiQuate, a leader in AI-powered revenue cycle management, acquired Rotera, a provider of solutions for healthcare (more)

• DataOps.live, a company delivering productivity tools for agile DevOps automations, received an investment from Snowflake Ventures (more)

• TCP Analytical, an integrated manufacturer of consumable products to life sciences, received an investment from Audax Strategical Capital and others (more)

• Xealth, a company that develops digital health solutions for health systems, received an investment from Morningside Ventures (more)

VC

• Fleetio, a fleet optimization software platform, raised over $450M in Series D funding (more)

• Certiverse, a provider of an AI-powered certification platform enhancing exam development and delivery, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding (more)

• Crstl, a platform for retail EDI and B2B commerce, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding (more)

• Evident Vascular, a medical tech company providing an intravascular ultrasound platform, raised an undisclosed amount in Series B funding (more)

• Nexthop AI, an AI infrastructure company serving cloud companies with its networking solutions, raised $110M in funding (more)

• Character Biosciences, a precision medicine company improving drug development for polygenic diseases, raised $93M in Series B funding (more)

• Hillstar Bio, a biotech company focused on developing immunology therapies for autoimmune diseases, raised $67M in Series A funding (more)

• Navina, a company specializing in AI-powered clinical intelligence, raised $55M in Series C funding (more)

• Capital Markets Gateway, a fintech firm enhancing equity capital markets, raised $30M Series C funding (more)

• Silna Health, a company using AI to manage prior authorization, benefit checks and eligibility verification, raised $27M in total funding (more)

• Arcade, a gen AI physical product marketplace, raised $25M in Series A funding (more)

• Sunday, a provider of environmentally responsible lawn care products, raised $25M in funding (more)

• Dyna Robotics, an AI-powered robotics company, raised $23.5M in funding (more)

• Lumber, a provider of an AI-powered construction workforce management platform, raised $15.5M in Series A funding (more)

• Sympera AI, an agentic AI company for the banking sectors, raised $10M in Seed funding (more)

• Charm Security, an AI-powered customer security platform, raised $8M in seed funding (more)

• Hubble Therapeutics, a biotech company developing a gene therapy to cure pediatric blindness, raised $7.3M in Series A funding (more)

• Arlo, an AI-powered health insurance underwriter for small businesses, raised $4M in Seed funding (more)

• Lumi AI, a provider of a self-service data analytics and insights platform, raised $3.7M in Seed funding (more)

• Catio, a provider of an AI-powered Copilot for tech architecture, raised $3M in funding (more)

• NeuroNOS, a biopharma company focused on developing treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder, raised $2M in funding (more)

CRYPTO

• Trump’s crypto venture introduces a stablecoin (more)

• GameStop to invest corporate cash in bitcoin, following in footsteps of MicroStrategy (more)

• Bitcoin rebound faces risk of ‘Bull Trap’ amid macro uncertainty (more)

BULLISH BITES

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