BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 36.78% for Week of JUL 24 2025

Market Wrap:

• Stock futures flat: S&P +0.16%, Nasdaq +0.12%, Dow +78pts (0.17%)
• S&P and Nasdaq close at fresh records again
• Strong earnings season: 83% of S&P 500 beats so far
• Dow, S&P, Nasdaq all on pace to end week higher
• Trade deals with Japan, Indonesia lift sentiment
• Trump cools talk of firing Fed Chair Powell
• Fed expected to hold rates steady next week

EARNINGS

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A MESSAGE FROM INVESTORPLACE DIGEST

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HEADLINES

Trump Presses Powell to Cut Rates During Tense Visit to Fed

Wall Street Only Cares About One Tariff Deal

• S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch record closes, lifted by Alphabet (more)

• Ray Dalio warns of an 'economic heart attack' in the next 3 years (more)

• Trump says he wants Musk to thrive, not to destroy him (more)

• Investors bet on Europe's smaller companies to dodge tariff fallout (more)

• Apple releases preview its biggest iPhone software redesign since 2013 (more)

• Nvidia addresses AI chip smuggling (more)

• Kia Corp takes $570 million hit from US tariffs in second quarter (more)

• Intel falls despite revenue beat amid layoffs, canceled factory plans (more)

• UnitedHealth says it's under federal investigation for civil fraud (more)

• Sydney Sweeney sparks latest meme stock rally as American Eagle jumps (more)

• OpenAI GPT-5 is coming early next month (more)

• NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN (more)

• The forces of FOMO are strong in the US railroad industry (more)

• Trump admin ramps up its campaign against colleges (more)

• Mubadala expands private credit push (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Union Pacific in advanced talks to merge with Norfolk Southern

• Pinnacle Financial Partners to merge with Synovus in $8.6B all‑stock deal

• Samsung to acquire US-based Xealth

• GTCR in talks to acquire Blackhawk Network for $4B‑$5B

• Cinven nearing acquisition of Artefact

VC

• Unlock Technologies, a fintech company supporting users’ financial health, received a $250M capital commitment from D2 Asset Management

• Dispatch Bio, a biotech company developing treatments for tumors, raised Series A funding, bringing its total to $216M

• Aidoc, a clinical AI platform, raised $150M in funding

• Armada, an infrastructure company delivering compute, storage, connectivity, and AI/ML capabilities, raised $131M in funding

• HeroDevs, a support company for deprecated open-source software, received a $125M strategic growth investment

• LegalOn, a company developing legal AI solutions for contracting, raised $50M in Series E funding

• Lyra, an AI-native meeting platform for sales teams, raised $6M in Seed funding

• Queen One, a brand technology platform, raised more than $5.5M

• UgenticAI, an AI holding company, raised $4M in funding

CRYPTO

• Tesla dumped 75% of its Bitcoin at one of the worst times, losing out on billions (more)

• Ether rises 2% and bitcoin inches back above $119,000 (more)

• Hulk Hogan, Ozzy memecoins soar as tributes roll in over icons’ deaths (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚨 Big changes coming to Social Security? * 

📈 What meme stock mania says about the market rally.

🙄 Justice Department drama clouds White House’s antitrust approach.

🏈 Eli Manning invests in sports equipment maker XTech.

🥡 The robots that are taking over your food delivery.

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