⚠️ Warning: Look for a bad repeat of 2018 and 2022
- from Marc Chaikin

BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 19.33% for Week of March 06 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures up: Dow +63 pts, S&P +0.28%, Nasdaq +0.42%.

• Dow -400 pts, Nasdaq in correction (-10%).

• Tariff fears persist despite Trump’s exemptions.

• Worst week since Sept ‘24? S&P -3.6%, Dow -2.9%, Nasdaq -4.1%.

• Key data: Payrolls (+170K expected), jobless rate 4%.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Monday: Oracle $ORCL ( ▼ 6.53% )

• Tuesday: Kohl's $KSS ( ▲ 7.98% )

• Wednesday: American Eagle $AEO ( ▲ 4.79% )

  • Adobe $ADBE ( ▼ 4.95% ) - earnings of $4.97 per share (+10.9% YoY), on revenue of $5.6B (+7.7% YoY)

• Thursday:

  • Dollar General $DG ( ▼ 1.9% ) - earnings of $1.50 per share (-18.0% YoY) on $10.3B revenue (+4.0% YoY)

  • Ulta Beauty $ULTA ( ▼ 2.28% ) - earnings of $7.11 per share (-12.0% YoY) on revenue of $3.5B (-2.6% YoY)

Full calendar here »

A MESSAGE FROM MARC CHAIKIN

Don't Panic – Here's What to Do Next

The next three months could be very challenging and critically important for anyone with money in the markets. You need a big-picture plan... and you need to take specific actions starting TODAY.

Don't get stuck in the "denial" trap so many fall into.

Fifty-year Wall Street veteran Marc Chaikin recently published his full big-picture plan, which lays out – based on more than 100 years of data – exactly what you can expect in the markets this year (and in 2026, too).

Click here for Marc's critical new update.

HEADLINES

Trump Says US Economy Faces ‘Transition,’ Avoids Recession Call

Crypto Leaders Meet at Trump's Summit with Strategic Reserve in Focus

• Stock market faces inflation data test (more)

• US adds 151,000 jobs in February as federal workforce declines (more)

• Fed expected to cut rates in June as jobs data raises potential red flags (more)

• Treasury secretary forecasts ‘detox period’ for US economy (more)

• Dollar starts week softer as tariffs weigh, yen rises (more)

• Oil prices decline as investors continue to fret over tariff impact (more)

• China’s consumer inflation turns negative for the first time in 13 months (more)

• China hits back at Canada with fresh agriculture tariffs (more)

• Traders who bought Trump’s ‘pro growth’ plan now pay for it (more)

• Bond market’s Trump trade is looking like a recession play (more)

• Handicapping the next move for a stressed bull market (more)

• Trump says four bidders in play for TikTok deal ‘soon’ (more)

📉 Today’s big question answered—when’s the next crash?
- from Chaikin Analytics

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Star weighs last-minute $157M capital offer from Bally’s (more)

• ServiceNow nears deal to buy AI assistant maker Moveworks (more)

• TickPick, a marketplace for the event ticketing industry, acquired Fanimal, a ticketing platform (more)

• Doce Mezcal, a women-founded mezcal label, received an investment from Pronghorn (more)

VC

• Flowdesk, a digital asset trading and technology firm, raised $102M in equity funding (more)

• Coalition, a cybersecurity-focused insurtech company, raised $30M from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (more)

• Firsthand, a brand agent platform allowing brands to attract and engage with consumers, raised $26M in Series A funding (more)

• Faireez, an AI-based housekeeping platform, raised $7.5M I funding (more)

• Conveo, a multimodal AI video interviewer, raised $5.3M in funding (more)

• Momentic, an AI-powered software testing platform, raised $3.7M in Seed funding (more)

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin dips to $80K in ‘ugly start,’ could retest key resistance: Hayes (more)

• Ether's 20% plunge shatters bull market trendline created after 2022 Terra crash (more)

• US housing dept mulls blockchain, stablecoin to pay and monitor grants (more)

BULLISH BITES

📉 Stocks to crash on March 16, 2026? Here's compelling reason why…

📍 A non-crypto person’s guide to the ‘bitcoin strategic reserve’.

📘 Meta braces for ex-Facebook employee’s tell-all book.

😷 Five years on, the economic impact of COVID-19 lingers.

👀 Inside the high-wire business of MrBeast.

DAILY SHARES

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