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Wall Street rallies, Powell sees tariff impact as ‘transitory’, Abu Dhabi forms $25 Billion US energy venture, Boeing stock rockets, and crypto’s clout in Washington is soaring...
Market Briefing
March 20, 2025
Good morning.
The Fast Five → Wall Street rallies, Powell sees Tariff impact as ‘transitory’, Abu Dhabi forms $25 Billion US energy venture, Boeing stock rockets, and crypto’s clout in Washington is soaring…
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Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, March 20:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 3/19/2025.
Pre-Market:
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US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 19.11% for Week of March 13 2025
Previous week: 19.33%. Updates every Friday.
Market Wrap:
Futures up: Dow +71 pts (+0.2%), S&P +0.3%, Nasdaq +0.4%.
Stocks rallied as Fed held rates, 2 cuts forecast in 2025.
Dow +0.9%, S&P +1%, Nasdaq +1.4%, still in correction.
Powell downplayed tariff impact on inflation.
Key data Thursday: jobless claims, Philly Fed, home sales.
Earnings: Darden, Nike, FedEx, Micron.
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: Darden Restaurants $DRI ( ▲ 0.01% ), NIKE $NKE ( ▲ 0.31% )
FedEx $FDX ( ▲ 1.32% ) - earnings of $4.60 per share (+19.2% YoY) on revenue of $21.9 billion (+0.9% YoY)
Lennar $LEN ( ▲ 1.0% ) - earnings of $1.71 per share (-33.5% YoY) on revenue of $7.4 billion (+7.2% YoY)
A MESSAGE FROM JEFF CLARK
“I only trade ONE stock & I NEVER
worry about…”
The name of the ONE gold stock (ticker symbol and all) that has helped over 20,000 people discover how to gain their financial freedom…
HEADLINES
If Wednesday was an opportunity for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to raise the alarm, he took a hard pass.
It was the Fed's dot plot, or a projection of where central bankers think interest rates will end up in the upcoming years, that provided the balm.
Fed holds interest rates steady, still sees two cuts coming this year (more)
Trump: Fed better off cutting rates as tariffs 'transition' into economy (more)
Fed tweaks its portfolio runoff as debt ceiling looms (more)
Foreign holdings of US Treasuries steady in January, up from year earlier (more)
Crypto’s clout in Washington is soaring (more)
Dollar wobbles as Fed soothes market nerves with rate cut projection (more)
Oil prices rise on US data, Middle East tensions (more)
China holds benchmark lending rates steady as expected (more)
Abu Dhabi forms $25 billion US energy venture to power AI (more)
Nvidia CEO says company has not been asked to buy a stake in Intel (more)
Boeing stock rockets, suppliers rally, on deliveries affirmation (more)
Nike to post worst revenue fall in 5 years on stagnant demand (more)
Nike CEO gets another shot to prove sports-over-fashion reset (more)
Private equity firms are getting rid of their equity (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Building products distributor QXO clinches Beacon Roofing in $11 bln deal (more)
SoftBank to acquire chip designer Ampere in $6.5 bln deal (more)
Sportradar to acquire IMG Arena and its global sports betting rights portfolio (more)
Nykredit secures 80% stake in Spar Nord Bank, plans takeover and delisting (more)
Chris Paul buys stake in Tiger Woods TGL golf team Jupiter Links (more)
Casino Cash Trac, enterprise software solutions for casino operations, today announced a strategic minority investment from Serent Capital (more)
VC
Ampersand Biosciences, a multi-product platform company developing smart medicines, raised $65M in Series B funding (more)
Proscia, a software company improving pathology’s transition to digital and AI, raised $50M in funding (more)
Multiply Mortgage, a fintech company making homeownership accessible through employer benefits, raised $23.5M in Series A funding (more)
Tera AI, a spatial reasoning system for robots, raised $7.8M in Seed funding (more)
Spangle, an AI-powered commerce platform for retailers, raised $6M in Seed funding (more)
Noble Gas Systems, a developer of conformable high-pressure hydrogen gas storage vessels, raised $4.2M in Series B funding (more)
Daisy, a platform for brands to maximize content performance through creator-powered engagement, raised $3.9M in Seed funding (more)
Stable Sea, a stablecoin liquidity and orchestration company, raised $3.5M in funding (more)
PhilosopherKing, an AI-driven gaming platform, raised $3M in Seed funding (more)
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
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🎥 Paul McCartney, Ben Stiller, and more than 400 Hollywood names urge Trump to not let AI companies ‘exploit’ copyrighted works.
🚞 Immersed in elegance as the world rolls by: Luxury sleeper trains
DAILY SHARES
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Candidate:
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7:25 PM • Mar 19, 2025
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