Fireworks incoming

Another lull, but fireworks are coming, Trump presses China to make tariff offer, Nvidia faces $5.5B charge tied to China chip sales, OpenAI considering its own social network, and Ryan Cohen ramps Up $1 billion GameStop bet...

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Market Briefing
April 16, 2025

Good morning.

The Fast Five → Another lull, but fireworks are coming, Trump presses China to make tariff offer, Nvidia faces $5.5B charge tied to China chip sales, OpenAI considering its own social network, and Ryan Cohen ramps Up $1 billion GameStop bet…

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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar

  • Today:
    US retail sales, 8:30A
    Business inventories, 10:00A
    Home builder confidence index, 10:00A

  • Tomorrow:
    Initial jobless claims, 8:30A

Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, April 16:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 4/15/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 28.52% for Week of April 10 2025

Previous week: 21.76%. Updates every Friday.

Market Wrap:

  • Futures drop: Dow -328 pts (-0.8%), S&P -1.5%, Nasdaq -2.3%.

  • Nvidia -6% after $5.5B China export charge.

  • Tuesday: Dow -0.4%, S&P -0.2%, Nasdaq slightly lower.

  • Retail sales due Wed (est. +1.2%); also watching industrial data.

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HEADLINES

Investors enjoyed another day of much-needed rest and recuperation on Tuesday after the last few bruising weeks.

President Trump called on China to reach out to him in order to kick off negotiations aimed at resolving the escalating trade fight between the world’s two largest economies.

  • Wall Street ends down slightly; tariff uncertainty keeps investors on edge (more)

  • Retail investors who’ve only known bull markets are buying the dip (more)

  • Trump orders tariff probe on all US critical mineral imports (more)

  • Gold hits record high on weaker dollar (more)

  • China’s economy grew by 5.4% in first quarter of 2025 (more)

  • US issues export licensing requirements for Nvidia, AMD chips to China (more)

  • Nvidia faces $5.5B charge as US restricts chip sales to China (more)

  • Ryan Cohen ramps Up $1 bln GameStop bet with margin loan (more)

  • Elliott builds over $1.5 bln stake in HP Enterprise (more)

  • OpenAI considering its own social network to compete with Elon Musk’s X (more)

  • Hermes overtakes LVMH to become most valuable luxury company (more)

  • Figma files for IPO more than a year after ditching Adobe deal (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Onsemi shelves $6.9 billion offer to buy Allegro MicroSystems

VC

  • Mainspring, a linear generator products company, raised $258M in financing

  • Virtue AI, a privacy-preserving AI systems company, raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding

  • Well, an AI-driven health engagement company, raised $30M in additional funding

  • IUNU, a provider of AI and machine vision technologies for the agricultural sector, raised $20M in funding

  • Doss, an AI-powered ERP and data platform, raised $18M in Series A funding

  • Loti AI, a leader in likeness protection technology, closed a $16.2M Series A funding

  • Corvic AI, a data-centric AI cognitive infrastructure company, raised $12M in Seed funding

  • Liminal, a real-time intelligence platform for complex markets and regulated industries, raised $8.5M in Series A funding

  • Friday Harbor, an AI-powered platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time, raised $6M in Seed funding

  • TheStage AI, a deep tech startup, raised $4.5M in funding

  • Ideem, a company specializing in online payments, raised $2.4M in Seed funding

  • QWERKY AI, a human-centered AI company building AI tools, raised $2M in Seed funding

CRYPTO

  • China selling seized crypto to top up coffers as economy slows (more)

  • Bitcoin slips with XRP, ADA as Nvidia's massive $5.5B charge sours investor sentiment (more)

  • Semler Scientific settles DOJ probe, says ready to buy more Bitcoin (more)

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