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Powell rallies Fed colleagues to approve rate cut, China bans tech companies from buying Nivida’s AI chips, StubHub slides 6% in NYSE debut, Apple/Citi CEOs join Trump and King Charles at State dinner, and Kash Patel called Krispy Kreme a buy fueling wild rally...

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Market Briefing
September 18, 2025

 

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The Fast Five → Powell rallies Fed colleagues to approve rate cut, China bans tech companies from buying Nivida’s AI chips, StubHub slides 6% in NYSE debut, Apple/Citi CEOs join Trump and King Charles at dinner, and Kash Patel called Krispy Kreme a buy fueling wild rally…

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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar

  • Today:
    Unemployment Claims, 8:30A

  • Tomorrow:
    none scheduled

Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, Sept 18:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 9/17/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 28.03% for Week of SEP 11 2025

Previous week: 32.69%

Market Wrap:

  • Futures: S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.2%, Dow +50 (0.1%)

  • Cracker Barrel plunged on weak Q4, rebrand fallout

  • Fed cut 25bp as expected; S&P -0.1%, Nasdaq -0.3%, Dow +260

  • Powell: cut is “risk management,” not pivot

  • Fed sees 2 more cuts this year, 1 in 2026 — fewer than traders hoped

  • WTD: S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.5%, Dow +0.4%

EARNINGS

Nothing watched today.

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That's why legendary investor Louis Navellier is now recommending these three stocks that are being fast-tracked.

HEADLINES

The Fed's quarter-point reduction came after a significant slowdown in job growth and an unprecedented push by the White House for much lower rates.

China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday.

  • S&P 500, Nasdaq slip after widely expected rate cut (more)

  • Five key takeaways from the Fed’s big interest rate decision (more)

  • Stocks hit fresh record high, US yields rise after Fed rate cut (more)

  • Fed approves quarter-point interest rate cut and sees two more this year (more)

  • Fed forecasts only one rate cut in 2026 (more)

  • US State visit yields record 150 billion pounds of investment (more)

  • Housing starts fall to lowest since May in broad decline (more)

  • Nvidia CEO Huang caught between US, China's 'larger agendas' (more)

  • Apple and Citi CEOs join Trump and King Charles at state dinner (more)

  • Kash Patel called Krispy Kreme stock a buy and fueled wild rally (more)

  • StubHub slides 6% in NYSE debut after ticket seller’s long-awaited IPO (more)

  • Tesla redesigning door handles that drew safety scrutiny (more)

  • Ben & Jerry's co-founder exits after feud with Unilever over Gaza (more)

  • Boeing, Honeywell sued by Air India crash victim families (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Glanbia to sell SlimFast US to Heartland Food Products

VC

  • AI chip startup Groq raises $75M at $6.9 billion valuation

  • Invisible Technologies, an AI software platform provider for the enterprise, raised $100M in growth funding

  • Upscale AI, a rapidly growing infrastructure player in the blockchain and AI compute space, launched with over $100M in Seed funding

  • Technologies, a leader in Wideband Signal Processing™ solutions, raised over $35M in Series A funding

  • Turnout, an AI-powered consumer service provider, raised $21M in Seed funding

  • Envive AI, an intelligence layer for digital commerce, raised $15M in Series A funding

  • GridStrong, a platform for automating electric grid compliance and operations, raised $10M in Seed funding

  • Synthesize Bio, a biotech company pioneering biological foundation models, raised $10M in Seed funding

  • Share One, a verified video testimonial platform, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding

  • Mongoose Software, a healthcare experience platform provider, raised funding from Vertical Venture Partners

CRYPTO

  • Crypto platform Bullish's second quarter earnings beats Wall St estimates (more)

  • Crypto power struggle flares as Stripe nabs big stablecoin win (more)

  • Wall Street turns crypto bet loved by hedge funds into ETF bait (more)

BULLISH BITES

🏦  Fed's Powell explains how central bank moderate rates mandate works.

📊 The surprising truth about dividend growth stocks.

⌚️ Swatch’s “What If…Tariffs?” watch flips its dial to protest US trade policy.

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