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Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, August 17:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 8/14/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +11 (+0.02%), S&P +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.2%
Fri: Dow -0.2%, S&P -0.3%, Nasdaq -0.4%
S&P logged its third straight winning week
Strong earnings continue to support stocks
Markets remain resilient despite Middle East tensions
Fed minutes take center stage Wednesday
Focus shifts to Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Walmart
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
TUE: *Baidu $BIDU ( ▼ 0.97% ), Toll Brothers $TOL ( ▼ 0.7% )
*Home Depot $HD ( ▼ 0.83% ) - $4.73 EPS (+1% YoY), on $47.2B revenue (+4.2% YoY)
WED: Coty $COTY ( ▲ 3.64% ), *Estee Lauder $EL ( ▼ 1.4% ), *Lowe's $LOW ( ▲ 0.12% ), *Target $TGT ( ▼ 0.66% )
THU: *Alibaba $BABA ( ▲ 1.35% ), Ross Stores $ROST ( ▲ 0.16% )
*Walmart $WMT ( ▼ 0.39% ) - $.74 EPS (+8.8% YoY) on $186.9B revenue (+6.3% YoY)
AI Pioneer Issues Urgent Warning
A pioneer who spent $17 million building AI-powered market tools — part of a platform used by 180,000 people worldwide — is stepping forward with an urgent warning.
He says the biggest AI stocks are about to become the market's biggest losers, and he's identified where the real money will flow next.
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HEADLINES
Wall Street was tightening for the Fed — until it suddenly hit the gas.
Just 13% of US large-cap funds have outperformed indexes over the past decade, new data show.
Stock futures are little changed after S&P posts three-week win streak (more)
Retail earnings, Fed minutes and other key things to watch this week (more)
German companies cut US investment to three-year low (more)
What Bessent's economic isolation of Iran could look like (more)
US 20-Yr bond sale to test demand as yield curve steepens (more)
Oil treads water as US-Iran peace talks stall, Hormuz shipping slows (more)
Gold gains on weaker dollar, reduced Fed rate-hike bets (more)
Dollar dips as Fed hike bets ease, treasuries gain (more)
JPMorgan could soon be the first $1 trillion bank (more)
Trump family’s World Liberty Financial gets prelim approval to launch bank (more)
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ (more)
Peter Thiel buys stake in Vaca Muerta oil firm (more)
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ (more)
Phillips 66, Marathon held now-scuttled merger talks (more)
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will resume on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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