Future of finance?

Investors dump tech shares as shutdown relief evaporates, Eric Trump: The future of finance is crypto, Robinhood CEO: Prediction market is fastest-growing business, Saylor: Bitcoin will be bigger than gold within a decade, and Michael Burry of 'Big Short' fame is closing his hedge fund...

 

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The Fast FiveInvestors dump tech shares as shutdown relief evaporates, Eric Trump: The future of finance is crypto, Robinhood CEO: Prediction market is fastest-growing business, Saylor: Bitcoin will be bigger than gold within a decade, and Michael Burry of 'Big Short' fame is closing his hedge fund

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Calendar: (*Shutdown may affect key data. All times ET) - Full Calendar »

  • Today:
    None watched

  • Monday:

    Empire State Manufacturing Index, 8:30A

Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, Nov 14:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 11/13/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓37.97% for Week of NOV 06 2025

Previous week: 44.03%

Market Wrap:

  • Futures dipped: Dow -38 (-0.1%), S&P -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.3%.

  • Dow hit record above 48,000; S&P gained for 4th day.

  • Rotation continued as investors moved from tech to value.

  • Industrials, financials, and health care led the rally.

  • Shutdown vote expected Wednesday night in the House.

  • Missing data from the six-week stoppage adds volatility.

EARNINGS

None watched today. Full calendar here »

Forget AI, This New Tech is
Projected to Grow 3x Faster —

Forget AI.

President Trump's new law #S.1582 unlocks a new tech that could trigger a $21 trillion financial revolution.

President Trump himself called it a "big innovation"…

And said that it represents "American brilliance at its best."

Click here to see the details because the market for this tech…

is projected to grow more than 3X FASTER than AI in the coming years. 

- a message from Brownstone Research -

HEADLINES

A rush of delayed economic data threatens to spark bigger swings.

Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies will be the future of money and investments, according to Eric Trump.

  • Trump signs funding bill, ends government shutdown (more)

  • Wall Street braces for post-shutdown data deluge (more)

  • Stocks get clobbered as shutdown fallout clouds Fed outlook (more)

  • Treasury yields little changed as investors cheer end of shutdown (more)

  • European officials consider pooling dollars to lessen Fed reliance (more)

  • Michael Burry of 'Big Short' fame is closing his hedge fund (more)

  • Disney stock drops as revenue disappoints (more)

  • Tesla stock sinks as post-Musk pay package sell-off continues (more)

  • Robinhood CEO: Prediction market is fastest-growing business ever (more)

  • Strategy's Saylor: Bitcoin will be bigger than gold within a decade (more)

  • Struggling Verizon eyes 15,000 job cuts under new CEO (more)

  • Starbucks workers union launches strike in at least 40 cities (more)

  • Big Tech’s climate strategists feeling strain of AI power needs (more)

  • TKO, Polymarket strike multiyear deal to integrate prediction markets into UFC events (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Oracle to buy HashiCorp in $15 billion all-stock deal

  • UnitedHealth’s Optum to acquire Everside Health for $5.4B

  • Roku to sell content-distribution business to Vizio in $1.2B deal

  • Brookfield consortium nears $8.6B take-private of Enbridge Renewables

VC

  • Neuralink, a eurotech company developing brain-computer interfaces, raised $500M in funding at a valuation exceeding $7B

  • Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid warehouse robots, raised $250M in Series C funding

  • Forterra, a company improving mission-system interoperability for defense and logistics, raised $238M in Series C funding

  • Kojo, a construction-materials procurement platform, closed $80M in Series D funding

  • Gate Bioscience, a biotech company developing a new class of small-molecule medicines, closed a $65M Series B financing

  • Exowatt, a renewable-energy company, raised an additional $50M in funding

  • Fabric8Labs, an electrochemical additive-manufacturing company, raised $50M in funding

  • Maybern, an operating system for private-fund managers, raised $50M in Series B funding

  • Limbix, a digital-therapeutics company developing adolescent mental-health treatments, raised $35M in Series B funding

  • ValarLabs, an AI company specializing in histopathology image analysis for cancer diagnostics, raised $22M in Series A funding

  • sunday, a restaurant-payment platform, raised $21M in Series B funding

  • Anzen, a commercial-insurance distribution platform, raised $16M in Series A funding

  • SilverEye Bio, a gene-therapy startup developing precision RNA-editing technology, raised $18M in Series A funding

  • Aural Analytics, a speech-analysis startup building AI tools for neurological-disorder monitoring, secured $12M in funding

  • Bindwell, an agriculture-tech company using AI to accelerate pesticide discovery, raised $6M in Seed funding

  • Ladder Bio, a therapeutics company developing a proprietary Spiroligomer platform, raised $5.5M in Series Seed funding.

  • Songscription, a music-learning platform provider, raised $5M in funding

  • Rendyr, a portable laser-cutter platform for design and engineering teams, closed $4.2M in Seed funding

  • Big Rentals, an equipment-rental platform provider, raised $2.8M in Seed funding

Time to Say Goodbye to "Old" Dollar?
Say Hello to "Trump's New Dollar" 

Time to Say Goodbye to "Old" Dollar? Say Hello to "Trump's New Dollar" If you have any money in U.S. dollars…

Because this could be the biggest change to our financial system in 54 years.

President Trump even called it: "The greatest revolution in financial technology since the birth of the internet itself."

Go here to get the details because this could have a huge impact on your wealth.

- a message from Brownstone Research -

CRYPTO

  • Bitcoin sinks deeper below $100,000 as bear market grips crypto (more)

  • Bitcoin diehard Jack Dorsey leans into Stablecoin-payments boom (more)

  • Crypto asset manager Grayscale files for IPO in the US (more)

BULLISH BITES

🤖  The company at the heart of the AI bubble.

🧦 Apple launches $230 iPhone Pocket ‘sock’ to widespread bemusement.

🎲 Prediction markets go mainstream.

😔 What did men do to deserve this?

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