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FOMC Meeting Minutes, 2:00P
Your 5-minute briefing for Tuesday, May 19:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 5/18/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 39.32% for Week of MAY 14 2026
Previous week: 38.31%
Market Wrap:
FuFutures lower S&P -0.23%, Nasdaq -0.45%, Dow -51
S&P and Nasdaq fell for second straight session
Dow outperformed Monday, rising 160 points
AI chip stocks slide Seagate -7%, Micron -6%
Markets showing signs of rally fatigue
Trump pauses planned Iran attack after regional pressure
Investors await Home Depot earnings and housing data
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: *Home Depot $HD ( ▲ 0.88% ) *
WED: e.l.f. Beauty $ELF ( ▼ 3.43% ), *Lowe’s $LOW ( ▲ 0.16% ), *Target $TGT ( ▲ 3.11% ), *TJX $TJX ( ▲ 0.29% )
Nvidia $NVDA ( ▼ 0.77% ) - earnings of $1.78 per share on $78.98B revenue
THU: Ross Stores $ROST ( ▲ 0.76% )
Walmart $WMT ( ▲ 0.65% ) - EPS of $.66 (+8.2% YoY) on $174.62B revenue (+6.5% YoY)
I believe AI stocks are on the verge of crashing hard —
And you may not have much time left.
An announcement could come as soon as 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.
It could send AI stocks plunging.
Some experts say this could be worse than the Dot-Com Bubble, the Financial Crisis and the Great Depression — combined.
If you're exposed to AI stocks in any way — which most Americans are …
Consider this your last warning.
A chance for you to act to protect your wealth.
Before AI stocks potentially crash. Which could be as soon as 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.
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HEADLINES
A jury on Monday found OpenAI's Altman and Brockman not liable for turning the company into a for-profit business.
The joint venture will provide data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google Cloud's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as a compute-as-a-service offering.
S&P 500, Nasdaq slip as inflation fears grip markets (more)
Trump says US holding off on new Iran strikes after Gulf appeal (more)
Kevin Warsh to be sworn in as Federal Reserve chair on Friday (more)
Trump creates $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund (more)
SEC readies plan for trading crypto versions of stocks (more)
White House to announce TrumpRx expansion with Mark Cuban (more)
Trump says he should’ve asked for ‘more’ of Intel when negotiating stake (more)
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz Strait (more)
Earnings-fueled stock rally faces key test (more)
Nvidia bulls mount uphill battle into earnings (more)
Anthropic jolts market for buying shares in hot pre-IPO startups (more)
SpaceX IPO set to hand $20B stake to one hedge fund (more)
Lululemon urges shareholders to reject Chip Wilson’s proxy fight (more)
NextEra, Dominion announce merger to create US power behemoth (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Shein buys US-based apparel retailer Everlane
NextEra to buy Dominion for $67 B to form power giant
NTT DATA is to acquire WinWire
Wonderlab Bio receives investment from Jetstream Venture Fund
PowerGEM secures strategic investment from General Atlantic, acquires Telos Energy
VC
Tomorrow.io, resilience platform for weather intelligence, raised add’l $35M in Series F funding
Roadrunner, an AI-native revenue infrastructure company, raised $27M in funding
Xpanner, a construction automation company, raised $18M in Series B bridge funding
Arkeus, a defense tech company building AI-powered sensing systems, raised $18M in Series A funding
Blink, a provider of an employee experience platform for frontline workforces, announced it has raised $17M in funding
Shyld AI, a healthcare tech company developing active intelligence solutions for healthcare facilities, raised $13.4M in Seed funding
Onramp, a Bitcoin-centric financial services platform provider, raised $12.5M in Series A funding, at a $135M valuation
Sprouts.ai, a provider of an AI-powered ABM and GTM intelligence platform, raised $9M in Pre-Series A funding
Furientis, a defense tech startup developing cost-effective defensive munitions, raised $5M in Pre-Seed funding
Cimento AI, a human risk management platform, raised $3M in Pre-Seed funding
Hacktron, a cybersecurity startup, raised $2.9M in Pre-Seed funding
Roxberry, a soda brand for kids, raised an undisclosed amount in funding
Gradiant, a provider of advanced water and wastewater treatment solutions, raised an undisclosed amount in Series E funding
SponsorCX, a provider of a platform simplifying and modernizing partnership operations, received an additional investment in Series A funding
Transient.AI, an AI-native investment management platform provider for institutional trading raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding
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BULLISH BITES
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