BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 33.66% for Week of OCT 16 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures edge higher: Dow +33 (0.1%), S&P +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.1%.

• Stocks rallied Monday on Apple strength, shutdown optimism.

• NEC’s Hassett: impasse “likely to end this week.”

• Earnings ramp up — Netflix, Coke Tues; Tesla Wed.

• 75% of S&P firms beat so far; “Mag 7” profit growth +15% YoY.

• CPI Friday to guide Fed’s late-Oct rate cut expectations.

• Trump upbeat on China talks ahead of Xi meeting

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: *Coca-Cola $KO ( ▲ 3.59% ), *General Motors $GM ( ▲ 14.55% )

  • Netflix $NFLX ( ▲ 0.21% ) - EPS of $6.94 (+28.5% YoY) on $11.51B revenue (+17.2% YoY).

• WED: *AT&T $T ( ▼ 0.35% ), Tesla $TSLA ( ▼ 0.49% )

• THU: *American Airlines $AAL ( ▼ 0.37% ), *Blackstone $BX ( ▲ 0.51% ), Ford $F ( ▲ 3.88% ), Intel $INTC ( ▼ 0.33% ) 

  • Newmont $NEM ( ▼ 9.39% ) - EPS of $1.42 (+75.3% YoY) on $5.23B revenue (+13.6% YoY)

• FRI: *Procter & Gamble $PG ( ▲ 0.18% ) 

Full calendar here »

A MESSAGE FROM INVESTORPLACE

Elon Musk Recently Bought $1 BILLION
Worth of Tesla Shares —

That's his biggest personal buy in 5 years. My research suggests he's doing it ahead of Tesla's launch of the Optimus robot… An AI-powered robot that Elon himself calls "the biggest product ever of any kind."

But here's the thing: Tesla is already a trillion-dollar company. Unless you've got $1 billion like Elon, buying Tesla stock is probably not the best way to play the Optimus launch. That's why I've uncovered a "backdoor" Optimus play most Americans don't know about……

- sponsored message from Stansberry Research -

HEADLINES

Apple Stock Hits All-Time High as iPhone 17 Sales Soar

Amazon Outage Takes Down Online Services Around the World

• Wall St ends sharply higher as earnings optimism fuels risk appetite (more)

• Spooky season was short-lived on Wall Street (more)

• Economic deadlines loom with shutdown 3rd longest in US history (more)

• Trump expects Taiwan on agenda for Xi meeting, predicts trade deal (more)

• Trump signs agreement on critical minerals with Australia (more)

• US regional banks' earnings under scrutiny with jitters over credit risks (more)

• Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried (more)

• Gold holds near record high even as US-China trade tensions ease (more)

• Oil declines on oversupply fears (more)

• Asian stocks surge as trade tensions ease, Nikkei hits record (more)

• Japan set to have first female Finance Minister (more)

• Cathie Wood says Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay deal will pass 'decisively' (more)

• Bank of America warns of forced stocks selling if credit problems persist (more)

• Cost and chaos continue to test resiliency of US auto industry (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• L’Oréal  acquires Kering’s  beauty division (including Creed) for $4.7B

• EQT AB circles secondaries deal with Coller Capital, HarbourVest

• Kojo receives $10M investment from Wesco International

VC

• CoreStack, a governance and automation platform spanning CNAPP, SecOps, FinOps, secured $50M in growth financing from Post Road Group

• Adaptyx Biosciences, a biowearables company developing a platform for continuous, multi-analyte molecular monitoring, raised $14M in Seed financing

• AdsGency, an LLM advertising platform that enables AI agents to run organizations’ entire paid marketing workflow, raised $12M in Seed funding

• Magic, a company building AI for real-world experiences, raised $10M in Seed funding

• Fourier Health, a clinician-in-the-loop AI platform that streamlines and consolidates patient clinical data into summaries, raised $8.4M in Seed funding

• Avid, an AI-powered fundraising operating system provider, raised $6.5M in Seed funding

• Andel, a platform that strengthens pharmacy benefits by giving employers an affordable way to include GLP-1s, raised $4.5M in funding.

• Logic, a business automation platform that eliminates coding requirement, raised $4.3M in Seed funding

• Golpo, an AI-powered platform that transforms documents and prompts into interactive explainer videos, raised $4.1M in Seed funding

• Chatfuel, a communication automation startup, raised $1.5M in Seed funding

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin leaps back to $111,000 as crypto stabilizes after huge sell-off (more)

• Crypto's half-finished legislative agenda teeters as CEOs set meeting with democrats (more)

• Ripple-tied treasury firm to raise over $1 billion to go public (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚀 How to profit from Elon’s biggest ever launch. * 

😳  Why credit risks are jarring Wall Street.

📊 What the global elite got wrong about Trumponomics.

🤖 Wikipedia says AI is causing a dangerous decline in human visitors.

😎 Pharrell’s Joopiter is auctioning off tattoo designs from contemporary artists.

DAILY SHARES

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