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Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, September 3:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/2/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +12, S&P flat, Nasdaq flat
Tue: Dow -400+, Nasdaq -1.0%
Stocks fell for a third straight session
Oil topped $90 as US-Iran tensions escalated
10-yr Treasury yield hit its highest since early 2025
Higher yields continued pressuring tech stocks
Focus shifts to ADP payrolls and the Beige Book
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching:
Today: *Victoria's Secret $VSXY ( ▲ 0.76% )
Lululemon $LULU ( ▲ 1.75% ) - $1.80 EPS (-41.9% YoY) on $2.5B revenue, unchanged from the year-ago period
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HEADLINES
One of Goldman Sachs' top stock strategists sees more gradual stock gains over the next 12 months.
Most experts have attributed the increase to worries about debt levels and inflation.
Wall St ends higher as stocks reclaim some shine (more)
Bond selloff deepens as oil prices and public debt fears jolt markets (more)
10-yr US Treasury yield hits highest level since November 2023 (more)
US Senator asks Capital One for Trump account details in anti-money laundering review (more)
89% of Americans say government corruption is widespread (more)
Bessent: US eyes airlines, digital assets as Iran-related targets (more)
Trump's AI team fractures over strategy against G20 backdrop (more)
Tax breaks for Big Tech data centers lose states billions in revenue (more)
Oil holds three-day gain as Trump says Iran strikes to be brief (more)
Amazon stock just entered the danger zone (more)
Broadcom stock sinks as chipmaker fails 'to keep investors happy' (more)
Uber to cut 10% of jobs to slash bureaucracy (more)
Chevron to invest $7 billion to double its Venezuelan output (more)
Schwab imposes stricter limits on tax-aware long-short accounts (more)
Founder of private investment firm charged with defrauding investors (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Shell to acquire stake in BP-operated Conifer prospect in Gulf of Mexico
La Caisse buys $1.3B stake in Indian telecom tower firm
Elliott builds Deutsche Telekom stake, opposes T-Mobile merger
Outcomes One receives investment from H.I.G. Capital
Delfi receives investment from Members 1st Federal Credit Union
BQP receives investment from IBM Ventures
Aurenity receives investment from Great Hill Partners
VC
Medici Brands, a food tech company, raised $250M in Series B funding
TabaPay, a provider of a money movement platform, raised $155M in funding
Thyme Care, an oncology company, raised over $125M in Series E funding
Physical Superintelligence, an AI-native physics platform, raised $58M in Seed funding
Typewriter Therapeutics, a gene writing technology platform for genetic medicines, raised $56M in Series A funding
Elucid, an AI-powered software to advance diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, raised $55M in Series D funding
Capacity, an agentic support automation platform, raised more than $54M in Series E funding
AIR, an inline firewall platform for AI agents, raised $50M in funding
SciFin, an AI platform for enterprise revenue teams, raised $44M in Seed funding
Locus Robotics, a warehouse automation and autonomous mobile robot developer, raised $41.6M in Series G funding
Cari, a provider of a bank-governed digital money network, raised $32.5M in funding
N-Power Medicine, an oncology drug development and community cancer patient care platform, raised $32M in Series B funding
Aslan Protects, a defense techn and cyber intelligence startup, raised $20.8M in Seed funding
Critical Materials Group, a modular energetics production platform, raised $10.3M in Seed funding
Newlight, a clean tech and maritime aerospace startup, raised $9M in Seed funding
Konko AI, an AI platform to manage patients in healthcare clinics and hospitals in LatAm, raised $6M in funding
Ki 13, a clean-tech, green hydrogen infrastructure startup, raised $5M in Seed funding
Archive, an AI-native creator marketing platform, raised funding in undisclosed amount
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BULLISH BITES
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