🚨 A market crash is coming—here’s when »

BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 29.19% for Week of February 20 2025

🚨 Wall Street Legend now calling exact day next market crash will start?
- from Chaikin Analytics

Market Wrap:

• Stocks tumbled as weak data stoked slowdown fears.

• Dow lost 748 pts, capping a 1,200-pt, two-day drop.

• Consumer sentiment & home sales fell more than expected.

• Nvidia, Palantir sank; defensive stocks rose.

• S&P lost 1.7% this past week, Dow & Nasdaq dropped 2.5%.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: Instacart (CART)

  • Home Depot (HD) - earnings of $3.03 per share (+7.4% YoY), on $39.0B (+12.1% YoY)

• Wednesday: eBay (EBAY), MARA (MARA), Paramount (PARA)

  • Nvidia (NVDA) - earnings of $.85 per share (+61.5% YoY) on $38.1B revenue (+72.5% YoY)

  • Salesforce (CRM) - earnings of $2.61 per share (+14% YoY) on $10.1B revenue (+8.1% YoY)

• Thursday: Duolingo (DUOL), HP (HPQ)

Full calendar here »

HEADLINES

Trump Says Tariffs on Canada and Mexico ‘Will Go Forward’

Hedge Funds Exit Tech, Media Stocks at Fastest Pace in Six Months

• Nasdaq, S&P fall as AI caution weighs on tech, Nvidia results in focus (more)

• Jamie Dimon says DOGE effort 'needs to be done' (more)

• Fed expected to respond strongly to inflation, job market conditions (more)

• BlackRock and JPMorgan CEOs, tackle retirement ‘crisis’ with lawmakers (more)

• US Treasury market utilities set to expand cross-margining this year (more)

• US manufacturers see higher metal prices as tariffs near (more)

• Oil gains on supply concerns from Iran sanctions (more)

• Options traders line up hedges before pivotal Nvidia earnings (more)

• Apple plans $500B in US investment, 20,000 research jobs in next four years (more)

• Berkshire Hathaway shares set new high following record profit (more)

• Alibaba plans to spend $53B on AI in a major pivot (more)

• Starbucks cuts 1,100 corporate jobs to speed up turnarounds (more)

• Google wins Salesforce cloud deal in bid to counter Microsoft (more)

• Anthropic says it's released its 'most intelligent' AI model yet (more)

  • Anthropic closes in on $3.5B funding round as investor interest soars (more)

• JPMorgan sets aside $50B more for direct lending push (more)

A MESSAGE FROM CHAIKIN ANALYTICS

A Market Crash is Coming

Hi, my name is Marc Chaikin, and I'm writing today to let you know that a market crash is coming.

I spent roughly 50 years on Wall Street, helping to design stock ratings systems... and my work is now found on every Bloomberg and Reuter's terminal around the globe.

But today I simply want to share three important data points that almost no one is talking about right now:

1. The exact day the next stock crash is most likely to begin

2. What to own now to potentially see the biggest gains with the least risk (go here for the ticker of one of my favorite stocks)

3. When to start taking profits--and where to put your money next I cover all three topics in my most research presentation, which you can access for free on my website.

Just click here to view.

Sincerely,
Marc Chaikin, Founder, Chaikin Analytics

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Blackstone buys Superyacht and Marina Servicer for $5.65B (more)

• Genstar is in talks to buy First Eagle for over $4 bln (more)

• Apollo to buy real-estate management firm Bridge Investment for $1.5B (more)

• National Grid sells $1.7B US renewables arm to Brookfield (more)

• MongoDB, a database for modern applications, acquired Voyage AI, a company embedding and reranking models for new AI applications (more)

• Audiochuck, a crime and mystery media company, received a $40M minority investment from The Chernin Group (more)

VC

• Just Salad raises new funding at $1 bln valuation (more)

• NinjaOne, an automated endpoint management platform, raised $500M in Series C funding, at $5 bln valuation (more)

• AirQtel, an aerial surveillance platform, raised $27M in Series A funding (more)

• Cambium, a supply chain tech company focused on the wood industry, raised $18.5 in Series A funding (more)

• Patlytics, an AI-powered patent workflow platform, raised $14M in Series A funding (more)

• RAD Security, a leader in securing cloud-focused infrastructure, raised $14M in Series A funding (more)

• Fello, a peer support platform for loneliness, raised $10.4M in funding (more)

• AppStorys, a platform offering in-app and web engagement tools, raised $5M in funding (more)

• Kapta Space, a space tech startup, raised $5M in Seed funding (more)

• Journify, a conversion API and composable customer data platform, raised $4M in funding (more)

• Sonar, an AI-powered mental health platform for young people, raised $2.4M in funding (more)

• Luxe Software, a cloud-based operating system for jewelry stores, announced the raise of $2M in Seed funding (more)

CRYPTO

• Crypto exchange Bybit says it replenished reserves after record $1.5B hack (more)

• Robinhood says SEC dismissed crypto unit investigation in latest sign of easier regulation for industry (more)

• Strategy buys 20,356 Bitcoin for almost $2B; holdings approach 500K BTC (more)

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