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The Fast Five → AI’s house of cards puts markets at risk, Trump to form ‘AI Force’ and appoint AI czar, crypto blew its big moment, Wall Street braces for more Fed rate hikes, and Warren Buffett steps down as Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway…
📌 Trump building “National Data Center” for America →
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Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, September 21:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/18/2026. Bitcoin as of 9/20/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +0.25%, S&P +0.23%, Nasdaq +0.27%
Week: Dow -1.7%, S&P -0.1%, Nasdaq +0.7%
Middle East tensions escalated over the weekend
Oil remains near $100 amid supply concerns
Fed raised rates by a quarter point last week
10-year Treasury yield remains near 5%
Focus shifts to the US-China summit this week
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
TUE: KB Home $KBH ( ▼ 2.93% )
WED: *Cracker Barrel $CBRL ( ▲ 2.97% ), *General Mills $GIS ( ▼ 0.93% )
THU:
*Costco $COST ( ▲ 0.15% ) $6.53 EPS (+11.2% YoY) on $94.9B revenue (+10.1% YoY)
*Darden Restaurants $DRI ( ▲ 1.23% ) - $2.05 EPS (+4.1% YoY), on $3.2B revenue (+6.7% YoY)
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This AI Stock
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A company helping to unleash a whole new category of Artificial Intelligence.
Louis Navellier and his team have spent months researching this opportunity. He even traveled to Mar-a-Lago several times, personally. And he anticipates a potential announcement from this company on or before Sept. 29th.
That's why he's encouraging his readers to buy the stock now – before that date.
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HEADLINES
The heads of America’s leading AI development labs have started a national conversation about tapping the brakes on a technology that’s offering so much promise for society, while also showing it can do a frightening amount of harm.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was at the center of a protracted fight over the role of digital assets in mainstream finance.
Stock futures rise slightly after Dow posts third straight losing week (more)
Friday: S&P, Nasdaq advance, turning the page on a tumultuous week (more)
Higher interest rates and AI safety fears put the market to the test last week (more)
Wall Street braces for more Fed rate hikes (more)
Trump: US will form ‘AI Force’ and appoint AI czar (more)
US, China meet for talks in New York before Trump-Xi summit (more)
Carney’s glitzy summit lures international investments to Canada (more)
Oil rises after Houthi attack on Saudi capital (more)
Warren Buffett steps down as Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (more)
Berkshire looks to keep culture intact as Howard Buffett ascends (more)
Ten days that changed the course of AI (more)
Nvidia’s Huang emerges as Trump’s top ally in AI safety debate (more)
Anthropic considers releasing new AI model ahead of IPO (more)
Novo to partner with Anthropic on drug discovery efforts (more)
GM to build Patriot missile parts for Lockheed Martin (more)
Porsche could face another 4,000 job cuts (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
FedEx-Led Group completes €7.8b buyout of Poland's InPost
Phigenics receives investment from Battery Ventures
VC
Nex, a provider of active play systems for families, raised over $150M in new equity and debt financing
Magentic, a provider of AI digital workers for large industrial companies, raised $18M in Series A funding
Tempo Therapeutics, a regenerative medicine company, raised $14.5M in funding
TigerByte Cyber, a provider of hardware-based edge computing solutions for cybersecurity, raised $3M in Seed funding
Antfly, a provider of a retrieval engine for AI, raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding
Embra AI, a data infrastructure startup for robotics and physical AI teams, closed a $1M Pre-Seed funding
Fize Medical, a provider of smart fluid management solutions for critically ill patients, raised the first close of its $20M Series B funding target
TowerNorth, a mission-critical wireless infrastructure, secured additional growth capital from Berkshire Partners and closed a new debt facility
Robigo, a biotech company engineering biological solutions for crop protection, raised Series A funding
Raindrop, an AI agent monitoring platform, raised Series A funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
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