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Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, October 19:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 10/16/2026. Bitcoin as of 10/18/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +110 (+0.2%), S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.4%
Week: S&P -2%, Nasdaq -4.5%
AI spending concerns fueled last week's selloff
CoreWeave plunged 25% amid mounting debt fears
AI credit spreads widened to yearly highs
Oil stabilized despite escalating geopolitical tensions
Focus shifts to Meta and Tesla earnings
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
TUE: *General Motors $GM ( ▲ 0.36% ), Capital One $COF ( ▲ 1.45% ), United Airlines $UAL ( ▼ 5.14% )
Netflix $NFLX ( ▼ 2.87% ) - YoY earnings growth of 39% to 82 cents EPS on revenue growth of 11.9% to $12.9B
WED: *AT&T $T ( ▼ 0.26% ), Southwest Air $LUV ( ▼ 3.26% )
Meta $META ( ▼ 3.72% ) - YoY EPS growth of 465.7% to $5.94 on 23.6% revenue growth to $63.35B
THU: *American Airlines $AAL ( ▼ 3.26% ), *Blackstone $BX ( ▼ 2.37% ), *Procter & Gamble $PG ( ▲ 1.45% ), *Spotify $SPOT ( ▼ 0.55% )
FRI: American Express $AXP ( ▼ 0.09% )
SELL SpaceX—BUY This Today
Thank God you didn't buy a single share of SpaceX… because the REAL story is what could be happening underneath Elon's empire.
I call it his "Shadow Trust"…
A group of stocks that have generated a huge stream of income stretching back 20 years, …with $100 million paid out in just the past few weeks alone.
The next payouts are coming November 4.
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HEADLINES
It has been a week for the tech trade.
Futures rise ahead of busy earnings week (more)
Bond market’s big short bet gets wakeup call as AI trade wobbles (more)
Option traders brace for volatility surge as AI jitters jolt market (more)
Warsh boosts market expectations of Fed hold in October (more)
Record shipping costs force oil producers to slash prices (more)
France braces for debt sell-off after violent protests (more)
China’s Q3 GDP growth set to pick up as exports power ahead (more)
Apple’s foldable iPhone sold out in minutes—deliveries slip to January (more)
Nvidia’s CEO: “All of this is going to pass” after tech lost $1 tln in a day (more)
Anthropic to commit 5% stake to new public benefit fund (more)
Disney agrees to hire the majority of CharacterAI’s workforce (more)
KFC just dealt PepsiCo a blow with new Coca-Cola deal (more)
United now has Starlink on nearly 600 planes (more)
The next AI race will be won at the credit desk (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Proofpoint agrees to acquire Varonis for $6.3B
Cleanaway agrees $6.5B EQT takeover deal
Kutlerri.ai receives $4M investment
VC
Abby Care, a home-care platform that trains and legalizes family members to become paid caregivers, raised $82M in Series C funding
North.cloud, an infrastructure spend intelligence and automation platform for cloud, AI, and data, raised $60M in Series B funding
Sunbound, an AI-powered revenue OS for senior living, raised $24M in Series A funding and acquired Richter Healthcare Consultants
Opsin, a provider of an AI governance and security platform built to detect and contain AI agent misbehavior, raised $21M in funding
Sharp Performance, a confidential performance coaching platform for first responders, raised $18M in Series A funding
Chariot Claims, an AI-powered mass action and consumer protection platform, raised $10M in Series A funding
Homa, an AI-powered homebuying platform and licensed brokerage, raised $5M in Pre-Seed funding
IPX, an agentic operating system for intellectual property, a tokenized launchpad and the IPX Exchange, raised $4M in funding
RSYNQ, a physical AI infrastructure platform and middleware layer, raised $2M in funding
AIsa, a resource and transaction network for enterprise AI agents, closed a Seed extension round (amount undisclosed)
Uniform Labs, an institutional liquidity protocol for tokenized assets, closed a Seed round (amount undisclosed)
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
🏛️ Have you heard of Elon’s “Shadow Trust”? *
💫 Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine.
🤯 What are data centers doing? A mind-boggling amount of math.
💼 The bloated workweek is coming for your Sunday.
🗣️ Wanted: Chief small talk officers.
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