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The Fast Five → Trump demands lower interest rates after Fed’s unanimous decision, House votes to curb AI data center costs, top US and China trade officials hold talks, SpaceX stock pops ahead of Starship launch, and top sovereign wealth fund execs warn of impending pullback in US stocks…
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Today:
Unemployment Claims, 8:30P
Tomorrow:
None watched
Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, September 17:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/16/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +72 (+0.1%), S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.4%
Wed: Dow -630 (-1.2%), S&P -0.5%, Nasdaq flat
Fed raised rates by a quarter point
First rate hike in three years rattled stocks
Fed signaled another hike could come this year
Generac surged 30% on its Amazon deal
Focus shifts to jobless claims and housing starts
EARNINGS
None watched today. Full earnings calendar »
Jeff Brown: "If I Could Only Buy One AI Stock, This Would Be It"
Its patented tech can produce intelligence up to 1,000 times FASTER than regular AI…
And it's the same size Nvidia was back in 2016, before it exploded high enough to turn $5,000 into an entire retirement nest egg of $1.89 million.
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HEADLINES
President Trump responded to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates for the first time in three years by saying they should be lowered — "AND FAST!"
The head of the world’s best performing sovereign wealth fund said US returns in recent years were “close to double annualized returns for the past 20.”
Dow drops 600 pts as Fed rate hike and Warsh’s talk unnerve investors (more)
Fed hikes interest rates for first time in three years in unanimous decision (more)
Goldman CEO warns of higher costs, softness in fixed income (more)
House votes to curb AI data center costs (more)
Top US and China trade officials hold talks (more)
Canada invited to become EU’s first ‘associate member’ as Trump trade war intensifies (more)
UN chief sounds alarm on AI risk after Trump plays it down (more)
Trump ally Harold Hamm strikes Venezuela oil deal (more)
Oil prices fall after US says Saudi pipeline will restart operations in days (more)
US import prices jump in August on strength in capital, consumer goods (more)
US homebuilder sentiment drops to 12-month low in September (more)
Exxon advances talks to return to Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, sources say (more)
SpaceX stock pops ahead of Starship launch (more)
Apple weighs Nvidia technology for potential server market return (more)
SK Hynix and Intel in talks to make memory chips in US for the first time (more)
Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness (more)
American Airlines warns high fuel prices could force capacity adjustments (more)
Lennar profit halves as higher mortgage rates pressure homebuyers (more)
Holtec Nuclear suspends planned US IPO (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Reliance Worldwide agrees to Brookfield's $2.9B buyout bid
Headspace Mental Health app bought by AI startup for nearly $300M
Hy24, COFIDES to buy 29% stake in Moeve's green hydrogen project in Spain
RWE buys 3% more in M31, lifts its Amprion stake to about 58%
Permian Labs receives $40M stablecoin revolving debt facility from K3 Capital
Payment Nerds receives $2M credit facility from Espresso Capital
MediPro Direct receives investment from CGF Holdings
H Clinical receives investment from Emerald Square Ventures
Climb receives investment from RLH Equity Partners
Tablet Command receives investment from The Rise Funds
Transient.AI receives investment from Nasdaq Ventures
VC
Factory, a self-improving software development platform, raised $200M in funding
Profound, an AI marketing platform provider, raised $180M in Series D funding
Sling Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing late-stage therapy for thyroid eye disease, closed a $123M Series C financing
CADDi, a manufacturing tech company providing an AI data platform, raised $114M in Series D funding
Thatch, a provider of a health benefits platform, raised $108M in new funding
Circle Pharma, a biopharma company developing targeted macrocycle therapeutics for cancer, raised $92.5M in Series E funding
Hang Ten Systems, a provider of advisory and applied-AI services to large enterprises, raised an additional $53M in Seed funding
Polaris Electro-Optics, an electro-optic modulator tech platform for AI, datacom, and telecom infrastructure, raised $50M in new funding
BackOps, an AI resolution layer platform for physical goods supply chains, raised $42M in Series B funding
Noetive, an AI intelligence of record platform for the physical economy, raised $41M in Seed funding
Rune, a modular compute system platform, raised $40M in Series A funding
TypeSafe AI, a provider of machine-native and composable AI models, raised $40M in Seed funding
TeRAM, a provider of custom 3D SRAM for AI applications, raised $37M in funding
Veridion, a global business intelligence startup, raised $20M in Series A funding
Mithrl, an AI infrastructure provider for biopharma companies, raised $20M in Series A funding
Fin.com, a financial infrastructure company building a unified network for global money movement, raised $20M in Seed funding
Ayble Health, an AI-enabled virtual multidisciplinary GI clinic, raised $16M in Series A funding
Rebuild, an AI operating system for the property restoration industry, raised over $13M in funding
Nix Biosensors, a provider of real-time hydration monitoring technology, raised $10M in Series A funding
Ferry Health, an AI personal assistant platform for healthcare tasks, raised $9M in Seed funding
Gaia Dynamics, an AI-powered trade compliance platform, raised $7M in Seed funding
Expanse, an AI infrastructure company, raised $5.3M in Seed funding
Aristotle, a voice-first AI tutoring platform, raised $5M in Seed funding
VerifAIX, an AI-native semiconductor verification and EDA software startup, raised $5M in Seed funding
Kairon Health, an AI-native execution layer service for value-based care, raised $5M in funding
Barrell Lithium, a lithium brine exploration and commercial development platform, raised Series C financing in undisclosed amount
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