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The Fast Five → Wall St powers nation’s biggest banks to record year, Trump to make tech giants pay for surging power costs, Taiwan/US reach trade deal tied to chips investment, Amazon blasts Saks funding deal over ‘worthless’ equity, and TSMC earnings draw investors’ eyes back to AI…
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Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, Jan 16:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 1/15/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 42.49% for Week of JAN 08 2026
Previous week: 42.04%
Market Wrap:
Futures were flat S&P +0.1%, Dow +30, Nasdaq 100 +0.2%
Thursday rose S&P +0.3%, Nasdaq +0.3%, Dow +0.6%, Russell +0.9%
Chips led after a TSMC blowout and fresh AI momentum
US-Taiwan deal targets $250B of chip and tech investment in America
Banks jumped on solid Goldman and Morgan Stanley results
Week still leaned lower S&P -0.3%, Nasdaq -0.6%, Dow -0.1%
EARNINGS
Nothing watched today. Full earnings calendar »
$3 Trillion Market About to Double?
BlackRock and JP Morgan are quietly stockpiling a special resource.
Spending hundreds of billions to do it.
And it's not just them.
Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are getting in.
Even the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google …
Are grabbing what they can.
Now some analysts are saying this could go down as one of the largest bull markets in recorded history.
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HEADLINES
Revenues were up across the board of the leading financial firms, with trading, banking and lending all busy.
The White House proposal, set to be announced Friday, would involve an emergency auction within the country’s biggest power market.
Wall St ends higher; banks gain following results, chips rally with TSMC (more)
White House says 25% semiconductor tariffs a 'phase one' action (more)
Fed's Barr: DOJ probe is 'an assault on the independence of the Fed' (more)
Taiwan will invest $250B in US chipmaking under new trade deal (more)
Weekly US jobless claims fall unexpectedly (more)
Dollar poised for third weekly gain as buoyant data may keep Fed cuts at bay (more)
Oil flat as chances of US strike on Iran recedes (more)
Mortgage rates hit 3-yr low after Trump's bond-buying announcement (more)
Asian stocks set record as tech rally powers on (more)
BlackRock caps 2025 sith record $14tln in assets (more)
Bank CEOs say record $134B trading haul is just the start (more)
Goldman CEO is looking at how to get involved in prediction markets (more)
Amazon blasts Saks funding deal, says its equity is ‘worthless’ (more)
Microsoft, OpenAI lose last chance to avoid trial with Musk (more)
OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer startup Merge Labs (more)
TSMC earnings draw investors’ eyes back to AI (more)
Major bond investor shuns US over Trump’s unpredictability (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Mitsubishi to take over Texas and Louisiana shale gas assets for $7.53B
Worthington Steel to buy Kloeckner & Co in $2.4B deal
Cloudflare acquires Human Native
StarLIMS receives strategic investment from Turn/River Capital
CalcFocus receives growth investment from Pamlico Capital
Ryan receives minority investment from Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions
VC
Mytra, a company building the operating system for supply chains, raised $120M in Series C funding
Higgsfield, an AI-native generative video platform provider, raised $80M in Series A extension funding
Quadric, an inference engine that empowers on-device AI chips, raised $30M in Series C Funding
GovDash, an AI-driven enterprise planning platform for government contracting, raised $30M in Series B funding
Project Eleven, a company specializing in post-quantum security for digital assets, raised $20M Series A funding
OTTO SPORT AI, a youth sports platform provider, raised $16.5M in Seed funding
Atomic Insights, a money-movement and workflow automation tools for RIA's, raised $10M in Seed funding
Meld, a network for accessing digital assets and stablecoins, raised $7M in funding
Pinch AI, an AI-powered post-purchase intelligence platform, raised $5M in funding
Slips, a peer-to-peer betting company, raised $3.5M in Series Seed funding
RouteSense, a data analytics company delivering predictive intelligence for the payments industry, raised ~$2M in pre-Seed funding
Olelo Intelligence, an AI sales coaching platform, raised $1M in funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
📊 ETFs are eating the world.
🤖 McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul.
🇻🇪 Everything they need to know about Venezuela, they learned from ‘Jack Ryan’.
🚙 A $1 Million SUV once seemed impossible—now it seems inevitable.
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