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The Fast Five → Markets brace as Fed expected to hike rates for first time in 3 years, bond market’s ‘extreme’ short counting on it, 10-year yield hits highest level since 2007, diesel keeps breaking records, and crypto stocks sink after Senate rejects Clarity Act…
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Calendar: Full Calendar »
Today:
Retail Sales, 8:30A
Fed Economic Projections, 2:00P
Fed Interest Rate Decision, 2:00P
FOMC Press Conference, 2:30P
Tomorrow:
Unemployment Claims, 8:30P
Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, September 16:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/15/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +56 (+0.1%), S&P +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.1%
Tue: S&P -0.45%, Nasdaq -0.78%
Markets see a 92% chance of a quarter-point hike
Oil surged as Saudi Arabia canceled some shipments
WTI jumped 4.4% to nearly $106
Treasury yields climbed, with the 10-year above 5%
Focus shifts to the Fed’s rate decision Wednesday
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching today:
Today:
Lennar $LEN ( ▲ 0.1% ) - Earnings to fall 35% YoY to $1.30 per share. Revenue forecast to fall 4.5% to $8.4B
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HEADLINES
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended his bond buyback program in contentious congressional hearings.
The Fed's September policy meeting kicks off on Tuesday and markets overwhelmingly expect the Fed to raise interest rates.
Wall St ends lower as oil spikes, benchmark Treasury yield breaches 5% (more)
Warsh on collision course with Trump administration (more)
Bond market’s ‘extreme’ short counts on Fed to deliver rate hike (more)
Wells Fargo trims S&P 500 index's year-end target to 7,700 (more)
Bessent: We can give Americans $5,000 without adding to the deficit (more)
AI is doing what Wall Street couldn’t (more)
Slowing AI development could boost hyperscaler balance sheets (more)
China’s AI leaders keep quiet despite US ‘publicity’ on tech ris (more)
Bessent defends Treasury intervention in contentious House hearing (more)
Dollar girded by bets on a US hiking cycle (more)
BOJ set to raise interest rates to 31-yr high as inflation risks loom (more)
Oil falls as US crude inventories rise despite Saudi supply concerns (more)
Diesel keeps breaking records (more)
Meta‘s Zuckerberg sides with Nvidia’s Huang on AI safety debate (more)
Crypto stocks sink after Senate rejects Clarity Act (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Samson Sky receives investment from Matin Group
Integrated Power receives investment from Applied Invest
Sena Health receives investment from Rittenhouse Ventures
Grab to buy control of Atome for $1.5B in fintech bet
VC
Factory, AI coding agent startup, raises $200M, tripling valuation to $5B
Delos Data, an AI inference company, raised over $100M in funding
RegCell, a biotech company developing therapies to restore immune tolerance, raised $66M in total funding
Evvy, a provider of a precision medicine platform for women's health, raised $40M in Series B funding
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, a provider of infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption, raised $40M in Series A funding
Jack & Jill, an AI agent marketplace for job recruitment, raised $40M in Series A funding
ReEmerge, a MedTech company developing cognitive impairment solutions, raised $37M in Series A funding
Planted, an autonomous power deployment platform, raised $31.8M in funding
Vecna Robotics, a provider of flexible material handling automation solutions, raised $31M in funding
Buywander, an auction-based marketplace for returned and overstocked retail inventory, raised $21M in Series A funding
Scaffold, a software company using AI to coordinate the work of trade contractors in the homebuilding industry, raised $15M in Seed funding
Liquid Compute, a marketplace platform for trading AI infrastructure, raised $15M in Seed funding
G5 Labs, an MIT CSAIL spinout building a new abstraction layer for AI-native software development, emerged from stealth with $14M in Seed funding
BoomerangHR, an AI-powered platform for offboarding and alumni management, raised $12.7M in Seed funding
Keewano, a database built for machine reasoning, raised $12M in Seed funding
Eve Security, a runtime security and governance platform for enterprise AI agents, raised $4.5M in Seed extension funding
Decimal AI, a customer engineering platform for technical support teams, raised $4M in Seed funding
Radian Forge, manufacturing and on-demand solutions for the US maritime and defense industrial base, raised $2.5M in Series Seed Preferred funding
Retham Technologies, a clinical diagnostics company developing solutions for platelet-related testing, raised $1.5M in Seed funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
🤔 What comes next, now that the 10-yr yield has crossed 5%?
⚠️ Trump considered dangerous, corrupt by majority in new poll.
🚜 The school where students do farmwork and chores—and pay $40,000 a semester.
🍾 Record heatwaves in France set to make champagne stronger.
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