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Calendar: Full Calendar »
Today:
FOMC Rate Decision, 2:00P
FOMC Press Conference, 2:30P
Tomorrow:
Unemployment Claims, 8:30A
Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, Jan 28:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 1/27/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 43.17% for Week of JAN 22 2026
Previous week: 49.50%
Market Wrap:
Futures near flat with S&P ~flat, Nasdaq 100 +0.2%, Dow -25
Tuesday S&P +0.4% record, Nasdaq +0.9%, Dow -400 on UNH -20%
Today: the Fed decides with a hold expected at 3.5% to 3.75%
Markets still price two cuts by end of 2026
MSFT, META, TSLA report Wed. after the close and AAPL Thu.
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: AT&T, $T ( ▲ 2.02% ), Progressive $PGR ( ▼ 0.99% ), Starbucks $SBUX ( ▲ 1.47% ), Meta Platforms $META ( ▼ 2.08% ), Microsoft $MSFT ( ▼ 2.87% ), Tesla $TSLA ( ▲ 0.04% )
GE Vernova $GEV ( ▲ 3.35% ) - eps of $3.12 (+80.3% YoY) on $10.22B (-3.2% YoY)
THU: Blackstone $BX ( ▼ 5.24% ), Mastercard $MA ( ▼ 0.84% )
Apple $AAPL ( ▼ 0.2% ) - EPS of $2.67 (+11.3% YoY) on $138.45B revenue (+11.8% YoY)
FRI: Chevron $CVX ( ▲ 2.3% ), Exxon Mobile $XOM ( ▲ 3.85% ), Verizon $VZ ( ▲ 3.68% )
A MESSAGE FROM THE OPPORTUNISTIC TRADER
A Former Hedge Fund Insider Just Unveiled Money-Making Codes
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HEADLINES
The EU expects to double exports to India by 2032 as part of the deal, while Delhi anticipates EU-bound exports to soar.
CEO whisperers and takeover experts are getting more sophisticated around how to fend off, or woo, the US president.
S&P 500 marks closing record as corporate earnings roll in (more)
Fears grow of rising US inflation (more)
Consumer confidence plunges to 12-year low (more)
Dollar slides as Trump says he's not concerned with decline (more)
Gold jumps over 3% to record peak as uncertainty fuels safe-haven bids (more)
Oil futures surge 3% a barrel as winter storm slams US output (more)
Return of Venezuelan crude could cut US fuel oil imports (more)
Homebuyers are backing out of deals at the fastest pace in nearly a decade (more)
Citi sees bigger Yen rally depending on shift back to Japan bonds (more)
Prediction markets put strong odds on BlackRock's Rieder as next Fed chair (more)
Space firm Redwire stock rockets 28% after joining $151B contract for Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ (more)
UnitedHealth forecasts first revenue drop in nearly four decades (more)
UPS to eliminate 30k more jobs as Amazon volume cuts accelerate (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
China's Anta Sports snares 29% Puma stake for $1.8B, rules out full takeover
Mirum Pharmaceuticals completes acquisition of Bluejay Therapeutics
VC
Ricursive Intelligence, an AI Lab focused on building self-improving systems, raised $300M in Series A funding
4DMedical Limited, a software-based respiratory imaging technology, raised over $100M in new institutional placement
Mesh, a crypto payments network, raised $75M in Series C funding
Summize, an AI Contract Lifecycle Management software, raised $50M in funding
TRexBio, a clinical-stage biotech company, raised $50M in funding
Flora, a creative technology company, raised $42M in Series A funding
Memcyco, a real-time digital risk protection platform, raised $37M in Series A funding
Compa, a provider of AI-driven compensation intelligence solutions, raised $35M in Series B funding
Fiddler AI, an enterprise AI observability and security platform, raised $30M in Series C funding
Fulcrum, an AI platform for insurance brokerages, raised $25M in combined Seed/Series A funding
Gridline, a platform for private market investing in the wealth channel, raised $18.5M in Series a funding
Opendate, an all-in-one platform for booking, ticketing, and marketing live events, raised $14M in Series A funding
Fortitude Biomedicines, Inc., a developer of immune cell targeting biologics, raised $13M in Seed financing
Concourse, an AI agent platform for finance teams, raised $12M Series A funding
Chamelio, a legal intelligence platform, raised $10M in Seed funding
Jelou, a platform for building AI agents in messaging apps, raised $10M in Series A funding
Risotto, an autonomous AI ITSM agentic platform, raised $10M in Seed funding
SpotDraft, an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform, raised $8M in Series B extension funding
CVector, an AI solution that empowers industrial companies with real-time recommendations, raised $5M in Seed funding
Midship, an AI-native platform automating Sarbanes-Oxley testing and internal audit workflows, raised $4.15M in Seed funding
Nerd Apply, a privacy-first platform for outcome-driven college counseling, raised $3.2M in Seed funding
Navidence, a tech company defining health data, raised an undisclosed amount in Seed funding
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