BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 28.52% for Week of April 10 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures edge up: Dow +62 pts (+0.15%), S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.3%.

• Wednesday: Dow -1.7%, S&P -2.2%, Nasdaq -3.1%, nearing bear territory.

• Nvidia -6.9% on $5.5B China charge; chip stocks slide on tariff fears.

• Powell: tariffs may fuel inflation, complicate Fed goals.

• Month-to-date: S&P -6%, Nasdaq -5.7%, Dow -5.6%.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: American Express $AXP ( ▼ 0.64% ), Charles Schwab $SCHW ( ▲ 0.59% ), Netflix $NFLX ( ▲ 1.19% ) 

  • UnitedHealth $UNH ( ▼ 22.38% ) - expected earnings of $7.29 per share

See full calendar here »

A MESSAGE FROM WEISS RATINGS

Stay Alert for the Dept of Government Efficiency's Next Move …

Expect an announcement from Elon any day now …

Thousands of government jobs could be replaced …

By a new form of AI.

Recently perfected by Musk and his team at xAI.

This one move could save American taxpayers billions of dollars.

But even more important to you as an investor …

It could light a fire under the AI market.

And I believe six specific stocks could soar as a result.

Click here to find out what DOGE's next move is.

Michael Robinson
Director of Tech Investing
Weiss Ratings

HEADLINES

Fed's Powell: Tariffs "Highly Likely" to Reignite Inflation

The Mine Is American. The Minerals Are China’s.

• Stocks sink, bonds climb as ‘Fed Put’ hopes dashed (more)

• Trade war ripples through the business world, hits stocks again (more)

• Trump says tariffs will boost US manufacturers, but many uncertain (more)

• Tariff panic spurs fastest retail sales growth in two years (more)

• US looks to box In China by recruiting other trading partners (more)

• China pivots from US to Canada for more oil as trade war worsens (more)

• Dollar slides towards Easter weekend (more)

• Oil heads for weekly rise as US adds sanctions on Iran (more)

• Trump chip export restrictions deal blow to Nvidia and AMD (more)

• Temu Slashes Google, Meta Ad Spending as Tariffs Bite (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 bln to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf

• Lyft, Inc., a ride hailing marketplace, acquired Freenow, a multi-mobility app with a taxi offering at its core

• GeneDx, a company specializing in delivering improved health outcomes through genomic insights, acquired Fabric Genomics

• Featured.com, a platform connecting subject-matter experts with journalists, acquired Help A Reporter Out (HARO), a tool for journalists

• Infinite Reality (iR), a company improving digital media and ecommerce through immersive technologies, acquired Touchcast

• CleanArc Data Centers, a developer and operator of data center campuses, received an investment from Townsend Group

VC

• Auradine, Inc., a provider of energy-efficient solutions for blockchain and AI infrastructure, raised an additional $153M in Series C funding

• Glycomine, a biotech company focused on developing new therapies for orphan diseases, raised $115M in Series C funding

• Hammerspace, a data platform for AI, raised $100M in funding

• Attovia Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharma company, raised $90M in Series C funding

• Chapter, a medicare navigation platform, raised $75M in Series D funding

• Luma Financial Technologies, a Cincinnati, OH-based structured products and insurance solutions provider, raised $63M in Series C funding

• Caban, a provider of alternative energy solutions for critical infrastructure, raised $50M in funding

• Loti AI, a leader in likeness protection technology, closed a $16.2M Series A funding

• Scout AI, a defense-specific Vision-Language-Action (VLA) company, raised $15M in Seed funding

• Blue Onion, a subledger used by retail and ecommerce brands, raised $10M in Series A funding

• Bauplan, a Python-first serverless data platform, raised $7.5M in Seed funding

• Arcana Labs, an AI-powered content production platform and studio, raised $5.5M in funding

• Atomic, an AI-powered supply-demand management software, raised $3M in Seed funding

• lashExperts, a platform built for B2B marketing and sales teams, raised $2M in Seed funding

• Finch Legal, a pre-litigation operations platform built for personal injury law firms, raised a Seed funding round of undisclosed amount

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin rally short-circuited as Fed Chair Powell raises stagflation fear (more)

• World Liberty signs crypto deal with DWF Labs (more)

• Trump memecoin ‘unlock’ raises risk of further slide by once-hot token (more)

BULLISH BITES

🤖 Why DOGE is the only thing that can save AI *
📊 An AI startup says its new tool will help investors make smarter deals, faster.
⚔️ Jimmy Fallon to lead cutthroat marketing agency in new competition series ‘On Brand.
🤑 Lego black market fetches big prices and fuels brazen thefts.
💵 Beige is the color of money.

DAILY SHARES

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