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Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, Apr 23:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 4/22/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 31.73% for Week of APR 16 2026
Previous week: 35.75%
Market Wrap:
Futures drop Dow -353, S&P -0.63%, Nasdaq -0.71%
S&P and Nasdaq hit fresh record highs Wednesday
Dow +341, S&P +1.05%, Nasdaq +1.64%
IBM -6%, ServiceNow -13% after earnings
Tesla reversed lower on higher capex outlook
Iran tensions persist with ship seizures in Hormuz
Earnings strong with 81% beating estimates
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: *American Airlines $AAL ( ▼ 2.29% ), *Blackstone $BX ( ▲ 0.96% )
Intel $INTC ( ▲ 2.74% ) - $.13 EPS on $12.4B revenue (-2.4% YoY)
FRI: Procter & Gamble $PG ( ▲ 0.37% )
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HEADLINES
The agreement, which has not yet been finalized, would offer as much as $500 million in financing in exchange for warrants to purchase up to 90% of the new entity.
Tesla said it’s preparing to mass-produce Optimus humanoid robots soon.
S&P 500, Nasdaq close at records after US extends Iran ceasefire (more)
US says no deadline for Iran proposal amid Hormuz standoff (more)
Bessent says Gulf, Asian allies requested currency swap lines (more)
Trump set to reclassify marijuana soon (more)
Mortgage rates sink again, and homebuyers jump back in (more)
Dollar holds near 1-1/2-week high as Iran-US standoff persists (more)
Oil tops $100 as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz persist (more)
Kalshi suspends, fines 3 congressional candidates for ‘insider trading’ (more)
Tesla's earnings rise, but AI expenses are adding up (more)
Tesla boosts spending plan to $25B in AI, robotics push (more)
Intel lands key first customer for '14A' chip tech with Tesla (more)
Lululemon names former Nike exec Heidi O’Neill as new CEO (more)
Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal (more)
Southwest forecasts quarterly earnings below estimates on higher fuel (more)
American Air explores Alaska Air revenue-sharing deal (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
KKR invests $1.5B in tower operator Vertical Bridge
Nephronomics receives investment from CerraCap
VC
VAST Data, an AI operating system company, raised an approx. 1 Billion Series F funding
Wasabi Technologies, a hot cloud storage company, raised a $250M credit facility
Courier Health, a tech company for managing patient experiences, raised $50M in Series B funding
NeoCognition, a research lab developing self-learning AI agents, raised $40M in Seed funding
Afresh, an AI platform for grocery, raised $34M in new funding
Monk, an AI-native accounts receivable platform, raised $25M in Series A funding
Mosaic, an AI-driven deal modeling platform built for private markets, raised $18M in Series A funding
Amperos Health, an insurance revenue recovery platform capable of working denials entirely with AI, raised $16M in Series A funding
C-Infinity, an AI platform that automates the translation of digital designs into production-ready plans, raised $16M in funding
SCATR Corp., a company developing a cybersecurity platform purpose-built to protect data across untrusted networks, raised $12.6M in Series A funding
BetHog, a crypto casino and sportsbook operator, raised $10M in Series A financing
Octen, a search infrastructure company for the generative AI era, completed $10M in Seed funding
BuildForever, a consumer technology company advancing email functionalities with AI, raised $9.5M in Seed funding
Omeza Holdings, Inc., a commercial-stage advanced wound care company, raised $8.5M in Series A funding
Crewline AI, an autonomous technology for existing construction machinery, raised $7.1M in Seed funding
Schematic, a runtime monetization platform for SaaS and AI companies, raised $6.5M in new funding
10x Science, a startup building frontier AI for molecular-level protein characterization across the life sciences, closed a $4.8M Seed funding
Cresora Commerce, an AI-native commerce infrastructure platform, raised over $4M in funding
AXIA Time, a Swiss-made timepieces provider, raised an undisclosed amount in Seed funding
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