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Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar

  • Today:
    None scheduled

  • Tomorrow:
    Fed Chair Powell testifies to Congress, 10:00A

Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, February 10:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 2/7/2025. Bitcoin as of 2/9/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 40.96% for Week of January 30 2025

Previous week: 43.43%. Updates every Friday.

Market Wrap:

  • Stocks fell as Trump signaled new reciprocal tariffs

  • Dow -444 pts, S&P 500 -0.95%, Nasdaq -1.36%

  • Consumer sentiment dipped, inflation expectations hit 4.3%

  • Jobs report: wages up, unemployment fell to 4%

  • Amazon -4% on weak guidance, Alphabet extended losses

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

  • Today:

    • McDonald's (MCD) - earnings of $2.86 per share (-3.1% YoY), on $6.5B revenue (+1% YoY)

  • Tuesday: Coca-Cola (KO), DoorDash (DASH), Shopify (SHOP), Super Micro Computer (SMCI)

  • Wednesday: Reddit (RDDT), Robinhood (HOOD)

    • Cisco (CSCO) - earnings of $.91 per share (+4.6% YoY) on $13.9B revenue (+8.6% YoY)

  • Thursday: Airbnb (ABNB), Coinbase (COIN), DraftKings (DKNG)

    • Roku (ROKU) - analysts anticipate a per-share loss of $.41 vs its year-ago loss of $.55 per share

HEADLINES

Trump, speaking to reporters Sunday on Air Force One, said the tariffs will apply to the metal imports from all countries.

Trump says he’ll roll out reciprocal tariffs next week. Here are his possible targets.

  • Wall Street closes lower on trade war escalation, weak data (more)

  • US hiring slowed in January, but economy remains resilient (more)

  • Fed officials see healthy jobs market, no rate-cut rush (more)

  • Inflation data to test market as tariff talk swirls (more)

    • Inflation is proving sticky as Fed Chair Powell heads to the Hill (more)

  • Trump says US might have less debt than thought (more)

  • CFPB to close office after Vought tells staff to halt all supervision (more)

  • US House Speaker to pursue 'one big bill' on Trump's tax agenda (more)

  • US Treasury taps former regulator Hood to lead bank watchdog (more)

  • Trump says Nippon Steel will invest in US Steel, not buy it (more)

  • Asian funds searching for shelter with Trump-driven volatility (more)

  • US pauses tariffs on small packages from China, a win for Shein and Temu (more)

  • Meta prepares for layoffs announcement today (more)

  • Apple’s new iPhone SE will kick off pivotal year for product line (more)

  • Activist Elliott said to build stake in struggling oil major BP (more)

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Bank of America to buy $9 bln jumbo mortgage portfolio From TD (more)

  • Bain to acquire Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma in $3.3B deal (more)

  • Pernod Ricard considers sale of Mumm champagne, sources say (more)

  • C&S Wholesale Grocers nears deal to buy Winn-Dixie stores (more)

  • Turn/River agrees to buy SolarWinds years after cyber-attack (more)

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CRYPTO

  • Bitcoin’s role as a reserve asset gains traction in US as states adopt (more)

  • Tether Revs Up Deal Machine After Embrace by ‘Establishment’ (more)

  • ‘Quantum computing will bring lost Bitcoin 'back in circulation’ — Tether CEO (more)

  • Ex-Yale Football Player Ascends to Key Crypto Job at White House (more)

BULLISH BITES

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