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Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, Mar 9:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 3/6/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 33.06% for Week of MAR 05 2026
Previous week: 33.20%
Market Wrap:
Futures plunge Dow -1,026 S&P -2.05% Nasdaq -2.34%
WTI crude jumps 25% above $113 Brent +24% near $115
Oil tops $100 for first time since 2022 Ukraine shock
Hormuz closure cuts Middle East supply Iraq output -70%
$100 oil seen as economic breaking point if war persists
Dow -3% last week worst slide in nearly a year
Earnings this week Kohl’s, Oracle, Dollar General, Dick’s
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
TUE: *Kohl’s $KSS ( ▼ 6.28% )
Oracle $ORCL ( ▼ 2.86% ) - $1.71 EPS (+16.3% YoY), on $16.9B revenue (+19.9% YoY)
WED: Petco $WOOF ( ▼ 3.57% )
Broadcom $AVGO ( ▲ 4.18% ) - EPS of $2.02 (+26.3% YoY) on $19.11B revenue (+28.1% YoY)
THU: Adobe $ADBE ( ▼ 0.89% ), *Dicks Sporting Goods $DKS ( ▼ 2.34% ), Ulta Beauty $ULTA ( ▼ 2.83% )
Dollar General $DG ( ▼ 1.11% ) - $1.62 EPS (+86.2% YoY) on $10.8B revenue (+4.8% YoY)
$600B is Flooding Into ONE Sector in 2026
Forget the big AI stocks everyone's chasing.
This year alone, the Big Five are deploying $600 billion – a 36% jump from last year – into a sector that has nothing to do with chips or software.
It has everything to do with what AI literally cannot run without.
Louis Navellier's grading system — the one institutions have paid $24,000/yr for him to evaluated stocks with — is lighting up across this entire space. He's only seen this pattern twice before like this. And he's sharing what he sees.
Jeff Remsburg -Editor, InvestorPlace Digest
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HEADLINES
Qatar’s energy minister told the Financial Times regional exporters may have to shut down oil and gas production within days.
Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, three big OPEC producers, have cut oil output as they run out of storage space.
Shares slide, oil surges on risk of lengthy Middle East conflict (more)
Trump's energy chief blames oil price spike on market fear (more)
Inflation impact from Iran war may push Fed timeline for rate cuts (more)
Iran war could make affordability bigger issue in 2026 elections (more)
Regional conflict risks knocking Gulf’s image as financial hub (more)
Investors may be too complacent about mounting risks (more)
US labor market weakness puts Federal Reserve in tough spot (more)
Dollar surges as Middle East war sends oil above $110 a barrel (more)
Gold slumps as oil surge stokes fears of higher interest rates (more)
Crop prices jump as war snarls trade and risks tightening supply (more)
Oil market chaos to deepen as more Gulf giants cut output (more)
Oil derivatives signal traders see Middle East shock as short-lived (more)
China hails ‘landmark’ year in US ties despite widening Iran war (more)
OpenAI hardware leader resigns after deal with Pentagon (more)
Robinhood's $658M private markets fund for retail investors goes public (more)
Trump’s World Liberty Financial project puts investors in a bind (more)
Polymarket founder says war bets are facing growing resistance (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Axel Springer buys UK's Telegraph for $766M
NoblQ receives majority investment from Yellow Stripes Capital
VC
Sierra Space Corporation, a defense-tech space company, raised $550M in Series C equity funding
Science, a full-stack neural engineering company focused on restoring and extending life, closed a $230M Series C financing round
Nominal, a data infrastructure and AI platform for mission-critical engineering, raised $80B in Series B extension funding
Greater Good Health, a company supporting risk-bearing organizations in managing total cost of care, raised $33M in Series B funding
Minnesota Medical Technologies Corp, a developer of continence care solutions, raised $20.6M in a Series A funding
NexCure, a platform that standardizes protocols, automates care coordination, raised $19M in Series A funding
Levitate, an AI-powered relationship marketing platform, raised $16M in funding
Vor Systems, an AI-enabled transaction platform, raised $3M in Pre-Seed funding
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