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Tesla investors back Musk’s $56 Billion pay deal, US weekly jobless claims at 10-month high, Biden taps bank bailout cop, Trump tells CEOs he’ll cut corporate tax rate to 20%, and Roaring Kitty doubles down as stake grows to 9 million shares…

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The Fast FiveTesla investors back Musk’s $56 Billion pay deal, US weekly jobless claims at 10-month high, Biden taps bank bailout cop, Trump tells CEOs he’ll cut corporate tax rate to 20%, and Roaring Kitty doubles down as stake grows to 9 million shares…

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Consumer sentiment, 10:00a

Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, June 14:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 6/13/2024.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
 44.59% for Wk of June 13 2024 (Last week: 38.97%)

Market Recap:

  • Stock futures flat: S&P -0.05%, Nasdaq +0.03%, Dow -29 points.

  • Adobe surged 15% post-earnings, raised full-year guidance.

  • S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record closes.

  • Wholesale inflation fell 0.2% in May.

  • Cooling inflation boosts: S&P +1.6%, Nasdaq +3.1%, Dow -0.4%.

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HEADLINES

Tesla shareholders vote to ratify CEO Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package, after a Delaware judge rescinded it in January.

Keith Gill posted a new screenshot of his E-Trade portfolio on Reddit’s Superstonk forum after the bell Thursday, showing that he is now holding 9.001 million GameStop shares and over $6 million in cash.

  • US weekly jobless claims at 10-month high; inflation cooling (more)

  • Nasdaq, S&P post all-time closing highs for 4th day (more)

  • Biden taps bank bailout cop to lead troubled regulator (more)

  • Supreme Court gives Starbucks a win in union battle (more)

  • Oil prices set for best week in 2+ mo. on solid demand outlook (more)

  • BOJ's caution lifts Japanese stocks, pushes yen to 6-week lows (more)

  • Trump tells CEOs he would cut corporate tax rate to 20% (more)

  • GameStop annual shareholder meeting servers crash due to overwhelming interest (more)

  • Blackstone opts to sweeten deal as REITs upend usual playbook (more)

  • Stellantis aims to correct 'arrogant' mistakes in US market (more)

  • Tyson Foods suspends CFO after second arrest (more)

  • CA restaurants continue to pass increased labor costs onto customers (more)

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • NYCB acquired Signature Bank assets with total fair value of $37.8B (more)

  • Adani Group buys Penna Cement for $1.2B enterprise value (more)

  • Merlin, autonomous flight tech for fixed-wing aircraft, acquires EpiSys Science, an AI software and autonomy company delivering solutions for dual-use applications (more)

  • Epicor, provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, acquired KYKLO, Product Information Management solutions (more)

  • Epam Systems, Inc. (EPAM), a digital services and product engineering company, acquired Odysseus Data Services, Inc., a health data analytics company (more)

  • NeuroFlow, a behavioral health tech infrastructure, acquired Owl, a measurement-based care technology company (more)

  • Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, received a $9.2B equity investment (more)

  • LawPro.ai, an AI-driven solution for the legal industry, raised an undisclosed seed funding (more)

  • VLogic Systems, a portfolio intelligence platform SaaS provider, received a growth investment from Northam Horizon (more)

  • Posh AI, a company providing a platform democratizing access to banking, received a strategic funding (more)

  • HarperDB, a distributed systems platform that combines functions into a single technology, received a growth investment from Siren Capital (more)

VC

  • Santa Ana Bio, a precision immunology company, raised $168M in combined Series A and B funding (more)

  • Avava, a medical aesthetics platform company, raised $35M in financing (more)

  • Findigs, a property tech company simplifying rental screening and leasing decisions, raised $27M in Series B funding (more)

  • Better Health, a medical supply and support provider, raised $14M in funding (more)

  • Unigrid Battery, a startup developing advanced sodium-ion batteries, raised $12M in Series A funding (more)

  • Fuze Technology, a IoT company providing a pay-per-use mobile charging solution, raised $11.5M in Series A funding (more)

  • YourSix, a company specializing in cloud physical security solutions, raised $10.5M in Series A funding (more)

  • GPTZero, a platform for AI-generated content detection and responsible AI adoption, raised $10M in Series A funding (more)

  • EnFi, an AI fintech startup, raised $7.5M in Seed funding (more)

  • AnyCreek, a startup allowing access to guided experiences, raised $1.8M in Seed funding (more)

  • Zeta Labs, an AI research and product company, raised $2.9M in Pre-Seed funding (more)

  • Connexus, a procurement and RFP platform in the real estate sector, raised $800K in Seed funding (more)

  • Alida Biosciences, an innovator in epigenomic research tools, raised $7.5M in Series A funding (more)

  • Arya, a holistic sexual wellness platform, raised $7.5M in Seed funding (more)

  • Pyte, a computation platform for data-first global enterprises, raised $5M in funding (more)

  • BlinqIO, a gen-AI software testing platform, raised $5M in funding (more)

  • Koda Health, a company specializing in digital advance care planning, raised an undisclosed amount in Seed+ funding (more)

CRYPTO

  • Ether ETF could get approved this summer, SEC’s Gensler says (more)

  • Early buyers of Andrew Tate’s DADDY meme coin apparently sitting on $45M in unrealized value (more)

  • DeFi giant curve roiled as founder's loans get liquidated; CRV slides 30% (more)

BULLISH BITES

📉 Correction: Industry executives and investors are musing that fintech may have finally hit a bottom.

🤥 Bad actors: Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees after investigating claims that they were faking work.

🎉 Revival: From dying mall brand to Wall Street winner: How Abercrombie & Fitch made retail’s biggest comeback.

🐣 Young money: These are the best investment accounts for kids of June 2024.

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