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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 Five → 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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Today: | Consumer sentiment, 10:00a |
Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, June 14:
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Tesla shareholders vote to ratify CEO Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package, after a Delaware judge rescinded it in January.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
BULLISH BITES
📉 Correction: Industry executives and investors are musing that fintech may have finally hit a bottom.
🚨 Secret trade: People are buying gold in the strangest place *
🤥 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.
DAILY SHARE
Instead of getting paid $56 billion, Elon Musk could give each American $1 million.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth)
1:05 PM • Jun 13, 2024
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— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
2:43 PM • Jun 13, 2024
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