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Rally shakes off Powell, port workers strike on east and gulf coasts, gold has best quarter in four years, Softbank to invest $500M in OpenAI, and Nvidia rival files for IPO...

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The Fast Five Rally shakes off Powell, port workers strike on east and gulf coasts, gold has best quarter in four years, Softbank to invest $500M in OpenAI, and Nvidia rival files for IPO …

Calendar: (all times ET) - Full calendar here

  • Today: Job openings, 10:00 am

  • Tomorrow: no notable

Your 5-minute briefing for Tuesday, October 1:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 9/30/2024.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 49.62% for Week of September 26 2024

Last week: 50.83%. Updates every Friday.

Market Wrap:

  • S&P closed at a record, up 0.42% to 5,762.48.

  • Dow +0.04%, Nasdaq +0.38%; all hit record highs.

  • Fed Chair Powell hinted at more rate cuts, no set path.

  • Investors optimistic, but October brings volatility risk.

  • Key labor data to provide more economic insight this week.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

  • Today: McCormick (MKC)

    • Lamb Weston (LW) - earnings of $.71 per share (-56.4% YoY) on $1.6 billion revenue

    • Nike (NKE) - earnings of $.52 per share (-44.7% YoY) on $11.7 billion revenue (-9.3% YoY)

  • Wednesday: Levi Strauss (LEVI)

  • Thursday: Constellation Brands (STZ), Tilray (TLRY)

See full earnings calendar here.

HEADLINES

Stocks eked out a gain in the final minutes of US trading, even after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled he was in no hurry to make further interest-rate cuts.

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked out for the first time since 1977 in a standoff over wages, benefits and job security.

  • Record run steers gold to best quarter in four years (more)

  • Dollar’s losing streak keeps traders wary as Fed cuts rates (more)

  • Oil steadies as mideast tensions vie with Libyan supply outlook (more)

  • Second oil company CEO conspired with OPEC to keep prices high (more)

  • FTC clears Chevron-Hess deal, bans John Hess from board (more)

  • Global investors call time on their exodus from China (more)

  • Boeing strike enters third week (more)

  • Nvidia stock slips on China trade fears (more)

  • Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems files for IPO (more)

  • SoftBank to invest $500M in OpenAI (more)

  • Ford to give free EV home charging stations to EV buyers (more)

  • Nuclear power's AI renaissance (more)

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • DirecTV to acquire Dish in merger of satellite TV rivals (more)

  • Marsh McLennan to acquire McGriff Insurance in $7.8B deal (more)

  • Mizuho acquires minority stake in private credit investor Golub (more)

  • PepsiCo in talks to buy Siete Foods for over $1 billion (more)

  • Pfizer to sell about $3.25B stake in Sensodyne-maker Haleon (more)

  • Equativ, an ad tech company, announced the strategic acquisition of Kamino Retail, an on-site retail media platform designed for retailers (more)

  • Davenforth, a managed IT, voice, and networking platform, acquired TeleCloud, a cloud communication and connectivity provider, and Third Generation, cloud communication services (more)

  • Valerio Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company, acquired Emglev Therapeutics, an antibody-based therapeutics company (more)

  • Creative Planning, an independent wealth management firm, received an investment from TPG Capital (more)

  • C2N Diagnostic, a company developing Alzheimer’s disease-specific fluid biomarker tests, received a $15M investment from GHR Foundation (more)

VC

  • Aktis Oncology, a clinical-stage biotech company, closed a $175M Series B financing (more)

  • HungryPanda, an overseas Asian food delivery platform, closed a $55M refinancing and fundraise (more)

  • HPC-AI Tech, an AI startup specializing in AI Software Infrastructure and Video Generation, raised $50M in Series A funding (more)

  • Apono, a leader in privileged access for the cloud, raised $15.5M in Series A funding (more)

  • Neeve, a cloud platform-as-a-service for smart buildings and spaces, raised $15M in funding (more)

  • Wispr, a company building a natural way to interact with technology, raised $12M in funding (more)

  • Lucky Energy, an energy drink company, raised $11.75M in Series A funding (more)

  • Loti AI, a company specializing in likeness protection technology, received an add'l undisclosed amount in Seed funding from Khosla Ventures (more)

  • Ensemble, an enterprise machine learning startup, raised $3.3M in seed funding (more)

CRYPTO

  • Bitcoin drops back below $65,000 to finish September on a down note (more)

  • Trump’s crypto venture begins sign-ups while business purpose remains unclear (more)

  • MicroStrategy's next Bitcoin purchase is likely to take its holdings above Grayscale's GBTC (more)

BULLISH BITES

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