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Market Briefing
December 18, 2025
Good morning.
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Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, Dec 18:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 12/17/2025.
Pre-Market:
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US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 44.59% for Week of DEC 11 2025
Previous week: 44.29%
Market Wrap:
Futures flat ahead of key CPI print
S&P +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.2%, Dow flat
Micron +7% after earnings beat, strong guide
Markets coming off fourth straight down day
Semis slide on data-center capex concerns
Today: November CPI due
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: Darden Restaurants $DRI ( ▲ 2.16% )
FedEx $FDX ( ▼ 0.09% ) - earnings of $4.08 per share on $22.8B revenue
Nike $NKE ( ▼ 2.13% ) - $.37 EPS (-52.6% YoY) on $12.2B revenue (-1.2% YoY)
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HEADLINES
President Trump delivered a sharply political televised speech Wednesday evening focused heavily on the economy, an effort to reverse declining public opinion numbers.
The cloud computing giant has been thrust into the center of a debate over whether the AI boom has become a bubble.
Wall Street closes lower as AI funding jitters drag tech stocks (more)
CPI inflation comes back in the spotlight (more)
Trump says next Fed chair will believe in lower interest rates 'by a lot' (more)
Dalio, BlackRock join donor list in backing ‘Trump Account’ program (more)
Dollar broadly firm as markets brace for central bank decisions (more)
Gold forecast to glitter again next year despite biggest gain since 1979 (more)
Wall Street gets a taste of blockbuster stock-market debuts ahead (more)
Tesla's car business is only worth $30 a share, analyst warns (more)
Coinbase announces entry into prediction markets, stocks (more)
Warner Bros board rejects rival bid from Paramount (more)
BP makes O’Neill first female Big Oil CEO in bid for revival (more)
Nvidia director sells $44M in shares held for over 3 decades (more)
Micron forecasts blowout earnings on booming AI market, shares rise 7% (more)
Instacart drops on report that FTC is probing company over AI pricing tool (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Broadwing Capital acquires CloudScale365
a360inc acquires Notary Hub
Leap receives investment from ONE Bow River National Defense Fund
VC
Cyera, an AI cloud data security platform, raised $400M in Series E funding
Radiant Nuclear, a portable nuclear microreactor startup, raised $300M in Series D funding
Tebra, an EHR+ platform provider, received $250M in new financing
MoEngage, a customer engagement platform for consumer brands, received additional $180M in Series F funding
Mythic Inc., an AI chip startup developing analog AI processors, raised $125M in Series D funding
Addition Therapeutics, a genomic medicine company, raised $100M in funding
Last Energy, a nuclear technology company, raised $100M in Series C funding
Codoxo, a generative AI-powered healthcare payment integrity solutions, raised $35M in Series C funding
Ben, a workforce benefits platform company, raised $27.5M in Series B funding
DataLane, an identity graph service for local businesses, raised $22.5M in Series A funding
Ankar, an AI SaaS company for patent automation, raised $20M in Series A funding
Hen Technologies, an intelligent fire suppression company, closed a $20M Series A financing round
Sequence, a fintech revenue automation platform, raised $20M in Series A funding
Nanit, a baby's sleep technology company, raised $50M in growth funding
Trigger.dev, a developer platform for AI automation workflows, raised $16M in Series A funding
Drive Health, a healthcare tech company behind Avery, a Google-powered agentic AI platform, raised $15M in funding
Roamless, a travel connectivity app and mobile operator, raised $12M in Series A funding
Dux Security, a cybersecurity startup, raised $9M in Seed funding
DNA Nanobots, a self-assembling nanoscale therapeutics company, raised $3.5M in funding
Scylos, a stateless endpoint infrastructure company, raised $3M in Seed funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
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