BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 34.87% for Week of AUG 07 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures edge higher: Dow +56 (0.1%), S&P/Nasdaq +0.1%
• Nasdaq closed week at fresh highs; S&P just shy of another record
• Apple rally helped lift indexes Friday
• Valuation, tariffs, weak season weigh on outlook
• Key CPI tomorrow, PPI Thursday could sway Fed
• Jackson Hole meeting set for Aug. 21–23

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week. (*) indicates before the bell

• MON:

  • AMC Entertainment $AMC ( ▲ 4.27% ): a loss of $.08 eps (an improvement from a year-ago loss of $.43), on $1.44B revenue (+30.1% YoY)

• WED: 

  • Cisco Systems $CSCO ( ▲ 2.7% ) - earnings of $.98 eps (+12.6% YoY), on $14.6B revenue (+7.4% YoY)

• THU: *Deere $DE ( ▲ 0.74% ) , *Tapestry $TPR ( ▲ 0.56% ) 

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HEADLINES

Nvidia, AMD Agree to Pay US 15% Cut of China Chip Sales

Apple Has Best Week Since July 2020

• Wall Street sees AI, rate-cut optimism fueling rally (more)

• Traders are fleeing stocks feared to be under threat from AI (more)

• Hedge funds flip on green energy and start betting against oil (more)

• Intel CEO to visit White House today (more)

• Gold Futures Slip as Traders Await Clarification on Tariffs (more)

• Oil prices fall as market eyes US-Russia talks on Ukraine (more)

• Chinese state media says Nvidia H20 chips not safe for China (more)

• Trump suggests "MAGA" stock listing for Fannie, Freddie (more)

  • Bill Ackman proposes combining Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (more)

• Palantir's 2,500% run has bulls scrambling to justify valuation (more)

• SoftBank founder bets big by staking the firm’s future on AI (more)

• David Sacks' "Goldilocks" scenario (more)

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Ripple to buy Rail, for $200M

• Lyten agreed to acquire most of Northvolt's assets

• 10x Genomics to acquire Scale Biosciences

• Rolls‑Royce sells UK pension fund to PIC in £4.3 billion deal

• DOCSI receives investment from iGan Partners

• Dfinitiv receives investment from United Airlines Ventures

• PreFix receives debt financing from Decathlon Capital Partners

VC

• August Health, a provider of an EHR platform for care tracking and analytics, raised $29M in Series B funding

• OneSkin, a skin longevity brand, received a $20M investment from Prelude Growth Partners

• Celera Semiconductor, an analog design automation company, raised $20M in Series A equity funding

• Perle raised $9M in Seed funding, bringing its total raise to $17.5M

• Translucent AI, an AI-powered financial platform for healthcare operators, raised $7M in Seed funding

• Lava Payments, a digital wallet company, raised $5.8M in Seed funding

• WiseBee, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform, raised $2.5M in Pre-Seed funding

• Ostra Security, a provider of managed security solutions, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A extension funding

• Alkymi, an AI-powered data workflow platform for financial services, raised a strategic financing round of undisclosed amount

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin closes in on all-time high as traders await key inflation data (more)

• White House crypto adviser Bo Hines to return to private sector (more)

• Trump-linked World Liberty pitches a $1.5 billion crypto vehicle (more)

• $105M Ether shorts got ‘smoked,’ Eric Trump throws shade at bears (more)

BULLISH BITES

💰 $100 trillion "AI Metal" found in American ghost town * 

📊 Trump 401k changes: What to know.

📉 How once-iconic Intel fell into a 20-year decline.

🎲 Sin City’s economic slump signals wider slowdown.

👜 Quiet luxury is over, loud luxury is back.

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