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The Fast Five → Walmart warns price hikes are coming, hard data suggests tariff-driven fears may be overblown, Powell cautions about higher long-term rates, Trump doesn’t want Apple building products in India, and CRISPR is used in landmark first-patient genetic treatment…
📌 Circle May 31 On Your Calendar
-from Stansberry Research
This man grew up in a trailer in New Mexico. Today, he's a multimillionaire tech investor and entrepreneur. And he says as soon as May 31, two of the most powerful technologies of all time are set to converge.
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Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, May 16:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 35.93% for Week of MAY 15 2025

Previous week: 29.45%. Updates Friday.
Market Wrap:
Dow futures +41 pts; S&P +0.03%; Nasdaq +0.04%
Thursday: S&P +0.41% (4-day rally); Dow +0.65%; Nasdaq -0.18%
US-China 90-day tariff truce boosts market sentiment
PPI -0.5% in April; CPI at 2.3% YoY — lowest since Feb 2021
Nvidia & Tesla +15% WTD; Meta +8%, Amazon +6%
EARNINGS
Nothing watched today. See full calendar here »
TOGETHER WITH GOLDCO
Gold hitting record highs
The price of gold keeps heating up. If the record-breaking year of 2024 wasn't enough, gold hit a major historic 2025 milestone by crossing the $3,000/ounce threshold!
Here are 3 Key Reasons:
Looming economic & political uncertainty
Increasing central bank demand
Rising National Debt - over $36 Trillion
So, could gold surge even higher?
According to a recent statement from Jeffrey Gundlach, famed American business man and investor… “Gold continues its bull market that we’ve been talking about for a couple of years, ever since it was down to $1,800.” He expects gold to reach $4,000/oz.
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HEADLINES
S&P closes higher for a fourth day, Dow jumps more than 250 pts (more)
US producer prices fall as some companies absorb tariffs hit (more)
Powell: higher long-term rates as ‘supply shocks’ provide policy challenges (more)
WH announces AI data center campus partnership with the UAE (more)
Dollar tracks Treasury yields lower on benign US data (more)
Oil prices heading for 1% weekly gain on China trade detente (more)
Asian stocks fall as trade-truce rally loses steam (more)
US tariffs take centre stage at APEC trade gathering (more)
Trump says he doesn’t want Apple building products in India (more)
CRISPR is used in landmark treatment to correct baby's genetic disorder (more)
Buffett’s Berkshire sat out market drop, trimmed bank stocks (more)
Boomerang CEOs are corporate security blankets (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Dick's Sporting Goods to acquire Foot Locker for $2.4 billion
Phillips 66 sells 65% stake in German and Austrian fuel retail business for $2.8B
MTX Group, a global technology consulting firm, acquired Stralto, a government-focused technology solutions company
Entrata, an operating system for multifamily communities, received a $200M minority investment from funds managed by Blackstone at a $4.3B valuation
Granata Bio, a biotech company focused on advancing fertility therapeutics, received an investment from Gedeon Richter
VC
Zeno Power, a developer of nuclear batteries for frontier environments, raised $50M in Series B funding
Samaya AI, an artificial intelligence platform for financial services, raised $43.5M in funding
Kincell Bio, a CDMO, raised $22M in funding
Imprint Labs, a nonprofit organization focused on developing open-source tools for genomic research, raised $15M in philanthropic funding
CND Life Sciences, a diagnostics company developing tools for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases, raised $13.5M in Series A3 funding
Metafoodx, an AI food operations company, raised $9.4M in funding
Adyton, a public benefit corporation, raised $11M in funding
DiffuseDrive, a physical AI company, raised $3.5M in funding
Algoma, an AI-native real estate development platform, raised $2.3M in Seed funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
🚨 The biggest economic story nobody's talking about (yet). *
🇺🇸 Is the age of American exceptionalism nearing an end?
📉 Can Wall Street’s subscription craze survive a recession?
🦄 This Stanford professor is at it again with another great chart on the top 50 unicorn investors.
👏 The 2025 Cannes Film Festival Standing-O-Meter.
DAILY SHARES
Another day as a United Healthcare shareholder
— High Yield Harry (@HighyieldHarry)
1:56 PM • May 15, 2025
New startup idea: 401K but with 4x leverage and we charge obscene management fees
— Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_)
12:49 PM • May 15, 2025
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