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Today:
Existing Home Sales, 8A
Tomorrow:
Consumer Price Index, 8:30A
Your 5-minute briefing for Tuesday, August 11:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 8/10/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow -37 (-0.07%), S&P flat, Nasdaq flat
Mon: Dow -0.1%, S&P flat, Nasdaq +0.1%
Oil jumped 5% amid continued Iran uncertainty
Iran signaled progress on reopening the Strait
Weak jobs data has lowered rate-hike expectations
CPI and PPI take center stage this week
Focus shifts to Cava, CoreWeave, and Super Micro
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today:
CoreWeave $CRWV ( ▼ 2.74% ) - $1.42 EPS on $2.56B revenue (+110.7% YoY)
WED:
Cisco Systems $CSCO ( ▲ 0.94% ) - EPS of $1.17 (+18.2% YoY) on $16.83B revenue (+14.7% YoY)
THU: *Tapestry $TPR ( ▲ 1.49% )
Applied Materials $AMAT ( ▼ 3.16% ) - EPS of $3.39 (+36.7% YoY) on $9.01B revenue (+23.4% YoY)
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HEADLINES
Nvidia and a group of blue-chip Wall Street firms are collaborating to provide a half-trillion-dollar bankroll to the AI chipmaker's customers.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized his belief that wider access to AI models is key to the industry’s future.
Stocks close down as oil prices climb, Nvidia sinks (more)
JP Morgan lifts 2026-end target for S&P to 8,000 on AI, earnings strength (more)
10-yr Treasury yield rises as oil prices gain ahead of key inflation data (more)
Yen erases gains after US-Japan intervention (more)
Bessent's whatever-it-takes yen pledge masks limited firepower (more)
Trump says oil supermajors are making too much money (more)
US officials work to close supply chain gaps as foreign investment grows (more)
Oil in US Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls to lowest since 1983 (more)
Retail traders sell SpaceX stock for the first time (more)
Hims & Hers shares drop after mixed Q2 earnings (more)
Intel plans $15B share sale as turnaround rally lifts stock (more)
Anthropic strikes $9 bln cloud deal with Riot Platforms (more)
US court rules Meta, others must face thousands of lawsuits (more)
Microsoft plans to unveil next-generation AI chip in September (more)
Berkshire rises to highest since Abel replaced Buffett after stock buybacks (more)
Shein faces existential threat as tariffs hit low-price model (more)
Trump media company announces losses of $238M on revenue of $1.7M (more)
Global drugmakers invest billions to boost US presence (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
RBC, BMO to sell Moneris to Francisco Partners in $1.44B deal
Archer to buy Boeing's Wisk, two other units for nearly 20% equity stake
Webtoon buys $100M Game Studio stake to expand reach
Cordoba receives investment from VSS Capital Partners
Deployable Energy received investment from Solaris Energy Infrastructure
Advanced eClinical Training receives investment from Tortuga Partners
Digital Prime Technologies receives investment from Marex Group Limited
VC
Volta Infrastructure Holdings, an AI infrastructure platform and NVIDIA Cloud Partner, secures $300M in combined Seed and Series A funding
Sonablate, AI-powered precision medicine and therapeutic ultrasound technologies, raised $200M in funding
Plantible Foods, a biology food company, raised $35M in combined debt and equity financing
Ambrook, a financial management and bookkeeping platform, raised $30M in Series B funding
VibeIQ, an AI-native product decision platform for consumer goods brands, and private-label retailers, raised $22.5M in funding
Atlas Motion, a developer of high-performance electric motors and actuators for defense platforms, raised $11.5M in funding
Salus Scientific, an occupational wellness platform for modern procedural medicine, raised $10.1M in Series A funding
Remedium Bio, a gene therapy platform developing durable protein therapeutics, raised $10M in initial Series A funding
Discovered Materials, an AI agent platform that discovers new materials for semiconductor chips, raised $9M in Seed funding
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