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The Fast Five → Pentagon’s $1B stake to shake up defense industry, Wall Street scrambles to defuse Trump’s credit card onslaught, Nvidia to invest $1 billion in AI drug discovery lab, silver hits record, and global central bankers rally behind Fed's Powell…
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Today:
Producer Price Index, 8:30A
Tomorrow:
Unemployment Claims, 8:30A
Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, Jan 14:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 1/13/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 42.49% for Week of JAN 08 2026
Previous week: 42.04%
Market Wrap:
Futures little changed Dow -39, S&P near flat, Nasdaq +0.1%
Tuesday slipped S&P -0.2%, Dow -400, Nasdaq -0.1%
Wednesday BAC, Wells, Citi report plus December PPI
Financials dragged with JPM -4% and peers lower
Oil jumped over 2% on Iran headlines and energy stocks rose
Policy and Powell noise kept pressure on risk sentiment
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: *Bank of America $BAC ( ▼ 0.09% ), *Citigroup $C ( ▲ 1.53% ), *Wells Fargo $WFC ( ▼ 0.22% )
THU: *Blackrock $BLK ( ▲ 1.84% ), *Goldman Sachs $GS ( ▲ 2.03% ), *Morgan Stanley $MS ( ▲ 1.27% )
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HEADLINES
The stake in a new spinoff from defense contractor L3Harris is the first step to injecting some competition into the industry, the company’s CEO says.
Global central bankers rally behind Fed's Powell (more)
US core CPI rises 0.2%, bucking estimates for bigger rebound (more)
Here's the inflation breakdown for December (more)
US tariff revenue just dropped by almost $3B (more)
Trump targets card swipe fees after interest rate threats (more)
Wall Street scrambles to defuse Trump’s credit card onslaught (more)
JPMorgan says ‘everything’ on table to fight 10% credit card cap (more)
Hedge funds turn chaos into cash for best gains in 16 years (more)
Silver hits record, gold rises as US data fuels rate-cut bets (more)
US clears path for Nvidia to sell H200s to China via new rule (more)
Meta begins job cuts as it shifts from Metaverse to AI devices (more)
Netflix weighs all-cash WBD bid to fend off Paramount (more)
Former Neiman Marcus chief picked to lead Saks through bankruptcy (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
U.S. Bancorp to buy BTIG for up to $1 billion
Synchrony Medical receives investment from NJIEF
VC
Mirador Therapeutics, a medicine company developing new therapies for inflammatory and fibrotic diseases, raised $250M in Series B funding
Onebrief, an operating system for command, raised $220M in Series D funding
Aspen Power, a distributed generation platform for clean energy, received a $200M strategic capital commitment from Deutsche Bank
JetZero, developer of a commercial all-wing airplane, raised approximately $175M in Series B financing
Defense Unicorns, a developer of airgap software for national security mission systems, raised $136M
Deepgram, a real-time API platform underpinning the Voice AI economy, raised $130M in Series C funding
Proxima, a biotech company developing AI-driven drug discovery for proximity therapeutics, raised $80M in Seed funding
Inquis Medical, developer of a thrombectomy system, raised $75M in Series C funding
Wasabi Technologies, a hot cloud storage company, raised $70M
Accelsius, a company specializing in liquid cooling for AI and high-performance computing, raised $65M in Series B funding
WitnessAI, an AI security platform, raised $58M in funding
WithCoverage, an AI-enabled risk management platform, raised $42M in Series B financing
HPS/PayMedix, a healthcare financing and payments solutions provider, raised $33M in financing
Juvena Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechcompany, raised $33.5M in Series B funding
Converge Bio, an AI platform for accelerated drug development, raised $25M in Series A funding
WeatherPromise, a tech company providing weather guarantees, raised $12.8M in Series A funding
RISA Labs, an AI operating system for oncology, closed an $11.1M Series A funding round
Enspire DBS Therapy, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing therapy for post-stroke recovery, raised $10.3M in Series B1 funding
Cloudforce, a provider of frontier AI solutions for regulated industries, raised $10M in Series A funding
OurPetPolicy, a platform for managing pets and emotional support animal fraud, raised $8M in Series A funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
🤔 Powell investigation has little financial or political upside.
🚫 Exec: Trump’s Wall Street home-buying ban won’t fix housing shortage.
🏓 Nike signs its first pickleball deal.
💀 Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for people living alone.
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