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Your 5-minute briefing for Monday, Jan 5:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 1/2/2026. Bitcoin as of 1/4/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures steady Sunday night after US strike in Venezuela, Maduro captured
Futures: Dow +7 pts, S&P +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.3%
Maduro and wife flown to New York; US narco-terrorism charges add risk
Trump floated a temporary US role; Rubio later walked it back
Oil slipped; Venezuela output under 1m bpd limits supply shock
Next macro focus Friday’s December jobs report; consensus +54k
EARNINGS
No noteworthy earnings scheduled this week.
WED: Albertsons $ACT ( ▼ 0.36% ), Jefferies $JEF ( ▲ 0.49% )
Constellation Brands $STZ ( ▲ 1.15% ) - $2.64 EPS (-18.8% YoY) on $2.16B revenue (-12.2% YoY)
THU:
Greenbriar $GBX ( ▲ 1.52% ) - EPS of 79 cents (-54.1% YoY) on $655.5M revenue (-25.2% YoY)
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HEADLINES
Markets face fresh geopolitical risk from US capture of Maduro. An ncertainty over Venezuela's oil output and investment prospects. A flight to safe-haven assets may materialise in short term.
Investors will see if markets can post positive returns for the Santa Claus rally, with December's jobs report set for Friday.
Stocks climb, oil volatile as investors assess Venezuela implications (more)
Wall Street carries big expectations after best run since 2009 (more)
Rubio touts US refineries' ability to process Venezuela's oil (more)
US pushes oil majors to invest big in Venezuela if they want to recover debts (more)
Dollar firms as traders look past Venezuela to flurry of US data (more)
Gold jumps on haven demand after Maduro (more)
Oil trades sideways despite political turmoil in Venezuela (more)
China’s BYD surpasses Tesla as world leader in electric car sales (more)
Emerging-market stocks set for record high on tech optimism (more)
2026 set to be a bumper year for M&A, IPOs (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
None listed today.
VC
CHAMP Titles, Inc., a provider of digital solutions to motor vehicle agencies, raised $55M in funding
Biobeat Technologies, a blood pressure monitoring startup, closed $50M Series B funding
Vyriad, Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company developing targeted genetic therapies for cancer, closed a $25M Series B tranche
Dazzle AI, a company on a mission to close the gap between what people want and what they can do with AI, raised $8M in Seed funding
CRYPTO
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