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The Fast Five → Wall Street’s trading revenue slows down, an ‘AI OPEC’ is unlikely, tokenized stocks get green light to come ashore, BoJ to raise interest rates to 31-yr high, and Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year…
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Today:
None watched
Monday:
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Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, September 18:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/17/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow +30 (+0.06%), S&P -0.08%, Nasdaq -0.15%
Thu: Dow +316 (+0.6%), S&P +1.1%, Nasdaq +1.7%
Stocks rebounded after Wednesday’s Fed-driven sell-off
Tech led the rally as AI optimism returned
Fed signaled at least one more hike this year
Dow and S&P remain lower for the week
Focus shifts to Friday’s Fed commentary
EARNINGS
None watched today. Full earnings calendar »
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HEADLINES
Big bank executives this week warned that their third-quarter revenues would be down from the spring.
Mark Zuckerberg certainly wants no part of one, and cutthroat competition seems hard-coded into tech executives.
Tech leads Wall St to higher close as oil eases, Treasury yields dip (more)
Treasury yields move lower after Fed kicks off hiking cycle (more)
Fed builds credibility, but hawkish turn leaves investors edgy (more)
Tokenized stocks get US regulator’s green light to come ashore (more)
Major central banks on tightening path amid energy price shock (more)
Bank of Japan set to raise interest rates to 31-year high (more)
US FCC approves foreign investment in Paramount Warner merger (more)
Guggenheim staff face SEC interviews in probe of Walter’s empire (more)
Oil prices fall as Saudi supply hopes outweigh fresh Houthi strikes (more)
Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year (more)
Nvidia committed $2B to Brookfield AI infrastructure fund (more)
OpenAI, Anthropic making 10x more revenue than all China AI models (more)
Anthropic: Claude now leads a quarter of work building next AI models (more)
Nike's falling share price puts its Dow seat in jeopardy (more)
Private credit defaults are 1%, 6% or 19%, depending who you ask (more)
World Bank grows footprint with more Private Capital (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
S&P Global agrees to acquire blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin
Mark Walter, Todd Boehly to sell stake in Chelsea for $1.3B
Advent to invest $328.5M in India's Yatharth Hospital for 24.9% stake
StrikeReady receives investment from Wa'ed Ventures
Vantora receives over $100M investment
Overfuel receives $6M investment
VC
Impulse Space, a provider of in-space mobility solutions, raised $308M in Series D extension funding
Ridgeline, an AI investment management platform, raised $250M in Series E funding
Mind, an AI data loss prevention platform, raised $72M in Series B funding
Luzern Risk, a full-service captive manager specializing in alternative risk solutions, raised $45M in Series B funding
Comp AI, an AI compliance and security platform, raised $34M in Series A funding
Branch Energy, a distributed energy platform, raised $33M in Series B funding
Adaptive, an agentic accounting platform for construction, raised $30M in Series B funding
Viabot, an autonomous property-management robotics platform, raised $24M in Series A funding
Kastle, an AI workforce platform for financial services, raised $24M in Series A funding
Polyphron, a provider of artificial human biology for drug development, raised $20M in Seed funding
Mainstay, an intelligent system of record for residential real estate, raised more than $18M in funding
R3 Lithium, a provider of battery recycling and lithium carbonate recovery solutions, raised $15M in Series A funding
CorePower Magnetics, a developer of advanced magnetic components for power electronics, raised $10.6M in financing
Ravel, a textile-to-textile purification recycling technology platform, raised $8.2M in Seed funding
Rapta, a manufacturing intelligence platform, raised $8M in funding
Notes.fm, a music collection and distribution platform, raised $5M in funding
Arcee AI, a provider of open-weight foundation models, raised Series B funding
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