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The Fast Five → Nvidia sinks as earnings fail to quench investor thirst, Netflix drops Warner Bros. bid, Block shares soar 24% after company slashes workforce in half, Apple CEO teases new product unveil next week, and World Economic Forum head resigns over Epstein ties…
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Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, Feb 27:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 2/26/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 34.54% for Week of FEB 19 2026
Previous week: 38.52%
Market Wrap:
Futures fell Dow -268, S&P -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.4%
Nvidia dropped 5.5% despite a beat as AI sentiment wobbled
Yesterday: S&P -0.5% and Nasdaq -1.2% while Dow eked out +17
Software slid w/ Zscaler -10% and CoreWeave -8% on guidance
Financials and industrials outperformed
Today: PPI hits with 0.3% expected on headline and core
Feb. tracking Nasdaq -2.5%, S&P -0.4%, Dow +1.2%
EARNINGS
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HEADLINES
Netflix shares surged in late trading after the news.
The Swiss organization launched an investigation earlier this month into Børge Brende’s links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
S&P 500, Nasdaq slide as Nvidia leaves Wall Street wanting (more)
Fed's top banking cop looks to unveil new regulations (more)
Odds of early Warsh-led Fed rate cuts slide with bullish outlook (more)
Anthropic rejects latest Pentagon offer, escalating feud over AI (more)
US weekly jobless claims rise slightly (more)
The oil industry is paying the price of Trump's $3 gas (more)
Apple CEO Cook teases new product unveil next week (more)
Small investors buy Nvidia in record numbers after Thursday’s open (more)
Nvidia sinks as stellar earnings fail to quench investor thirst (more)
Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half (more)
Broadcom expects to sell 1 million 3D stacked chips by 2027 (more)
Smartphone market set to shrink 13% due to memory chip crisis (more)
Walmart to pay $100M over deceptive practices for delivery drivers (more)
Kalshi finds insider trading, a first for prediction markets (more)
AI "hot takes" are becoming a market risk (more)
Private credit, in the eye of Wall Street’s storm, passes a test (more)
eBay laying off 6% of its workforce (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Dubai Aerospace to buy Macquarie AirFinance in $7 bln deal
Whop, a global digital marketplace, raised a strategic investment of undisclosed amount from Tether Investments
Bandelier Technologies receives investment from CerraCap Impact Venture Capital
VC
Shine Technologies, a nuclear fusion company, raised $240M in equity funding
Revel, a software platform for hardware test and control, raised $150M in Series B funding
Hones Health, a care enablement organization, raised $140M in Funding
VITURE, a company developing XR solutions, raised $100M in funding
UpGuard, a cybersecurity and risk management company, raised $75M in Series C funding
Sensera Systems, Inc., a provider of a jobsite intelligence solutions, raised $27M in Series B funding
FirmPilot, an AI-powered legal marketing platform, raised $22M in Series A-1 funding
ElastixAI, a software platform that improves FPGA-based servers, raised $18M in Seed funding
Third Way Health, an AI-enabled services company for healthcare organizations, raised $15M in Series A funding
NODA AI, an algorithmic platform for orchestrating weapons and tactics for multi-vendor systems, has raised $25M in Series A funding
Profitmind, an agentic AI decision intelligence platform, raised $9M in Series A funding
Dots, a global payouts platform for marketplaces and service-based businesses, raised $8.9M in Series A funding
T54 Labs, a layer service for the agentic economy, raised $5M in Seed funding
BreezeBio, a biotech company developing genetic medicines, raised an undisclosed amount in Series B funding
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