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Trump warns "take it or leave it" trade offers coming in days, quantum stocks surge as tech at 'inflection point', China will supply rare earths in ‘done’ deal, a ‘shadow’ Fed chair could be coming, and GameStop plunges on $1.75B debt offering...
Market Briefing
June 12, 2025
Good morning.
The Fast Five → Trump warns "take it or leave it" trade offers coming in days, quantum stocks surge as tech at 'inflection point', China will supply rare earths in ‘done’ deal, a ‘shadow’ Fed chair could be coming, and GameStop plunges on $1.75B debt offering…
📌 Bloomberg: “[This] could achieve a $40 trillion valuation” (ad)
Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar
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Your 5-minute briefing for Thursday, June 12:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 6/11/2025.
Pre-Market:
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US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 32.66% for Week of JUN 05 2025
Previous week: 32.89%.
Market Wrap:
• Futures: S&P 500 -0.27%, Nasdaq 100 -0.25%, Dow -141 pts (-0.33%)
• Wed: S&P 500 -0.3%, Nasdaq -0.5%, Dow flat Wednesday
• May CPI +0.1% vs +0.2% est; core CPI also below forecast
• Wells Fargo: choppy market likely as trade, inflation, earnings weigh
• May PPI due today: est +0.2% headline, +0.3% core
• US–China deal still awaits Trump, Xi approval; Trump touts 55% tariffs
EARNINGS
No earnings watched today.
Today:
Adobe $ADBE ( ▼ 0.3% ) - earnings of $4.97 (+10.9% YoY) on $5.8B revenue (+9.2% YoY)
Our #1 Tech Stock of 2025 (Not NVDA)
If you missed out on Amazon, Netflix, Apple...
Stay tuned, because Bloomberg says Jeff Bezos' new project could "achieve a $40 trillion valuation."
If you play this right, you could capture huge profits.
But according to Whitney Tilson, the former hedge fund manager who bought Amazon before it soared more than 8,000%, Netflix before it soared more than 11,000%, and Apple before the stock soared more than 65,000%...
You have to move quickly.
Laura Greaver
Researcher, Stansberry Research
HEADLINES
The US will send take-it-or-leave-it trade offers to dozens of countries within the next two weeks, President Trump said Wednesday.
Quantum computing stocks surged Wednesday after Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang made bullish comments about the technology at the chipmaker's GTC Paris developer conference.
Stocks slip, dollar droops as trade, geopolitical tensions weigh (more)
Trump says China will supply rare earths in ‘done’ deal (more)
US tariffs on China won’t change again, Lutnick says after trade talks (more)
Trump tariffs can stay in effect longer, appeals court says (more)
'I would like to stay' Treasury secretary until 2029: Bessent (more)
A ‘shadow’ Fed chair could be coming (more)
US consumer prices rose less than expected in May (more)
Dollar slides on easing trade tensions, Fed expectations (more)
Gold rises on weaker dollar, rising Middle East tensions (more)
Oil prices rise more than 4% on escalating US-Iran tensions (more)
Small retailers on ‘vacation from hell’ as they seek clarity on China tariffs (more)
Oracle shares climb 8% as earnings, revenue top estimates (more)
GameStop plunges 12% after proposing new $1.75B debt offering (more)
Apollo, Irth Capital look to take Papa Johns private (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Payment company Stripe to acquire crypto wallet provider Privy
Talen Energy and Amazon sign nuclear power deal to fuel data centers
VC
Glean, a work AI platform provider, raised $150 M in Series F funding, at a $7.2B valuation
AIM, an embodied AI platform for earthmoving machinery, raised $50M in funding
Standard Nuclear, a reactor‑agnostic producer of TRISO nuclear fuel, raised $42M in funding
Outset, an AI‑moderated research platform, raised $17M in Series A funding
Farsight, a tech company improving workflows and insights at financial institutions, raised $16M in funding
CloudQuery, a developer‑first cloud governance platform, raised $16M in funding
Bolo AI, an enterprise AI company building intelligent tools for the heavy industry, raised $8.1M in Seed funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
📈 Man who called AMZN, NFLX, AAPL: “Buy This” *
🤖 This A.I. company wants to take your job.
🗣 Why bosses should give feedback in the morning.
🏀 The NBA’s ‘Most Valuable Player’ is its fashion MVP, too.
🛳 Regent’s new two-story cruise suite is more luxurious than your condo.
DAILY SHARES
Pride month is so back
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. (@ParikPatelCFA)
7:38 AM • Jun 11, 2025
"How do you handle the market volatility?"
Me:
— Wall Street Memes (@wallstmemes)
4:00 PM • Jun 11, 2025
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