📌 Jeff Bezos quietly backing world-changing tech (not AI) 
The Amazon founder is quietly advancing a radical technology that could change society forever and benefit early investors.
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BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 25.44% for Week of April 17 2025

Market Wrap:

• Dow +420 pts (+1.1%), S&P +1.7%, Nasdaq +2.5%.

• Trump signals softer China stance; says 145% tariff will “come down.”

• Bessent, WSJ point to possible 50–65% range, tied to a bilateral deal.

• AAPL +2%, NVDA +3%, TSLA +5% on easing trade pressure.

• Trump confirms Powell stays as Fed chair through 2026.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: American Airlines $AAL ( ▲ 0.43% ), Intel $INTC ( ▼ 1.56% ), PepsiCo $PEP ( ▲ 1.96% ), Procter & Gamble $PG ( ▲ 2.55% ), Southwest $LUV ( ▼ 0.48% ) 

  • Alphabet $GOOGL ( ▼ 1.42% ) - earnings of $2.01 per share (+6.3% YoY) on $89.2B revenue (+10.7% YoY)

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SIGNAL | FROM STANSBERRY RESEARCH

Our “#1 Tech Stock of 2025” (Not NVDA)

If you missed out on Amazon, Netflix, Apple...

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If you play this right, you could capture huge profits.

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HEADLINES

Trump U-Turns on Powell, China Follow Dire Economic Warnings

Exhausted by Trump Reversals, Traders Get No Relief From Rebound

• Dow closes 400 points higher, but ends session well off the highs (more)

• Credit a ‘short squeeze’ for the stock market’s big 2-day bounce (more)

• Bessent says China tariffs are not sustainable (more)

• Dozen states sue Trump in bid to block new tariffs (more)

• Trump says 25% tariff on cars made in Canada could go up (more)

• Trump: Millionaire tax would push wealthy to leave the US (more)

• Gold prices plunge in biggest one-day drop in years (more)

• Southwest to cut flights this year citing ‘macroeconomic uncertainty’ (more)

• Chipotle’s sales miss points to weaker consumer sentiment (more)

• IBM beats on earnings and revenue, maintains full-year guidance (more)

• Nvidia supplier SK Hynix's Q1 profit more than doubles (more)

• Musk's Neuralink could fetch $8.5B valuation (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Cantor Fitzgerald partners with Tether and SoftBank for $3.6B crypto venture

• Columbia Banking System to acquire Pacific Premier Bancorp for $2 bln

• Baker Tilly and Moss Adams announce $7 bln merger

• WorkStep, a frontline employee engagement platform, acquired WorkHound, an employee feedback management platform

• PSG, in combination with 2ndWave Software, acquired JAMS, a workload automation and job scheduling solution

• Leap, a space logistics company, received an investment from Colorado ONE Fund

VC

• Exowatt, a next-gen renewable energy company, closed its $70M Series A funding round

• Instrumentl, a full-lifecycle grant solution for nonprofits and universities, raised $55M in funding

• Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure API provider, raised $52M in Series C funding

• Cynomi, a cybersecurity company, raised $37M in Series B funding

• Synthetic Design Lab, an antibody-drug conjugate company, raised $20M in funding

• Scamnetic, a company protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats, raised $13M in Series A funding

• VanishID, an agentic AI-powered digital executive protection company for enterprises, raised $10M in funding

• HelloSky, a talent intelligence platform for the executive search industry, raised $5.5M in seed funding

• Respondology, a social media comment moderation and intelligence company, raised an additional $5M in Series A-1 funding

• Crowdpac, a political crowdfunding platform, raised $4M in funding

• Coologics, a clinical-stage medical device company, raised $3M in Seed funding

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin briefly rises above $94k, its highest level in more than a month (more)

• $TRUMP surges 50% after top holders offered dinner with the president (more)

• Bitcoin ETF inflows top 500 times 2025 average in 'significant deviation' (more)

BULLISH BITES

📈 Where to invest $1,000 right now *

🤬 Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match.

🤖 Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools.

💰 Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it.

😞 Inside the country’s saddest airport lounge.

DAILY SHARES

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