BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 29.88% for Week of AUG 14 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures flat ahead of Fed minutes, retail earnings

• Tue: S&P -0.6%, Nasdaq -1.5%, Dow eked out gain on Home Depot jump

• Fed minutes eyed after first dual dissent since 1993

• Powell speaks Friday; 85% odds of Sept. rate cut (CME)

• Lowe’s, Target, TJX report before bell

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• Today: *Estee Lauder $EL ( ▲ 4.0% ), *Lowe’s $LOW ( ▲ 3.16% ), *Target $TGT ( ▲ 1.98% ), TJX $TJX ( ▼ 0.71% )

• THU: Ross Stores $ROST ( ▲ 0.93% ), Workday $WDAY ( ▼ 2.59% ) 

  • Walmart $WMT ( ▼ 1.04% ): earnings of 74 cents per share (+10.4% YoY) on revenue of $174.2 billion (+3.8% YoY)

• FRI: BJ’s Wholesale $BJ ( ▼ 8.53% ) 

Full calendar here »

A MESSAGE FROM ERIC FRY

Get Out of “The World’s Most Crowded Trade” Now

Megacap tech stocks – like Nvidia and Microsoft – are the most popular trade in the world. Yet, 78% of Wall Street fund managers believe an event is coming in September that could kill this trade and incite total "regime change" in the stock market. Watch Futurist Eric Fry's "Sell This, Buy That" broadcast for 7 alternative plays to help protect yourself from big tech's potential downturn.

HEADLINES

Tech Slide Cracks Summer Calm in Stocks

Trump Eyes Government Stakes in Chipmakers Beyond Intel

• S&P 500 seen stalling as AI rally meets tariff jitters (more)

• Lutnick: Intel has to give gov’t equity in return for CHIPS Act funds (more)

• Bessent says US tariff revenues to rise 'substantially' (more)

  • US treasury chief: status quo with China 'working pretty well' (more)

• Powell's Jackson Hole speech could set up a long-term policy tweak (more)

• Trump targets corporate America to achieve economic/foreign policy goals (more)

• S&P expects tariff revenue to offset Trump tax bill impact (more)

• US copper firms hike prices even after Trump tariff reprieve (more)

• Trump embarks on $104 million bond-buying spree while in office (more)

• Intel’s $25 billion rally sends valuation to dot-com levels (more)

• Palantir falls, extending losing streak to 5 trading days (more)

• Robinhood launches NFL and college football prediction markets (more)

• Databricks says it’s valued at over $100 billion in new funding round (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Nexstar to acquire Tegna for $3.54B (about $6.2B incl. debt)

• Black Hills to buy NorthWestern Energy for $3.6B

• Turkish Airlines to buy minority stake in Air Europa

• Black Hills, NorthWestern merge to form $15.4B utility

• Zelusports receives investment from Centennial Investors

• First Eagle Investments receives majority investment from Genstar Capital

VC

• Eight Sleep, a sleep‑fitness company, raised $100M in new funding

• Functionize, an AI-powered platform used for software test cases, raised $41M in Series B funding

• Keychain, an AI-powered manufacturing platform for the consumer packaged goods industry, raised $30M in Series B funding

• Casca, an AI-native loan origination platform, raised $29M in Series A funding

• Basic Capital, a 401(k) platform that helps workers achieve their retirement goals, raised $25M in Series A funding

• Firecrawl, a platform that generates web data for developers and AI agents, raised $14.5M in Series A funding

• Yourway Learning, a company specializing in AI-powered K‑12 education, raised $9M in funding

• TensorZero, a tech startup building an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM apps, raised $7.3M in Seed funding

• Zipline AI, a data platform improving how enterprises develop and deploy AI products, raised $7M in Seed funding

• ChemFinity Technologies, a company providing recovery systems for critical minerals, raised $7M in Seed funding

• Three Space Lab, a company specializing in frictionless, realistic VR real estate visualization, raised $3M in Seed funding

• ShiftUp, a company helping enterprise sales teams operate through AI-powered sales intelligence, raised $3M in Seed funding

• Nullspace, a deep tech company developing electromagnetic simulation software, raised $2.5M in Seed funding

• Ohai.ai, an AI-powered household assistant service, raised new round of funding

CRYPTO

• Crypto stocks tumble on Tuesday as investors go into risk-off mode (more)

• Analyst: Bitcoin could reach $200,000 during crypto bull market (more)

• SEC Chair Atkins: There are very few tokens that are securities (more)

BULLISH BITES

📉 September 16 could crush your tech stocks. * 

🧠 Sam Altman on GPT-6: ‘People want memory’

⌛️ The senior living market can’t keep up with demand as boomers age.

🤖 The athletes at China’s Robot Games fell down… a lot.

🏎 "Few-Off" Lamborghini Fenomeno is the most powerful V-12 Lambo ever.

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