BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 41.38% for Week of JUL 10 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures steady: Dow -101 pts, S&P -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.3%

• S&P -0.4%, Dow -400+, Nasdaq +0.2% (record close)

• Nvidia +4% on China chip news

• CPI rose 0.3% MoM, 2.7% YoY — matches forecast

• Tariff concerns linger as inflation shows signs of heating

• Big banks report today: BAC, GS, MS

• PPI due this morning — 0.2% MoM expected

EARNINGS

Big banks on deck. Here’s what we’re watching:

• Today: Bank of America $BAC ( ▲ 0.64% ), Goldman Sachs $GS ( ▲ 0.34% ), Johnson & Johnson $JNJ ( ▲ 0.44% ), Morgan Stanley $MS ( ▼ 0.05% ) 

• THU: PepsiCo $PEP ( ▼ 1.51% ) 

  • Netflix $NFLX ( ▼ 5.1% ) - $7.18 eps on $11.16B revenue (vs a forecast of $7.06 on $11.04B)

• FRI: 3M $MMM ( ▼ 3.65% ), American Express $AXP ( ▼ 2.35% ), Charles Schwab $SCHW ( ▲ 2.9% ) 

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A MESSAGE FROM INVESTORPLACE DIGEST

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These Companies?

Forget about AI… There's a hot new trend on Wall Street… and it's all thanks to President Trump. His administration has begun to fast-track the operations of a handful of companies… Accelerating their potential profits.

That's why legendary investor Louis Navellier is now recommending these 3 stocks that are being fast-tracked »

HEADLINES

Crypto Bills Fail to Clear Key Hurdle in Congress

Wall Street Titans Consider a Crypto Pivot

• Fed's inflation fears start to be realized with June CPI increase (more)

• Here’s the inflation breakdown for June 2025 (more)

• Trump says drug tariffs probable by Aug. 1 (more)

• White House readies order to bring private equity to 401(k)s (more)

• Traders stick to bets on September Fed rate cut after inflation report (more)

• Central banks increasingly buying gold from local mines as prices surge (more)

• Employment woes are coming for startup talent (more)

• Nasdaq posts latest record close on Nvidia's China chip cheer (more)

• US banking giants reap gains from dealmaking rebound (more)

• BlackRock shares slump even as assets hit record $12.5T on market rally (more)

• Apple inks $500M rare earth magnet deal to bring supply back to US (more)

• Joby Aviation is doubling production at its air taxi manufacturing hub (more)

• Elliott builds stake in global payments Post-Worldpay deal (more)

• CrowdStrike touts product resilience a year after global outages (more)

• DOGE makes its way into biotech IPO filings (more)

• Trump touts investments at tech summit (more)

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Sino Biopharmaceutical to acquire LaNova Medicines for up to $951M

• Gravitee acquires Ambassador Labs

• Apple to invest $500M in US rare earth producer MP Materials

• Google signs $3 billion hydropower deal with Brookfield

• CloudCover receives growth investment from Argentum

• PCI Pharma Services receives investment from Mubadala, Bain Capital, and Kohlberg

VC

• OpenEvidence, a medical search and AI application provider, raised $210M in Series B funding

• CertifID, a wire fraud protection platform for the real estate industry, raised $47.5M in Series C funding

• Unify, a platform supporting go-to-market and accelerating pipeline growth, raised $40M in Series B funding

• XTEND, a provider of AI-powered tactical autonomous robotic systems, raised $30M in Series B funding

• Fellow Health, a company focused on advancing male reproductive health, raised $24M in Series B funding

• Amogy, a provider of ammonia-to-power solutions, raised an addt’l $23M in funding

• Vultron, an agentic ops system for federal growth, raised $22M in total funding

• GT Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical device company raised additional $16M in Series D funding

• Heron, a startup using AI to automate workflows in business lending, raised $16M in Series A funding

• Linkby, a performance PR platform, raised $15M in Series B funding

• Tavrn, an AI-driven legal tech platform, raised $15M in Series A funding

• Heka, a company delivering web intelligence to financial services, raised $14M in Series A funding

• Decile Group, a software platform for VC fund managers to set up, operate, and raise money, raised $14M in Seed funding

• Dakota, a crypto-integrated business banking platform, raised $12.5M in Series A funding

• Cogent Security, an AI taskforce for vulnerability management, raised $11M in funding

• Collate, an open source project for data intelligence, raised $10M in Series A funding

• IntuigenceAI, an AI-based engineer platform IntuiAI, raised $10M in Seed funding

• Callidus Legal AI, an AI platform that automates and accelerates core litigation workflows, raised $10M in funding

• Covenant, an AI law firm built for private market investors, raised $4M in Seed funding

• Trupeer.ai, an AI video creation platform, raised $3M in Seed funding

• Bifrost Electronics, a quantum startup, raised $2.5M in Seed funding

• Franzy, an AI-powered franchise marketplace, raised $2.2M in Seed funding

• EndoQuest Robotics, an endoluminal robotic surgical technology company, raised an undisclosed amount in Series D-2 funding

• Ultion Technologies, a developer of LFP battery cell tech and energy storage systems, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding

CRYPTO

• Crypto regulation bills fail to clear key hurdle in Congress (more)

• Bitcoin bear Vanguard is now the largest shareholder of Strategy (more)

• Bitcoin is nearly double where it was a year ago (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚨 Big changes coming to Social Security? * 

📈 Why tariffs won't kill corporate earnings.

😱 How California pensioners pulled one over on Yale’s investors.

🦈 Barbara Corcoran shares the email she sent to get on ‘Shark Tank’.

😎 These are the sunglasses of the summer, according to menswear experts.

DAILY SHARES

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