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Your 5-minute briefing for Friday, Mar 20:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 3/19/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 31.94% for Week of MAR 12 2026
Previous week: 33.06%
Market Wrap:
Futures higher Dow +108, S&P +0.18%, Nasdaq +0.17%
Stocks fell Thursday but bounced off lows on Israel comments
WTI dropped post-settle but still up ~48% this month
Netanyahu signals conflict may end sooner than feared
Markets eye Strait of Hormuz reopening timeline
Week on pace S&P -0.4%, Dow -1.2%, Nasdaq -0.1%
Dow and Nasdaq nearing correction territory
EARNINGS
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HEADLINES
Central bankers in major economies are voicing concerns about the risk of inflation stemming from the war in Iran.
Wall Street equities traders are bracing for an unusually large tally of options expiring on Friday, which risks injecting even more volatility into a market.
Wall Street ends down as traders see no rate cuts before 2027 (more)
Israel will not strike Iranian energy sites after Trump rebuke (more)
Bond traders no longer price in any chance of Fed cut in 2026 (more)
US pump prices jump 30% since Middle East war began (more)
Gold and silver sell-off accelerates as inflation fears grip global markets (more)
Copper joins gold in broad commodities sell-off (more)
Anthropic meets with House Homeland Security behind closed doors (more)
Cheniere, Venture Global shares surge amid attacks on Qatar LNG structure (more)
Nvidia to sell 1 million chips to Amazon by end of 2027 (more)
Alibaba sets $100B target for AI revenue in five years (more)
Unilever in talks to combine food business with McCormick (more)
JPMorgan, Goldman offer hedge funds way to short private credit (more)
Figma’s stock drops 12% after Google releases ‘vibe design’ product (more)
FCC approves Nexstar-Tegna deal creating local TV giant (more)
JPMorgan Chase taps Tom Brady for athlete wealth management push (more)
Major League Baseball inks deals with Polymarket (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Amazon acquires startup Rivr to test robots for ‘doorstep delivery’
Bedrock Data receives strategic investment from Snowflake Ventures
Duravent Group receives investment from Bain Capital
VC
Cape, a mobile service provider, raised $100M in Series C funding
Latent Health, a clinical-AI company accelerating access to life-saving medications, raised $80M in Series A funding
Crossbow Therapeutics, a biotech company developing antibody therapies to treat cancer, raised $77M in Series B funding
Deeptune, a developer of high-fidelity simulation environments for AI agents, has raised $43M in Series A funding
GeoWealth raises $42.5M in Series C extension funding
RunSybil, a security platform, raised $40M in total funding
Claros, a power management solutions company, raised $30M in Seed funding
Edra, a workflow automation startup, raised $30M in Series A funding
Eclypsium, an infrastructure supply chain security company, raised $25M in funding
Corridor, a security platform for AI-native software development, raised $25M in Series A funding
Avtal, an engagement platform provider, raised $24M in total funding
Allure Security, an AI-native disinformation defense company, raised $17M in Series B funding
Autoscience, a machine learning research company, raised $14M in Seed funding
Carecubes, a healthcare solutions company, raised $6.5M in Series A funding
PADO AI Orchestration, Inc., an energy orchestration SaaS platform, raised $6M Seed funding
Kewazo, a robotics company, raised Series A Extension funding
WideField Security, an identity security platform provider, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding
Flexiv, a robotics solutions company, raised an undisclosed amount in funding
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BULLISH BITES
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