🚨 The Cracks Are Forming—Here’s What’s Next for America
- from Behind The Markets

BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 19.38% for Week of February 27 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures up: Dow +63 pts, S&P +0.28%, Nasdaq +0.42%.

• Dow -400 pts, Nasdaq in correction (-10%).

• Tariff fears persist despite Trump’s exemptions.

• Worst week since Sept ‘24? S&P -3.6%, Dow -2.9%, Nasdaq -4.1%.

• Key data: Payrolls (+170K expected), jobless rate 4%.

EARNINGS

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A MESSAGE FROM BEHIND THE MARKETS

Goldman Sachs Issues Significant Warming 

Certain stocks and cryptocurrencies could drop by 80%.

Bonds and funds could drop even further.

The world's biggest investors have already begun to prepare for this event.

Billionaires George Soros, Seth Klarman and David Tepper have sold 103 stocks in anticipation.

Here’s how you can protect yourself >>>

HEADLINES

Trump Orders ’Fort Knox’ Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Assets Stockpile

The Recession Trade is Back on Wall Street

• Dow tumbles 400 points as trade policy fatigue ignites sell-off (more)

• US labor market steady, tariffs and Federal gov’t layoffs a risk to outlook (more)

• Trump delays Canada, Mexico tariffs for goods under USMCA (more)

• Bessent highlights Trump’s Fed silence, rejects inflation worry (more)

• US trade deficit surged to a record ahead of tariffs (more)

• Americans fall behind on car payments at highest rate in decades (more)

• ECB cuts rates again but risk of April pause growing (more)

• Walmart asks Chinese suppliers for major price cuts on Trump tariffs (more)

• Citadel Securities’ $9.7 Billion trading revenue passes Barclays (more)

• Goldman wins rare solo role on Blockbuster $19 billion deal (more)

• Walgreens will go private in $10 billion deal with Sycamore (more)

• Meta targeting ‘hundreds of millions’ of businesses in agentic AI deployment (more)

• 🎙 SBF bashes Biden, Gensler on Tucker Carlson’s podcast

💰 Warren Buffet Just Made a $334 Billion Bet »
- from Behind The Markets

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Bad Bunny label Rimas acquires ‘significant stake’ in Dale Play Records (more)

• American Express to acquire expense-management company Center (more)

• TickPick, a marketplace for the event ticketing industry, acquired Fanimal, a ticketing platform (more)

• Darwinbox, a human resource technology platform, received a $140M investment (more)

VC

• Turing, an AGI infrastructure company, raised $111M in Series E funding (more)

• PetScreening, a pet policy management software company, raised $80M in Series B funding (more)

• Zeitview, a company specializing in visual AI for critical infrastructure, raised $60M in funding (more)

• Spiritus, a climate-tech startup which specializes in direct air capture technology, raised $30M in Series A Funding (more)

• Crogl, a cybersecurity risk management company, raised $25M in Series A funding (more)

• Ataraxis AI, an AI precision medicine company, raised $20.4M in Series A funding (more)

• Numeral, a sales tax compliance provider for ecommerce and SaaS companies, raised $18M in Series A funding (more)

• Daupler, a response management solution for utilities and municipalities, raised $15M in Series B funding (more)

• Zocks, a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors, raised $13.8M in Series A funding (more)

• AIceberg, a platform using generative and agentic AI for gov't and enterprise, raised $10M in Seed funding (more)

• AidKit, a startup helping government agencies and nonprofits administer aid programs, raised $8.5M in Series A funding (more)

• Outmarket AI, an intelligence platform purpose-built to transform commercial insurance, raised $4.7M in Seed funding (more)

• GovEagle, an AI-driven proposal platform for government contractors, raised $2.5M in funding (more)

• Ria Health, a telehealth provider of alcohol use disorder treatment, raised an undisclosed amount in funding (more)

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin jumps above $91K after Trump's US Crypto Reserve news brings bulls back (more)

• Trump’s crypto reserve likely to be mostly Bitcoin, bigger than expected (more)

• Falling US dollar is signaling a strong quarter for crypto: Raoul Pal (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚨. WARNING: Goldman Sachs Issues Significant Warning

🔎 Investors spy the dawn of a tectonic shift away from US markets.

🇺🇸 How Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US Government.

🤔 The new retirement vision is not really retiring, survey says.

🚙 Not your father's station wagon.

DAILY SHARES

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