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The Fast Five → Powell’s remarks to be scrutinized, Nvidia CEO says chipmaker well positioned for shift in AI, retail investors ditch buy-the-dip mentality, Musk’s X obtains $44 billion valuation, and gold sets another record as safe choice…
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Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, March 19:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 19.11% for Week of March 13 2025

Previous week: 19.33%. Updates every Friday.
Market Wrap:
Futures up: Dow +50 pts (+0.12%), S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.33%.
Dow -0.6%, S&P -1%, Nasdaq -1.7% Tues; S&P 8.6% off Feb highs, Nasdaq in correction.
Fed rate decision today; outlook & forecasts in focus.
Market volatility fueled by tariffs, soft data, growth fears.
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: Five Below $FIVE ( ▲ 6.55% ), General Mills $GIS ( ▼ 0.89% )
Super Micro Computer $SMCI ( ▲ 0.11% ) - earnings of $0.54 per share, +5.9% YoY), on $5.4B revenue (+45.9% YoY)
Thursday: Darden Restaurants $DRI ( ▲ 0.01% ), NIKE $NKE ( ▲ 0.31% )
FedEx $FDX ( ▲ 1.32% ) - earnings of $4.60 per share (+19.2% YoY) on revenue of $21.9 billion (+0.9% YoY)
Lennar $LEN ( ▲ 1.0% ) - earnings of $1.71 per share (-33.5% YoY) on revenue of $7.4 billion (+7.2% YoY)
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HEADLINES

Nvidia's Rubin AI chip to include GPU, CPU and networking chips. AI startups say competitive chatbots need fewer Nvidia chips.
The mood on Wall Street is grim as stocks slide (more)
Retail investors ditch buy-the-dip mentality during the market correction (more)
'Bull crash' has driven the biggest ever drop in allocation to US stocks (more)
Trump still intends for reciprocal tariffs to kick in on April 2 (more)
Gold sets another record as safe choice (more)
Asian stocks muted, yen softer ahead of BOJ decision (more)
China said to scrutinize Li Ka-Shing’s Panama port deal (more)
Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra and Rubin AI chips (more)
Nvidia looks to expand its AI reign with robots, personal supercomputers (more)
Musk’s X obtains $44B valuation in sharp turnaround (more)
JPMorgan stock traders score windfall as Trump jolts market (more)
Morgan Stanley to lay off about 2,000 job cuts to trim costs (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
VC
Apptronik, an AI-powered humanoid robotics company, raised additional $53M in Series B funding (more)
Graphite, an AI-powered code review platform provider, raised $52M in Series (more)
GrubMarket, an AI-powered food supply chain technology enabler, raised $50M in Series G funding (more)
RegCell, a biotech company developing therapies for autoimmune diseases, raised $45.8M in funding (more)
VIA, a data and identity protection platform, raised $28M in Series B funding (more)
Augment, an AI-driven logistics platform, raised $25M in Seed funding (more)
Coreshell, a battery technology company, raised $24M in funding (more)
Crossmint, a platform for companies building onchain, raised $23.6M in funding (more)
Arcade.dev, a company helping AI agents securely take real-world actions on behalf of a user, raised $12M in Seed funding (more)
VulnCheck, an exploit intelligence company, raised $12M in Series a funding (more)
brain.space, a creator of a Brain-Data-as-a-Service Ecosystem for gen AI mental modeling, raised $11M in Series A funding (more)
257, a software and AI company focused on the residential energy market, raised $9.2M in Seed funding (more)
Madison Scientific, a private medical device company, raised $7M in Seed funding (more)
Featherless.ai, a serverless AI inference platform, raised $5M Seed funding (more)
Equipt.ai, a software company specializing in asset and field service management, raised $3.2M in Seed funding (more)
Level, a decentralized stablecoin protocol, raised additional $2.6M in funding (more)
Popfly, a platform helping brands and creators work together, raised $2M in Seed funding (more)
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
🗂 Trump releases JFK assassination files.
🎲 Google’s $32 billion Wiz deal is a natsec gamble.
👛 Why is China spending billions to get people to open their wallets?
🇪🇸 The Madrid boutique where Jeff Bezos buys his capes.
DAILY SHARES
How it feels using a Bloomberg Terminal to read the news all day
— Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_)
3:29 PM • Mar 15, 2025
This page from the JFK files is going viral
— Lit News Network (@litnewsnet)
12:19 AM • Mar 19, 2025
ETH logo: ETH reality:
— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79)
3:46 PM • Mar 18, 2025
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