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The Fast Five → Dow drops 600 points, Bessent's debt buybacks put Wall Street on edge, oil near $100 threatens stocks’ stellar run, Meta introduces Muse, and LIV Golf files for bankruptcy protection…
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Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, September 9:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 9/8/2026.
Pre-Market:
Market Wrap:
Futures: Dow -21, S&P flat, Nasdaq flat
Tue: Dow -1.2%, S&P -0.6%, Nasdaq -0.3%
Rising oil prices pressured stocks
Brent briefly topped $99 on renewed Iran attacks
WTI climbed above $94 in extended trading
10-year Treasury yield briefly topped 4.8%
Focus shifts to inflation data later this week
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: American Eagle $AEO ( ▼ 0.98% ), *Chewy $CHWY ( ▼ 1.65% )
AeroVironment $AVAV ( ▲ 2.86% ) - $.30 EPS (-6.3% YoY), on $459.9M revenue (+1.2% YoY)
THU: Adobe $ADBE ( ▼ 3.47% ), *Macy's $M, Oracle $ORCL ( ▲ 2.36% )
FRI:
Kroger $KR ( ▼ 2.37% ) - EPS of $1.06 (+1.9% YoY) on $34.61B revenue (+2.0% YoY)
These 3 Stocks Could Soar as Sam Altman Announces New Venture After OpenAI
Elon Musk calls it "the most disruptive force in history."
The test staff are sworn to keep it secret – by law.
And 3 little-known stocks are poised to take off, as Sam Altman releases what could be the biggest venture of his life – 500 times bigger than ChatGPT.
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HEADLINES
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also retreated as oil prices neared $100 a barrel and US-Canada trade tensions escalated.
S&P 500 falls as AI worries hit software makers (more)
Oil near $100 threatens US stocks’ stellar run (more)
Five spots to watch as the bond market creeps up on 5% (more)
US sanctions Iranian airlines in aim to tighten economic squeeze (more)
Canada's retaliatory tariffs take effect as US trade talks stall (more)
Trump admin expresses 'profound concern' over Ford's ties to China (more)
DOJ widens probe into Fox's Roku deal (more)
Consumers more worried about personal finances and jobs (more)
Meta introduces AI agent that can your send emails, book travel (more)
Google's revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US gov’t (more)
Apple's Ternus faces AI test as foldable iPhone takes center stage (more)
Xiaomi, Huawei race to get ahead of Apple’s foldable iPhone (more)
TSMC, Samsung commit to ASML's newest chipmaking tools (more)
Bombardier shares fall after Trump threatens US market access (more)
LIV Golf files for bankruptcy protection (more)
Robinhood enters IPO underwriting (more)
Holtec Nuclear targets $10.2B valuation in US IPO (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
GE to buy Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75B
Tamarack, Headwater forge Canada's Clearwater oil leader with $7.25B merger
EverBank to combine with WaFd in $3.9B reverse merger
Chime to buy nationally chartered Stride Bank for $590M
Dawraty receives investment from Qatar Development Bank
DivergeIT receives investment from M|C Partners
VC
Crusoe Energy Systems, a hyperscale data center developer, secured over $3B in funding
Gimlet Labs, an AI infrastructure and distributed software platform, raised $300M in Series B funding
Forus, an AI network accelerating medicine, raised $150M in Series C funding
BrainChild Bio, a provider of cell therapies to treat tumors in the central nervous system, raised $116M in Series A funding
Moonwalk Biosciences, RNAi medicines for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, raised $70M in Series B funding
Cloverleaf Bio, a provider of engineered transfer RNA-based payloads for cancer, raised $33M in Seed funding
Blee, an AI-first marketing compliance platform, raised $20M in Series A funding
Poseidon Aerospace, unmanned cargo platforms, raised $11M in Seed funding
Ollie, an AI and workforce productivity startup, raised $7.5M in Seed funding
Emberos, an OS for AI brand management, raised $5.5M in Seed funding
Flamingo, an AI and IT infrastructure software startup, raised $4.5M in Seed funding
ChipMango, an AI semiconductor technology company, raised $1.9M in funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
📈 Moderna doubled in one day. This medical stock could be next. *
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