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The Fast Five → The 'Super Bowl of jobs reports' on deck, Wall St’s new trade is dumping any stock in AI’s crosshairs, Paramount sweetens hostile bid to stop Netflix-Warner Bros. deal, Lutnick admits travel to Epstein Island, and Microsoft’s data center in NC to be powered by Duke…
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Today:
Average Hourly Earnings, 8:30A
Non-Farm Employment, 8:30A
Unemployment Rate, 8:30A
Tomorrow:
Unemployment Claims, 8:30A
Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, Feb 11:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 2/10/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 39.67% for Week of FEB 05 2026
Previous week: 44.40%
Market Wrap:
Futures edged up S&P +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.2%, Dow +85
January jobs hit Wed. with 55K expected and 4.4% jobless
Consumer spending was flat in Dec. versus +0.4% expected
Tuesday saw S&P -0.3%, Nasdaq -0.6% while Dow hit a record
AI disruption fears weighed on financials
CPI due Friday
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Today: *McDonald's MCD
*Shopify $SHOP ( ▼ 6.7% ) - $.51 eps (+15.9% YoY) on $3.6B revenue (+27.7% YoY)
THU: Airbnb $ABNB ( ▼ 0.64% ), Roku $ROKU ( ▼ 3.32% )
Coinbase $COIN ( ▼ 5.73% ) - $1.01 eps, down $4.68 per share one year ago – on $1.85B revenue (-18.4% YoY)
FRI: *Wendy's $WEN ( ▲ 0.77% )
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HEADLINES
The government will publish much-anticipated January jobs data — in addition to revisions to 2025 data amid broader concerns about the job market.
Rising fears about AI keep pummeling the shares of companies at risk of being caught on the wrong side of it all.
S&P closes lower as AI fears weigh on financial stocks; Dow hits record (more)
America borrowed $43.5B/wk in the first four months of fiscal year, with debt interest on track to be over $1 trillion for 2026 (more)
Trump’s tariffs cost US households $1K last year (more)
Lutnick admits travel to Epstein Island, downplays relationship (more)
December retail sales were flat, falling well short of estimate (more)
Gold, silver climb as US yields fall on softer retail sales (more)
Paramount sweetens hostile bid to stop Netflix-Warner Bros. deal (more)
Kalshi says Super Bowl trading volume surpassed $1 bln (more)
Robinhood stock drops 8% after growth disappoints in Q4 2025 (more)
Target attempts turnaround as Walmart hits $1 trillion in market value (more)
Disney to raise $4 billion, first high-grade deal since 2020 (more)
Wealth manager stocks sink as investors flee AI’s next casualty (more)
Boeing opens year with busy January for deliveries and orders (more)
Microsoft’s data center in North Carolina to be powered by Duke (more)
US energy producer Presidio plans first-of-kind $1 bln Goldman debt facility to fund deals (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
By Light Professional IT Services acquires Dignitas Technologies
Phenom acquires Be Applied
Thomson Reuters acquires Noetica
Tharros receives investment from Blue Delta Capital Partners
VC
Positron AI, a tech company building energy-efficient AI inference hardware, raised $230M in Series B funding
Garner Health, a health tech company, raised $118M in Series D funding
Deep Fission, a nuclear energy company, raised $80M in new funding
Bretton AI, an AI platform for financial crime operations, raised $75M in Series B funding
Entire, a developer platform designed for human-agent collaboration, raised $60M in Seed funding
Natilus, an aerospace manufacturer of blended-wing aircraft, raised $28M in Series A funding
Newo, an AI platform that turns customer conversations into revenue, raised $25M in Series A funding
Matia, a unified data operations platform, raised $21M in Series A funding
Modveon, a company developing a operating system for governments and citizens, raised $10M in funding
Pelgo, an AI-powered career transition agent service, raised $5.5M in Seed funding
Force Equals, an AI-native enterprise planning operating system, raised $2.2M in Seed funding
BotGauge AI, an autonomous quality-assurance-as-a-solution startup, raised $2M in funding
ZeroDrift, an AI-native communication solution, raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
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🙈 How fake invoices duped BlackRock unit into a $400M loan.
💍 Why Washington’s all-in on smart rings.
🤖 Meet the one woman Anthropic trusts to teach AI morals.
🤑 The world’s rich are relocating at a pace unseen in history — where are they going?
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