| Good morning. | The Fast Five → Lutnick: One trade deal is done, Eric Trump: Banks may be extinct in ten years, Hedge funds lose market conviction, Super Micro shares dive after weak financials, and Walmart pledges low prices despite tariffs… | | | Calendar: (all times ET) - Full Calendar | | Your 5-minute briefing for Wednesday, April 30: | BEFORE THE OPEN |  | As of market close 4/29/2025. |
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| US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↓ 21.94% for Week of April 24 2025 |
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|  | Previous week: 24.44%. Updates every Friday. |
| | Market Wrap: | Futures: S&P -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.6%, Dow +71 pts (+0.2%). Tues: Dow +300, S&P +0.6%, Nasdaq +0.6%; 6-day win streak. Trump: India trade deal "coming along great"; deal "close," says Lutnick. April: S&P -0.9% MTD, Dow -3.5%, Nasdaq +0.9%. GDP est: +0.4%; PCE inflation est: flat M/M, +2.2% Y/Y.
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| | | |  | Lutnick on Tuesday teased that the Trump administration has reached its first trade deal, but said it was not fully finalized and declined to name the country involved. |
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| | |  | "The modern financial system is broken, it's slow, it's expensive," Eric Trump told CNBC in the UAE. |
| S&P futures slip after index posts longest win streak since November (more) US corporate bond markets betray caution behind recent rebound (more) Investors turn to emerging market debt after tariffs hit US Treasurys (more) Hedge funds lose market conviction, except for shorting US stocks (more) Trump officials eye changes to Biden's AI chip export rule (more) Gold falls as trade tensions soften (more) Oil set for historic April selloff on darkened outlook(more) Apple investors seek clarity on tariffs, AI strategy as iPhone sales decline (more) Walmart won't break out tariff costs and pledges low prices (more) Super Micro shares dive after weak preliminary financials (more) Starbucks stock falls as sales disappoint, turnaround pressures earnings (more) Snap plunges 13% on 'headwinds' to start quarter, inability to offer guidance (more)
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| | | M+A | Investments | Investcorp sells Resa Power to Kohlberg & Co. Avathon Capital, a PE firm specializing in investing in lower middle-market companies, acquired OculusIT, a provider of MSP for education institutions Intuit Inc., a global fintech platform, acquires GoCo, a provider of modern HR and benefits solutions for SMB's
| VC | Apex, a spacecraft manufacturer offering productized and configurable satellite bus platforms, raised $200M in Series C funding Utilidata, a company specializing in edge AI tech, raised $60.3M in Series C funding indiGOtech, a new mobility tech company, closed a $54Mn Series BB funding round Villa, an off-site homebuilding platform provider, raised $40M in funding Forge Nano, a tech company developing domestic battery and semiconductor solutions, raised $40M in new funding Blooming Health, a social care tech platform, raised $26M in Series A funding Growers Edge, a company providing financial products for agricultural retailers, manufacturers, and lenders, raised $25M in funding GORGIE, an energy drink brand, raised $24.5M in Series A funding P-1, a company building engineering AGI for the physical world, raised $23M in Seed funding Near Space Labs, a stratospheric remote sensing company, raised $20M in Series B funding Basil Systems, an AI-powered SaaS platform for the pharma and medical device industry, raised $11.5M in funding Eden, a provider of a digital sales enablement platform for contractors, raised $3.7M in funding ColdVentures, a maker of rapid core body cooling product ColdVest, raised an undisclosed amount in a Seed round at a $2.5M valuation
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| | | Bitcoin outshines gold, tech stocks in April amid tariff turmoil (more) US Senate majority leader expects stablecoin vote before May 26 (more) Bitcoin price still in bargain zone as US jobs report sparks rate cut hopes (more)
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It's all in the framing | |  | | | 9:28 PM • Apr 29, 2025 | | | | | | 3.05K Likes 130 Retweets | 30 Replies |
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|  | High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry | |
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Finding out Howard Lutnick is in charge of negotiating 199 trade deals at the same time | |  | | | 6:21 PM • Apr 29, 2025 | | | | | | 487 Likes 20 Retweets | 13 Replies |
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