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Stocks Surge After First Trade Deal Announced

US / UK new trade deal | Tech earnings continue | Bitcoin major rally

Welcome Back,

Market Headlines 👀 

  • US President Trump announces first new trade deal, with the United Kingdom.

  • US Federal Reserve Chair Powell held interest rates this week and didn’t commit to rate cuts anytime soon.

  • US weekly jobless claims come in lower at 228k; est: 230k.

  • Bitcoin (BTC) sees a major rally, surpassing the $100k level once again.

  • Coinbase (COIN) announces a $2.91b acquisition of Deribit, the world’s largest bitcoin options platform.

  • Alphabet (GOOGL) Apple services chief mentions how the rise of AI search will continue to replace traditional search.

Earnings 💸

  • Coinbase (COIN)

    • EPS: $0.24 misses ($1.98)

    • Revenue: $2.03b misses (exp. $2.09b)

  • Mercado Libre (MELI)

    • EPS: $9.74 beats ($8.27)

    • Revenue: $5.94b beats (exp. $5.52b)

  • Cloudfare (NET)

    • EPS: $0.16 meets ($0.16)

    • Revenue: $479m beats (exp. $470m)

  • Shopify (SHOP)

    • EPS: $0.25 misses ($0.26)

    • Revenue: $2.36b beats (exp. $2.33b)

  • The Trade Desk (TTD)

    • EPS: $0.33 beats ($0.25)

    • Revenue: $616m beats (exp. $575m)

  • Affirm (AFRM)

    • EPS: $0.01 beats ($-0.01)

    • Revenue: $783m beats (exp. $781.7m)

  • DraftKings (DKNG)

    • Revenue: 1.41b

  • RocketLab (RKLB)

    • EPS: $(-0.12) meets ($-0.12)

    • Revenue: $123m beats (exp. $121m)

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Recap Around the Street 🧠

Retail buyers have buying buying equities and overall net buyers of the market for 21 straight weeks. Over the past four weeks, over $2b of net equities inflows per Bank of America.

The Trade Desk earnings snapshot below (contributed by Brad Freeman @Stockmarketnerd):

Source: @StockMarketNerd

Market Preview 🎞️ 

  • CPI, OPEX, earnings and much more next week!

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