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Ankit Sinha
October 17, 2025
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Banana Bits: Finance headlines that actually matter
Market Summary: U.S. futures rebound as Trump eases trade war fears
What’s Ripe / Rotten: The tastiest and most disgusting stocks
Technical Trip: Interview Question with J.P.Morgan
Deal Dispatch: M&A, IPOs, and other transactions
The Daily Poll: See how you stack up
Market Snapshot
📉 Banana Bits
Powell has backing for 2025 rate cuts, and then things get cloudy.
Binance among cr*pto firms hit by French money-laundering checks.
BYD recalls 115,000 cars on battery issue, raising quality fears.
Treasuries extend rally as U.S. bank angst bolsters rate-cut bets.
IMF sees ‘significant’ risks to global growth from U.S.-China row.
China's export boom can’t stop the economy’s worst quarter in 2025.
Market Recap
U.S. Futures Trim Losses
U.S. stock futures erased most losses after President Donald Trump moved to calm fears of a trade war with China, lifting sentiment after steep declines in bank stocks.
S&P 500 contracts were marginally lower after falling as much as 1.5%. Friday’s crop of earnings helped bolster regional banks, with Truist Financial Corp., Regions Financial Corp., and Fifth Third Bancorp all rising in early trading after they reported lower-than-expected provisions for credit losses.
Wall Street’s fear gauge, the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, retreated from its highest level since April. Havens such as Treasuries and gold erased gains following Trump’s remark and lender results, with 10-year U.S. yields rising two basis points to 3.99%. The dollar clawed back earlier losses to trade little changed.
What's Ripe
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (JBHT) 22.0%
Logistics company J.B. Hunt Transport Services soared 22% after reporting third-quarter profit comfortably above Wall Street’s estimates.
Salesforce Inc. (CRM) 3.9%
CRM gained 3.9% after the software vendor announced financial targets for the coming five years.
Salesforce told investors at the company’s annual Dreamforce conference that it expects revenue of more than $60 billion in 2030.
What's Rotten
United Airlines Holdings Inc. (UAL) 5.6%
UAL declined 5.6%. The carrier beat third-quarter adjusted earnings expectations and offered a better-than-expected outlook, but revenue of $15.2 billion, higher than last year, was slightly lower than analysts’ calls for $15.3 billion.
Travelers Cos. Inc. (TRV) 2.9%
Travelers declined 2.9% after the property and casualty insurer reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $8.14 a share, surpassing Wall Street estimates.
Net premiums written of $11.47 billion missed forecasts of $11.81 billion.
🧠 Technical Trip
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🦈 Deal Dispatch
M&A, IPOs, And Other Notable Transactions
Alibaba and Ant to buy Hong Kong office space for $925 million.
Jardine Matheson to buy stake in Mandarin Oriental for $4.2 billion.
Coca-Cola is weighing $1 billion IPO of its Indian bottling unit.
Ripple Labs said to lead $1 billion fundraising for XRP hoard.
Austria’s VIG to buy rival Nuernberger for about $1.6 billion.
📊The Daily Poll
Bank stocks rising shows? |
Previous Poll:
Trump’s 100% tariff on China will…
Hurt China: 10.6% // Hurt U.S. consumers: 17.5% // Hurt everyone: 65.0% // Change nothing: 6.9%
Banana Brain Teaser
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In a certain city, 60% of the registered voters are Democrats and the rest are Republicans. In a mayoral race, if 75% of the registered voters who are Democrats and 20% of the registered voters who are Republicans are expected to vote for Candidate A, what percent of the registered voters are expected to vote for Candidate A?
Answer: 63%
Today
When positive integer x is divided by positive integer y, the remainder is 9. If x/y = 96.12, what is the value of y?
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