Instead of attributing its disappointing Q1 earnings to the wider economic climate, gambling giant Flutter has an ace up its sleeve: blame the customers. CEO Peter Jackson circled out “customer-friendly” results in this year’s NCAA March Madness tournament — where the Final Four teams were all No. 1 seeds — to explain why the FanDuel parent company missed expectations. 

Trade optimism fueled another day of gains for US stocks as President Donald Trump trumpeted a trade deal with the UK and raised the prospect of lower tariffs on China.

The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, the Nasdaq 100 rose 1%, and the Russell 2000 led the way with a 1.9% advance.

It was a clear risk-on day: industrials, materials, and energy were the best-performing S&P 500 sector ETFs, while defensive sectors real estate, utilities, consumer staples, and healthcare all fell.

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The hottest trend in media? Cleaving your massive entertainment conglomerate in twain, ejecting the value-producing yet declining elements like cable networks, and holding on to the growth businesses like streaming, parks, and intellectual property. 

Right now, Comcast is doing just that, bundling up its cable networks like MSNBC, CNBC, USA, E!, and sites like Fandango into a package that just this week was dubbed “Versant,” with the intention of spinning it off. 

The hope for Comcast is that this is a win-win: shareholders can get more clarity on what precisely each company is offering, the mothership doesn’t have to worry about investor fury over declining cable subscriptions, while the SpinCo can focus on wringing every dollar out of the dwindling yet still shockingly profitable cable business. 

How do we know it’s a solid plan? This week we learned it seems to be contagious.

We’ve spent the past two decades with entertainment conglomerates going bigger, wider, and deeper, attempting to own the business nose to tail. What the positive reception to this split may indicate is that a company that tries to be everything at once risks being too confusing to value appropriately, and it might just be better for shareholders to make the whole ecosystem a little more digestible. 

Meet Future Cardia, a bold and scrappy innovator redefining implantable cardiac monitoring — taking on billion-dollar giants in the cardiac monitoring market worth $8B.¹

How’s it going?

✅ 39 successful human implants — evidencing its breakthrough technology in real-world patients.

✅ Recently completed clinical testing in the EU

✅ 60,000+ hours of real-world cardiac data collected — delivering exceptional insights for early disease detection.

✅ Accelerated by Stanford StartX and Incubated by Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS

The even more exciting news? 

Future Cardia has already raised $14M across all offerings, and now, investors have the chance to own a stake in the next big innovation in heart health.

This is the future of cardiac care — invest today.² ❤️

Yesterday, before the naming of a new pope took the spotlight, all eyes were on the Oval Office to see what exactly Trump’s “major trade deal” with the UK would entail.

In the press conference, the president, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and others outlined some major aspects of the deal, including teasing an order from the UK for $10 billion worth of Boeing planes.

So, what was actually decided?

However, many of the finer points have yet to be ironed out, with Trump saying that “final details are being written up in the coming weeks.” What does the US actually import from the UK? Take a look.

With the US dollar slipping 9% against the pound since January, buying British from the United States is already looking a little more expensive, as our chart shows. That said, the markets absolutely loved the news that we shook hands with our friends across the pond. Bitcoin celebrated by breaking the $100,000 mark for the first time since February, and after so much uncertainty from Trump’s tariffs, it was a welcome sign to see a trade deal (mostly) settled. 

“ I’m a little bit surprised that this pattern shows up in the data and so clearly and persistently even after we throw all demographic controls that we can think of at it,” one of the report’s authors told Sherwood News.

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