81 companies reporting earnings this week.
$67 trillion total in the US stock market.
A $250K Bitcoin prediction.
A 70% meme stock short squeeze.
One CPI print this Friday.

It’s a brand new week in markets and we’re already looking ahead to what’s coming down the pipeline, with an apparent AI bubble that’s continuing to inflate and key inflation data coming out that will inform the Fed’s next rate decision.

We’re here to help you keep up with it all. Let’s begin.

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Markets ended the week higher on Friday as investors weighed fresh trade tensions and awaited delayed inflation data.

We’ve got a HUGE amount of earnings coming up this week, including Tesla (TSLA), General Electric (GE), RTX Corp (RTX), Intel (INTC), Southwest Airlines (LUV), and many more. Check out our earnings section below to get updates on the most recent reports.

We’re also getting a new CPI print at the end of the week (Friday). Expected CPI is 3.1%, and previous data came in at 2.9%. The summary of what to watch for:

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve will be holding a conference about Bitcoin and crypto payments tomorrow (Oct. 21). U.Today speculates that the agenda will focus largely on stablecoins, as the Fed has not yet announced a clear agenda regarding the currency.

Speaking of, some big things are happening in crypto: analyst Tom Lee is calling for $250K Bitcoin in the next 70 days, and ETH broke above $4,000 again this morning. If Bitcoin hits those price levels before the year is over, we expect to see a lot of traders give up on predicting the market entirely, because 2025 has possibly been the most unpredictable year of investing ever.

Beyond Meat (BYND) was up 70% pre-market today in what looks like a short squeeze. Reddit banned the Beyond Meat investing subreddit this weekend to stop retail traders from engineering a short squeeze (short interest was at 80%, the highest of any stock); the ban didn’t work, obviously.

You’ll notice that today’s Fear and Greed index looks different from our old one, both aesthetically and numerically. (CNN’s reading is 34 today, “fear,” but ours is at 59?!)

That’s because we’re using a new Fear and Greed indicator from AltIndex. One that actually uses the right signals.

Here’s what we mean:

First of all… can we agree that we are not in a market state of “extreme fear?”

AltIndex’s Fear and Greed indicator factors in the most important signals, including:

It uses these data points to arrive at a far more holistic and useful Fear and Greed number than mainstream finance websites do.

So we’ll be using this indicator moving forward. I mean, doesn’t a Greed score in the high 50s just feel more true to current market conditions than a “fear” score of 33?

“Insane run up this year, feels a lot like 2007 and we all know what happened in 2008. There's some irrational belief that the tariff crash earlier this year was "it"... Pretty sure that was just a prelude.”

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Cheers,
Brandon & Blake of Invested Inc