CAPIS Morning Note – 4/7/25: Trump Tariff Continues and Stocks Continue To Fall But Off Lows

• IPOs For The Week: ALEH, FATN, LAWR, MB, OMSE, PHOE, RYET
• New IPOs/SPACs launched/News:
• IPOs Filed/Priced:
• Secondaries Filed or Priced:
  • ACXP: Form S-1 8,399,700 Shares of Common Stock
  • IMNN: Form S-1.. UP TO 10,000,000 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
  • LIXT: Form S-1.. 467,393 Shares of Common Stock
  • PSTV: Form S-3.. Up to 1,565,044,860 Shares of Common Stock
  • SCNX: Form S-1.. 2,643,421 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
  • TNON: Form S-1.. 5,673,550 Shares of Common Stock
  • ZVSA: Form S-3.. 2,105,265 Shares of Common Stock Issuable Upon Exercise of Pre-Funded Warrants
• Notes Priced:
• Notes Files:
• Convertibles Filed:
• Direct Offering: None of note.
• Exchangeable Subordinate Voting Shares: None of note.
• Private Placements:
• Selling Shareholders of note:
  • BEEP files for 37,626,865 shares of common stock offering by selling shareholders.
  • LENZ files for 13,070,093 share common stock offering by selling shareholders.
  • NMAX files for 121,288,655 share common stock offering by selling shareholders.
• Mixed Shelf Offerings:
  • LENZ files for $500 mln mixed securities shelf offering.
  • KSCP: Form S-3.. $100,000,000 Mixed Shelf

News After The Close:

• Meta (META) planning a nearly $1.0 bln data center project in Wisconsin. (Bloomberg)
• Trump Administration dropping Medicare obesity drug coverage. (Bloomberg)
• RTX awarded a $117 mln modification to a previously awarded US Navy contract,
• President Trump puts TikTok sale negotiations on hold by China in response to reciprocal tariffs and sale negotiations put on hold by China in response to reciprocal tariffs.
• 10K or Qs Filings/Delays –  (Filed), (Delayed) of note.

Exchange/Listing/Company Reorg and Personnel News:

• Stocks Ex Div Today: EIX MKC  ERIE DGX YMM OGE UTZ SPNS SCS PFBC
• Stocks Ex Div Tomorrow: JD DG MNSO TIGO MAIN GBCI THO SLVM WLY OPFI

What’s Happening This Morning: (as of 8:15 a.m. EDT) Futures S&P 500 -136, NASDAQ -530, Dow Jones -880, Russell 2000 -64. Europe and Asia are lower. Bonds are at 3.975% from 3.90% Friday on the 10-Year. Crude Oil and Brent Crude are lower with Natural Gas lower. Gold and Silver higher with Copper lower. The U.S. Dollar is higher versus the Euro, higher against the Pound and lower against the Yen. Bitcoin is at $76,591 from $82,423 lower by $2786 at -3.40%.

• Daily Positive Sectors: None of note.
• Daily Negative Sectors: All led the way lower with biggest drops in Energy, Materials, Financials and Technology.
• One Month Winners:  None of note.
• Three Month Winners: Consumer Defensive of note.
• Six Month Winners: None of note.
• Twelve Month Winners: Utilities, Consumer Defensive, Financials, Communication Services and Real Estate of note.
• Year to Date Winners: Consumer Defensive of note.

Bolded means the Sector is new to the period in which it falls.

Upcoming Earnings Of Note: (From Chartroom Software – sorted by market cap, highest to lowest with most visible names)

• Monday After the Close: PLAY GBX LEVI of note

• Tuesday Before The Open: RPM TLRY WDFC of note

Notable Earnings of Note This Morning:

• Gap Up: KVUE +8.2%, QGEN +4.2%, SMHI +4.1%, XEL +2%, SO +2% of note.

• Gap Down: BHVN -9.6%, BEEP -9.2%, RILY -8.5%, CANG -7.2%, IBRX -7.1%, HUT -6.8%, CIFR -6.2%, RYTM -5.8%, LENZ -5.6%, VZLA -5.3%, SHEL -5.2%, HIVE -5%, BEAM -4.5%, MRNA -4.1%, DK -3.8%, NMAX -3.8%, NIO -3.8%, UFPT -3.6%, PAC -2.3%, AVXL -2.3%, RTX -2.2%, MT -2.2% of note.

Insider Action: None see Insider Buying with dumb short selling.  None see Insider Buying with smart short sellers.

Rags & Mags: Repeated stories from prior days never listed, i.e. “rehashed news”. Sorted by Global, U.S. and stock specific.

• Bloomberg: Stock Futures Pare Declines. (Bloomberg)
• Three day selloff wipes out $9.5 trillion of value. (Bloomberg)
• Morgan Stanley downgrades Banking Sector. (Bloomberg)
• White House put on defense over Tariff Chaos. (CNBC)
• Jaguar Land Rover pauses sending parts to U.S. (CNBC)
• Five Things To Know Before The Market Opens. (CNBC)
• Bloomberg Big Take: Trump’s Tariff Has Wall Street Facing Harsh Reality. (Bloomberg)

Bolded Royal Blue means behind a Pay Wall.

• President Trump’s Daily Schedule.
  • President Trump greets the MLB Champs Los Angeles Dodgers at 11:00 a.m. EDT.
  • President Trump greets the Israeli Prime Minister at 1:00 p.m. EDT then hold a bilateral meeting at 2:00 p.m. EDT followed by a presser at 2:30 p.m. EDT.

M&A Activity and News:

Moving Average Table:  Remains at 0%.

Meeting & Conferences of Note: (Not updated today, back tomorrow)

Upgrades & Downgrades:

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• • • • Upgrades: KN
      • Downgrades: LAZ