With airlines worldwide canceling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices, here's what to know if your flight is canceled.
Shipping officials say the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has had the effect of making the area more volatile, as Iran redoubles efforts to keep the strait shut
JD Vance was pulled off the stage (right) and Trump was still sitting in his seat facing the crowd for another 10 seconds (left)… The Secret Service continues to fail.
BREAKING: Suspect in shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen from Torrance, CA, per CNN. Allen was taken to a local hospital for treatment. His motive is not yet known. Charges pending.
China said it will take necessary measures after the European Union added Chinese entities to its latest Russia sanctions package, warning that all consequences would be borne by the EU
DeepSeek's delayed release of its V4 model points to a strategic shift toward deeper integration with China's domestic chip ecosystem, according to a social media account affiliated with the government-controlled CCTV
Hong Kong initial public offerings have raised more than HK$140 billion ($17.9 billion) this year, with the city maintaining its position as the world's top IPO venue, Financial Secretary Paul Chan says
So, no rate hikes, no need to confront inflation; real interest rates coming down negative, giga bullish. [QT @FirstSquawk: GOLDMAN SACHS: OIL SHOCK MAY COST 10,000 US JOBS PER MONTH FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR]
The armed suspect who tried to enter a Washington ballroom where President Donald Trump was speaking was likely targeting administration officials, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said
April 2026 just became the worst month for crypto hacks since Bybit. $606M gone in 18 days. KelpDAO and Drift alone took $577M. We're 17 years in and still building castles on sand. If your "DeFi blue chip" can't survive a Tuesday, it's not a blue chip.
S&P 500 9th ATH of 2026; +5% YTD on April 26 vs -7% YTD on March 30 (12th worst start in history); one of biggest 4-week rallies ever; above average year (+3%) at this point
On March 30, the S&P 500 was down 7% in 2026, the 12th worst start to a year in history. After one of the biggest 4-week rallies ever, it's now up +5% YTD and above the average year at this point in time (+3%). There is no impossible in markets.
The stock market is at an all-time high. Credit spreads are near all-time lows. And inflation has been above the Fed's target level for 61 consecutive months, averaging 4% per year since 2019. So why is the Fed expanding its balance sheet (QE)?
Hedge funds are taking profits on tech stocks: Hedge funds posted their largest reduction in US information technology exposure since July 2024 last week. This also marks the 3rd largest weekly exit from the sector in at least 5 years. The move was driven by long sales
The Democrats are unified against Israel. The number of senators backing an arms embargo against the Jewish state has doubled in two years, writes @continetti
Tillis says the Justice Dept has 'made it very clear that the current investigation is completely and fully ended,' saying he will allow Warsh's nomination to become chair proceed. He suggested it was still possible for DOJ to appeal the recent ruling to scrap the subpoenas
This is unprecedented: The semiconductor sector, $SOX, has rallied +150% YoY, the strongest 1-year increase since the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble. This even surpasses the +100% surge during the recovery from the 2020 pandemic. $SOX has now closed higher for 18 consecutive trading
Iran's ambassador to Russia: Araghchi's trip to Russia will include meeting Putin, discussing latest developments on talks, the ceasefire and regional issues with Russian officials - IRNA
Trump: Iran war will end soon, and we will be victorious - Fox News Trump: If Iran wants to talk, they can call us. We'll do it by phone. Trump: Some people we're dealing with on Iran are reasonable, others are not. Trump: Hope Iran is smart Trump: We will take Iran's nuclear
$380M Iranian crude seized; Indian Ocean; US Coast Guard; $1.05B crude returned to Iran; satellite imagery confirmation; tanker tracker data; US Navy rapid interdictions
Satellite imagery sightings confirm arrivals of $1.05 bln worth of crude oil back to Iran following rapid interdictions by US Navy - Tanker tracker Data US Coast Guard has seized an estimated $380 mln worth of Iranian crude oil in the Indian Ocean that appears to be heading
Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, two former prime ministers of Israel, announced the merging of their parties, creating a new political entity that could outpoll that of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud in the upcoming election
microstrategy ($MSTR) holds 815,061 BTC at a $78,400 average cost. bitcoin is at $78,047. they're underwater on the largest corporate bitcoin position in history. the entire 1 million BTC roadmap depends on MSTR trading at 2.1x NAV so they can keep issuing equity to buy more. if
Food inflation is set to accelerate in the US: Average inflation for food and beverage companies surged +7.9% YoY in March, the biggest jump in at least 12 months. This is up +373 basis points from +4.2% in February. The largest jump was recorded in tomatoes at +102% YoY
President Trump is heading to Beijing on a far weaker footing than when he last met President Xi six months ago. While China is absorbing the Iran war fallout with relative stability, the US is facing mounting pain.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is leaving successor John Ternus with a strong pipeline of products that includes the foldable iPhone in September, writes Mark Gurman.
Trump: 'Do you want to see a bad stock market? Try blowing up the Middle East, and then Europe, and then they come for us. We're not going to let that happen.'
Trump: "Do you want to see a bad stock market? Try blowing up the Middle East, and then Europe, and then they come for us. We're not going to let that happen."
Malian Minister of Defense Gen. Sadio Camara was killed in an attack as jihadi and rebel forces seized towns and military bases across the country, according to a military officer and two other sources on Sunday.
No, the top score if you didn't account for action efficiency would be 100%, achievable with 20 lines of Python. All you need is to brute-force the state space. Please stop spreading complete disinformation.
2026 has been historic: The Permanent Portfolio is on track to gain +26% in 2026, its best annual return since 1933. It consists of equal portions of US stocks, 10-year Treasury bonds, commodities, and cash. The portfolio is also on track for its 3rd highest annual
clawsweeper; 50 parallel Codex instances; ~4,000 GitHub issues closed in one day; thousands more in pipeline; rate limits hit; GitHub Enterprise upgrade granted on weekend
👀 [QT @steipete: Built clawsweeper, which runs 50 codex in parallel around the clock, scans issues/prs deep and closes what is already implemented or what makes no sense. Closed around 4000 issues today, a few thousand are in the pipeline. (rate limits are rough)]
As supply disruptions and infrastructure damage tied to the US-Israel war with Iran ripple across the global economy, countries are being forced to find alternatives to natural gas, potentially reshaping the future of energy
ChatGPT for Clinicians unlocking new use cases: [QT @operationdanish: I just tried Agent Mode with ChatGPT for Clinicians. This is unbelievable. I might make a video of this… wild.]
CodexBar 🎚️ 0.23 is out: Mistral support, Claude Designs/Daily Routines usage, Cursor Extra usage, GPT-5.5 pricing, cleaner widgets/menus, and a bunch of reliability fixes.
About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF.
Summarize 📝0.14.0 is out. GPT-5.5 Fast mode via `--fast`, Reddit thread extraction in the browser extension, local PDF `--extract`, and fixes for auto model config + Meta site compatibility.
I remember when people were shorting $NVDA when DeepSeek-R1 was released lol [QT @PolymarketMoney: Nvidia's market cap has now increased by more than $2.15 trillion since Michael Burry began shorting the stock.]
Keir Starmer's Labour Party is projected to lose seats nationwide in UK local and regional elections on May 7. Nowhere will that sting more than in the race for the Welsh Senedd.
phygitals just partnered with fanatics, the only company holding exclusive licensing for MLB, NBA, and NFL. $180m+ solana volume already. every competitor failed: courtyard died on ethereum gas, dibbs raised $13m with no chain, rally got SEC'd. first credible tokenized
The Trump administration has rolled back support for many forms of clean energy. One exception is nuclear power. Trump wants to quadruple U.S. nuclear capacity by 2050, and a new generation of advanced reactors in development could signal the dawn of a new nuclear age.
The instinct after a crisis in No10 is always to add more process. But the Mandelson appointment wasn't a failure of process - it was a failure of political judgment. The right response to bad decisions is better decision-making, not process paralysis.
curve ($CRV) USDC/USDT pool did $18.4b in volume Q1 2026. the stablecoin market is permanently splitting along geographic lines. western compliance rails demand USDC, asian OTC and tron networks run USDT. chinese desks moved $47b USDT vs $8b USDC last quarter alone.
Kevin Warsh has a plan to save the independent Federal Reserve. More humility, better data and freer disagreements could bring back the central bank's credibility, writes Joseph Sternberg
HOT TAKE: The only 'free alpha' left in public markets is IPO allocations. Why? Misaligned incentives everywhere. Allocations go to the biggest clients. Deals are engineered for day 1 pops (30–40%) off sandbagged numbers. Long onlys & HFs get instant benchmark outperformance
🎯DISMANTLED: An underground terror tunnel containing living quarters, military equipment and weapons. IDF troops dismantled an offensive underground route ~800 meters long, which contained living quarters, military equipment and weapons, including vests and a rocket
X Money; Elon Musk; 'everything app'; imminent financial services launch
X Money落地将使X直接进军支付与金融服务赛道,与PayPal、Venmo、Stripe等形成竞争;若成功,将显著扩展X的商业模式边界,也为马斯克超级应用战略提供关键验证。目前尚无具体产品细节或上线时间表披露。
Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning X into an "everything app" with the imminent launch of a new financial services tool, X Money
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has decided to shelve for now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for a pardon in his graft trial, preferring to press the parties to reach an agreement that would terminate the case consensually
Australia said it will spend more than $800 million to buy armored vehicles, adding to its recent spurt of weapons purchases as the government implements its biggest peacetime increase in defense spending
chainlink ($LINK) SVR sent $11m to aave's treasury in 14 months by auctioning off liquidation priority that searchers used to extract for free. 99% market share in a revenue category that didn't exist 18 months ago. pyth has no equivalent. redstone has no equivalent.
IBIT options open interest just passed Deribit. The ETF the maxis hated is now bigger than the offshore exchange the maxis used. We lost the war we won.
Q: On TV this week, you said gas prices may not fall below $3 a gallon until 2027. Do you stand by that? Trump's Energy Secretary: I don't know the future of energy prices
Although advances in AI are seen by President Trump as critical to the nation's economic and national security, their energy needs are threatening to overwhelm the power grid — leaving landowners and local communities caught in the middle.
Intel Panther Lake beats AMD HX370 on battery efficiency; AMD HX370 matches Panther Lake on heavy multi-core (30K-assertion test suite); potential AMD price drops ahead
Even if AMD is now beat on battery efficiency, it's worth remembering that the HX370 still performs (exactly!) as well as Panther Lake on heavy multi-core runs like HEY's 30K-assertion test suite. Might be some good deals to be had on those machines soon!
Really bad ideas are running wild these days. [QT @DangerousThinkg: For its next trick, California will cripple personal computers & devices. Linux will wind up outlawed and other operating systems will force logins to prove that machines are being operated by 'of age' people. Take a minute and learn about this one to make sure other states or...]
Great interview with CEO of $LLY... if you're interested in his thoughts on the GLP market size (TAM) as well as their phase-3 trial drug called Retatrutide (GLP3) then just skip ahead to the 10-minute mark... Right now there are approx 35-40M people around
Hershey; adjusting classic brand ingredients to add more cocoa bean; responding to 'chorus of disappointed customers'; cocoa bean described as 'costly raw ingredient'
Amid a chorus of disappointed customers, Hershey announced it would adjust the ingredients in some of its classic brands to include more of the costly raw ingredient that makes chocolate — the cocoa bean.
AOC invokes 25th Amendment; 'if Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he's not fit to be president'; post-WHCD shooting statement; April 26 2026
AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he's not fit to be president.
Ted Cruz: "We ought to index capital gains to inflation. We need to give a real impact to the economy that will impact affordability and do so before election day."
Existential risk mongers are a small, very vocal cult with a lot of very clever online astroturfing skills. Politicians never waste a good fake crisis, which is why they're perfect for Bernie to try to seize the means of production back from the private sphere.
Live Nation and Ticketmaster's anti-monopoly trial has surfaced some shocking emails, where employees called customers "stupid" and bragged about "robbing them blind" with fees and extra charges on things like parking and lawn chair rentals.
🎯STRUCK: Hezbollah terrorists & military infrastructure sites used to advance attacks against IDF soldiers & Israel, north of the Forward Defense Line. Among the targets struck: - Rocket-launching terrorist cells - A loaded, ready-to-launch rocket launcher - A weapons storage
Since the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the Trump administration has been revamping aid policies, focusing on smaller deals with recipient governments. Those governments will be required to finance part and, it's hoped, eventually,
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there's a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East.
Does a government shutdown negatively impact the stock market? No. The S&P 500 has gained an average of 0.4% during prior shutdowns and is up 4.8% during the current shutdown which is the longest in history at 70 days and counting. $SPX
CERN; $19 billion; Future Circular Collider; beyond LHC; Higgs Boson baseline; physics research capital plan
The Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs Boson, but it's not large enough to unravel deeper mysteries. CERN's physicists have a $19 billion plan for their next act.
jupiter ($JUP) is buying back 22% of its own float annually. $383k daily mechanical bid from 50% revenue commitment against a $640m market cap. zero emissions. airdrop cancelled. uniswap trades at 15x P/S with no buybacks. jupiter trades at 2.1x P/S with $140m/yr in structural
THE BUSIEST WEEK OF THE QUARTER IS HERE ... this week we have Jerome Powell's last FOMC Press Conference as Chairman of the Fed Earnings from basically everyone including Apple $AAPL, Amazon $AMZN, Google $GOOGL, Microsoft $MSFT, and Meta Platform $META
A U.S. Sailor conducts preflight checks on an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter aboard USS John Finn (DDG 113). Multiple ships and helicopters are currently enforcing the U.S. blockade against Iranian ports.
In a treehouse nestled in redwoods north of San Francisco, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood cold and hungry as Sergey Brin, the world's fourth-richest man, and his wellness-influencer girlfriend told him they were leaving the state.
apecoin ($APE) hit 100% circulating supply, turned deflationary via apechain and otherside burn mechanics, and a hyperliquid wallet turned $174k into $2.45m on a single 5x long in under 24 hours. $71m in liquidations on april 24 alone. this token fell 99.7% from its peak to $0.08
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman公开表示将改用多相睡眠,理由是GPT-5.5在Codex中表现极为强大,长时间睡眠的机会成本已无法承受;@beffjezos同时表示GPT-5.5 Codex给其带来与Claude Opus 4.5同等级别的产品转折感。
GPT-5.5 in Codex; Sam Altman switching to polyphasic sleep; Claude Opus 4.5 benchmark comparison
Sam Altman以亲身行为变化为GPT-5.5 Codex的生产力背书,是目前最强力的第一手产品信号。@beffjezos援引Jevon悖论指出:AI效率提升后用户反而更高强度工作,而非减少工作——与"AI消灭工作"的叙事形成直接反讽。两条推文形成互补:一条来自产品创造者,一条来自重度用户,均指向同一拐点。
Jevon's paradox of work [QT @sama: "post-AGI, no one is going to work and the economy is going to collapse" "i am switching to polyphasic sleep because GPT-5.5 in codex is so good that i can't afford to be sleeping for such long stretches and miss out on working"]
Rune has codified Sky economics. This creates an immutable guarantee for Sky holders with rulebound expenses and a focus on returning profits to Sky holders via buybacks and USDS distributions. Irregular expenses are now finished.
I sat down with @cz_binance for the launch of his new book Freedom of Money. We talked building Binance from zero, going to prison, getting pardoned by Trump, family, principles, and where crypto is headed next.
The $HYPE consolidation is still looking really good. Plenty of time spent now between $40.50 and $41.50. Hopefully time for some impulse and action again in the week to come. Still a case of trying to extract value from the outlying markets while conditions remain tough.
K-pop bands like Blackpink and BTS have turned the genre into a $9.3 billion industry — but can that growth be sustained? We speak to stars and industry insiders to decode the business of K-pop