American economic confidence is rapidly declining: The Gallup Economic Confidence Index fell -7 points in May, to -45, the lowest reading since October 2022. Over the last 3 months, this metric has fallen -25 points. By comparison, the 2022 trough stood at -57
Breaking: The US military says it conducted "self-defense strikes" targeting Iranian missile launch sites and boats around the Strait of Hormuz on Monday amid a ceasefire between the two countries and ongoing negotiations to end the war, according to US Central Command.
Ukrainian Amb Stefanishyna to CNN: Russia counting on 'further shortages of air defense ammunition because of the war in Iran'; 'one of the most brutal missile barrages since Russia's full-scale invasion'
Today, Ukrainian Amb to the U.S. @StefanishynaO tells me that Russia is counting on 'further shortages of air defense ammunition because of the war in Iran', which helped spark 'one of the most brutal' missile barrages since Russia's full-scale invasion
SOFTBANK HAS QUIETLY BUILT A ~$65 BILLION BET ON OPENAI, AND THE MARKET THINKS IT'S ABOUT TO PAY OFF. The stock hit a record high, up 40% in five days. The trigger: Reports that OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO in the coming days. SoftBank's power unit, SB Energy, also
US consumer stocks are extremely weak: The equal-weighted US consumer discretionary index relative to the S&P 500 is down to 0.07, the lowest in at least 20 years. Since 2021, this ratio has fallen -42%, dropping below both the 2020 and 2008 lows.
After an estimated $1 trillion of unauthorized money left China last year, authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on offshore trading platforms accused of helping investors bypass Beijing's capital controls.
Singapore's top diplomat is making a rare visit to North Korea as part of a regional tour that includes stops in China and South Korea as the city-state seeks to boost diplomatic engagement amid intensifying geopolitical tensions.
Foreign ministers from the US, Japan, India and Australia are meeting in New Delhi as the Quad grouping seeks to revive momentum after a high-profile clash between US President Donald Trump and Indian leader Narendra Modi.
The European Central Bank must raise interest rates next month even if there's a resolution to the conflict in the Middle East, Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel reportedly said
Ferrari unveiled its first fully electric car, taking a high-stakes leap into EVs even as rivals including Porsche and Lamborghini scale back their ambitions amid weak demand
Grok Build will finally have a solid model to go with the great frontend [QT @elonmusk: Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come. Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release.]
Ultimately the golden age of abundance will be this kind of tech built and deployed 1000x [QT @afshineemrani: I'm a cardiologist. I have spent twenty years watching cholesterol destroy arteries, trigger heart attacks, and kill people I care about. Today, Eli Lilly presented data that may begin to end that era. VERVE-102. A single infusion. One dose. It uses base editing to...]
China let the interest rate on a one-year policy loan to banks decline to a record low, a sign Beijing is stepping up efforts to support an economy that's losing momentum
Traders aren't listening as much to Fed speak as forward guidance and instead are pricing in rate hikes with more certainty than what's coming from US central bankers. Last week, US 2-year yields climbed to 50bp above the Fed funds rate, the biggest gap since late 2022.
The economic shock caused by the war between the United States and Iran has quickly fed into euro area firms' expectations. Daily responses to an ECB survey show an immediate increase in expected input costs, selling prices and short-term inflation.
China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba and DeepSeek, suggesting an escalation in measures intended to safeguard its technology and catch up to the US in a pivotal sphere. Government agencies have begun imposing restrictions.
Ferrari shares fell almost 8% in Milan after the Italian super-car maker unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric vehicle, marking a sharp setback for one of the industry's most closely watched EV debuts.
Companies in at least nine European countries bought carbon credits from projects that appear not to exist or were verified by an auditor-turned-developer who treated the two jobs as a revolving door, a Bloomberg investigation found.
The ECB will probably raise its quarterly projection for inflation next month as the Iran war keeps energy prices elevated, Chief Economist Philip Lane says
SpaceX IPO prospectus; orbital data centers pitch; AI chip supply on Earth 'already insufficient for its ambitions'; Tesla cash burn warning; conflict of interest
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals a core tension in the AI race: the company is pitching orbital data centers while warning that current AI chip supply on Earth is already insufficient for its ambitions.
BP's board removes Chairman Albert Manifold from his role with immediate effect due to serious concerns about governance standards, oversight and conduct
More than $5 billion has been traded on Polymarket contracts where the outcome was disputed, with the final decision coming down to just nine crypto whales who dominate the voting process
China's govt (aka the Natty Team) made a profit of about $65b (or 40%) in under 3yrs when they bought and are now selling a variety of equity ETFs in an effort to stimulate the stock mkt. It def worked- and we'll prob see them do it again if the need arises.
Iran FM: US violated ceasefire in Hormozgan; Iran 'will respond and will not hesitate to defend itself'; Burgum: 'Trump will come through with a great deal'
May @philadelphiafed Services Index dropped to -23.6 vs. –16.5 prior … new orders up to -0.8 vs. -16.9 prior; prices paid fell to +36.5 vs. +43.9 prior; and employment up to -1.1 vs. -4.7 prior
The IEA warned global oil inventories were draining fast with only weeks of supply remaining. Naveen Das from Kpler told Reuters the situation may not be as critical as it seems, adding it would take months for oil flows to normalize
BofA raises AAPL PT to $380 from $330 (+15%); Buy rating maintained; thesis: 'agentic world, value accrues to platform controlling user intent, personal context, app access'
Bank of America today raised its price target on Apple $AAPL to $380 up from $330 while maintaining its Buy rating. In an agentic world, value accrues to the platform that controls user intent, personal context, app access
The Dutch government blocked a proposed takeover of Solvinity Group BV, a provider of cloud services in the Netherlands, by US-based Kyndryl, citing security concerns.
BMNR: Russell 1000 eligibility confirmed; +111,942 ETH past week; 5,390,404 ETH total + 202 BTC + $200M Beast Industries; $12.3B total crypto holdings at $2,134/ETH
Congrats $BMNR @BitMNR on meeting eligibility to be added to the Russell 1000 - and for adding 111,942 $ETH in the past week $12.3 billion in total crypto + "moonshots": - 5,390,404 ETH at $2,134 per ETH (@coinbase) - 202 Bitcoin (BTC) - $200 million stake in Beast Industries
🔴 US CB Consumer Confidence Actual 93.1 (Forecast 92, Previous 92.8) Conference Board: Consumers' average and median 12-month inflation expectations ticked downward but continued to be elevated. The percentage of consumers saying interest rates over the next 12 months will be
Qualcomm reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Developer productivity is hard to manage. [QT @edzitron: Uber's COO has said that it's getting 'harder to justify' its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I've seen a company say this directly.]
Micron's stock is up 15% today. Three politicians bought $MU this year and none have sold: • Cleo Fields (D): Up ~106% • Tony Wied (R): Up ~107% • John Fetterman (D): Up ~168%. Fetterman's trade timing is interesting. He sits on the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees [CHIPS Act funding].
Brazil approved the country's first generic version of Novo Nordisk A/S's Ozempic shot, opening the door to cheaper competition in one of the world's fastest-growing markets for weight loss and diabetes drugs.
Cryptocurrency firm HTX has been sanctioned by the UK government, who allege that the exchange was part of 'infrastructure' used by Russia to circumvent sanctions and allegedly move $1.5 billion back to the Kremlin.
PyTorch member Meta just open-sourced a GPU kernel that makes attention 2.3x faster on NVIDIA Blackwell. TLX Block Attention is a warp-specialized Triton kernel built for block-diagonal self-attention — a pattern widely used in recommendation and feature-interaction models.
Colombia is next in the 'Javier Milei' trend [QT @Geiger_Capital: The Colombian election is this Sunday… 'Far-right' Abelardo de la Espriella is surging against far-left socialist Ivan Cepeda. 🔴Abelardo de la Espriella - 72% 🔵Ivan Cepeda - 28%]
CENTCOM: 'Project Freedom has not resumed'; US forces not escorting commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz; reverses earlier WSJ report cited by Polymarket
Eli Lilly & Co. is on a record spending spree, announcing acquisitions worth more than $20 billion so far in 2026 as the drugmaker expands beyond its blockbuster obesity franchise.
US 2-Year Note Auction High Yield 4.071% [On the Screws] Bid-to-cover 2.64 Sells $69 bln Awards 42.14% of bids at high Primary Dealers take 12.3% Direct 30.1% Indirect 57.6%
NYMEX WTI crude July futures settle at $93.89 a barrel, down $2.71, 2.81%. NYMEX Diesel June futures settle at $3.7146 a gallon. NYMEX Gasoline June futures settle at $3.2205 a gallon. NYMEX Natural Gas June futures settle at $2.8940/MMBTU
BREAKING: This is unusual. Representative Tom Kean Jr. remains absent from Congress due to an undisclosed medical issue, with his exact whereabouts still unknown, per NOTUS. Yet reports he made stock trades in April. It marks the second stock disclosure he has signed in two
Greg Lindberg was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for siphoning more than $2 billion in reserves backing insurance policies and using the proceeds to pay for jets, mansions and a 214-foot yacht, according to defense lawyers
Trump administration; NDAs; all federal workers; crack down on leaks to journalists; concurrent: White House officials on hidden camera per James O'Keefe
Life comes at you fast [QT @ThinkingUSD: Hyperliquid has now cleanly flipped Coinbase's Market Capitalization COIN FDV: $48.1 Billion HYPE FDV: $58.3 Billion]
USTR Greer: only Canada + China retaliated against Trump tariffs; USMCA rules of origin → enhance US content; Trump concerned about US-Mexico trade deficit
7 protocols moved $4.5b from layerzero to chainlink CCIP in under 6 months. kelpdao ($1.5b), lombard ($1b), solv ($700m), kraken, puffer, re7, elixir. all independent security assessments, all reached the same conclusion. the part worth pricing in: nexus mutual and insurace
WHO Chief: 'Ebola is outpacing us'; US racing to set up quarantine site in Kenya for Americans exposed to Ebola; 'historic outbreak'; worldwide government mobilization
US Treasuries are experiencing the worst bear market in history: The US Treasury Total Return Index has now been in a drawdown for 69 consecutive months, the longest streak in over 100 years of data. The previous record stretch that ended in 2019 lasted for ~30 months.
$IREN AND $DELL "IREN has entered into a $1.6B purchase agreement with Dell for air-cooled Blackwell systems to support its previously announced 5-year, $3.4B managed services AI cloud contract."
The U.S. and Israel's air war with Iran has killed thousands since it started nearly three months ago. But few attacks have left a deeper mark than the strike on a school in southern Iran. More than 150 people died, most of them children, and there is little dispute that the
Treasuries rallied across the curve as cash trading resumed after a holiday break, with investors growing more optimistic about a potential US-Iran deal
Japan's government will use about $3.2 billion from the reserve fund for this year's annual budget to finance utility subsidies as part of an extra budget, says the country's finance minister Satsuki Katayama
Traders pushed bearish bets on Xiaomi to a record ahead of first-quarter earnings amid concerns over rising memory costs and escalating rivalry in China's EV market
Iran's government could soon roll back some restrictions on a months-long digital blackout, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said, as diplomatic talks between the US and Tehran gather pace
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to India marks an effort by Washington and New Delhi to steady strained relations as the two countries seek to reinforce strategic and economic ties despite recent trade tensions.
HIP-4 update. This one is big. Hyperliquid just removed the need for external oracles on prediction markets. The validator set itself is now the oracle. The same 24 validators that sign blocks every 70ms, secure $3B+ in deposits, and vote bridge withdrawals now deploy and
bittensor shipped dynamic TAO on may 25 and restructured the entire emission model. 67 subnets now compete for stake in real time instead of collecting fixed rewards for existing. pre-upgrade a dead subnet earned the same as SN1 processing millions of inference requests. that's
New Short Thoughts - Patterns, NVIDIA's Settled State, and Hong Kong Crackdown There is another angle that I did not discuss in Part III, and it directly addresses current misinformation on demand, the highly leveraged financing of the buildout, and both the mechanism and timing
The Brazilian government said Monday it has committed $617.5 million to foster ecological investment in the Amazon region, as part of a plan to expand a federal program known as Eco Invest that was announced during last year's COP30 — the annual United Nations climate summit it
China's onshore currency may strengthen to as much as five yuan per dollar if local firms unwind a massive buildup of greenback holdings, triggering a sharp reversal in capital flows, according to Macquarie Group.
Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino highlighted the importance of appropriate policy adjustments to keep the faith of market participants amid a recent selloff in government debt.
Wheat futures were on track to extend their longest losing streak since January, as traders returning from a US holiday digested progress in negotiations to end the war in the Middle East.
Top executives issued public apologies and warned of declines in revenue after Starbucks Korea was hit with a boycott in response to a botched promotional event that referenced a highly-sensitive 1980s massacre to sell tumblers.
Jinchuan said an independent probe found that nearly $145 million was siphoned from its copper and cobalt operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo through fake procurement deals, cash payments and fab...
Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong rose after returning from a holiday, as investors brushed aside Beijing's most forceful crackdown on illicit cross-border stock trading to chase tech gains.
Strong earthquake; Antofagasta mining region (Chile); Monday afternoon local time; some mine operations disrupted; no casualties; critical infrastructure intact
A strong earthquake struck Chile's important mining region of Antofagasta on Monday afternoon, disrupting operations at some mines but ultimately sparing lives and critical infrastructure, authorities said.
.@totalistrading parlays are now live on Solana [QT @ycombinator: Totalis (@totalistrading) lets users parlay on anything. Combine multiple event markets into one trade across politics, crypto, stocks, sports, weather, and macro. Starting with parlays, expanding into structured products.]
Chinese coking coal futures pushed higher for a second session as investors watched for a broader government crackdown on the sector after a deadly accident at a mine in Shanxi province
US activist fund Kaname Capital has proposed to Cawachi that the Japanese drugstore chain remove President Shinji Kawachi and another executive from its board of directors, sources say
Kazakhstan's national railroad operator, is expanding its track and infrastructure to meet growing demand for transporting goods between China and Europe as trade flows shift in response to the Iran war
South Korea will monitor overseas private debt investments from the nation that total some $37 billion, the government said, following recent scares in the industry globally
Samsung Electronics' bonus deal with workers risks turning South Korea's AI-driven chip boom into a new source of inflation and housing-market pressure that the Bank of Korea will have to address, according to Bloomberg Economics
The AI infrastructure boom is the biggest growth trend in recent years, with Infratil Chief Executive Officer Jason Boyes seeing plenty of "latent potential" for new data center development in Australia and New Zealand
A Samsung union representing workers outside the ultra-profitable semiconductor division asked a Korean court to block voting on a tentative deal that would distribute about 40 trillion won in bonuses to chip employees
Starbucks Korea has suffered a 'very significant' drop in sales after a marketing campaign that evoked a brutal 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters triggered a public outcry, an official from the operator Shinsegae Group said.
China's top military official is expected to skip Asia's biggest defense forum for a second year in a row, sources say, ceding to the US and its allies an opportunity for public defense diplomacy
When Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez overturned a significant polling deficit to hold on to power in 2023. Three years later, Zapatero's legal troubles are threatening the Socialist leader's bid for reelection next year
OKB up 13% on Exchange OS launch. permissionless venue deployment requiring OKB staking on X Layer with 300k TPS. 4 institutional partners day 1 including kronos research and volmex. 71.2% of total supply already burned, 287m tokens remaining float. the product is real. but the
These concepts coming soon to GBrain this week [QT @omarsar0: New research from Microsoft Research. I see a lot of AI engineers handwriting agent skill docs and hope they generalize. Probably not optimal. This work shows why. It treats the skill doc as a trainable external state of a frozen agent instead. It introduces SkillOpt, where an agent's skill doc is optimized via gradient-descent-style updates.]
Malaysia has imposed a 10% import duty on some gold bar shipments, according to traders familiar with the matter, disrupting the bullion trade in the Southeast Asian nation
Indonesian gold miner Merdeka Gold is gearing up for a Hong Kong stock-market debut with a listing structure that's fallen out of favor for more than a decade
Bitcoin's expected volatility has fallen to the lowest level in nine months, as subdued trading and a shift in speculative interest away from the largest cryptocurrency dampen demand for options protection
securitize acquired MG Stover in april 2025 and now administers $38b across 715 funds. going public via SPAC at $1.25b valuation. they admin 30x more AUM than their own market cap. process $2.88b for BlackRock BUIDL alone plus $1.2b for Apollo ACRED. ondo trades at $2b market cap
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a veteran economist and former central banker as his new prime minister, shoring up his economic team ahead of the restart of talks with the IMF
Warsh strongly alluded to the possibility of lower policy rates and a reform of the Fed's communication practices, @jonathanjlevin says. He will have to break at least one of those promises.
Altman: no 'jobs apocalypse'; Yale study: AI-exposed workers tracked through March 2026 — no employment change detected
阿尔特曼此前曾公开称客服岗位将"完全消失"，与其当前表态形成鲜明反转。The Next Web指出这一转变的政治意味：在监管压力与社会焦虑上升背景下，AI领军人物的话语正明显趋于安抚。耶鲁数据为短期就业稳定提供实证，但结构性替代风险的时间窗口仍存争议。
The man who fueled the jobs panic now says collapse won't come. Altman spent a year calling support jobs 'totally gone,' then Yale tracked AI-exposed workers through March 2026 and found no change at all.
China gave robots a 29-character ID. People get 18. The extra 11 characters track joint wear, battery health and AI training, from the factory floor to the scrapyard.
Insilico is considering a secondary listing in Abu Dhabi in a deal that would make it the first company from outside the Gulf to list shares on a regional exchange.
Ethio telecom listed on Ethiopia's nascent stock market more than a year since the close of its initial public offering and marking the nation's maiden IPO.
Lexxy is one of the big upgrades in Basecamp 5. Finally we have tables! We have markdown! We have live syntax highlighting! Trix served us well for many years, but Lexxy's arrival is a massive upgrade. Big props to @meta for making the underlying Lexical toolkit 🤘
EXCLUSIVE: Binance ties up with BlockShoals for Philippine market push Binance — the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange — and BlockShoals Technologies said on Tuesday that their collaboration in the Philippines follows more than two years of regulatory engagement
French power prices soared on concerns that scorching summer temperatures will lead to potential nuclear curtailments as well as lower hydro availability
Markets are overpricing potential central bank interest-rate increases, creating conditions for a rally in stocks with the lowest volatility like staples and utilities, according to strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Brazilian cotton farmers and traders are finding themselves well-positioned to profit from a rally fueled by the Iran war and the prospect of drought in the US Cotton Belt
BNP Paribas is working with French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI and other partners to prepare for cybersecurity threats posed by new models such as Anthropic's Mythos
Applied Aerospace & Defense Inc., a space and defense engineering firm backed by private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group, is seeking to raise as much as $682.5 million in an initial public offering
The Quad unveiled its first joint infrastructure project, a port in Fiji, and announced frameworks to strengthen supply chains for critical minerals and energy security
The Supreme Court's ruling in a case about cruises to Havana could have major consequences for Cuba's future. Old property claims could become an obstacle to new US investment
I just interviewed a CEO who said three things that blew my mind: 1. We replaced our $600K Salesforce contract with a vibe-coded CRM, built within 3 weeks. 2. We will get rid of 80% of the SaaS we use internally. 3. If Anthropic doubled pricing, we would not change usage in
Everyone calls Apollo a private equity firm. In 2025, 84% of its revenue ($27B of $32B) was insurance. Annuities sold to retirees. The most conservative corner of finance got quietly rebuilt, in plain sight in public filings.
chainlink SVR pulled $17m in revenue from aave alone by auctioning liquidation MEV at the oracle layer before it hits the mempool. $11m returned to aave, $6m to chainlink. $700m in liquidations processed with zero bad debt.
NEAR has $195m TVL with 95% controlled by a single whale LP. 93.6% of transaction volume comes from 2 entities. $17m lifetime revenue on a $3.84b market cap is a 212x multiple. grayscale just made it the largest position in their decentralized AI fund at 24.54%.
March S&P Cotality Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index (blue) +0.83% y/y vs. +0.92% prior … National Home Price Index (orange) +0.67% y/y vs. +0.75% prior
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is facing what may become his biggest financial-market test yet, in the form of a steady increase in benchmark Treasury yields that's generating economic headwinds and leaving him with few easy options.
Active managers are significantly underperforming in 2026: Just 25% of large-cap active equity mutual funds are beating the S&P 500 year-to-date, the lowest reading since 2021. This percentage is on track for its 4th consecutive annual decline.
Selling the downtick COT data shows Asset Managers turning sellers of S&P 500 futures in mid-May. Over May 12–19, they dumped 18.3bn, unwinding part of the roughly 60bn buying spree seen during the previous two months. Both long liquidation and fresh shorts contributed,
Ireland's cabinet agreed to put a bill to parliament that proposes a ban on the trade of goods with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Gregory Daco, EY-Parthenon chief economist, says he thinks former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will not be afraid to dissent as a member of the board of governors
Driven by AI, EVs and heat pumps, global electricity demand is on track to double by 2050. Because traditional grid expansion is far too slow to handle this surge, countries must deploy new technologies and approaches.
Safepoint Holdings Inc., an underwriter of specialty homeowners and commercial insurance, is seeking to raise as much as $283.3 million in an US initial public offering.
Trump to make rare trip to Camp David as Iran tensions rise over US strikes - NYP Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David Wednesday to hold a cabinet meeting as peace talks with Iran near crunch time, The Post has learned. The meeting location could change due to bad weather.
Seven people have died in France, directly or indirectly due to the heat wave, French Junior Energy Minister Maud Bregeon said on Tuesday, a day after the national weather service recorded the hottest May day in French history.
Former New York Federal Reserve President Bill Dudley warned the US central bank is in danger of losing credibility as an inflation fighter after a longstanding failure to reach its 2% goal.
Chile's new government said it's facing a steeper fiscal challenge than even it had anticipated, claiming the previous administration of President Gabriel Boric had overestimated revenue and turned a blind eye to some expenses.
Xiaomi posted a 43% first-quarter net-profit slump as high memory-chip costs pressured its smartphone business, while its EV unit generated $2.8 billion in revenue but still dragged on earnings because of heavy investment and lower margins.
In case you were wondering why $APP is up 11% today... it's because Edgewater Research published a note this morning saying that $META is now unlikely to bid on non-IDFA traffic which has been one of the reasons why $APP has been lagging lately because non-IDFA traffic is a big [part of APP's business].
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for unified alert systems and improved cross-border coordination after a string of Ukrainian drone incursions into Baltic airspace exposed gaps in Europe's defenses.
magical experience with codex on iPad [QT @kevinrose: so Codex on iPad acts like a Codex mobile phone, which gives you the full desktop UI/UX. meaning, you can use your iPad to control your mac mini at home and have full screen portable development, it's really magical.]
Intel Foundry's packaging technology continues to progress, with EMIB-T serving as the newest advancement this year. EMIB-T adds routing channels directly through tiny silicon bridges that connect different chips. By creating a more direct path for both energy and data, EMIB-T
Enhanced games are for olympoids that aren't skilled enough to enhance themselves accurately enough to not get caught [QT @Polymarket: JUST IN: Enhanced Games stock crashes 50%, after many non-enhanced athletes outperformed 'juiced' ones.]
Toshifumi Suzuki dies; 7-Eleven Japan; from 1 Tokyo store 1974 → 20,000+ Japan locations
铃木敏文是日本konbini文化的核心缔造者，其创立的Seven & i Holdings已成为全球最大便利店运营商之一。离世标志着一个零售商业时代终结，Seven & i目前正面临加拿大Alimentation Couche-Tard的收购要约，其遗产传承引发关注。
Toshifumi Suzuki, the driving force behind Japan's convenience store culture, has died. As a businessman, Suzuki took the 7-Eleven brand from a single store in Tokyo in 1974 to an empire of more than 20,000 locations across Japan.
aerodrome processed $4b in weekly DEX volume on base. that single protocol powered base to overtake ethereum L1 in weekly DEX volume. the ve(3,3) model finally has the distribution it needed. coinbase funnels 100m+ users directly into base with zero-fee on-ramps and 3.5% USDC
The Federal Reserve should shift closer toward hiking interest rates as rising consumer prices become the dominant threat to the economy, according to Citadel Securities.
Consumers are pretty bulled up on stocks, according to the latest data from the Conference Board. Net stock price expectations 12 months hence improved to their highest level this year. By contrast, employment expectations continue to run below normal.
Ahead of COMPUTEX, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined TSMC executives, including Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei, for dinner at 36Kitchen, celebrating a decades-long partnership at the heart of the AI era.
Webster Financial Corp.'s shareholders accepted the $12 billion takeover proposal from Banco Santander SA, clearing one of the last remaining hurdles for the deal.
The New York Knicks are headed to their first NBA Finals in nearly three decades, sending shares of parent company Madison Square Garden to a fresh record on Tuesday
Exxon and ConocoPhillips are pushing for durable contract terms and a way to resolve billions of dollars owed to them as they consider re-entering Venezuela after exiting the country two decades ago
Federal judges on Tuesday temporarily blocked Alabama's plan to use a new congressional map that could give Republicans an advantage in a key U.S. House race in the midterm elections.
A proposed law in Canada allowing police more access to citizens' data faces a growing chorus of criticism from technology companies, including threats that they'll pull out of the country.
CATHIE WOOD SAYS BITCOIN COULD HIT $1.25 MILLION - Base case is $750,000, bull case is a full substitution for gold - Sees younger generations adopting $BTC as their digital store of value - Says the biggest driver is institutional adoption of $BTC as a new asset class
This is the new standard for engineering evals [QT @serenaa_ge: Today we're releasing DeepSWE, a new standard for agentic coding benchmarks. On public leaderboards, top models often look relatively close in capability. DeepSWE shows where they actually diverge, reflecting the realistic experience of developers in their day-to-day work.]
$THYP is now up 50% since launching only 2wks ago. That may be a record for an unleveraged ETF. $DRAM was a total phenomenon and it took 5 weeks to hit 50%. $IBIT took 2mo.
25 vessels (oil tankers + container ships + commercial) through Strait of Hormuz in 24h; 'with permission from Iran'; IRGC Navy; Tasnim
25艘船只相比此前报告的2艘LNG油轮是量级跳升，暗示霍尔木兹海峡事实上正在恢复通航。关键词"with permission from Iran"具有战略含义：德黑兰借此展示对海峡通行权的主权主张，同时向谈判释放缓和信号；与CENTCOM"护航未恢复"声明同日出现，双方各自管控叙事。
Iran's IRGC Navy: 25 oil tankers, container ships, and other commercial vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz with permission from Iran in the past 24 hours - Tasnim
Texas Republican Senate primary runoff ends May 26, 2026; Cornyn (incumbent Senate leader) vs Paxton (Trump-endorsed AG); 'one of the most expensive in Senate history'
The intense Republican primary runoff election for a US Senate seat from Texas comes to an end today. The showdown between incumbent John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has become one the most expensive in Senate history.
The United Kingdom smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heat wave continued to scorch parts of Western Europe, triggering government warnings about risks to life.
The head of Puerto Rico's economic development department and about a dozen others quit their posts Tuesday, complicating some of the government's key initiatives that aim to attract manufacturing and wealthy mainlanders to the US territory
New on the Engineering Blog: The access and permissions we grant agents should evolve with their capabilities. In our own products, we set these parameters through sandboxing, which limits the scope of any potentially destructive actions.
sharp take from Carta CEO @henrysward: AI is eating software's investor base. The AI boom may be forcing investors to sell the last software cycle (SaaS) to buy the next one (AI IPOs) "Everyone's worried about B2B software and what's going to happen there. The other way to think
The Trump administration is set to allow Volvo to continue operating in the US after a ban on connected vehicles and related technology from China takes effect, according to US officials familiar with the matter
China's top diplomat made thinly veiled jabs at President Donald Trump's foreign policy from the United Nations, using an address to criticize the US war on Iran and the administration's approach to the global organization
Why it is BS that we are in an AI infra bubble... "We can't build data centers fast enough to keep up with demand. We're not building ahead of demand. We're building behind demand. We are trying to keep up with demand, not the other way around." @andrewdfeldman
Retired Gen. David Petraeus, former US CENTCOM Commander and former CIA Director, says the US may have to resume military actions in Iran to ensure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He sits down with @davidgura on Bloomberg This Weekend
Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced the formation of a new party, adding to the country's fragmented political landscape as it enters an election year
Japan's currency is poised to strengthen against the US dollar, reversing months of underperformance and threatening to upend a popular trade that relies on a weak yen, according to Eurizon's Stephen Jen
Uruguay's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.75% for a second consecutive policy meeting while also warning that the conflict in the Middle East has increased the upside risk to inflation
On March 30, the S&P 500 was down 7% in 2026, one of the worst starts to a year in history. After one of the biggest 8-week rallies ever (+17%), it's now up over 10% YTD, more than 2x higher than the average year at this point in time (+4.5%). There is no impossible in markets.
Space and satellite-related stocks soared Tuesday as investor enthusiasm around the industry intensified after Elon Musk's SpaceX filed for a public offering last week.
SC senators declined redistricting; federal court blocked Alabama Republican-backed congressional map; both setbacks same Tuesday; November midterms context
President Donald Trump's push to reshape congressional districts ahead of the November elections suffered a double setback Tuesday, as South Carolina senators declined to do so and a federal court blocked a Republican-backed map in Alabama.
38% of California's billionaire wealth fled; >$3B/yr in lost tax revenues; wealth tax proposal as trigger; employment impact per Rauh/Gerstner research
Concerning. [QT @ColeMaritz: 38% of California's billionaire wealth has fled the state since the latest wealth tax was proposed last year, already costing California more than $3B per year in tax revenues. Imagine how bad things will get if the wealth tax is actually passed and implemented.]
USTR Greer: Chinese firms interested in Nvidia H200 chip, but Communist Party favors domestic chips [QT @financialjuice: USTR Greer: Will review Chinese investment in the US on a case-by-case basis.]
GFL Environmental and Secure Waste Infrastructure received shareholder approval for their planned merger, overcoming opposition from investor Abrams Capital Management, according to people familiar with the vote.
Airbus sees an opportunity to build helicopters in Canada for global export if it wins upcoming government contracts, as the country embarks on a historic defense spending spree and pushes to expand manufacturing jobs
Stocks today now trade at near the same valuations as 2000, when Bogle famously moved from 75% to 25% stocks, one of the great market timing calls of all time. Should you follow his investing framework and reduce your US stock market exposure?
Strive: +539 BTC single day; 16,500 BTC total holdings; 7th largest corporate BTC holder globally; surpassed Coinbase; MicroStrategy: 0 BTC purchased in May 2026; SATA: 13% yield in BTC via tokenized preferred equity
SATA paying 13% yield in bitcoin through tokenized preferred equity while strive accumulated 539 BTC in a single day last week. 16,500 BTC total holdings, 7th largest corporate holder globally, surpassed coinbase. meanwhile MicroStrategy bought zero bitcoin in may 2026
US Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer said his agency will issue a notice in the Federal Register 'shortly' to seek public comments on a Board of Trade with China
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is planning to invest around $5 billion this year but will steer clear of new ventures with oil driller Petroleos Mexicanos, the 86-year-old chairman emeritus of Grupo Carso said Tuesday
Chilean mining companies Codelco and SQM are budgeting $3 billion to deploy new extraction technologies at their lithium joint venture in the Atacama Desert
Update: White House Asset Management is going quantum Month Ago: $3,000,000 invested Today: $5,000,000 invested The portfolio is currently up ~52% Last week, the Trump administration committed $2,000,000,000 to quantum computing companies in exchange for equity stakes
FTSE Russell adopted a rule change that will speed the addition of newly listed large-cap companies to its main indexes, weeks ahead of SpaceX's expected record-breaking IPO
The SEC is mulling changes to decades-old rules that prohibit companies from certain communications during the going-public process, as the Wall Street regulator looks to boost initial public offerings
Russia's Boeing and Airbus passenger planes are kept in the air with equipment and spare parts that move via an under-the-radar network passing through India, Turkey, the UAE and Kazakhstan, among others.
Ukrainian Ambassador Stefanishyna; CNN; advanced drone technology; shared with US; 'We printed them. We might have shortages and access to good cards, but we had to invent them.'
Question: As Ukraine shares advanced drone technology with the U.S., is it safe to say Ukraine does have cards now in this conflict? Ukrainian Amb @StefanishynaO: "We printed them. We might have shortages and access to good cards, but we had to invent them. Yes, we made our
House Oversight Chairman James Comer is opening an investigation into whether users on prediction markets used nonpublic information to profit from prediction markets, per FOX
President Donald Trump backed the CFTC as the sole regulator of prediction markets, siding with the agency amid a growing legal fight with states over the multibillion-dollar industry