Brightpool.Finance

Trading so powerful it feels like magic!

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

1. AI-Powered Trading - the innovative approach allows limit orders with AI-calculated rewards and price-freezing for DEX tokens.

2. Rewarding Every Order - unlike traditional platforms that are charging fees for transactions, rewards users for every trading order placed.

[THE ₿IRB NEST @TheBirbNest]

Have you ever heard of a #DeFi project that uses artificial intelligence (AI) with the Nobel-prized Black-Scholes-Merton model? 🤔

We've seen a lot of platforms in our career, and we're very excited to announce a partnership with a platform that stands out in the #DeFi world - meet @BrightpoolX!

The #crypto market is well known for its volatility.

@BrightpoolX leverages AI to transform this volatility into trading opportunities for users. They are using AI-calculated trading rewards and a unique price-freezing feature.

As a decentralized exchange, Brightpool rewards users for trading, unlike traditional platforms that charge fees. Their AI, https://t.co/ClRo3lPCGd, uses the Black-Scholes-Merton model to optimize rewards and token generation.

$BRIX, their native token thrives on market volatility, much like the VIX for stocks. As volatility spikes, so does BRIX’s value, offering a shield against market uncertainties.

With $BRIX, minting tokens is all about placing bids. And with a halving mechanism, the early birds 🐦 get the worm. Just like the early #Bitcoin miners, early $BRIX miners will see much better rewards.

Now you’re asking what are the key advantages for users of @BrightpoolX?

Let's summarize:

1. AI-Powered Trading - their innovative approach allows limit orders with AI-calculated rewards and price-freezing for DEX tokens, making trading more efficient and potentially more profitable.

2. Rewarding Every Order - unlike traditional platforms that are charging fees for transactions, @BrightpoolX rewards users for every trading order placed. This unique feature ensures that users are compensated for their trading activity, enhancing the trading experience.

3. Innovative Mining Mechanism - with their proof-of-bid mechanism for mining $BRIX, users have the opportunity to mine BRIX by placing bids on the platform, with a halving mechanism that rewards early adopters significantly.

4. Zero Fees for Swaps - their platform offers swaps without any fees, eliminating the need for liquidity providers. This feature not only simplifies the trading process but also ensures that traders can swap tokens efficiently without incurring additional costs.

5. AI-Enhanced Rewards - their platform's AI-driven reward system awards platform tokens for trading. This means that beyond the inherent value of trading, users also gain additional rewards, boosting their overall gains from using the platform.

6. Income Allocation for Token Buyback - a significant portion of @BrightpoolX income, 96%, is allocated to buyback tokens. This strategy not only supports the token's value but also reassures users of the platform's commitment to maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

Conclusion

@BrightpoolX is setting a new standard in the #DeFi space by offering a user-centric platform that rewards trading activity, minimizes fees, and leverages AI to enhance trading outcomes.

Whether you're a trader or want to explore a decentralized world, Brightpool Finance provides a compelling array of features designed to optimize your trading experience.

Remember that the sooner you start minting, the bigger the rewards, as the benefits decrease with each halving phase.

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[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news:

☢️ • Iran has no plans to move enriched uranium out of the country

🚀 • US shot down a ship trying to break the blockade in the Gulf of Oman

🚢 • Iran: 20 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz last Friday

₿ • US seized $1B in Iranian crypto assets (Bessent)

📉 • US budget deficit: -6% of GDP — highest in G7, 2× above average

💸 • US savings rate: 2.6% in April — lowest since June 2022 (3rd consecutive drop)

📊 • S&P 500 3M implied correlation fell to ~15% — all-time low

🏗️ • Berkshire Hathaway acquires Taylor Morrison Home Corp. for $8.5B

💻 • Tech sector = 37% of S&P 500 market cap (record) and 91% of US GDP growth

🤖 • New Nvidia chip to debut next week

🪙 • Kalshi launches perpetual futures on crypto — first legal product of its kind in the US

🇹🇼 • China began military patrols east of Taiwan in response to Japan–Philippines talks

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:🌍 Top news of the day:
⚠️ • The U.S. and Iran have launched attacks on each other's targets
🤝 • Trump says he could make a good deal with Iran right now — but he'd rather wait for a great one
🇨🇺 • According to POLITICO, the U.S. already has troops in place ready to strike Cuba
🇹🇼 • Taiwan's stock market hits an all-time high — now up over 50 percent year to date
📈 • S&P 500 futures surge to a record high, gaining nearly 20 percent since the end of March
🏠 • U.S. home foreclosures jump 26 percent year over year — 119,000 filings, a level not seen since the pandemic
🛢️ • U.S. Crude oil breaks above 94 dollars a barrel
₿ • Bitcoin crashes below 74,000 dollars — 230 million dollars liquidated in just 60 minutes
📉 • Ethereum collapses and falls below two thousand dollars
✈️ • Lufthansa says there's no risk of jet fuel shortages this summer
🤖 • Robinhood is rolling out AI agents that can trade stocks and make credit card purchases on users' behalf — including through Claude
❄️ • Snowflake stock soars 34 percent after-hours following a five-year, six billion dollar AI infrastructure deal with AWS
🎮 • CD Projekt stock plunges — investors flee the Polish gaming giant

[michaelJordynxxx @Kahammmm2]

🌍 Top news of the day:🌍 Top news of the day:
⚠️ • The U.S. and Iran have launched attacks on each other's targets
🤝 • Trump says he could make a good deal with Iran right now — but he'd rather wait for a great one
🇨🇺 • According to POLITICO, the U.S. already has troops in place ready to strike Cuba
🇹🇼 • Taiwan's stock market hits an all-time high — now up over 50 percent year to date
📈 • S&P 500 futures surge to a record high, gaining nearly 20 percent since the end of March
🏠 • U.S. home foreclosures jump 26 percent year over year — 119,000 filings, a level not seen since the pandemic
🛢️ • U.S. Crude oil breaks above 94 dollars a barrel
₿ • Bitcoin crashes below 74,000 dollars — 230 million dollars liquidated in just 60 minutes
📉 • Ethereum collapses and falls below two thousand dollars
✈️ • Lufthansa says there's no risk of jet fuel shortages this summer
🤖 • Robinhood is rolling out AI agents that can trade stocks and make credit card purchases on users' behalf — including through Claude
❄️ • Snowflake stock soars 34 percent after-hours following a five-year, six billion dollar AI infrastructure deal with AWS
🎮 • CD Projekt stock plunges — investors flee the Polish gaming giant

[michaelJordynxxx @Kahammmm2]

🌍 Top news of the day:

⚠️ • Iran accuses the U.S. of violating the ceasefire and attacking commercial shipping

💥 • Iran threatens to retaliate following U.S. strikes on Iranian missile launch sites and military boats

🚢 • According to Bank of America, 44 percent of fund managers expect the Strait of Hormuz to reopen in June 2026

🏦 • Fed’s Neel Kashkari warns that the inflationary shockwave from the Middle East war could persist

₿ • Trump says he will not let other countries replace the U.S. as the Bitcoin and crypto capital of the world

🇰🇷 • South Korea’s stock market surges to a new record high, now officially up another 100 percent in 2026

📉 • Ferrari stock falls 7 percent after revealing its new electric car

🚀 • Micron rises 20 percent in its biggest one-day gain since 2011, surpassing a 1 trillion dollar market cap

📈 • Advanced Micro Devices soars to an all-time high, now up 135.3 percent year to date

🚗 • Elon Musk has reportedly discussed possibly folding Tesla and SpaceX together

🇹🇼 • Nvidia’s CEO announces a Taiwan headquarters project set to begin construction in 2026, aiming for occupancy by 2030

🤖 • Nvidia plans to spend 150 billion dollars a year in Taiwan, which its CEO calls the epicenter of the AI revolution

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🤝 • Rubio says an Iran deal is still possible within days despite U.S. strikes

💥 • The U.S. strikes Iranian missile launch sites and boats trying to plant mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to The New York Times

⚓ • Several IRGC Navy personnel are killed in U.S. strikes on Iranian boats in the Gulf

☢️ • President Trump says Iran’s enriched uranium will either be turned over to the U.S. or “destroyed in place” with Iranian and IAEA coordination

📝 • The U.S. says Iran war negotiations are now down to disagreements over a few words and sentences

🚢 • The U.S. and Iran discuss a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz 30 days after reaching an agreement to end the war

⚠️ • Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei warns the U.S. will no longer have safe haven for its Middle East bases

🌐 • Iran’s president officially orders the reopening of international internet access after nearly 90 days of blackout

🚀 • North Korea launches multiple close-range ballistic missiles toward the sea

🇷🇺 • Putin offers debt relief to new Ukraine war recruits and their families

📈 • Chinese chip stocks in Hong Kong surge after Huawei claims a potential breakthrough in chip technology

🏎️ • Ferrari unveils the Luce, its first electric vehicle

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🤝 • The final draft of a U.S.–Iran agreement has reportedly been reached through Pakistani mediation and could be announced within hours, though reports remain unconfirmed

💸 • U.S. national debt officially hits 39 trillion dollars, adding approximately 5 billion dollars a day since October, according to Fortune

⚠️ • U.S. intelligence finds Iran is rebuilding its military faster than expected, according to CNN

₿ • Iran reportedly holds 7.7 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin

🚢 • Iran and Oman are discussing a permanent toll for the Strait of Hormuz

🇹🇼 • The U.S. is pausing its largest-ever Taiwan arms sale to preserve munitions for the Iran operation

☢️ • Putin reportedly proposed to Xi that Iranian enriched uranium be transported to and stored in Russia

🇮🇷 • Iran’s Supreme Leader has ordered that uranium must stay in Iran

🇵🇱 • Trump says the U.S. is sending an additional 5,000 troops to Poland

⚛️ • The U.S. will invest 2 billion dollars into quantum computing companies

🚀 • SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals the company holds 18,712 Bitcoin at a cost basis of roughly 35,000 dollars per BTC

₿ • Michael Saylor says Strategy will buy all newly mined Bitcoin until 2140

#investing #news

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

⚓ • U.S. intelligence detects at least 10 mines in the Strait of Hormuz

🛡️ • NATO is reportedly considering a deployment to the Strait of Hormuz if it is not open by July

🤝 • Mediators see little progress in Iran–U.S. talks

🏛️ • The U.S. Senate advances a bill aimed at ending the Iran war

⏳ • Trump says the timeline for Iran is two to three days, maybe until early next week

⚖️ • According to the Financial Times, Trump and his sons will be forever exempt from tax audits

🇯🇵 • Japan officially recognizes foreign-issued crypto stablecoins as legal electronic payment methods starting June 1st

📈 • The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield surges to 5.13 percent, the highest level since 2007

🇰🇷 • Koreans are cashing out of life insurance policies at record levels to invest in the stock market

🤖 • Standard Chartered Bank will cut more than 7,000 jobs as it increases AI spending to replace “lower-value human capital”

🌐 • Google now has five products with 3 billion users

💰 • Berkshire Hathaway now holds 32 percent in cash — the most ever

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🇮🇷 • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says entering negotiations and talks does not mean surrender

💰 • Iran demands that the United States release all frozen Iranian funds

🚫 • The United States rejects Iran’s latest peace proposal

🕊️ • Trump says he will not move forward with the planned military attack on Iran tomorrow after requests from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar

🏦 • Kevin Warsh will be sworn in as Fed Chair on Friday, officially replacing Jerome Powell

⛓️ • The SEC is preparing to allow blockchain-based tokenized stock trading

🚀 • SpaceX is reportedly set to file its IPO documents publicly this week

₿ • Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys 24,869 Bitcoin worth 2 billion dollars

🤖 • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says it is up to China to decide on AI chips and looks forward to China becoming a more open market

📊 • Nvidia reports first-quarter earnings on Wednesday

🏭 • Stellantis, Accenture, and Nvidia plan an AI manufacturing partnership

🍎 • Apple is reportedly planning AI-powered writing help, shortcut creation, and wallpaper generation for iOS 27

📈 • Berkshire Hathaway increases its stake in Google by 200 percent

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🏦 • Jerome Powell officially steps down after 8 years as Federal Reserve Chair

🇨🇳 • China will purchase at least 17 billion dollars per year of U.S. agricultural products through 2028

🌍 • G7 countries will meet to discuss reopening the Strait of Hormuz

🇮🇷 • Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says Iran does not trust the United States, but remains open to negotiations

📈 • Iran will reopen its stock market on Tuesday after 80 days of closure

☢️ • Iran attacked a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates

🛢️ • U.S. oil prices rise above 107 dollars per barrel after Trump tells Iran that “the clock is ticking”

🇨🇳 • U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Beijing talks were successful

🤝 • The White House announces multiple U.S.–China trade deals and developments following Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping

🇹🇼 • Trump advisers warn China could target Taiwan within the next five years

₿ • Bitcoin falls below 77,000 dollars

📉 • Meta is preparing to cut about 10 percent of its staff on May 20 — nearly 8,000 people

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🇮🇳 • India’s capital announces mandatory remote work days due to fuel shortages

✈️ • China is set to order 200 Boeing aircraft

🇦🇷 • A hantavirus case is reported in Ushuaia, Argentina

📈 • The S&P 500 and Nasdaq keep setting records, while Cisco shares rise like they did in 2002

☢️ • Venezuela hands over enriched uranium in a joint U.S. and London operation

🥈 • Silver suffers a complete collapse, with the price falling below 80 dollars

🇺🇸 • Trump says that when Xi described America as a country in decline, he meant Biden’s America

🤝 • A U.S. State Department official says talks between Lebanon and Israel are progressing positively

🇺🇦 • Ukraine says the death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv has risen to 21

🇵🇱 • Reuters reports that the Pentagon has canceled plans to move 4,000 U.S. troops to Poland

🌐 • Global markets react to geopolitical tensions, fuel shortages, and new Wall Street records

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

📈 • KGHM reports profit more than ten times higher

🛒 • Allegro crushes forecasts with over 930 million złoty in profit

🇨🇳 • Trump and Xi spoke for more than two hours

🛢️ • Oil remains above 100 dollars — Beijing offers hope, but empty storage tanks still raise concerns

📊 • The S&P 500 and Nasdaq close at new record highs

₿ • Strategy postpones its investor Q&A to May 20

🥇 • TFI PZU launches a gold ETF

🚢 • More than 1,700 people are quarantined on a cruise ship in Bordeaux after a passenger dies and norovirus is suspected

🤖 • Microsoft has spent 100 billion dollars on its partnership with OpenAI

💶 • Sweden wants to require cash acceptance, while the ECB warns: “better think it through”

🇵🇱 • PZU posts powerful profits — 1.36 billion złoty in a single quarter

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🕊️ • Angela Merkel is another candidate to mediate negotiations between Ukraine and Russia

📉 • A third-tier market warning — small-cap companies are dragging Germany’s SDAX market lower

📊 • U.S. inflation comes in above expectations, rising to 3.8 percent year over year from 3.3 percent

🏭 • Niewiadów PGM turns to the market for capital to fund further expansion

💰 • Less than a month after debuting on the main market, the arms and munitions producer plans to raise over 200 million złoty to increase production capacity

🇨🇳 • Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping takes place today at 8:00 PM Eastern Time

🤝 • Insiders expect a new U.S.–China agreement to be signed and Chinese investments in the United States to be announced

📦 • InPost reports a massive revenue jump and beats analyst forecasts

⚖️ • UOKiK brings charges against Bolt — the app does not work, but the customer still pays

📈 • Seasonal work is seeing a surge in demand, with 30 percent more candidates, while KGHM gains another 5 percent ahead of its post-session earnings release

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🇷🇺 • Putin says the war with Ukraine is coming to an end

☢️ • North Korea updates its constitution to automatically launch a nuclear strike if Kim Jong Un is assassinated

🛢️ • New satellite imagery shows a major oil spill off Iran’s Kharg Island, with tens of thousands of barrels potentially leaking into the Persian Gulf

🌐 • Iran plans to seize control of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz

🇵🇰 • Iran sends its response to the U.S. proposal to end the war through Pakistan

🚫 • Donald Trump says Iran’s proposal for ending the war is “totally unacceptable”

📈 • U.S. oil prices surge nearly 5 percent after Trump says he does not like Iran’s response to the 14-point peace proposal

🇨🇳 • Trump reportedly plans to press Xi Jinping on China’s approach to Iran during their meeting this week

₿ • Binance founder CZ says Bitcoin might be replaced in the future

🤖 • Analysis shows that female-dominated corporate roles are more vulnerable to AI automation than male-dominated roles

🛢️ • Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, reports higher profits in Q1 2026 despite the Iran war

📈 • Intel shares surge over 15 percent on reports that the company will make chips for Apple devices

🎮 • Nintendo stock crashes 12 percent

#investing

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🚫 • Iran rejects the U.S. proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calling it “unrealistic”

🇩🇪 • A German minister says Trump’s “irresponsible war” is to blame for the economic slowdown

💥 • The U.S. strikes Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas

🕊️ • Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is still in effect despite today’s U.S. attacks

⚖️ • A U.S. trade court strikes down Trump’s 10 percent global tariffs

🇸🇦 • Saudi Arabia and Kuwait lift restrictions on U.S. military access to their bases and airspace

🇯🇵 • Japan plans to tokenize government bonds on blockchain technology

🇨🇳 • The Trump administration plans to invite CEOs from Nvidia, Apple, and Exxon on a trip to China

₿ • Bitcoin falls below 80,000 dollars

🚀 • SpaceX says unproven AI space data centers may not be commercially viable

🤖 • OpenAI partners with consulting firms to sell its AI coding tool Codex to businesses

💊 • Amazon plans to roll out same-day delivery for Ozempic

📉 • Cloudflare lays off more than 1,100 employees by email during restructuring for the “agentic AI era,” and the stock crashes 15 percent after hours

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

💸 • The Trump administration officially begins paying refunds for 166 billion dollars in “unlawful” tariffs

🛢️ • U.S. oil exports surge to a record high of 8.2 million barrels per day

📉 • OPEC output falls in April to a new 36-year low due to the war

🤝 • Trump says the U.S. had “very good” talks with Iran today and agreed that Tehran will not pursue a nuclear weapon

🇮🇷 • Reports say Iran is expected to respond to the U.S. on Thursday with a proposal to end the war

🇫🇷 • France moves an aircraft carrier toward the Strait of Hormuz

🚨 • The FBI charges 30 people in a global insider trading scheme

⚓ • Iran tells commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz that its ports are fully prepared to provide maritime services and support

🇯🇵 • U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Japan’s prime minister, finance minister, and BOJ governor to discuss the falling yen

📈 • Japanese and South Korean stock markets soar to record highs

📉 • Beyond Meat stock crashes 14 percent after first-quarter earnings reveal sluggish demand

🚀 • DoorDash posts strong earnings, and its stock soars 15 percent after hours

🥇 • Coinbase will launch 24/7 gold and silver futures trading

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:
🚀 • Iran launches a new missile attack on the United Arab Emirates
🏛️ • The SEC proposes a rule change that would allow public companies to report earnings only twice a year instead of four times
🇺🇸 • Donald Trump says Iran should “wave the white flag” and surrender
🚢 • Trump says the U.S. will suspend Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz “at the request of Pakistan”
🛢️ • China orders its oil refineries to ignore U.S. sanctions and continue buying Iranian oil
🇨🇳 • China continues supplying drone components to Iran and Russia despite U.S. sanctions
📈 • The UK’s 30-year government bond yield rises to 5.79 percent, the highest level since May 1998
📊 • The S&P 500 surges to a new record high, now up 15 percent since its March 30th low
₿ • CME Group will launch Bitcoin volatility futures contracts on June 1st
📈 • Intel shares rise more than 12 percent
🚀 • AMD extends gains to 15 percent in after-hours trading, rising above 400 dollars per share for the first time in history
₿ • Michael Saylor’s Strategy proposes selling some Bitcoin to pay dividends

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🔥 • A fire erupts at a petroleum industrial site in Fujairah, UAE, following a drone attack from Iran

🛢️ • Brent crude rises 7 percent to 120 dollars following the Iranian attack on the UAE

🇮🇷 • Iranian President Pezeshkian is reportedly furious with the IRGC after today’s strikes against the UAE

⚠️ • According to Iran International, the IRGC launched the attacks without informing the Iranian government first

🚢 • CBS reports that two U.S. warships crossed the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Arabian Gulf after passing an Iranian barrier

🇺🇸 • Trump says he will leave office “eight or nine years from now”

🤖 • Trump is reportedly considering an executive order requiring new AI models to be vetted before release

🇸🇦 • Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman condemns Iran’s attack on the UAE

💥 • Iran says the U.S. struck two civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz, killing five people

📉 • Michael Burry sells all of his GameStop stock, and GameStop shares fall 10 percent

📦 • Amazon opens its supply-chain network to other businesses, sending UPS shares down 10 percent and FedEx down 12 percent

🏗️ • Meta seeks 13 billion dollars from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan to build a data center in El Paso

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:

🇺🇸 • Donald Trump says the U.S. will take control of Cuba “almost immediately”

✈️ • The UAE says air traffic has returned to normal after precautionary measures were lifted

🚢 • Trump says the U.S. will launch “Project Freedom” to escort stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz

🇫🇷 • French President Emmanuel Macron says France will not take part in the new U.S. Hormuz plan

⚠️ • Iran says the U.S. plan to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz violates the ceasefire

🚫 • Iran’s Unified Armed Forces Command says all commercial ships and oil tankers must avoid movement without coordination with Iranian forces stationed in the Strait of Hormuz

💥 • A tanker is struck in the Strait of Hormuz

🇮🇷 • Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei says the U.S. has a hard time quitting its maximalist demands

🛢️ • OPEC+ will increase oil production targets by 188,000 barrels per day from June

🇩🇪 • Donald Trump suggests the U.S. will withdraw significantly more troops from Germany than the 5,000 currently being discussed

₿ • Bitcoin rises above 80,000 dollars for the first time since January 31st

🎮 • GameStop offers to buy eBay for 56 billion dollars

[Brightpool.Finance @BrightpoolX]

🌍 Top news of the day:
🏦 • Jerome Powell will remain on the Federal Reserve Board as a governor after his term as Chair ends
🛢️ • Russia’s finance minister says the UAE leaving OPEC will boost oil production and lower global prices
🇨🇳 • Xi Jinping calls for stronger measures to turn China into a global technology powerhouse
✈️ • The U.S. withdraws the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Middle East
⚠️ • Iran threatens “unprecedented military action” if U.S. seizures of Iranian vessels continue
🚫 • Trump has discussed continuing the oil blockade for months
🛢️ • Brent crude oil rises above 120 dollars
🇳🇱 • The Netherlands introduces a new tax on unrealized gains, charging investors 36 percent annually on asset value increases
💾 • Samsung’s semiconductor profit jumps 48-fold year over year amid massive AI demand
📉 • Amazon stock falls over 6 percent despite stronger-than-expected Q1 2026 earnings
📉 • Meta drops 7 percent after hours following its earnings report
📈 • Alphabet stock surges over 5 percent to a record high after beating expectations