🌍 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
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⚠️ • 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
🌍 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
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🤝 • 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
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⚓ • 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
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🇮🇷 • 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
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🏦 • 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
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📈 • 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
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🕊️ • 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
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🇷🇺 • 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
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🚫 • 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
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💸 • 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
🌍 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
🌍 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
🌍 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
🌍 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
🌍 Top news of the day:
🇦🇪 • The United Arab Emirates decides to exit OPEC and OPEC+
🚢 • Iran allows a Japanese tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz
🇺🇸 • Trump claims Iran informed the U.S. it is in a “state of collapse” and wants the Strait of Hormuz reopened as soon as possible
🇮🇷 • Iran shows no signs of collapse despite Trump’s claims
🚫 • Trump instructs aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran
🏚️ • China’s real estate market has erased all gains from the last 20 years
⛽ • China says it is ready to restart exports of jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline
🇵🇱 • Germany turns to Poland for refinery support after Russia halts Kazakh oil flows
🇰🇷 • South Korea surpasses the UK to become the world’s eighth-largest stock market
🤖 • Elon Musk says during OpenAI lawsuit testimony that artificial intelligence “could kill us all”
📉 • Robinhood stock drops 7 percent after hours following its earnings report
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🛡️ • NATO is reportedly considering canceling its 2028 summit to avoid a tense encounter with Trump during his final year in office
🇷🇺 • Putin announces that Russia will do “everything” that serves Iran’s interests
🇩🇪 • German Chancellor Merz says Iranians are “clearly stronger than many expected”
📈 • The S&P 500 closes Monday at an all-time high
🏦 • Kevin Warsh says he wants the Fed to adopt a new approach to measuring inflation
🇨🇦 • Canada launches a sovereign wealth fund
🇹🇼 • Taiwan deploys naval and air forces after spotting Chinese warships near the Penghu Islands
🛢️ • Goldman Sachs says oil could end the year at 100 dollars if flows don’t normalize
🤖 • Microsoft’s OpenAI license becomes non-exclusive and will no longer include revenue sharing
🚀 • Nvidia stock hits a new all-time high, valuing the company at 5.2 trillion dollars
🏛️ • Google signs a classified AI deal with the Pentagon
📊 • Google stock reaches a new all-time high
🌍 Top news of the day:
🚨 • An armed attacker opens fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner, forcing the evacuation of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and injuring a Secret Service agent
🇮🇷 • Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi arrives in Russia for talks with President Putin
🤝 • Iran offers the U.S. a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, end the war, and postpone nuclear talks
🛡️ • Trump holds a national security meeting on Iran today
🇺🇸 • The U.S. is considering suspending Spain from NATO and reviewing its stance on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands
���️ • Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu orders forceful strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon
🇩🇪 • Germany unveils plans to build Europe’s strongest military by 2039
🛢️ • Oil prices move back above 100 dollars
✈️ • U.S. budget airlines propose a 2.5 billion dollar relief plan to the Trump administration
📊 • 42 percent of the S&P 500 reports earnings this week
💻 • Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google report earnings on Wednesday
📈 • Intel jumps 24 percent and AMD rises 14 percent following Intel’s first-quarter results
🌍 Top news of the day:
🇮🇱 • Israel and Lebanon extend the ceasefire by three weeks
🇺🇸 • Trump plans to invite Vladimir Putin to this year’s G20 summit in Miami
🤝 • A former U.S. hostage negotiator says Iranians are tougher negotiators than the Taliban
🚢 • Trump on the Strait of Hormuz: “Right now we have it closed. We have total control of the strait”
⚠️ • The IRGC has planted additional mines in the Strait of Hormuz this week
🇮🇹 • Italy says it is ready to deploy up to four navy ships to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz
☢️ • Trump says he would not use a nuclear weapon against Iran
⚔️ • Trump: “If there is no deal with Iran, I’ll finish it up militarily”
🏦 • JPMorgan says DeFi exploits and flat growth are holding back institutional adoption
🚀 • Elon Musk’s net worth reaches 840 billion dollars
₮ • Tether conducts the largest asset freeze ever, blocking 344 million dollars
⛽ • Shell says every oil refinery in Europe is maximizing jet fuel production
💼 • Microsoft plans its first voluntary employee buyout program in its 51-year history