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Markets April 3, 2026

Oil Just Hit $141 and the UN Lost Its Only Legal Path to Reopen Hormuz

Oil price for physical Brent crude deliveries hit $141.37 on Thursday, the highest since the 2008 financial crisis, per S&P Global. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for over a month, and the Iran war has pulled a significant chunk of supply off the market. Brent crude price surged 55% in March, the largest […]

by Vladimir Popescu 3 min read

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Markets March 10, 2026

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Policy March 5, 2026

IRS Refund Delays 2026: Why Refunds Are Late and “Where’s My Refund” Isn’t Updating

Policy March 18, 2026

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Business March 9, 2026

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Shiba Inu April 6, 2026

SHIB Burns Jump 172% as Robinhood, Binance, Coinbase Appear on Top Burner List

Markets April 6, 2026

XRP Adoption Climbs Past 8.1M Wallets as Ripple’s SWIFT Move Fuels Price Outlook

Markets April 6, 2026

Japan’s Bond Yields Just Hit a 1999 High and the Yen Is Near Intervention

Markets April 6, 2026

Oil Hits $115, Kills the Gold Price & the Fed Cannot Help

Markets April 6, 2026

Goldman Asked If We Are Running Out of Oil and the IRGC Just Answered

Markets April 6, 2026

Oil at $115, a Tuesday Deadline and a Ceasefire That Almost Nobody Believes In

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Bitcoin April 5, 2026

Charles Schwab to Enter the Crypto Trading Space By June 2026

Charles Schwab will enter the Crypto Trading Space by June 2026. The firm managing nearly $12 trillion in assets plans spot buying and selling of Ethereum and Bitcoin through its Premier Bank unit. Executives point to strong client demand as the key reason. This Schwab crypto launch lets users access digital assets inside familiar brokerage […]

by Carlos Terenzi 3 min read

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Bitcoin April 4, 2026

Solo Bitcoin Miner Strikes Gold with Rare 3.139 BTC Block Reward

by Carlos Terenzi 3 min read

Bitcoin April 2, 2026

Bitcoin Demand Collapsed and Michael Saylor Is Now the Market’s Last Buyer

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Bitcoin April 2, 2026

OCC Crypto Rule Is Live and Citadel, Schwab Are Already Filing for a Bank

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Bitcoin March 31, 2026

Google’s Quantum Findings Put Bitcoin Security on a 10-Minute Clock

by Sahana Kiran 2 min read

Stocks

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Business April 3, 2026

Medvi Is the AI Startup With 2 Employees and $1.8B in Sales Beating Hims & Hers

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Business April 3, 2026

SpaceX IPO Targets $2T While Anthropic Drops $400M on Biotech the Same Day

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Business April 2, 2026

Nike Stock Crashes 15% in Brutal Selloff, Among Worst in Decades

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Business April 1, 2026

OpenAI Raises $122B at $852B Valuation as Oracle Cuts Jobs to Fund AI

by Sahana Kiran 2 min read

Markets

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Markets April 6, 2026

Japan’s Bond Yields Just Hit a 1999 High and the Yen Is Near Intervention

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Markets April 6, 2026

Oil Hits $115, Kills the Gold Price & the Fed Cannot Help

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Markets April 6, 2026

XRP Adoption Climbs Past 8.1M Wallets as Ripple’s SWIFT Move Fuels Price Outlook

Ripple is moving deeper into traditional finance, with its SWIFT integration putting it back in focus among global payment networks. At the same time, XRP wallet growth is picking up. These developments point to steady network expansion. While adoption is rising, price has not fully kept pace. Also Read: Goldman Asked If We Are Running […]

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Markets April 6, 2026

Goldman Asked If We Are Running Out of Oil and the IRGC Just Answered

Markets April 6, 2026

Oil at $115, a Tuesday Deadline and a Ceasefire That Almost Nobody Believes In

Markets April 5, 2026

Jet Fuel Restrictions Hit Bologna, Linate and Venice Airports

Markets April 4, 2026

Delta Q1 Earnings: Can Demand Outpace Rising Oil Prices?

Markets April 3, 2026

Turkey Sold 60T of Gold to Survive and Brazil Bought 42T to De-Dollarization

Markets April 3, 2026

Powell Says the Debt Path Is Broken as Trump Adds $1.5T to the Pentagon

Markets April 3, 2026

Oil Just Hit $141 and the UN Lost Its Only Legal Path to Reopen Hormuz

Business

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Business April 3, 2026

SpaceX IPO Targets $2T While Anthropic Drops $400M on Biotech the Same Day

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Business April 2, 2026

Nike Stock Crashes 15% in Brutal Selloff, Among Worst in Decades

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Business April 3, 2026

Medvi Is the AI Startup With 2 Employees and $1.8B in Sales Beating Hims & Hers

Matthew Gallagher did not set out to build a billion-dollar startup in the usual Silicon Valley way. He launched Medvi AI in September 2024 with $20,000 and a set of AI tools. He did so without raising external funding or building a large team. Operating from his home in Los Angeles, he focused on the […]

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Bitcoin April 2, 2026

OCC Crypto Rule Is Live and Citadel, Schwab Are Already Filing for a Bank

Business April 1, 2026

OpenAI Raises $122B at $852B Valuation as Oracle Cuts Jobs to Fund AI

Business March 31, 2026

SpaceX IPO Could Shut Out Robinhood as Morgan Stanley’s E*Trade Takes Control

Business March 28, 2026

Investors Eye March Employment Data as Inflation Pressures Cool

Business March 27, 2026

Putin’s Oil Revenue Just Hit $760M a Day After the US Issued a Russia Sanctions Waiver

Business March 27, 2026