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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 April 3, 2026

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

General Crypto April 3, 2026

Pam Bondi Is Out, Blanche Is In and Coinbase Just Got Its Federal Charter

Markets April 3, 2026

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

Business April 3, 2026

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

Business April 3, 2026

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

Markets April 2, 2026

Oil Surges and Gold Crashes as Trump Vows to Send Iran into the Stone Age

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin April 2, 2026

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

Bitcoin (BTC) demand has weakened in recent months, even as institutional buying continues in pockets. The shift is not immediately visible in price action. But data shows a market where selling pressure is exceeding new inflows. Indicators tied to whale activity, liquidity, and US investor participation all point in the same direction. This suggests that […]

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

Bitcoin March 29, 2026

BNP Paribas ETNs Open Door to Bitcoin and Ethereum for Investors

by Carlos Terenzi 2 min read

Bitcoin miners selling bitcoin treasuries to sustain AI pivot

Bitcoin March 29, 2026

Bitcoin Miners AI Pivot: Q1 Report Hits as Mining Costs Reach $80K

by Carlos Terenzi 3 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 3, 2026

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

by Sahana Kiran 3 min read

Markets April 3, 2026

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

by Vladimir Popescu 3 min read

Markets April 3, 2026

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

Turkey’s central bank moved quickly after the Iran conflict began, selling and swapping 60 tonnes of gold to support the lira. The drawdown, worth over $8 billion, marked one of the sharpest weekly declines in Turkey’s gold reserves in years. At the same time, Brazil’s gold buying picked up after a long pause. This reflects […]

by Sahana Kiran 2 min read

Markets April 2, 2026

Oil Surges and Gold Crashes as Trump Vows to Send Iran into the Stone Age

Markets April 2, 2026

The Fed Is $245B in the Hole and the Treasury Just Stepped In With $15B

Bitcoin April 2, 2026

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

Markets April 2, 2026

De-dollarization: Iran Charges $2M in Yuan and Crypto at Hormuz

Markets April 1, 2026

Arizona Crypto Bill Includes XRP & Bitcoin as State Reserve Vote Nears

Markets April 1, 2026

US Debt Seen Hitting $64 Trillion as Powell Warns Path Is Unsustainable

Markets April 1, 2026

Markets Rally After Trump Says US Could Exit Iran War in 2–3 Weeks

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