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Bank of America survey: investor sentiment crashes to 3.7 — most bearish reading in 11 months (contrarian buy signal)
Hundreds of the world’s largest money managers just flashed their most bearish positioning in nearly a year, and if history is any guide, that could...
Dow futures drop 517 points as Trump orders Strait of Hormuz blockade
American drivers were already paying a national average of roughly $3.60 per gallon for regular gasoline when they got a new reason to worry on...
Big banks kick off earnings: JPMorgan, Wells, Citi, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, BofA
Bank earnings season is underway. JPMorgan Chase filed its first-quarter 2026 results with the SEC on April 14, and the rest of the nation’s largest...
99,283 US workers laid off across 146 events in 2026 so far — ~973 per day
Between January 1 and April 12, 2026, at least 99,283 American workers received formal notice that their jobs were being eliminated. The losses span 146...
FDIC announces formal study of crypto custody protections; policies due late 2026
If you hold a dollar-pegged stablecoin, the money backing it probably sits in a bank account somewhere. But if that bank fails, nobody has been...
Fed projections still point to just one 0.25% cut in 2026 as tariffs and oil keep inflation sticky
A single quarter-point interest rate cut. That is all the Federal Reserve expects to deliver in 2026, according to projections released after its March 17-18...
Morgan Stanley (E*Trade) and Schwab both confirm spot BTC/ETH/SOL trading in Q2 2026
Morgan Stanley is preparing to let E*Trade’s roughly 5 million brokerage clients buy and sell Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana directly, and a trail of SEC...
JPMorgan sets $170,000 Bitcoin target, citing gold-market comparison
A bank whose CEO once called Bitcoin a “fraud” now sees it reaching $170,000, and the reasoning starts with gold. JPMorgan Chase strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou...
Jeremy Grantham warns AI boom is a bubble and a bust is coming
Jeremy Grantham has been calling bubbles for half a century, and he has been right often enough that Wall Street cannot afford to ignore him....
OECD warns U.S. inflation could top 4% as energy shock spreads
Americans who lived through the price surges of 2022 may be bracing for a repeat. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warned in late...
Intuit shares slide to a 52-week low as “SaaSpocalypse” fears grow
Intuit Inc. dropped to a 52-week low in April 2026, dragged down not by its own results but by a market-wide panic over the future...
Consumer sentiment sinks to record low as inflation view hits 4.8%
Americans are more pessimistic about the economy than at any point in the 72-year history of the University of Michigan’s consumer survey. The preliminary Index...
March CPI climbs to 3.3% 2-year high as Iran war drives energy spike
Americans paid more for gasoline in March 2026 than in any single month on record, and the shock rippled through nearly every corner of household...
Q4 GDP cut to 0.5% growth, reviving Wall Street stagflation worries
The U.S. economy grew at just 0.5% in the final quarter of 2025, the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed in its third and final GDP...
Bitcoin stuck in extreme fear for 46 days, longest stretch since LUNA
Forty-six days. That’s how long the Crypto Fear & Greed Index has been stuck in “Extreme Fear” territory for Bitcoin, a streak that began in...
Cybersecurity stocks sink over 7% on AI disruption fears after Anthropic
Traders dumped cybersecurity stocks in early April 2026, sending shares of CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Zscaler down sharply in a single session. The...
AI investment surge coincides with tech job cuts across sector
In the opening months of 2026, the tech industry is sending two signals at once: record sums of money are flowing into artificial intelligence, and...
CPI rises 0.9% in March as energy prices jump 10.9%, BLS says
Gasoline prices jumped 21.2% in a single month, and that one category alone accounted for roughly three-quarters of the overall Consumer Price Index increase in...
University of Michigan: consumer sentiment falls to record low
A gallon of regular gasoline averaged $4.87 nationally last week, grocery bills keep climbing, and Americans just registered the darkest economic mood in the eight...
Oil tops $100 after U.S. announces Strait of Hormuz blockade
Brent crude blew past $100 a barrel in the last week of April 2026 after the United States announced it would blockade Iranian ports along...