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JPMorgan’s traders just had their biggest quarter EVER — $11.6B in three months, but the bank quietly cut its 2026 outlook
JPMorgan Chase reported on April 11, 2026, that its trading desks generated $11.6 billion in markets revenue during the first quarter of 2026, which is...
Bitcoin rips to $76,000 as Iran peace rumors trigger $1.1B in ETF inflows
Bitcoin blew past $76,000 on a single afternoon in late April 2026 after rumors of a U.S.-Iran diplomatic opening ripped through global markets, pulling what...
S&P 500 closes at 6,967 — within 1% of an all-time high as Iran peace optimism pulls oil 7% lower
Wall Street came within striking distance of a record on Tuesday, May 13, 2026, after a burst of optimism about U.S.-Iran diplomacy sent oil prices...
Citadel’s Ken Griffin: “The world’s going to end up in a recession” if Hormuz stays shut 6–12 months
Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Citadel, warned in mid-April 2026 that a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz would drag...
Wells Fargo stock tanks 6.6% as “earnings beat” turned out to be smoke and mirrors
Wells Fargo looked like it had cleared the bar. When the bank released first-quarter 2026 results in mid-April, the headline figure showed adjusted earnings per...
Goldman Sachs shifts from annual big-bang layoffs to rolling performance-based cuts — phased through summer, begins this month
Goldman Sachs has begun rolling out a new approach to workforce reductions this month, replacing the annual mass layoff that Wall Street employees have braced...
HSBC cutting 20,000 positions (10% of global workforce) — the largest banking layoff of 2026
Roughly 20,000 people who work for HSBC may soon learn their jobs are being replaced by artificial intelligence. That is the scale of workforce reductions...
March PPI comes in at +0.5% — less than half the forecast; energy shock didn’t fully leak into wholesale prices
The energy shock was supposed to rip through the entire wholesale price chain. It didn’t. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on April 14 that...
CME FedWatch now shows a 40% probability of a rate HIKE before any cut
The number that stopped Wall Street’s rate-cut party: 40%. That is the probability, as of late April 2026, that the CME FedWatch Tool assigns to...
Citigroup posts highest quarterly revenue in a decade: $24.6B on $3.06 EPS
Citigroup reported Q1 2026 revenue of $24.6 billion and diluted earnings per share of $3.06, its strongest top-line quarter in roughly a decade. The results,...
Bloom Energy pops 23% on expanded Oracle deal to deploy 2.8 gigawatts of fuel cells for AI data centers
Bloom Energy’s stock jumped 23% on April 14, 2026, after the company disclosed a dramatically expanded partnership with Oracle that envisions deploying up to 2.8...
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....