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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 is how long the Crypto Fear & Greed Index has been stuck in “Extreme Fear” territory for Bitcoin, a streak that began...
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...
Japan tightens crypto rules under tougher financial law overhaul
Japan’s cabinet approved a bill in April 2026 that would reclassify cryptocurrencies as financial instruments, subjecting digital tokens to the same legal framework that governs...
Tesla heads for 8th straight weekly loss, now down 23% since January
Tesla shares are sliding toward an eighth straight weekly loss, a streak that has carved roughly 23% off the stock’s value since the start of...
Goldman Sachs opens bank earnings season April 13 under heavy scrutiny
When Goldman Sachs reports first-quarter 2026 earnings on April 13, it will do more than kick off bank earnings season. It will deliver the first...
UBS and 5 Swiss banks launch CHF stablecoin sandbox for 2026
Six of Switzerland’s largest banks, with UBS at the center, are reportedly building a sandbox to test a Swiss franc stablecoin, targeting a 2026 launch....
Bitcoin hits $72,229 as risk-on rally lifts major cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin broke above $72,000 on April 28, 2026, reaching $72,229 on the Coinbase exchange during a sharp, broad-based rally that sent altcoins surging by even...
Andy Jassy defends Amazon’s $200B push into AI and cloud
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, has a $200 billion answer to anyone who questions whether the company is falling behind in artificial intelligence (AI). When...
MetaMask adds trading for 264 tokenized stocks and ETFs via Ondo
MetaMask users can now buy and sell tokenized versions of U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds directly inside their wallets, following a new integration with Ondo...
Bybit says it blocked a $1B theft attempt after 2025 mega-hack
In an April 2026 public disclosure, cryptocurrency exchange Bybit revealed that it detected and stopped a second attack targeting roughly $1 billion in digital assets...
Intel stock extends rally after Musk Terafab partnership disclosure
Intel has not had a week like this in a long time. Shares of the chipmaker surged roughly 4% on Tuesday, April 8, then climbed...
U.S. Q4 2025 GDP revised down to 0.5% growth in final estimate
The U.S. economy barely grew in the final three months of 2025, and the picture got worse with each revision. Real gross domestic product expanded...
Weekly jobless claims rise to 219,000, exceeding economists’ views
The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims jumped to 219,000 last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, overshooting the 215,000 that economists polled by...
Meta expands CoreWeave AI compute pact to $21B through 2032
Meta Platforms has committed roughly $21 billion to CoreWeave for specialized GPU capacity through December 2032, a 50 percent increase over the $14 billion deal...
Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETF logs $34M in first-day trading
Morgan Stanley’s first proprietary spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund pulled in $34 million in trading volume on its opening day, according to secondary market data reported...