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*TRUMP: THERE COULD BE SLOWING OF ECONOMY IF POWELL DOESN’T CUT RATES
Читать полностью…WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL: 90-DAY 'PAUSE' ON TARIFFS DOES NOT APPLY TO TARIFFS ON CANADA AND MEXICO
Читать полностью…ZELENSKIY SAYS ONE MORE COUNTRY HAS JOINED RUSSIA'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE AND THAT HE EXPECTS U.S. REACTION TO THIS
ZELENSKIY: ORDERED OFFICIALS TO OBTAIN EXPLANATION FROM CHINA REGARDING ITS SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN UKRAINE
ZELENSKIY: KYIV'S FORCES FOUGHT SIX CHINESE SOLDIERS IN EASTERN UKRAINE, TOOK TWO OF THEM PRISONER
BBG: TRUMP ON REDUCING TARIFFS ON ISRAEL: MAYBE NOT
Читать полностью…POWELL SAYS TRUMP TARIFFS BIGGER THAN EXPECTED, RISKING HIGHER INFLATION, SLOWER GROWTH
POWELL: THE IMPACT OF TARIFFS ON THE ECONOMY MAY BE GREATER THAN EXPECTED.
The Week Ahead:
Mon/31:
*AI: Midjourney V7 release
Tue/01: April Fool’s Day
*GameStop’s $1.3B convertible notes sale expected to close
Wed/02:
*Trump’s Tariff ‘Liberation Day’ (reciprocal tariffs); Canada, China, EU is set to impose retaliatory tariffs; Options Market Focused on Jobs & Inflation Over Tariff Reveal
*House Financial Services to vote on STABLE Act (stablecoin bill)
Thu/03:
*Trump's 25% auto tariff will come into effect
*Crypto: BUIDL ($500M), Superstate ($300M), Centrifuge ($200M) Win Spark’s $1B Tokenization Grand Prix. Vote scheduled for final allocation
Fri/04:
*US Non-Farm Payrolls (est. 138k, prev. 151k)
*Fed Chair Powell Speech At 11:25 AM
*Fed's Waller speech At 12:45 AM
Sat/05:
*TikTok deal deadline
WHOLE WEEK:
*U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a budget resolution
*FOMC MEDIAN FORECAST SHOWS 50 BPS OF RATE CUTS IN 2025 TO 3.9%
Читать полностью…Crypto Czar David Sacks: President Trump has announced a Crypto Strategic Reserve consisting of Bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies. This is consistent with his week-one E.O. 14178. President Trump is keeping his promise to make the U.S. the “Crypto Capital of the World.” More to come at the Crypto Summit.
Читать полностью…TRUMP, ZELENSKIY, VANCE ARGUE IN THE OVAL OFFICE
TRUMP TO ZELENSKIY: YOU EITHER MAKE A DEAL OR WE ARE OUT
TRUMP TELLS ZELENSKIY HIS COMMENTS WERE VERY DISRESPECTFUL
TRUMP TELLS ZELENSKIY HE HAS TO BE THANKFUL
TRUMP TO ZELENSKIY: YOU DON'T HAVE THE CARDS RIGHT NOW
TRUMP: GOING TO BE VERY HARD TO DO BUSINESS LIKE THIS
*US JAN. PCE PRICE INDEX RISES 0.3% M/M; EST. +0.3%
*US JAN. PCE PRICE INDEX RISES 2.5% Y/Y; EST. +2.5%
*US JAN. CORE PCE RISES 0.3% M/M; EST. +0.3%
*US JAN. CORE PCE RISES 2.6% Y/Y; EST. +2.6%
*PERSONAL INCOME RISES 0.9% M/M; EST. +0.3%
*PERSONAL SPENDING FALLS 0.2% M/M; EST. +0.1% (biggest drop since Feb 2021)
*REAL PERSONAL SPENDING FALLS 0.5% M/M; EST. -0.1% (biggest monthly decline in ~4 years)
*PCE was the only one of the 'hard' inflation indices to drop in January
NVDA EARNINGS:
*NVIDIA 4Q ADJ EPS 89C, EST. 84C
*NVIDIA 4Q REV. $39.3B, EST. $38.25B
*NVIDIA 4Q ADJ GROSS MARGIN 73.5%, EST. 73.5%
*NVIDIA 4Q DATA CENTER REVENUE $35.6B, EST. $34.09B
*NVIDIA DELIVERED $11B OF BLACKWELL ARCHITECTURE REV. IN 4Q
*TRUMP: TARIFFS ON CANADA, MEXICO WILL GO INTO EFFECT ON APRIL 2
Читать полностью…Bybit Hack Forensics Report: Link
⚠️ The root cause of the attack is malicious code originating from Safe{Wallet}'s infrastructure.
*AWS S3 or CloudFront account/APl Key of Safe Global was likely leaked or compromised.
*No indication of compromise was identified within Bybit's infrastructure.
SAFE Statement: Safe smart contracts unaffected, an attack was conducted by compromising a Safe {Wallet} developer machine which affected an account operated by Bybit....Safe{Wallet} has added security measures to eliminate the attack vector.
Tldr: Lazarus (hackers) compromised safe's AWS infrastructure to deploy a targeted java script payload specifically targeting Multisig Cold Wallet of Bybit. The attack was designed to activate during the next Bybit transaction. The JS code changed the content of the transaction during the signing process.
*TRUMP: TARIFFS ON CANADA, MEXICO WILL GO FORWARD
Читать полностью…POWELL: MAY FIND OURSELVES IN SCENARIO WITH MANDATES IN TENSION
POWELL: WELL POSITIONED TO WAIT FOR MORE CLARITY FOR TIME BEING
POWELL: CAN’T HAVE STRONG LABOR MARKET WITHOUT PRICE STABILITY
CHINA FINANCE MINISTRY: TO IMPOSE ADDITIONAL TARIFFS OF 84% ON U.S. GOODS FROM APRIL 10
Читать полностью…RIPPLE: ACQUIRES PRIME BROKER HIDDEN ROAD FOR $1.25B
Читать полностью…Trump says we’re not looking at a potential pause in tariffs
“We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us, and they’re going to be fair deals, and in certain cases, they’re going to be paying substantial tariffs.”
“There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs.”
“We have a great relationship with Japan. We’re going to keep it that way, but they’re coming in to meet.”
*TRUMP: RECIPROCAL RATE WILL BE HALF THEIR TARIFF RATE
Читать полностью…GAMESTOP ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO ITS INVESTMENT POLICY TO ADD BITCOIN AS A TREASURY RESERVE ASSET
Читать полностью…*TRUMP ON CANADA: MAY DO RECIPROCAL TARIFFS AS EARLY AS TODAY OR MONDAY
Читать полностью…TRUMP, ZELENSKIY, VANCE ARGUE IN THE OVAL OFFICE
More Updates After This Heated Exchange:
TRUMP: ZELENSKIY NOT READY FOR PEACE
TRUMP: ZELENSKIY CAN COME BACK WHEN HE IS READY FOR PEACE
TRUMP: ZELENSKYY 'DISRESPECTED' U.S. IN OVAL OFFICE
TRUMP & ZELENSKIY PRESS CONFERENCE CANCELED
US, UKRAINE MINERALS DEAL WAS NOT SIGNED
CME GROUP TO LAUNCH SOLANA (SOL) FUTURES ON MARCH 17
Читать полностью…*TRUMP: MEXICO, CANADA TARIFFS ON MARCH 4
*TRUMP: CHINA TO ALSO BE CHARGED ADDITIONAL 10% TARIFF THAT DATE
*TRUMP: APRIL 2 RECIPROCAL TARIFF DATE REMAINS IN FULL FORCE
*TRUMP: EU TARIFFS TO BE 25% ON AUTOS, OTHER THINGS
*TRUMP: EU CAN TRY TO RETALIATE ON TARIFFS
*TRUMP: WILL NOT STOP TARIFFS
*TRUMP: TARIFFS WILL GO ON, NOT ALL, BUT A LOT OF THEM
Bybit Hack Forensics Report: Bybit
https://docsend.com/view/s/rmdi832mpt8u93s7
Anthropic is finalizing a $3.5 billion funding round that values the startup behind the chatbot Claude at $61.5 billion: WSJ
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