TRUMP: WE PUT SANCTIONS ON IRANIAN OIL YESTERDAY.

TRUMP: WHOEVER TAKES OIL FROM IRAN CANNOT DO BUSINESS WITH THE US

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This is interesting.

Representative Reschenthaler bought Bitcoin, $BTC, and Ripple, $XRP, up to $15,000 of each.

They were purchased on 04/24/2025.

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BREAKING: Oil prices surge toward $60/barrel as President Trump threatens sanctions on any country that buys oil from Iran.

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JUST IT: EU Trade Commissioner says the bloc is prepared to make a €50 billion offer, but won’t accept the U.S. keeping 10% tariffs as part of a fair trade resolution.

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One year inflation expectations are the highest since 1981, per University of Michigan

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U.S. banks are facing $482 billion in unrealized losses.

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🚨 Alpha Alert: We’re deep into Binance crime szn — so keep your eyes on the delisting board.

One to watch: $FTT

We flagged it earlier, but today’s $ALPACA move adds even more confirmation.

Quick recap:
• Leading Binance’s delisting vote
• Broke below a long-term range to new ATL
• Next wave of FTX repayments starts in May
• Old rumors that the Trump family wants to acquire FTX

Delisting isn’t a death sentence anymore.
It’s a setup.

Pay attention.

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The cover of The Economist's May 3–9, 2025 edition, titled "The Taiwan Test," focuses on escalating tensions between the United States and China over Taiwan.

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Trump will unveil the 2026 fiscal year budget todayv.

The document will be sent to Congress and is expected to outline the key priorities of Trump’s administration for his second term.

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Microsoft has introduced several new open-source AI models, with its most powerful rivaling OpenAI’s o3-mini on key benchmarks.

All new models fall under the Phi 4 family — focused on reasoning tasks for better performance on complex problem solving. They expand Microsoft’s compact Phi model lineup launched last year.

• Phi 4 mini reasoning (3.8B parameters) is designed for educational apps on lightweight devices, trained on 1M synthetic math problems.
• Phi 4 reasoning (14B parameters) is optimized for math, science, and coding, using high-quality web data.
• Phi 4 reasoning plus is a fine-tuned version that, according to Microsoft, rivals DeepSeek R1 (671B params) and matches o3-mini in OmniMath performance.

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The US economy adds 177,000 jobs in April, above expectations of 138,000.

The unemployment rate was 4.2%, in-line with expectations of 4.2%.

The March jobs number was revised down from 228,000 to 185,000.

The labor market is still holding up.

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BREAKING: President Trump once again says the Fed should lower interest rates.

The Fed's next interest rate decision will be released on Wednesday.

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$AAPL - APPLE SHARES FALL 4% AT THE OPEN AFTER DISAPPOINTING RESULTS

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BREAKING: Jeff Bezos files to sell up to $5 billion worth of Amazon, $AMZN, stock.

As shown in a new filing, Bezos plans to sell up to 25 million shares in the company.

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🟣Dub is turning politicians and influencers into trading signals

Dub lets users copy the stock trades of celebrities, politicians, and peers — and just raised $30M to scale its copy-trading platform.

⚙️ What they’ve built
• A social investing app where users can automatically mirror trades of public figures or friends
• 13K+ users already copy-trade Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio via public filings
• Real-time mirroring available for users who choose to make trades public

📊 Traction and growth
• 1M+ downloads since launch in March 2024
• 50,000 paying subscribers on $10/month or $90/year plans
• Backed by Notable Capital, Neo, Sandberg Bernthal, Peak6, and others

📈 What’s next for Dub
• Launching a free tier to follow up to 2 people without paying
• Expanding into crypto and event contracts as new asset classes
• Secured $5.5M in venture debt from Silicon Valley Bank to fuel growth

Dub is building a trading layer for the influencer era — where ideas (and portfolios) spread as fast as memes.

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The S&P 500 is up 9 days in a row, its longest winning streak in 20 years.

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The odds of an interest rate cut at next week's Fed meeting have fallen below 5%

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Here’s how much money the median person makes per day in the world’s largest economies

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The ISM Business Production index has collapsed to recessionary levels.

2-year yields are wildly misaligned with economic fundamentals and probably need to be cut in half to reflect the current state of the economy.

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