BREAKING:

🇺🇸 US CORE PPI: 3.6%

EXPECTATIONS: 3%

This means inflation at the producer level is running above forecasts, which can signal persistent price pressures in the pipeline.

Higher PPI increases the risk that the Fed keeps rates elevated for longer.

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Just In: OpenAI raises $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation.

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🚨 Middle East tensions escalate

Sweden and Germany have urged their citizens to leave Iran.
India is calling on its nationals to leave immediately.
The UK is evacuating personnel from Iran.
The US is evacuating its citizens from Iraq.

Meanwhile, DXY remains in consolidation.
The spring is tightening.

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🎞 Top 12 Movies About Trading

These are the 12 best trading movies ever made, ranked by popularity and entertainment value.

📊 The Big Short (2015)

My all-time favorite. It follows a group of traders who bet against the U.S. housing bubble and made billions when it collapsed.

📊 Wall Street (1987)

A classic story about insider trading, greed, and the dark side of finance.

📊 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Gordon Gekko returns during the 2008 crisis. A modern take on market excess and redemption.

📊 Trading Places (1983)

A comedy where commodity traders attempt a bizarre social experiment by turning a street hustler into a market player.

📊 Margin Call (2011)

A tense drama set inside an investment bank during the early hours of the 2008 financial crisis.

📊 Floored (2009)

A documentary about Chicago floor traders and how electronic trading changed their world.

📊 Boiler Room (2000)

A look inside a high-pressure penny stock brokerage selling worthless shares to unsuspecting investors.

📊 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir. A wild, over-the-top story of fraud, excess, and manipulation in the penny stock world.

📊 Rogue Trader (1999)

The true story of Nick Leeson, whose unauthorized trades bankrupted Barings Bank.

📊 Too Big to Fail (2011)

A behind-the-scenes look at the 2008 financial meltdown and the government response.

📊 Dumb Money (2023)

The GameStop saga. Retail traders versus Wall Street, sparked by Keith Gill’s online posts.

📊 The Wizard of Lies (2017)

A movie about the fall of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme that robbed $65 billion from its investors. The story of the largest fraud in the history of the U.S.

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JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. is going to destroy Iran’s missiles and that Iran’s navy will be “annihilated.”

He stated the U.S. will ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.

He warned that Americans may be lost and there may be casualties.

Trump also claimed Iranian bombs “will be dropping everywhere” and urged Iranians to seek shelter.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Iran is officially closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Over 20% of global oil supply is now set to come to a halt.

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⚡️ JUST IN: The Israeli presidential aircraft “Wings of Zion” has taken off from Nevatim Airbase and is being moved to a secure location.

Netanyahu left Israel today.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Iranian missile strikes Dubai International Airport in UAE.

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