🇨🇳🥇📈🚀 Chinese retail investors drive gold surge on Shanghai exchange

Gold’s astonishing surge this year baffled analysts until a new player emerged: Chinese retail investors flooding the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE). Despite global pressures like rising Treasury yields and a strong dollar, SHFE’s volumes tripled, driving gold prices skyward. With China’s historical affinity for gold and recent market turbulence, the influx signals a significant shift in gold trading dynamics. But as prices waver, the debate over SHFE’s impact on the global gold market intensifies.

https://www.biznews.com/gold/2024/04/24/chinese-investors-drive-gold-surge

🌍📈Between November 2023 and April 10, the number of active cryptocurrency users from the Middle East and North Africa using the Bitget platform grew by more than 1,400%. Bitget’s strong performance in the Middle East and North Africa is attributed to the region’s perceived high adoption rates and the generally friendly landscape for cryptocurrencies.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitget-cites-high-adoption-rates-in-mena-following-1400-surge-in-regions-active-users/

🇺🇸❌🔷US SEC expected to deny spot ether ETFs next month, industry sources say

U.S. issuers and other firms expect the Securities and Exchange Commission to deny their applications to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to the price of ether after discouraging meetings with the agency in recent weeks, four people said.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-sec-expected-deny-spot-ether-etfs-next-month-industry-sources-say-2024-04-25/

🧠 🧠TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design

TSMC announced its leading-edge 1.6nm-class process technology today, a new A16 manufacturing process that will be the company's first Angstrom-class production node and promises to outperform its predecessor, N2P, by a significant margin. The technology's most important innovation will be its backside power delivery network (BSPDN).

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-unveils-16nm-process-technology-with-backside-power-delivery-rivals-intels-competing-design

🛢🤝🇳🇦🛢OPEC excited about Namibia partnership, offers support

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is excited about a potential partnership with Namibia and ready to support the southern African country in its oil journey, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said on Wednesday.
The OPEC+ oil producers' group, having lost Angola and other players in recent years, is looking at Namibia for possible membership as it aims to start pumping oil by the next decade following a string of big discoveries.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/opec-excited-about-namibia-partnership-sec-gen-says-2024-04-24/

🌍📊 — LATAM: The most highly rated Latin American leaders are Nayib Bukele (79%), Luis Lacalle Pou (61%), and Javier Milei (46%); and the lowest-rated is Nicolás Maduro with just 4%.

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🌐📉📃 — Over the past half hour, netizens reported that the popular "Reddit" forum community is down and showing problems worldwide.

🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🤠👺 FBI warns Americans against using unregistered crypto money transmitting services

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned Americans against using unregistered crypto money transmitting services.

Americans should avoid crypto services from firms that are not registered as Money Services Businesses (MSBs) under federal law and do not follow anti-money laundering rules, according to a Thursday statement from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

https://www.theblock.co/post/291009/fbi-warns-americans-against-using-unregistered-crypto-money-transmitting-services

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2024/PSA240425

🇷🇺🚫📃🚫🔫❌🛰 — 🇺🇸 Axios | Russia vetoes UN resolution denouncing use of nuclear weapons in space | April 24, 2024:

"Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft resolution before the United Nations Security Council that would have called on countries to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space.

Why it matters: Russia's veto comes after U.S. officials alleged earlier this year that Moscow is developing a new space-based nuclear weapon to destroy satellites.

China was the only nation to abstain from the vote, and Russia the only vote against the measure. The other 13 members, including the U.S., voted in favor.

Driving the news: The UN draft resolution, prepared by Japan and the U.S., would have affirmed the obligation of countries to comply with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

The treaty bars signatories, including the U.S. and Russia, from placing "in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" or anywhere else in outer space."

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🇧🇾❗️🇵🇱🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 — 🇷🇺 Russian media RIA Novosti on Telegram:

"The Belarusian authorities published a military doctrine, which was approved the day before by the All-Belarusian People's Assembly.

The document talks about the likelihood of Belarus being involved in an international armed conflict, including due to the intensive military preparations of the countries of Eastern Europe, the aggressive policy of the leadership of Poland and the Baltic countries.

In addition, the doctrine takes into account the likelihood of the West switching to violent methods leading to provoking an “internal armed conflict” in Belarus, as well as deliberate attempts by Western countries to destroy integration ties in the CSTO and the Union State.‌‌"

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‼️💵💸🕯📈USDJPY trading over 156 Yen per US Dollar!

🔵❤️🐶COINBASE DERIVATIVES READY TO LAUNCH DOGECOIN FUTURES

https://twitter.com/PhoenixTrades_/status/1783637184077054449

🇪🇺👮‍♀️ Europol Speaks Out Against End-To-End Encryption

European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out

European Police Chiefs are calling for industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across social media platforms.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/european-police-chiefs-call-for-industry-and-governments-to-take-action-against-end-to-end-encryption-roll-out

🎥❌🇺🇸 ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-us-if-legal-options-fail-sources-say-2024-04-25