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Silver crashes under $80, falling over 7% today.


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US equity markets extend their decline, with the Nasdaq 100 now down -1.5%.


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🇺🇸 U.S. Senator Tim Scott says digital asset innovation should stay in America and Congress is close to setting clear crypto rules with help from the SEC.


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🇺🇸 Fed will cut with two 25-basis-point cuts in June and September, per UBS.


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📊 Anthropic just raised $30B at a $380B valuation.

Three years ago: $0 in revenue.

Today: $14B run-rate, 10x growth every year, and 4% of all GitHub commits worldwide coming from Claude Code.


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🇺🇸 United States signs trade deal with Taiwan, cutting tariffs to 15%.

Taiwan will remove 99% of trade barriers on the US and commits to buying $84 billion in American goods.


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Trader PuzzleTricker spent 3.23M $USDC to bet that FC Barcelona would win the Copa del Rey on Feb 12.
He won and made $2.12M in profit.


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🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump is set to reverse tariffs on metals and aluminum, per the FT.


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🐈

The US collected a record $288 billion in customs duties over the last 12 months, which was over 3x higher than what was collected in the 12 months prior ($82 billion).


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The odds of a US government shutdown on 14th Feb just dropped to 25%.


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⚠️ US CPI in 1 Hour

📊 Core inflation is expected at 0.3% month over month, slightly higher than last month.

📊 Headline inflation is seen at 0.3% month over month, unchanged.

📊 Year over year CPI is expected at 2.5%, down from 2.7%.

If inflation comes in hotter, yields and the dollar can rise while risk assets pull back.
If it cools, markets may price in easier Fed policy.

How does the market react?

👍 Up
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US does not want to decouple from China.

"We want to derisk."


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🇧🇬🇧🇫🇨🇮🇩🇯🇪🇬

🇺🇸 US CPI DATA CAME IN AT 2.4%

EXPECTATIONS: 2.5%


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🇺🇸🇨🇳 US government to add Alibaba $BABA to list of companies that it says are aiding the Chinese military.


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🇺🇸 Supreme Court sets February 20 as the next possible date for the “TRUMP TARIFF” ruling.


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US authorizes five oil majors to resume operations in Venezuela.


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