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just reclaimed $5,100 for the first time in nearly a month — and the catalysts stacking up behind it aren’t going away anytime soon. April futures opened Monday at $5,128.80, up 0.9% from Friday’s close, with spot gold trading near $5,150 by mid-morning. The dropped 635 points. The shed 0.6%. Bitcoin tumbled below $65,000. And gold? Gold ripped higher while everything else bled. The trigger is a trifecta that reads like a safe-haven playbook: the Supreme Court just struck down Trump’s emergency tariffs, Trump immediately retaliated with a new 15% global tariff under different legal authority, and the U.S. is…

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Free NewsletterGet the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your InboxLuxembourg has launched NextFin Asia, a new fund that will invest directly in Southeast Asian fintechs focused on financial inclusion.The fund will support the third edition of the Catapult: Inclusion SE Asia programme run by the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology.It is being launched in partnership with the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade and ADB Ventures, the venture arm of the Asian Development Bank.The move shifts the programme from a pure acceleration model to one that combines capital and institutional…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Downing Street has warned that “nothing is off the table” if the US reneges on a 10 per cent tariff deal struck with the UK last year and hits Britain with Donald Trump’s new 15 per cent global levy.Although Downing Street said it wanted to resolve the issue with “constructive discussion”, a spokesperson said that reciprocal action was an option if the issue was not resolved amicably.“Nothing is off the table at this stage,” said a spokesperson for Prime Minister Sir Keir…

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Shares of are about 3.8% the day after the company delivered a strong Q4 2025 earnings report. On one level, the report makes sense. The company is a pure-play on consumer spending, which has remained resilient despite conflicting macroeconomic data. Plus, eBay fits into that “discount” category of retail stocks that has performed solidly in a volatile market. As for the report itself, there was a lot for investors to like. Revenue of $2.97 billion exceeded expectations of $2.87 billion. A key metric, gross merchandise volume (GMV), climbed to $21.2 billion. That was up almost 6% globally and nearly 10%…

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DeFi is powerful. It’s also… chaotic. Ten tabs open, three bridges bookmarked, gas fees doing gymnastics, and one wrong click away from a bad day.Otto AI was built to fix that.Otto is an advanced AI-powered digital asset assistant designed to simplify interactions in Decentralized Finance through a conversational interface. Instead of manually hopping across protocols, chains, and dashboards, you tell Otto what you want to do.Think less “DeFi spreadsheet operator.”More “DeFi commander.”What Is Otto?Otto AI is a chat-based DeFi assistant that abstracts away the technical complexity of interacting with multiple protocols, chains, and trading venues.Its core mission:Simplify DeFi interactionsProvide a…

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(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — Today we’re going to revisit a name you may have heard me talking about on TV before called NextEra Energy (NEE) . I used to own it, but I currently have no position. It looks like a fresh breakout to multiyear highs is coming. NextEra is basically two companies in one. The first half of NEE is a gigantic utility powering the state of Florida called Florida Power and Light (FPL). Given the state’s population explosion,…

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Unlicensed gambling firms could be barred from sponsoring Premier League clubs, after a string of controversies involving pornographic videos, failures in anti-money laundering rules and concerns about links to organised crime.Shirts worn by players for several major English football teams, including Everton, Fulham and Wolverhampton Wanderers, feature the logos of unlicensed online casinos or bookmakers.Premier League clubs have pledged to end all front-of-shirt gambling deals from the end of this season, including those with large operators with a licence.But the voluntary measure will not apply to shirt sleeves or other commercial tie-ups.This leaves the door open to gambling firms who…

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General business activity: +0.2 (prev. -1.2)Production: 12.5 (prev. 12.2)New orders: 11.1 (unchanged)Capacity utilization: 11.8 (prev. 6.8)Employment: 7.5 (unchanged)Hours worked: 6.1 (prev. 0.7)Finished goods prices paid: 17.9 (unchanged)Raw materials prices paid: 31.7 (prev. 36.7)Wages and benefits: 31.9 (prev. 17.4)Texas factory activity continued to expand in February, with the Dallas Fed’s production index holding largely steady at 12.5, pointing to an above-average pace of output growth. The broader picture from the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey was one of stability rather than acceleration, with most indicators suggesting the sector is maintaining its footing without breaking new ground.The capacity utilization index was a bright…

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