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Jay Clayton said regulators would likely examine the unusual burst of trading activity early Monday that preceded a market-moving social media post from President Donald Trump.”Any move like that in advance of any announcement, the regulators are going to look at,” Clayton, a former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” referring to the spike in futures trading minutes before Trump disclosed that the U.S. and Iran had held talks and that planned strikes on Iranian infrastructure would be halted.Clayton, now the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said authorities would…

Whales Control More of DeFi Than You Think(And they’re better at the game.)DeFi sells a powerful narrative: open, permissionless, and fair. Anyone with a wallet can participate. No gatekeepers. No middlemen. Just code.But beneath that ideal lies a quieter reality—one where a relatively small group of high-capital players, known as whales, exert outsized influence over markets, governance, and even protocol design.It’s not exactly a conspiracy. It’s just math… and a lot of money.Who Are the Whales?In traditional finance, they’d be hedge funds, market makers, or ultra-high-net-worth individuals. In DeFi, they’re wallet addresses holding massive amounts of capital—often early adopters, crypto-native…

Wall Street was already worried about another surge in inflation tied to the Iran war. Now a stunningly large increase in the cost of imported goods has added to the angst.

Farmers in the Northern Hemisphere are heading into the crucial spring months, during which major fieldwork must begin. Their peers in the south, meanwhile, are busy harvesting crops before the winter sets in. However, their work now takes place as the Iran war creates serious supply constraints for essential fertilizer products — fueling massive price spikes and warnings of looming food insecurity. Around one-third of the global seaborne fertilizer trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the United Nations. The waterway, a critical shipping route that runs along Iran’s southern border, has been severely disrupted since the start…

Key PointsScott Dreyer sold 49,976 shares on March 3, 2026, for approximately $2.02 million at a weighted average price of about $40.41 per share. The sale reduced Dreyer’s direct holdings by 41.05%, from 121,746 shares to 71,770 shares. The transactions were executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted on September 3, 2025, which limits the read-through for investors. 10 stocks we like better than Collegium Pharmaceutical ›Scott Dreyer, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Collegium Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:COLL), reported the sale of 49,976 shares of common stock in open-market transactions on March 3, 2026, according to an SEC…

Key PointsYears ago, I knew a woman who’d recently gone through a contentious divorce. There was no “conscious uncoupling.” This couple went scorched-earth during their divorce, doing everything they could to hurt each other.Months later, with the ink on the divorce papers barely dry, the ex-husband died. And because he’d never changed the beneficiary on his life insurance, his ex-wife became a relatively wealthy woman. It was clear that the ex-husband could have used professional estate planning before his passing.Will AI create the world’s first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an “Indispensable…

US mortgage rates hit highest since October as war keeps bond yields up, MBA says

Defence manufacturers are going bust while others have been left in “paralysis” and “bleeding cash” as they wait for a long-delayed UK military spending plan for the next decade, MPs have heard.Industry groups said that a more than six-month delay to the defence investment plan (DIP) has also left the UK behind Germany and the US in attracting cash from global investors.“The ecosystem is not in a great place, it’s what I would call paralysis,” said Samira Braund, defence director of the ADS Group trade body, speaking to the defence select committee on Tuesday. “I don’t think that [the government]…

International trade recovers more quickly than credit flows in the wake of geopolitical shocks, a study by the Bank for International Settlements has found.Using the BIS’s confidential banking statistics from 1977 to 2024, the working paper, published on March 20, analyses how geopolitics influences banking activity during periods of war and peace. The authors – Lorenz Emter, Laura Kuitunen, Peter McQuade, Arnaud Mehl, Swapan Pradhan and Goetz von Peter – analyse bilateral credit dynamics Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To access these options, along with all other…

Nasdaq and Talos are wiring legacy infrastructure directly into crypto trading stacks to release $35 billion in stagnant capital. The partnership, announced Monday, integrates Nasdaq’s Calypso risk platform and Trade Surveillance technology with Talos’s institutional liquidity network.This is not a pilot program. It is an industrial-scale attempt to solve the collateral bottleneck slowing institutional adoption employed by major banks. By bridging the gap between digital assets and traditional finance (TradFi), the move targets the inefficiency of capital sitting idle in redundant buffers.Key Takeaways: Deal Mechanics: Nasdaq Calypso and Trade Surveillance now run natively within the Talos institutional trading stack. The…