Key Points: Prediction platforms Kalshi and Polymarket plan to offer perpetual futures to American cryptocurrency traders. Perpetual futures accounted for 70% of centralized crypto trading volume, hitting a massive $61.7 trillion in 2025. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to...
Key Points: German conservative leaders handed the EU Commission a list of 27 specific demands to reduce business regulations. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the need to cut red tape. Germany wants to relax artificial intelligence rules to help massive industrial companies like Siemens increase production. A group of 10 European countries strongly opposes the German...
Key Points: Salesforce and Slack filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in London on April 23. The legal team accuses Microsoft of unfairly tying its Teams app to other software. Slack previously filed a similar antitrust complaint with the European Commission in 2020. A UK tribunal also approved a separate mass lawsuit against Microsoft for overcharging businesses. Salesforce and its workplace messaging company Slack are taking...
Key Points: U.S. crude prices climbed 2.85% to $97.05 a barrel due to restricted shipping in the Middle East. Major U.S. stock indexes dipped slightly as investors prepared for earnings reports from massive technology companies. The U.S. Federal Reserve and other major central banks plan to hold interest rates steady this week. Treasury yields rose across the board, while gold prices fell nearly 1% amid...
Key Points: David Silver secured a record $1.1 billion seed funding round to launch his new artificial intelligence company, Ineffable...
Key Points: Beijing issued a public warning against the European Union regarding its newly proposed Industrial Acceleration Act. The Chinese...
Key Points: Financial analysts expect General Motors to report $43.68 billion in first-quarter revenue, slightly trailing last year. The automaker...
Key Points: Microsoft announced a major contract update that ends its exclusive rights to use OpenAI technology and artificial intelligence...
Key Points: China abruptly canceled Meta Platforms' massive $2 billion deal to buy Manus, a fast-growing agentic artificial intelligence startup....
Key Points: Elon Musk takes Sam Altman to court over OpenAI's transition from a charity to a massive business. Microsoft...
Key Points: SpaceX sent a formal letter to the FCC on April 16 asking regulators to restrict foreign satellite competitors....
Key Points: Toyota sold 897,871 vehicles worldwide in March, down 7.3 percent from the same month last year. Dealerships in...
Key Points: Kia reduced the price gap between its vehicles and Chinese models in Europe from 20-25% down to just...
Key Points: Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek reduced the price of its input cache hits to just one-tenth of the...
Key Points: Fear of the "curse of 35" pushes young Chinese workers to start solo businesses powered by artificial intelligence....
Key Points: Japan plans to launch a joint public- and private-sector task force to combat cybersecurity threats posed by artificial...
Key Points: Auto China 2026 features more than 2,000 companies and 1,451 vehicles, including 181 global debuts. Horizon Robotics launched...
Key Points: A tanker holding 145,000 kiloliters of American crude oil arrived in Tokyo Bay on Sunday. The delivery marks...
Key Points: A coalition of United States budget airlines, including Frontier and Avelo, wants a $2.5 billion financial rescue package...
Key Points: U.S. President Donald Trump rated his October meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping a 12 out of 10,...
Key Points: Japanese chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron recently cut ties with its veteran executive Jay Chen following a shocking...
Key Points: Brent crude oil futures jumped over 2% to hit $107.4 a barrel during early trading on Monday morning....
Key Points: Inflation and rising daily costs force Japanese beverage companies to rethink their massive vending machine networks completely. DyDo...
Key Points: The Australian Federal Court fined Emma Sleep $15 million for tricking customers into believing they were getting a...
Key Points: Japan will invest 1 trillion yen by 2030 to boost the recycling of plastics and essential metals. The...
Key Points: Airlines increased ticket prices by 20% per mile as the war in Iran doubled jet fuel costs. Delta...
Key Points: Five major technology companies will report their first-quarter earnings this week to justify a massive market rally. Alphabet,...
Key Points: Consumer sentiment crashed to 47.6, marking the lowest confidence score in the survey's 74-year history. The war in...
Key Points: Nvidia reached a massive $5 trillion market value while Intel posted its strongest single-day stock gain since 1987....
Key Points: Global shipping costs spiked rapidly during the first 50 days of the ongoing Iran war. Airlines slashed cargo...
Key Points: China promised to take all necessary measures to protect domestic companies from aggressive US export control bills. The...
Key Points: Fuel prices surged globally after the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February 2026. The average...
Key Points: Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett calls the 25/25/25/25 asset mix the ultimate strategy for peaceful investing. This...
Key Points: Alibaba launched a new smart tool that turns weeks of international sourcing work into a process that takes...
Key Points: Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has almost completely stopped due to ongoing military blockades. Peace negotiations...
Key Points: Duty-free sales at Japanese department stores grew by 5.2 percent in March to reach 46.51 billion yen. Total...
