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Bericht: EU stuft AWS und Azure bald als Gatekeeper laut Digital Markets Act ein
Den US-Cloud-Diensten drohen höhere Auflagen der EU-Wettbewerbshüter. Die Untersuchung der EU nach dem Gesetz über digitale Märkte steht vor dem Abschluss.

Bericht: EU stuft AWS und Azure bald als Gatekeeper laut Digital Markets Act ein
Den US-Cloud-Diensten drohen höhere Auflagen der EU-Wettbewerbshüter. Die Untersuchung der EU nach dem Gesetz über digitale Märkte steht vor dem Abschluss.

Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/1

Hive gains 10% after securing Canada sovereign AI contract with Bell Canada
GPU cloud contract with Bell and Cohere strengthens HIVE's shift from bitcoin mining to high performance AI computing.

Everlane selling out to Shein... wow. Shows you where the ethics of the owners really was.
Was our family favorite's brand pre-COVID. Then we stopped after some scandals.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/shein-ac…

Suspicious Betting in Washington Is on the Rise--and Authorities Are Playing Catch-Up (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/government-prediction-markets-betting-2126dcb3?st=Y6Pep4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p18#a260517p18

Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Prediction Markets’ Next Major Bet: Wall St. Traders
Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They’re now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.

Megyn Kelly is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the possibility of insider tradiing
Megyn Kelly turned to X to address concerns about insider trading.
Kelly was responding to a CNN panel where Josh Rogin made an alarming statement:
that somebody shorted the oil market by hundreds of millions of dollars, exactly 20 minutes before Donald Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great.

Megyn Kelly makes 4-word plea after suspicious market activity minutes before Trump announcement
Somebody shorted the oil markets before a big Trump announcement with Kelly is calling for an investigation, tagging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on X.

"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

"What really happens to clothes in the circular economy?"
#Clothes #textiles #CircularEconomy

What really happens to clothes in the circular economy?
Nearly a truckload of textile waste is generated in the EU every second, and only 1% of this waste currently gets recycled back into new clothing, with the rest either ending up in landfill within Europe, or exported to markets in Africa and Asia. Here, edie examines what actually happens…

RE: #retrocomputing

Analytics firm connects bets made on war with signs of insider trading (Jon Wertheim/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/betting-on-iran-war-insider-trading-concerns-prediction-markets-60-minutes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p28#a260518p28

Had to update yesterday's Substack after news broke later that day of Trump's teleprompter making $100k on Kalshi.
This administration has certainly set a new low bar for self-dealing, but prediction markets are supercharging anonymous corruption at the highest levels of government. https://

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming "increasingly stringent compliance obligations" (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/1

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2097 nodes and 2518 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

CommBank View: Economics & Markets
Your expert guide to what’s shaping domestic and international economies and markets. Hosted by finance journalist Mandy Drury...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/global-economic…

I keep saying that the neo-liberal era is over, replaced by something more rawly extractive, particularly indexed by Trump's dismantling of restrictions on oligarchy
Here's an example: deregulation of financial markets & the abandonment of the efficient markets hupothesis
https://crookedti…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfie

Gov. JB Pritzker signs $55.9B affordability-focused state budget with tax on social media companies
The eighth state spending plan of Pritzker's tenure includes additional funding for food assistance in the wake of deep federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump.

Apples Ankündigung, die Einführung der Siri-KI in der EU wegen des Digital Markets Act zu verzögern, hat die EU-Kommission verstimmt – ein wachsender Trend von Tech-Konzernen, Funktionen in der EU zurückzuhalten. Könnte man auch Erpressung nennen #Euronews #DMA

Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
with higher returns,
according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens,
one of the largest datasets of real-world AI consumption ever studied.
The difference in stock returns between companies with the most and least AI exposure is substantial
— about 0.64% per week,
a financial benefit the researchers call the…

Analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens reveals how the technology is transforming financial markets
A study of a massive dataset of real-world AI consumption shows on how AI is affecting businesses, workers, and financial markets.

Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at https://jonippolito.substack.com

SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/busines

SpaceX’s Growing Warchest
Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been on a tear, giving the rockets and artificial intelligence company financial resources to box out competitors.

Electric vehicles now account for a quarter of the new car market in Germany, France and the UK, with a further 12% for plug-in hybrids.
Other large car markets, such as Italy and Spain, are also seeing significant growth in the #EV share.

💸 The Carbon Market Is Set for a Major Shake-Up
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/The-Carbon-Market-Is-Set-for-a-Major-Shake-Up.html

The Carbon Market Is Set for a Major Shake-Up
Compliance markets are expanding rapidly now 23% of emissions and are expected to drive demand, revenue, and global carbon pricing frameworks.

Focus: Prediction markets see surge in suspicious trades as popularity explodes (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/prediction-markets-see-surge-suspicious-trades-popularity-explodes-2026-05-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p38#a260515p38

It's quite predictable Trump will sign something with Iran before markets open on Monday. Whether it means anything is doubtful. Stocks will rise, oil prices will fall however, at least for a few days...
#usa #iran

The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-permanently-bans-celsius-mashinsky…

CFTC Settlement Bans Celsius Founder Mashinsky From Trading
Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky agreed to a permanent trading and registration ban in a settlement with the CFTC.

Markets can stay wrong longer than you can stay liquid, so don't bet against them. But if you know the market is wrong, you don't have to bet with it either.
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-open-intere…

EU reagiert auf Apples Siri-AI-Blockade, weist DMA-Vorwürfe zurück
Apple meint, der Digital Markets Act verhindere das neue KI-System des Konzerns, mit dem Siri besser werden soll. Die Europäische Kommission reagierte prompt.

EU reagiert auf Apples Siri-AI-Blockade, weist DMA-Vorwürfe zurück
Apple meint, der Digital Markets Act verhindere das neue KI-System des Konzerns, mit dem Siri besser werden soll. Die Europäische Kommission reagierte prompt.

Very informative. I've been wondering about this. The "K-Shaped Economy" is sad
Why does the stock market keep going up? | Stock markets | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/ma…

War, inflation and Trump’s tariffs have shaken the US. Why does the stock market keep going up?
Wall Street has proved incredibly resilient to instability, and while consumer confidence has dipped, shares have soared

Why the Dallas Cowboys Remain One of the Most Watched Teams in Betting Markets https://insidethestar.com/why-the-dallas-cowboys-remain-one-of-the-most-watched-teams-in-betting-markets

Digital Markets Act: Teilerfolg für Meta vor dem EU-Gericht
Das Gericht der EU kippt die Einstufung des Marketplace von Meta als Torwächter, bestätigt den Status und die Wettbewerbsauflagen aber für Facebooks Messenger.

Digital Markets Act: Teilerfolg für Meta vor dem EU-Gericht
Das Gericht der EU kippt die Einstufung des Marketplace von Meta als Torwächter, bestätigt den Status und die Wettbewerbsauflagen aber für Facebooks Messenger.

inb4 prediction markets add bets for npm package compromises

Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets "illegal" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

"The cause of ⁠the outage is understood - we have no reason to believe ​it is ​due to ​a cyberattack - and ‌our IT team is working to bring all systems back online."
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/boeing-says-o…

Boeing says IT outage affected computer systems, applications
Boeing said on Tuesday that an unplanned ‌IT outage affected some of ‌its computer systems and applications. The outage "significantly disrupted" ​the aeros...

"Solar cold storage helps African farmers cut losses and reach global markets"
#Africa #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower

Solar-powered cold storage is boosting incomes for African farmers
Kenyan smallholder farmers are reducing post-harvest losses and accessing global export markets through a pay-per-use solar cold storage model pioneered by Nairobi-based company SoKo Fresh. Its pay-per-use approach charges farmers based on pounds stored, part of a trend in Africa toward using solar-powered cold storage to help prevent one of agriculture’s most persistent problems: food spoilage. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that up to 40% of food produced in Africa is lost …

Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/11/hypha-ai-private-markets-seed

Exclusive: Private markets platform Hypha raises $50M seed
Private credit firms still rely on spreadsheets and email.

"'…war is hitting…global economy in cumulative waves: 1st through higher energy prices, then higher food prices, & finally, higher inflation, which will push up interest rates & make debt even more expensive,' said Indermit Gill…World Bank Group's Chief Economist '…poorest people, who spend…highest share of their income on food & fuels, will be hit…hardest…All of this is a reminder of…stark truth: war is development in reverse.'"

Middle East War to Spark Biggest Energy Price Surge in Four Years
Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group's latest Commodity Markets Outlook.

Senate Bans Members, Staff From Prediction Markets - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/senate-bans-members-staff-from-prediction-markets/

Sources: Paramount's WBD deal to absorb HBO Max may breach its joint venture agreement with Comcast to avoid direct streaming competition in European markets (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/paramount-warner-takeover-skyshowtime-c…

Paramount’s Warner Bros. Takeover Expected To Breach Its SkyShowtime Venture With Comcast
Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is expected to create complications for its SkyShowtime partnership with Comcast.

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Iran war: Over $1 billion made from suspiciously timed oil price tips—who's behind them?
https://gulfnews.com/business/markets/iran-war-over-1-billion-made-from-sus…

Iran war: Over $1 billion made from suspiciously timed oil price tips—who's behind them?
US probes $1b in well-timed oil trades as questions mount over insider access, prediction markets and who is cashing in on Iran conflict price swings.

Aside from the conspiracy among oligarchs internationally to boost the wealth and power of their weapon of democracy destruction, Elon Musk (and the blatant rigging of financial markets to go with it, to leave pensions and index funds the losers in the largest pump-and-dump in world history) there is a very large amount of plain old market irrationality in making an inefficient internet provider wrapped up with several unprofitable companies the most paper-valued corporation on initial publi…

Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/gov

So Wisconsin isn't allowed to enforce laws that ban gambling in the state?
"Last week, the #Wisconsin Department of Justice announced lawsuits against #Kalshi, Robinhood, Coinbase, #Polymarket and Crypto.com for allegedly facilitating illegal sports betting on their platforms. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, in response to those lawsuits alleges Wisconsin is attempting to interfere with “federally regulated markets.”"
https://www.wpr.org/news/federal-government-sues-wisconsin-prediction-markets-platforms

"For decades, we have watched technologists claim that algorithms can replace editors, platforms replace communities, markets replace politics, and code can replace governance. The result has been a mess. Now the same pattern is repeating with AI."
#GenAI
AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume –

Interesting intersection of politics and technology.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/strait-hormuz-choking-bitcoin-not-134900366.html

Strait of Hormuz is choking Bitcoin, not just oil. But there's a catch
The Strait of Hormuz might be just 21 nautical miles wide, but it is a vital artery connecting the Persian Gulf to the global market. With the ongoing...

"France, Spain set solar records in May"
#France #Spain #SolarPower #Energy

France, Spain set solar records in May
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting’s latest analysis finds the weekly average electricity price was above €100 ($117.45)/MWh in most major European markets last week, bar the Portuguese, French and Spanish markets. 

Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/this-startup-wants…

This startup wants to reduce payment friction on prediction markets
EDGE Markets is announcing two new products to solve payment issues in prediction markets, the company shared exclusively with CNBC.

Apple bleibt Gatekeeper: EU-Gericht hat entschieden
Der Digital Markets Act der EU machte Apple bei App Store und iOS zum Torwächter. Eine erste Klage dagegen scheiterte nun.
https://www.hei…

Apple bleibt Gatekeeper: EU-Gericht hat entschieden
Der Digital Markets Act der EU machte Apple bei App Store und iOS zum Torwächter. Eine erste Klage dagegen scheiterte nun.

Oil and gas prices jumped,
stock markets slid
and government bond yields rose after the US and Iran traded fresh strikes
and Donald Trump said the shaky ceasefire was “over”.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 5% to $77.86 a barrel.
In stock markets, the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1%, or 110 points, to 10,556 while Germany’s Dax tumbled 1.6% and Spain’s Ibex lost 2%.
Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump also said he was cutting off trade with Spain ov…

Oil prices jump over 5% after Trump suggests ceasefire with Iran has ended following fresh US strikes – as it happened
Brent crude spikes to a daily high of $79.26, gas prices rise, stock markets slide and government bond yields surge on inflation and rate hike fears

Digital Markets Act: Brüssel angeblich kurz vor Rekordstrafe gegen Google
Die EU-Kommission wirft Google vor, in den Suchergebnissen eigene Dienste unangemessen zu bevorzugen. Laut dem Handelsblatt steht nun eine Rekordstrafe bevor.

Digital Markets Act: Brüssel angeblich kurz vor Rekordstrafe gegen Google
Die EU-Kommission wirft Google vor, in den Suchergebnissen eigene Dienste unangemessen zu bevorzugen. Laut dem Handelsblatt steht nun eine Rekordstrafe bevor.

Trump Regulator Proposes New Rules on What's Allowed on Prediction Markets (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-cftc-prediction-markets-betting-rules-1aea5c9d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p76#a260610p76

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 3902 nodes and 6853 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Trump: "Scum" Dems Want Rules On Prediction Markets - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/05/trump-scum-dems-want-rules-on-prediction-markets/

A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-merger-states…

States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Defying DOJ
A coalition of states has sued to block the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., though the Department of Justice approved the deal last month.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfie

Global-E acquires Passport
#passport

Interesting article in the Economist, don't necessarily agree,
https://www.…

Opinie | If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…
When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block.

EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a $76M Series C led by SBI Holdings (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/07/edx-markets-raises-usd76-million-in-funding…

EDX Markets raises $76 million in Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings
EDX’s model targets institutional clients by separating trading from custody via a central clearinghouse to minimize counterparty risk.

The Nasdaq has fallen just under 200 points, or 0.7%, to 26,086
while the Dow Jones is down 47 points at 52,684
and the S&P 500 has fallen 23 points, or 0.3%, to 7,552.
The FTSE is up just 3 points at 10,500
while the German, French, Italian and Spanish markets are between little change and a 0.4% rise.

Oil price jumps 3% and UK pump prices rise as the US and Iran trade attacks – business live
Brent crude remains below $80 a barrel; European shares push cautiously higher while Asian shares tumble with South Korea’s Kospi down nearly 10%

Datenschutz und Innovation „gefährdet”: Apples Regulierungschef von EU genervt
Dass Apple der Digital Markets Act nicht schmeckt, ist weitläufig bekannt. Nun holt Policy-Boss Kyle Andeer die Kritikkeule heraus: Apple ist schwer frustriert.

Datenschutz und Innovation „gefährdet”: Apples Regulierungschef von EU genervt
Dass Apple der Digital Markets Act nicht schmeckt, ist weitläufig bekannt. Nun holt Policy-Boss Kyle Andeer die Kritikkeule heraus: Apple ist schwer frustriert.

"Making net-zero work for Scottish food and drink"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Food

Stocks Extend Selloff on Tech, Oil Climbs on Iran: Markets Wrap (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-07/us-stock-futures-drop-after-tech-selloff-oil-up-markets-wrap
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p62#a260607p62

Analysis: Advance Local, owner of The Oregonian, PennLive.com, and more, has posted 17K articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for various betting platforms (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/pulitzer-winning-newsrooms-are-quietly

Pulitzer-winning newsrooms are quietly publishing mountains of gambling slop
A large network of prominent regional newspapers has posted thousands of low-quality articles promoting gambling and prediction markets — and is pretending it's journalism.

Why prediction markets are a sure sign that our civilisation is in decay
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-prediction-markets-are-a-sure-sign-that-our-civilisation-is-in-decay/?ref=westenberg-newsletter

A tech sell-off shook global markets on Tuesday as attention turned away from developments in the US war with Iran and toward the future of AI companies and chipmakers that have driven stock markets to record highs.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened 2% lower on Tuesday.
The Dow and S&P 500 were also down at opening.
All three major US indices have hit record highs this year,
riding off a rush of funding to support AI technology and infrastructure.
Nasdaq is …

"France, Italy, Spain set daily solar records"
#France #Italy #Spain #Energy

France, Italy, Spain set daily solar records - pv magazine Global
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting’s latest analysis finds weekly average electricity prices increased across most major European markets last week as gas prices rose to their highest level since May.

Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400 suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/p

Why Almost Everyone Loses--Except a Few Sharks--on Prediction Markets (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11?st=ooWWeh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p2#a260504p2

LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/05/

Trump has nominated Jay Clayton,
former head of the top US markets watchdog,
to be the country’s leading intelligence official.
The US president faced widespread criticism of his prior decision to install a controversial ally, Bill Pulte, as acting director of National Intelligence while searching for a permanent candidate.
Clayton, former chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, is US attorney for the southern district of New York.
Like Pulte, Clayto…

The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/senate-prediction-markets-trading-ba…

U.S. senators ban themselves from prediction markets trading
The move came after Democratic lawmakers asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit event contracts on elections, war and military actions.

Campaign staffers tell NPR they make 'thousands' betting on their own candidates (Luke Garrett/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5795891/prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-campaigns
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p37#a260507p37

"Octopus Energy launches plug-in home batteries"
#OctopusEnergy #Energy #Batteries

Octopus Energy launches plug-in home batteries - pv magazine Global
Octopus Energy has unveiled a 2 kWh plug-in home battery and a 5 kWh wall-mounted system, with launches planned across five European markets from 2027, including Italy.

The biggest energy shock in modern history, jet fuel shortages “within weeks”, a global recession
– since Iran throttled shipping flows through the strait of Hormuz at the end of February the economic warnings have become increasingly dire.
Yet 10 weeks on from the first US-Israeli attacks, share indices, companies and governments have been surprisingly sanguine.
Every day the divergence grows between the eerie quiet on markets and alarming warnings of an imminent supply c…

Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/meta-prediction-markets-app.html

Meta Has Created a Prediction Markets App
The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.

Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/04/2

Only 3% of traders drive Polymarket's accuracy, not the crowd, study finds
Researchers show market accuracy comes from a tiny group of informed traders, not broad participation.

Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/kalshi-r…

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle
have doubled their debt to build AI,
👉to $350 billion
💥and cash flow is not keeping up.
Now they are crowding into European credit markets,
🔥on track to out-borrow France
https://thenextweb.com/news/big-tech-3

US stocks jump to their best day in 2 months on hopes for a deal to get crude flowing globally again (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-ai-iran-oil-rates-87c831451197beedb3e29771de1e0a92
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p122#a260611p122

How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets, as hyperscalers cut buybacks and boost capex, including Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI (Robert Armstrong/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b31f1e09-5aae-4cad-af15-97adb15dba70

Companies are grappling with whether and how to curb employee wagers on prediction markets that may use confidential info, as platforms tighten their own rules (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/044dad05-f0d3-42b3-b404-8ee20451f033

A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-merger-states…

States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Defying DOJ
A coalition of states has sued to block the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., though the Department of Justice approved the deal last month.

Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/0

Mastercard expands on-chain settlement in bet on stablecoins and always-on finance
The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money.

SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/01/strate…

Bitcoin news: Strategy sold 32 BTC for $2.5 million in late May, filing shows
The 8-K filing Monday says proceeds from the May 26-31 sale, executed at an average price of $77,135 a coin, will fund distributions on Strategy's preferred stock.

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/3…

Coinbase makes a major play for India’s booming $3 billion crypto market with local currency launch
Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.

How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission purged its ranks, dialed back its enforcement and boosted industries in which President Trump’s family is heavily invested.

BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/blackberry-is-on-one-of-its-hottest-r…

BlackBerry is on one of its hottest rallies of all time
Think robot operating systems, not smartphones.

Starlink says that it has 12M "active customers" across 160 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (@starlink)
https://x.com/starlink/status/2062649204359708741

Starlink (@Starlink) on X
Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers with high-speed internet across 160+ countries, territories and many other markets. Thank you to all our customers around the world! 🛰️🌎❤️ → https://t.co/9VghjFeG1P

Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs. $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to $134M, vs. $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/robinhood-q1-2026-earnings-report/

Robinhood sinks after Q1 results trail estimates
The brokerage just reported quarterly results.

Paymentology, which provides real-time card and payment processing technology for banks and fintechs, raised $175M co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/12/paymentology-targets-new-growth-area…

Paymentology targets new growth areas with $175M investment
Paymentology, the global issuer-processing platform for banks and fintechs, has secured a $175 million investment co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners.Founded to help financial institutions modernise payment issuing systems, Paymentology provides real-time card and payment processing technology for fintechs, digital banks and retail banks operating across multiple markets. The company says its platform addresses limitations associated with legacy issuer-processing systems, which …

Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle, raised a €30.1M Series B led by Portage (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/berlin

Berlin-based bunch bags €30.1 million Series B to modernise Europe’s private markets infrastructure | EU-Startups
bunch, a Berlin-based FinTech startup offering end-to-end infrastructure for European private markets, has closed its €30.1 million ($35 million) Series B

London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/london

London’s Isometric lands €34 million to scale certification platform for industrial markets | EU-Startups
Isometric has closed a €34 million ($40 million) Series A to expand its AI certification platform across the €305 billion ($350 billion) industrial

Didi reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$8.7B and a ~$177M net loss, several times larger than its Q4 loss, as it expands globally in markets like Latin America (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

China’s Didi Deepens Losses After Stepping Up Global Investment
Didi Global Inc. reported its second straight quarterly loss, after ratcheting up investment to expand globally and defend its turf in markets like Brazil from new entrant Meituan.

Sony says it is closing the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 ahead of global store closures for the PS3 and PS Vita in July 2027 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/960168/sony-playstation-ps3-vita-store-shut-down

Sony is closing the PS3 and Vita digital stores
The virtual PS3 store will close in select markets this year, with global closures for PS3 and PS Vita following in 2027.

Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-trillion-dollar-val…

Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.
Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.

Sources: the CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, banning bets it finds aren't in the public interest or that seem highly susceptible to manipulation (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-cftc-…

Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/kal

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Dave McCormick introduce a bill banning members of the legislative and executive branches from trading on prediction markets (Jason Beeferman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/gil…

How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month (David Segal/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

How Polymarket Traders Revolted Over One Silly Syllable
How one silly syllable ignited a bitter dispute over the nature of reality on Polymarket.