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23 May 2025

APPLE, TESLA, NVIDIA—NOW TRADING ON THE BLOCKCHAIN Kraken is launching tokenized stocks—starting with Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, and the S&P 500—on Solana.

Buy, sell, or hold them like crypto. No broker. No weekends. No borders. U.S. users are locked out, but overseas investors get 24/7 Wall Street with a DeFi twist. It's called xStocks. Just don’t forget: the SEC’s watching, and Binance tried this in 2021. It didn’t end well. Source: WSJ thru Mario Nawfal on X

23 May 2025

BREAKING: OpenAI and $NVDA unveil “UAE Stargate”

• Massive 5 GW AI campus planned for Abu Dhabi • 200 MW AI cluster set to launch in 2026 • Oracle, SoftBank, and Cisco onboard to help build out the datacenter infrastructure Source: Stocktwits

23 May 2025

Apple $AAPL has now declined for 7 consecutive days, its longest losing streak since March 2024.

Source: Barchart

23 May 2025

SOLAR STOCKS CRASH AFTER HOUSE PASSES TRUMP TAX BILL ENDING 30% ROOFTOP CREDIT

$SEDG -19%, $ARRY -19%, $ENPH -17%, $FSLR -6% 😳 Source: Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay

23 May 2025

Global yield curves Steepen

Bloomberg TV Chart

23 May 2025

Japan’s CPI pickup, rice price surge raise pressure on Ishiba

Bloomberg

23 May 2025

Gold has surged 27% year-to-date.

Most recently, Bitcoin has caught up and is up 18% YTD. What's the message here? Source: Global Markets Investors

23 May 2025

📢 President Trump is expected to invoke the wartime Defense Production Act over US dependence on Russia and China for enriched uranium and nuclear fuel processing

Reuters reports in a post on X, citing sources. 🔴 Trump is expected to sign multiple nuclear-related executive actions as soon as Friday, Reuters reports 🔴Shares of Uranium Energy and Centrus Energy rose more than 6% in post-market trading

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