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17 Jul 2026

Japanese Retail Traders have now built the largest U.S. Dollar short position since the Global Financial Crisis

Source: Barchart

17 Jul 2026

Massive sell-off in Asian Markets this morning (and Korea market was closed)

Over $970 billion has been wiped out from Asian stock markets today. 🇯🇵 Japan: $350B erased (51 trillion yen) 🇨🇳 China: $360B erased (¥2.6 trillion yuan) 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: $110B erased (HK$860 billion) 🇹🇼 Taiwan: $140B erased (NT$4.1 trillion) 🇦🇺 Australia: $10B erased (A$15 billion) Nearly $1 trillion has been wiped out across Asia in a single trading session. Source: Crypto Rover

17 Jul 2026

China is forcing AI prices lower

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs $0.09 per million input tokens. GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 cost around $5. That's ~55× cheaper. Source: Lukas Ekwueme

17 Jul 2026

Global electricity consumption by data centers

Source: zerohedge

17 Jul 2026

In case you missed it

Apple $AAPL surpasses Nvidia $NVDA as the World's Most Valuable Company ($4.92 Trillion vs. $4.86 Trillion in early hours trading) Source: Barchart

17 Jul 2026

SPACEX HAS JUST CALLED OFF IT’S MAJOR TEST MISSION OF STARSHIP ROCKET AT THE LAST MOMENT

$SPCX Source: Gurgavin on X

17 Jul 2026

The EIA just published a warning today that reported Cushing inventory may overstate how many barrels are actually usable as stocks approach tank bottom levels.

This is the exact mechanism from the storage schematic covered in the below post. The suction line near the bottom of a tank means the last portion of reported inventory was never really accessible. If Cushing tightens further, the headline barrel count will look higher than what the market can actually draw on. Watch operationally accessible barrels. Source: Jack Prandelli on X

17 Jul 2026

Lyn Alden's 'ORANGE JUICE' Raises $40 million to launch a permanent capital holding company backed by a BTC treasury

"It’s a company that acquires, improves, and permanently holds cash-flowing businesses, backed by a bitcoin treasury" - Lyn Alden Source: Bitcoin Magazine

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