Economics & Markets: * Yesterday’s commodity market: * Yesterday’s crypto market: Environment & Weather: * A strong storm system, originating from a Mongolian cold vortex, is impacting northern China with high winds, sandstorms, and cold temperatures through April 13, 2025. Winds reaching 150 kph (93 mph) have prompted Beijing’s orange
Trending: * This week, Estonian authorities detained the tanker KIWALA in Muuga Bay near Aegna Island, marking the country’s first seizure of a vessel associated with Russia’s "shadow fleet." The ship, reportedly carrying crude oil and heading to Russia’s Ust-Luga port, was sailing under a Djibouti
Trending: * Today, April 11, 2025, China announced an increase in tariffs on U.S. imports to 125%, intensifying trade tensions with the United States. This new tariff rate targets a range of American products, affecting sectors such as agriculture, technology, and manufacturing, though the announcement did not specify exact categories.
Trending: * Yesterday, April 9, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a 90-day suspension of reciprocal tariffs previously imposed on imports from various countries, lowering them to a uniform 10% rate. This followed an earlier policy where goods from around 60 countries faced tariffs ranging from 10% to 50%, intended to address
Trending: * Today, April 9, 2025, an executive order from President Donald Trump implementing 104% tariffs on all Chinese imports went into effect. The policy includes a 10% tariff on imports from all countries plus an additional 94% applied solely to China, targeting a wide range of goods. It aims to
Economics & Markets: * Yesterday’s U.S. stock market: * Yesterday’s commodity market: * Yesterday’s crypto market: Geopolitics & Military Activity: Environment & Weather: * Today, April 8, 2025, at 5:51 AM local time, Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island, Philippines, erupted, sending a 4,000-meter-high ash plume southwest and triggering
Economics & Markets: * Today’s commodity market: * Today’s crypto market: Geopolitics & Military Activity: * As of April 2025, the Red Sea region continues to experience heightened tensions due to ongoing attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have targeted both commercial shipping and military assets with missiles and drones.
Economics & Markets: * Yesterday’s U.S. stock market: * Yesterday’s crypto market: Geopolitics & Military Activity: Environment & Weather: * Yesterday, April 5th, a tornado touched down in Missouri amidst the ongoing weather system that has been sweeping across the Midwestern and Southern United States. This recent touchdown adds to
Trending: * Yesterday, April 4, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order extending the deadline for ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to divest its U.S. operations by an additional 75 days, moving the deadline from April 5 to mid-June. This action followed a previous extension Trump granted
Economics & Markets: * Yesterday, April 3, 2025, the U.S. stock market experienced a decline after President Donald Trump announced new reciprocal tariffs on imported goods. The S&P 500 fell 4.8%, erasing $2.4 trillion in market value—its steepest single-day drop since June 2020—while the
Trending: * Yesterday, April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a detailed tariff policy from the White House Rose Garden, introducing measures aimed at altering U.S. trade dynamics. The policy features a 10% tariff on all imported goods, effective April 5, intended to address the $1.2 trillion goods trade
Economics & Markets: * Yesterday’s U.S. stock market: * Today’s commodity market: * Today’s crypto market: Geopolitics & Military Activity: * Over the past 36 hours, multiple Russian Geran-2 drones targeted the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine, leading to disruptions in the area. The drones impacted various sites within the
