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
Trending: * China has recently intervened to halt a $22.8 billion deal that would have allowed BlackRock, a U.S.-based asset management firm, to purchase two key ports near the Panama Canal—Balboa and Cristobal—from CK Hutchison Holdings, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate. Earlier this year, on March 4,
Economics & Markets: * Yesterday’s U.S. stock market: * Yesterday’s crypto market: Geopolitics & Military Activity: * As of Yesterday, March 30, 2025, the United States has bolstered its military presence in the Indian Ocean by deploying B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia base, a strategic British territory.
Trending: * Yesterday, March 29, 2025, an explosion involving a luxury limousine occurred on a street in Moscow, near the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Lubyanka district. The vehicle was identified as an Aurus Senat, a model associated with the Russian government and part of the fleet
Economics & Markets: * Yesterday’s U.S. stock market: * Yesterday’s commodity market: * Yesterday’s crypto market: Geopolitics & Military Activity: * Yesterday, March 28, 2025, civilian reports from Dnipro, Ukraine, indicate that a strike has hit the Bartolomeo hotel and restaurant complex. The incident has resulted in a large fire
Trending: * Yesterday, March 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), alongside the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, announced the arrest of Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, a 24-year-old Salvadoran national identified as a high-ranking leader of the MS-13 gang in the United States. The operation took place in