Happy Friday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- U.S. ETF inflows surge 94% YoY in the first six weeks of 2026, to record $245 billion.
- China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries declined to $682.6 billion, the lowest level since the global financial crisis.
- Indonesia and U.S. companies ink $38.4 billion in trade and investment agreements.
- Vietnamese airlines signs $30 billion deals for 90 Boeing jets.
- Billionaire Mukesh Ambani announces his retail-to-telecom conglomerate will invest up to $110 billion in building AI-related infrastructure.
- US trade deficit with China falls to lowest level in over 20 years.
- President Trump says he solved the affordability crisis, “Everything is down.”
- White House pressures banks to agree to stablecoin rewards and advance the crypto market structure bill.
- The odds that Bitcoin and crypto market structure legislation gets signed into law this year surge to 83%.
- President Trump’s next Fed Chair pick, Kevin Warsh: “I wish I had understood how transformative Bitcoin and this new technology would be.” “Bitcoin doesn’t trouble me, I think of it as an important asset that can help inform policy makers.”
- Eric Trump’s “American Bitcoin” posts an image and says “The answer is front and center.” America is embracing Bitcoin.
- CME Group to launch 24/7 crypto futures and options trading on May 29.
- Michael Saylor on Bitcoin: “Never been more bullish.”
- UAE has so far mined $453.6 million Bitcoin through their partners Citadel.
- Jim Cramer asks “What is Bitcoin levered to?”
- Tradeweb Markets teams up with Kalshi, takes minority stake and integrates prediction market data.
- Odds of Ali Khamenei leaving office in Iran before September surge to 55%.
- Walmart Q4 FY26: Revenue +6% to $190.7B, non-GAAP EPS $0.74, Walmart US comp sales +4.6%, e-commerce +24%, advertising +37%. FY27 net sales guide: +3.5% to 4.5% Y/Y.
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- $GROKIUS gains traction as hints at Elon changing Grok’s name to Grokius Maximus.
- Binance’s stablecoin reserves surpass $45 billion, now holding 65% of all stablecoins on centralized exchanges.
- Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says there’s a 90% chance crypto market structure legislation will pass by April.
- Binance founder CZ says “crypto never needed a bailout, never will.”
- Vitalik Buterin says “Lengthening the feedback distance between humans and AIs is not a good thing for the world...the point of Ethereum is to set us free, not to create something else that goes off and does some stuff freely while our own situation is unchanged or worsened.”
- Hyperliquid Labs CEO thinks that on 10/10 competitors were mispainting Hyperliquid’s virtues to deflect from their own platform’s issues.
- U.S. Federal Reserve’s Kashkari says crypto people give him word-salad nonsense answers when it comes to explaining how crypto or stablecoins are useful in cross-border transactions.
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Credit to the following X accounts for key insights & updates: @whaleinsider @bitcoinmagazine @watcherguru
@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time
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Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro.
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