A week-long rout in Bitcoin deepened amid the recent broader retreat from risky assets in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and crypto sector turmoil, marking a dramatic reality check for one of the most popular Trump trades.

Tesla Inc.’s share price slump is taking a toll on risk-loving investors in South Korea, who have plowed into leveraged bets on the US carmaker.

The famed value investor says on this week’s Merryn Talks Money that a “major decline” is imminent. “The longer and the higher they climb, the worse it is.”

Artificial intelligence is pushing humanity toward a more efficient future, but like any world-changing technology will eventually crash and hurt investors, according to longtime Wall Street doomsayer Jeremy Grantham.

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As news started spreading about a massive hack on crypto exchange Bybit last Friday, cybersecurity researchers quickly concluded that the era of giant digital-asset heists had entered a new and potentially ruinous phase.

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The Federal Reserve’s top bank watchdog, Michael Barr, says the agency’s supervisors should communicate very early with lenders about the benefits and risks of new technologies.

The US’s top envoy in South Africa resigned amid heightened diplomatic tensions between the two nations.

The world’s biggest asset manager is finally allowing Bitcoin into its $150 billion model-portfolio universe.

Connor Moucka, a Canadian, dropped out of high school and lived with his grandfather. John Binns, an American living in Turkey, feared the FBI and CIA were tracking him. Cameron Wagenius, a US soldier, allegedly Googled how to defect to Russia.

Demand on the Texas power grid is expected to expand so immensely that it would take the equivalent of adding 30 nuclear plants’ worth of electricity by 2030 to meet the needs.

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Investors have pulled a record $3.3 billion from US spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in February, poised for the biggest monthly exodus since they debuted, as investors sought refuge in safer assets amid rising geopolitical tensions and persistent inflation…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has kicked off the new year with a makeover, wiping clean its slate of crypto enforcement actions and turning what was once a hostile landscape for digital assets into a potential haven.

Senator Cynthia Lummis, the sponsor of a bill calling for the US to set up a Bitcoin reserve, suggested that progress on the proposal is likely to take longer than many crypto advocates would like.

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