Good morning. Markets are spooked by the latest round of tariff threats. The rich are spending like crazy but there may be a price. And we preview Hollywood’s biggest night. Listen to the day’s top stories.

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.

What does this ultimately mean for trading?

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.

Get caught up.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against a crypto founder accused of illegally using millions of dollars in investor funds to buy a 555-carat black diamond known as “The…

President Donald Trump will preside over the White House’s first cryptocurrency summit next Friday, further establishing his embrace of the industry.

The Swiss National Bank will only reintroduce negative interest rates if necessary, President Martin Schlegel said as market expectations that borrowing costs will go below zero fade.

Attempts to decipher exactly what’s driving the price of Bitcoin are often tricky endeavors, with multiple offsetting catalysts in the mix.

Argentine President Javier Milei announced Saturday night that he will seek congressional support for a new program his government is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund, the most concrete sign yet that talks are advancing toward final stages.

The cryptocurrency market roared into March with a rally, recouping some of the losses from the asset class’s worst month since 2022, after President Donald Trump once again talked up his plan for a strategic crypto reserve.

Good morning and welcome back, it’s Ainsley here with all the news you need to start your working week.Today’s must-reads:• House prices return to growth• Opposition pledges to buy F-35s• Europe looks to secure Ukraine

Good morning. European leaders plan security guarantees for Ukraine. Samsung unveils new budget phones with AI features. And a Texas startup's spacecraft reaches the moon. Listen to the day’s top stories.

More tepid economic news and a pledge by Donald Trump to push through tariffs on top trading partners stressed Wall Street risk tolerances anew, sending bonds up and stocks to their biggest loss of the year.