The USD/CAD pair trades on a weaker note near 1.3655 during the Asian trading hours on Wednesday. Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz provide some support to the commodity-linked Canadian Dollar (CAD) against the US Dollar (USD). US President Donald Trump said he will extend the ceasefire with Iran until talks between the two countries…
Some stuff I am reading today morning: Trump extends ceasefire (JPost) Insider Trading & Trump Presidency (BBC) Bank Fixed Deposits are offering 8% (HT) A rally in search of reality (ML) Indexing since 1976 (Vanguard) Company: Aditya Infotech (BI) Commodity: Sulphuric Acid (Craig Tindale) Tim Cook turned Apple into a $4T juggernaut (CNBC) How to…
—Alex Jones The polling numbers just seem to be getting worse and worse. Newsweek: President Donald Trump is set to see his worst approval ratings of this second term as new polling from the NBC News Decision Desk released Sunday found that eight out of 10 Gen Z voters say the country is on the…
Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), opened subscription for IPO Prime, marking the next phase of its pre-IPO access platform as users begin participating in its first offering, preSPAX. The subscription window runs from April 18, 2026, 06:00 to April 21, 2026, 06:00 (UTC), followed by token distribution between April 21, 2026, 06:00 and…
ET Intelligence Group: HCL Technologies (HCLTech) has exited FY26 on a muted note with sequentially lower revenue due to delays in project ramp ups and scaling down of discretionary spending by select clients, shrinking profitability and a three-quarter low total contract value (TCV) of new deals for the March quarter. In addition, the FY27 guidance…
I hope you will come to my first presentation at the MoneyShow tomorrow at 1:40 PM. Please invite all people you know who may benefit. I will talk for 30 minutes about GLBs and my upcoming course with Richard Moglen of TraderLion. You will be able to reserve a seat for yourself for the future…
Vercel, a Web3 infrastructure provider, has finally provided a breather to the crypto community as it announced that no Node Package Manager (npm) package was affected in the attack. For context, npm is like an app store for code, facilitating speedy development by enabling managing and reusing code instead of redoing everything. The confirmation on…
2026.04.20 2026.04.22 Weekly Economic Calendar for 27.04.2026–03.05.2026 Jana Kanehttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/jana-kane/ Geopolitical issues in the Middle East and developments surrounding the Strait of Hormuz continue to drive short-term market trends, even overshadowing the release of key economic data. Nevertheless, during the week of April 27–May 3, 2026, investors will focus on the central bank meetings in Japan, Canada,…
Welcome to the April edition of DivGro 2.0‘s monthly newsletter! Every month, I write a market recap and a summary of my DivGro portfolio as of the last day of the previous month. I also summarize transactions that affected DivGro’s projected annual dividend income [PADI]. DivGro contains 53 positions. Of these, 47 are dividend growth [DG]…
We are waiting for results, patience is key. Note: Please get yourself updated with the current status of this war, as it will update per second; any volatility from the next morning will get the charts to the highest levels. Stay highly cautious. Data: Theme: “The Retail Beat vs. The Geopolitical Wall.” The market…