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Global Payments: Significantly Undervalued But Affected By The Persian Gulf Conflict

Ripple survey finds 72% of finance leaders see digital assets as essential

Stablecoins and custody lead adoption priorities, with firms focusing on how to build or source digital asset infrastructure.

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Refugee Council questions Australia’s Iran strategy at Women’s Asian Cup

Women's Asian Cup hosts Australia face criticism for the political tug of war over the Iranian women's football team.

DD: Alaska Airlines ($ALK) – Puts on 4 year cyber leak left unpatched

Ticker: $ALK Positions (proof: https://imgur.com/sgHeFzw): 400x ALK Apr 17 2026 $32.50 Puts @ $0.59 Current $0.90 250x ALK Apr 17 2026 $37.50 Puts @ $1.09 Current $2.50 500x ALK Apr 17 2026 $40.00 Puts @ $1.45 Current $3.82 200x ALK Apr 17 2026 $45.00 Puts @ $2.63 Current $7.50 Total value at risk: ~$440k Shouted about this before. If you'd listened then you'd be well in the money. Nothing to do with Iran - trust me bro. Since then I haven't sat still. I've found lots more mischief: I Found Some Sellers Six different ones. Deep in the Dark Web? only if that is what we are calling Facebook these days - just a basic search. One of them claims selling 60 Alaska accounts a week. They show off similar pricing: $120 for 220k miles. That is enough miles for 4 peeps on flats bed across the Atlantic. I Followed the Money Sellers offer up crypto wallets. Follow this one yourself: 0xA7964B5b406f439Dd527eAB89604e437E968D827 Goes all the way to 100s of millions heading into Binance. An organised crime racket. I Found The Reason for the PIN Lock Victims get forced into using a verbal PIN after they have been hacked. Why? Password changes don't do anything if a villain is in your account. Try it yourself: Log into Alaska in two different browsers. Change your password in one of them. Refresh the page in the other. Observe you are still fully logged in on browser 2. You can keep that rogue session alive for a long time. I Found Out Hackers Don't Need Passwords Session cookies are wide open at they don't have HTMLOnly. Obviously you don't know what that means, but any rogue chrome extension, or any rogue cookie in the system, means they skip the password bit and are in an account any time they like. I Found Plenty More Junk But this is enough to know the loyalty programme valued at $12 billion on a market cap of $4.5 billion is not locked down. The Play Probably go longer dated that I am. Puts FTW. Positions (proof: https://imgur.com/sgHeFzw): 400x ALK Apr 17 2026 $32.50 Puts @ $0.59 Current $0.90 250x ALK Apr 17 2026 $37.50 Puts @ $1.09 Current $2.50 500x ALK Apr 17 2026 $40.00 Puts @ $1.45 Current $3.82 200x ALK Apr 17 2026 $45.00 Puts @ $2.63 Current $7.50 Total value at risk: ~$440k ETA: Full analysis here. submitted by /u/NorthcoteTrevelyan [link] [comments]

Removing Sanctions on Iran’s Crude Isn’t an Easy Fix for Oil Prices

The potential lifting of US restrictions points to the White House’s scattergun approach in trying to bring down prices at the pump.

Better Investment to Buy Now With $2,500 and Hold for 10 Years: XRP vs. Gold or Silver

Only two of these assets are winners over the long term.

Banco Santander names new CEO as Mario Roberto prepares for exit

Give me the bull case

US is on track to surpass WW2 debt to GDP ratio in next few years easily All US fund managers are balls deep invested at ATH lol with little money to buy dips: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/VT68UeYQXR Stagflation is on the horizon (inflation is sticky and looks like it will continue like even disregarding the Iran war which is gonna accelerate it + we have job losses now in the OFFICIAL numbers EVEN WITH BOOKS BEING COOKED, though anyone trying to get a new job in 2025 knew the economy was fked already)... This means Fed cannot do QE very easily and even if they do you cannot really print your way out of Stagflation, plus I doubt QE will be a magic bullet that stops mass layoffs and white collar offshoring in America and this whole K shaped economy that is teetering despite consumer spending STILL being 70% of GDP BTW even if companies love to pretend B2B business is all that matters... Lol, lmao even Private credit and venture capital is in the shit hole being over leveraged to the balls on GPT wrapper dogshit startups OR on SaaS that is being rerated lower from 48493944x PE ratio (see like Atlassian stock, Figma stock, Asana stock, basically any fucking SaaS stock even MSFT or NOW which are blue chip SaaS lol)... (look at $KKR or $APO stock and all of YC's and 16z's and etc.'s investments) Circular financing deals and debt that must see a return eventually for AI bubble spending, I'm talking both the AI labs and all the infrastructure providers (if this debt has to be paid back, stocks that were at ATH will be sold to do so btw)... You can't use ChatGPT or Claude forever while burning tens of billions of $$$ annually... Uber and Spotify and all these unicorns did it for years, but the magnitude of their capex burn into an oven to do so was nothing compared to OpenAI and Anthropic.... Mango is in office, non zero chance bro gets a stroke randomly in next 4y or like does other regarded shit to fk the economy over more and accelerate all of above said reasons (I'm ignoring the case where Citrini research scenario materializes and AGI comes OR Agentic Ai is good enough to automate most or all white collar white too, but that is a nonzero probability bonus case you can consider if you want, I think that's far away so I'm neglecting it) Tell me what is bullish for US stocks in the remainder of the 2020s? Like genuinely idk?? The only thing i can think of is stocks are not as overpriced as in 1928 or 1999 from like a P/E or forward P/E looking basis... Otherwise I can't think of any? Positions: cash and shares (for me individual shares of random shit is nearly the same as cash because being down 20 or 30% in a bear market is nothing and I'll just dca leverage then lol) submitted by /u/PrthReddits [link] [comments]

Bungled $50m Aave trade highly unlikely to be money laundering, experts say

Suspicions that the swap blunder could be an elaborate money laundering scheme aren’t unfounded.

SAP CEO Says Defense Industry Sales Are Fastest Growing Business

SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Christian Klein said the defense industry has become the company’s fastest growing business line as military budgets soar around the world.

Ermenegildo Zegna reports FY results

Bowman Consulting enters $146.7M contract amendment with U.S. government agency

Cardano, XRP, Ethereum and Other Altcoins' Popularity Collapses: Does Anyone Need Them?

Altcoins are no longer the top choice for investors, as we see a rapid tumbling of activity on top exchanges.

Lily Allen's West End Girl portrait goes on show at National Portrait Gallery

The painting by Spanish artist Nieves Gonzalez was used on the cover of the singer's latest album.

Bitget CFD Volume Tops $6 Billion in a Day

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Oil Inches Higher as Iran Strikes Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery

Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery was hit by Iranian drones early on Friday in attacks that caused a fire in several units at the facility, as the war in the Middle East shows no signs of de-escalation despite the most recent U.S. and Israeli rhetoric.      The refinery, which is located 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Kuwait City and has the capacity to process 346,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, came under drone attacks in the early hours of Friday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said in a statement…

Macy's is selling $301 blush pearl and white sapphire stud earrings for only $72

Shoppers say they are "beautiful" and get "many compliments."

Best Healthcare Stocks to Buy After the Market Pullback

They have the means to recover from recent setbacks.

Feast-or-Famine Credit Markets Lure Deal Seekers to New Debt

Credit investors are scoring some of the highest new issue concessions in years. That’s because companies that seize the occasional window for bond offerings are competing to entice buyers who want to be compensated for a growing list of risks.

Investing in aliens? Government websites soon to be launched by Homeland Security

Oil prices could surge past $180 as Middle East conflict disrupts global supply - report

Gemini Crypto Sued Over Post-IPO Strategy Shift and Stock Decline

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Fire experts ‘kept awake’ over growing hazard of lithium-ion batteries

Fire service warns ubiquity of batteries in everyday products is outpacing public understanding and safety regulations Lithium-ion batteries represent a new technological hazard that one fire science expert has said keeps him awake at night, as fire service chiefs warn the ubiquity of the batteries in everyday products is outpacing public understanding and safety regulations. The blaze that devastated a historic building in Glasgow and resulted in the continuing closure of Central Station, Scotland’s largest rail interchange is believed to have started in a shop selling vapes, which are powered by lithium-ion batteries. The latest data reveals a sharp increase in battery-related fires across Scotland, while firefighters in London attend an e-bike or e-scooter fire every other day. Continue reading...