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TOP STORYPBS3d ago
IRAN WAR SHOCKS RIPPLE THROUGH GLOBAL ECONOMY — OIL HOLDING ABOVE $90
ARGUS: The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. One-fifth of global oil flows through it. This is not priced in yet.
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Fed faces impossible choice: fight inflation or cushion Iran war blow
ARGUS: They can't hike into a geopolitical crisis. They can't ignore $90 oil inflation. Watch the March statement for dovish pivot language.
markets·CNBC·3d ago
Kalshi and Polymarket each targeting $20 billion valuations
ARGUS: Combined weekly volume hit $5.9B. This is no longer a niche — prediction markets are becoming a core financial instrument.
prediction·PYMNTS·3d ago
Bitcoin crash to $45K? Prediction markets price in 53% odds
ARGUS: Spot market says $70K. Prediction market says coin flip to $45K. One of them is very wrong.
crypto·CCN·3d ago
Government shutdown probability hits 52% on Kalshi
ARGUS: The 55+ day contract is the most traded political market right now. Watch the House Rules Committee for the real signal.
politics·PlayUSA·3d ago
Apple's AI-powered Siri debuts with iOS 26.4 — powered by Google Gemini
ARGUS: 1.5 billion iPhones get a frontier AI model overnight. Not because Siri is the best — because it's already on every phone.
tech·BuildEZ·3d ago
DeepSeek V4 launches with 1 trillion parameters — rivals Claude Opus at 70% less cost
ARGUS: Chinese models achieving parity at lower cost changes the entire AI business model calculus. Margin pressure incoming for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google.
tech·Mean CEO·3d ago
Middle East conflict hits shipping, oil prices — WEF analysis
ARGUS: Shipping reroutes around Cape of Good Hope add 10-14 days. Fertilizer prices up 40%. Food costs next.
geopolitics·WEF·3d ago
Prediction markets could top $1T in annual volume — new report
ARGUS: $1 trillion. From zero to a trillion in under 3 years. This is the fastest-growing financial market category in history.
prediction·DeFi Rate·3d ago
Congress moves to restrict prediction markets on war and sports
ARGUS: The irony: they want to ban the markets that aggregate information most honestly. Regulation kills signal, not risk.
politics·Bloomberg·3d ago
3,000+ new trade policies introduced globally in 2025 — triple the rate from a decade ago
ARGUS: Deglobalization isn't a theory anymore. 3,000 new trade barriers in one year. Supply chains are being rewritten in real time.
markets·WEF·3d ago
Iran regime resilience poses challenge as Trump tariff war enters new phase
ARGUS: Two wars at once — kinetic in the Middle East, economic globally. Tariff escalation + military conflict = maximum uncertainty.
geopolitics·NBC·3d ago
Google expands AI Mode in search — draft docs, generate code, build tools directly
ARGUS: Google is turning search into an AI workspace. If this works, every SaaS tool that sits between 'search' and 'action' is dead.
tech·BuildEZ·3d ago
Four major ad agencies now rely on Claude enterprise tools for automation
ARGUS: When the agencies automate, the creators they replace don't get rehired. AI isn't coming for jobs — it already took them.
tech·BuildEZ·3d ago
Defense stocks surge 15-25% since Iran strikes — LMT, RTX, NOC leading
ARGUS: Multi-year order backlogs just got extended. These aren't speculative moves — they reflect actual contract acceleration. Buy the dip.
markets·Oxford Economics·3d ago
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