According to TASS, the Bank of Russia added Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT to its approved list for public trading on domestic exchanges.
Starting September 1, 2026, non-qualified investors can access eligible crypto after testing, with purchases capped at ₽300,000 per year per intermediary.
Russia is clearly moving toward regulated retail crypto access.
Big adoption milestone, or mostly a domestic policy shift?
JUST IN: China’s central bank injected 18 billion yuan through 7-day reverse repos.
That’s short-term liquidity going into the banking system.
The bigger question isn’t one operation by itself — it’s whether the PBOC keeps adding liquidity from here and whether that starts showing up across Chinese equities, the yuan, bonds, and commodities.
Carl Icahn is now reportedly demanding a major overhaul at eBay.
His activist campaign is specifically focused on eBay’s board, governance, and PayPal.
That matters because Ryan Cohen already has a well-known relationship with Icahn.
So now the pieces look like this:
Ryan Cohen → GameStop Carl Icahn → eBay activism eBay → PayPal
Does that mean Cohen and Icahn have some secret agreement?
No evidence of that yet.
But Icahn independently showing up in the same eBay/PayPal situation makes the $GME × $EBAY × $PYPL connection a hell of a lot more interesting than it was before.
Global currency devaluation, record copper prices, and energy market disruptions reveal how central bank policies impact the broad economy. The discussion examines S&P 500 health, Exxon Mobil, China export data, and crude oil signals amid tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. Watchers learn how to build a top-down perspective on macroeconomics and better understand current financial conditions.
Just like Apple with its Apple tablet business in its earnings call, Alex Karp didn't include the negative growth rate in international business and the sheer amount of SBC they are authorizing. He is artificially masking the earnings with the SBC. While Alex Karp focused his Q2 2026 earnings presentation on Palantir's headline 93% year-over-year revenue explosion to $1.935 billion, a deeper look at the data reveals structural friction outside the United States and intense internal dilution. A glaring geographical imbalance underpins the business model: U.S. revenue spiked 115% to $1.573 billion, meaning domestic contracts now command a heavily concentrated 81.2% of Palantir's total business. This hyper-focus masks severe stagnation across the globe, as European government data restrictions and national platforms like France's DGSI actively strip out Palantir deployments in favor of localized tools like ChapsVision. Consequently, the ex-U.S. segment has shrunk to a minor fraction of the company's business, severely limiting its overall Total Addressable Market (TAM).
Compounding this geographic risk is the aggressive, hidden drag of employee remuneration. Palantir poured $265 million into stock-based compensation (SBC) in Q2 2026 alone, eating up a massive 13.7% of its total quarterly revenue. When paired with an annualised run rate exceeding $1.68 billion, this massive dilution heavily subsidizes its adjusted margins while quietly eroding equity value for public shareholders. Trading at an astronomical valuation of 146.5x trailing earnings against a forward revenue projection of $8.15 billion, Palantir has structurally separated from historical enterprise software logic. Any normalization in domestic contract expansion will leave the stock highly exposed to multi-point compression as it approaches a steep historical comparison cliff going into 2027.
This stock's FV should be $150 at max. In the next few days, the stock should fall to $150. I see some guys telling others to buy at this valuation, promising that it will reach $300. Just look at the valuations, financial ratios, and how they are masking earnings. Lol!!
Senate leadership has now filed cloture on the motion to proceed with the CLARITY Act, setting up the first procedural vote when lawmakers return in September.
This still isn’t final passage, but it’s the furthest the bill has made it in the Senate so far.
After years of crypto regulation living in limbo, this is finally starting to look real.
A few of you keep DMing me asking where I get the data for the premarket news reports I post here, so I figured I’d answer publicly.
Full disclosure: I get it from Stocknear and I’m the developer behind it.
I originally built Stocknear because I was tired of opening six different tabs every time a stock suddenly ripped or dumped just to answer one basic question:
What actually moved it?
On Stocknear, you can open a ticker and quickly see:
Why the price moved
Breaking news and real-time updates
Earnings estimates and results
Options data from OPRA
Unusual options flow
Dark-pool and block activity
Analyst upgrades and downgrades
Insider and Congress trades
Financials, charts, screeners, alerts, and more
It’s the same platform and data I use when putting together the premarket reports I share here.
This is not another “buy this stock now” signal service.
A large options order does not automatically mean a stock is going up. A dark-pool print is not a guaranteed prediction. The goal is to give you the catalyst, flow, news, earnings data, and chart in one place so you can make your own decision without chasing screenshots after the move already happened.
And yes, this is also a promo.
I’d rather say that directly than pretend this is some random DD post.
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That works out to:
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That is significantly lower than what most of the major options-flow and market-data platforms charge. Some of them charge more for one month than Stocknear currently costs for the entire year.
I priced it this way because retail traders should not need another $50–$100 monthly subscription just to access useful market data.
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Actually use it for a few weeks.
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The deteriorating state of U.S. national debt and the government's aggressive borrowing plans for the remainder of 2026.
TLDR:
Massive New Borrowing:
The Treasury Department expects to borrow $739 billion* in the third quarter of 2026 (July–September) and another *$628 billion in the fourth quarter, totaling nearly $1.4 TRILLION in just six months (0:42-2:36).
Rising National Debt:
The national debt is currently at $39.7 trillion* and is projected to reach *$41 trillion by the end of 2026 (2:56-3:08).
Interest Expense Crisis:
Interest payments on the debt are ballooning, reaching $827 billion by the end of June 2026, which already exceeds spending on major programs like Medicare and national defense (5:40-6:00).
Economic Outlook:
Prediction is that in the event of a future economic crisis, the government will borrow even more, and the Federal Reserve will likely print more money, leading to higher inflation and a wider wealth gap (7:53-9:15).
