US stocks rose on Friday on upbeat economic data 

Gold rallied to a three-month high 

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Trump floats military operation to lower interest rates (ES)

US business activity grew at the fastest pace in four years (BBG)

US hit Canada with 50% tariffs after trade talks failed (RT)

US long bonds risk deeper selloff without clear Warsh guidance (BBG)

Trump did not direct Bessent to intervene in bond market (RT)

Bessent's bond maneuvers give global debasement trade new life (BBG)

EM trade notches longest run since 2008 (BBG)

Private credit makes big pivot as direct lending funds shrink (BBG)

Corporate AI debt surge tests investor limits as fatigue emerges (RT)

Juicy yields draw junk bond 'tourists' to high-grade AI debt (BBG)

Quant hedge funds suffer worst day since 2024 on Bessent intervention (FT)

US buyers snap up Europe asset managers at fastest rate in decades (FT)

Goldman and JPMorgan are among the most bullish on Europe (BBG)

Apollo reveals data breach after hackers target financial firms (RT)

JPMorgan poached BofA's David Fishman as head of technology M&A (RT)

Anthropic's best model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (FT)

OpenAI cut developer pricing for GPT-5.6 by 20% (RT)

TikTok settled for $400M with US over child privacy concerns (NYT)

SEC charged ex-BofA senior banker with $18M insider trading (RT)

Josh Kushner tripled his wealth in one year to $17B (FRB)

Brands are 'maxxing' and 'mogging' as they adopt controversial trend (WSJ)

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Italian lender BMPS launched separate all-stocks bids totaling $40B ‌for rival Banco BPM and wealth manager Banca Generali to repel a hostile takeover by Intesa Sanpaolo

Nvidia will acqui-hire AI startup Poolside for $6B and also invest $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation

A consortium backed KKR agreed to takeover Aussie insurance broker Steadfast Group for $5.5B for a 50% premium, which will include specialty insurance distributor Amwins ​acquiring Steadfast's underwriting agency unit and Dragoneer Investment Group buying its broking unit

Indonesian telecom tower company Dayamitra Telekomunikasi is set to revive a ~$5B merger with rival Tower Bersama Infrastructure

Vista Equity Partners is weighing a sale of private markets software firm Allvue Systems at a $3B valuation, including debt

Malaysia ruled out a $1.9B acquisition of ID and passport supplier Datasonic Technologies 

Dutch PE firm Waterland Private Equity is in early talks to takeover $1.2B-listed UK telecom services provider Gamma Communications 

Nvidia is in early talks to acquire Korean AI chip designer Rebellions

African conglomerate Dangote Group offered East African countries a 30% equity stake in a planned $5B refinery for the region

Perplexity is in talks to raise funding from Nvidia at an over $30B valuation

Alibaba-backed Chinese robotics startup Dexmal is in talks to raise a round at a $3B valuation

Starcloud, an orbital data center and in-orbit AI inference startup, raised a $250M Series A extension at a $2.3B valuation led by Manhattan West 

MarginEdge, a restaurant management and finance platform, raised an $80M Series D led by Schooner Capital and Ten Coves Capital

VC-backed coffee chain Blank Street raised a $75M round at a $650M valuation from investors including General Atlantic

Multiplier, an AI-powered data platform and coding agent infrastructure for the asset management industry, raised a $6M seed round led by Lux Capital

Nvidia invested in data center power developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure

Alibaba is seeking to raise 10.2B in a share sale

Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to raise $4.9B in a China IPO following in the footsteps of rival CXMT's record listing

Samsung's battery unit Samsung SDI will sell $3.2B worth of Samsung Display shares back to display maker

UK AI cloud firm Nscale is seeking to raise $3B in a US IPO

SHEIN is seeking to raise $1.8B at a ~$27B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO

Bitcoin treasury firm BSTR terminated a $1.5B merger with Cantor Equity Partners I amid market woes

India's HDFC Bank raised a record $1.75B in an overseas bond sale

Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers is seeking a $237M loan 

Creditors to collapsed property developer China Evergrande are likely to recover only 2% of $45B owed

Citadel offloaded over 80% of all stakes it acquired from Situational Awareness last month

Binance is facing new scrutiny in crypto-friendly UAE haven

Crypto exec goes missing four years after predecessor went missing

Ray Dalio recommends gold and Bitcoin as debt crisis gets closer

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@RealNickMugalli shared a rare interview clip of Scott Bessent, where he discusses his career path and market philosophy. Highly insightful if you want to understand how he thinks and the logic behind his recent policy decisions.