Bitcoin's Sharp Decline Pulls Crypto Market Down; Musk Raises Alarm On FAA Workforce Gaps; Nvidia's Stock Dip Seen As Buying Opportunity – Top Headlines While The U.S. Slept

Crypto

• Bitcoin Will Still Hit $500,000 Before Trump Leaves Office, Standard Chartered Analyst Maintains
• Bitcoin Plummets Below $80,000, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Get Hammered As Crypto Crash Continues
• Bybit’s Mega Ethereum Hack Sparks Hard Fork Divide—A Choice Between Preventing Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Ambitions And Blockchain Immutability?
• MSTR Stock Falls Over 3% In Friday Pre-Market: What’s Going On?
• DeFi Adoption In Emerging Markets Faces User Experience Hurdles, Says Okto Wallet CEO Rohit Jain
• Dogecoin Scooped By Whales In Large Numbers As Memecoin Plunges Further: Analyst Says Rally Toward New Highs On The Cards If DOGE Crosses This Level
• TRUMP, Dogecoin, PEPE Type Memecoins Not Securities, Says The SEC But Fraud Related To Offer And Sale Subject To Enforcement
• Bitcoin, Ethereum Lose, Dogecoin Gains Amid Trump’s Tariff War Moves: Has BTC Hit A Bottom Yet?

US Markets­­­­­­­­

• US Stocks Likely To Open Higher Following A Sell-Off, ‘This Choppy Start To 2025 Isn’t Abnormal. Don’t Panic,’ Says Expert Highlighting Seasonal Weakness In The First Quarter After Elections
• Nasdaq Tumbles Over 500 Points As Nvidia Plunges Post Q4 Results: Investor Sentiment Declines Further, Greed Index Remains In ‘Extreme Fear’ Zone

US Politics

• Trump Administration Looking To Slash HUD Workers Tackling Housing Crisis Could Deepen Affordability Problems
• Elon Musk Calls On Retired Employees To Return To Work At FAA: ‘There Is A Shortage Of Top Notch Air Traffic Controllers’
• Microsoft Urges Trump To Avoid This Critical Mistake In Global AI Race, Cautions It Will ‘Give China A Strategic Advantage’
• Trump Plans ‘Big Deals’ To Offset China’s Belt And Road Initiative: US Wants To ‘Reverse All Of That’, Says Rubio
• Michael Saylor Presents ‘Digital Assets Framework’ To House Committe, Pitches For US Supremancy In Bitcoin, Crypto

World Politics

• Panama Explores ‘Novel Ideas’ For Its Shuttered Cornerstone Mining Asset
• Palantir CEO Alex Karp Meets Keir Starmer As UK PM And Trump Push For Increased Defense Spending Amid Ukraine War

US Economy

• Federal Reserve’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Marks First Slowdown In 4 Months

World Economy

• Asia Markets Slide, Europe Extends Losses; Oil Drops On Tariff Concerns – Global Markets Today While US Slept

Tech

• ARM’s Big Bet On Malaysia: Can The Nation Meet The Challenge?
• IonQ CEO Fires Back At Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘We Remain The 800 Pound Guerrilla’
• Alibaba Expands AI Intern Workforce While DeepSeek Slashes Model Prices in Market Battle
• Nvidia Stock Is A ‘Buy On The Pullback, Says Top Analyst, Considers Earnings As ‘Great But Not Extraordinary’
• Nvidia Wipes $375 Billion Of Investor Wealth In 2025: ‘Margin Of Error Razor Thin,’ Says Analyst Reiterating ‘Buy On Dips’ Call
• Alkami Technology Beats Q4 Estimates, Strengthens Digital Banking Platform With $400 Million FinTech Acquisition
• Tim Cook’s Apple Is Developing New Technology To Help Social Media Apps Determine If Users Are Under 16
• Dell Technologies Projects $15 Billion AI Server Revenue For FY26, Raises Dividend By 18% Amid A Mixed Quarter     
• This Is As Good As It Gets For Nvidia:’ Analyst Says Jensen Huang-Led Chipmaker’s Explosive Growth May Have Peaked As NVDA Stock Falls 13% This Year
• SoundHound AI Says Polaris Speech Recognition Model Outperforms Google, OpenAI: Company Forays Into Energy Sector With 7-Figure Deal
• Nvidia Chips Smuggled To China? 3 Men Charged In Singapore Amid US Export Crackdown
• Sam Altman Calls It ‘Magic’ As OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-4.5: ‘Feels Like Talking To A Thoughtful Person To Me
• Google Implements Layoffs In HR And Cloud Divisions As AI Investment Accelerates: Report

Electric Vehicle

• WeRide’s Robobus Rolls Out In France With Renault & Beti Backing: Details
• Tesla Cybertruck Inventory Swells Despite Discounts, Falling Short of Elon Musk’s Vision
• Tesla Rival Xiaomi Slashes Luxury EV Price By 35% To Challenge Model S, Porsche In China
• Waymo Offering 200,000 Robotaxi Rides Per Week, Says Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: ’20x Growth In Less Than 2 Years’   

Consumer

• Pearson Reports Mixed FY24, Expands Partnership With Amazon

Communication

• Trump Media Stock Craters 70% From Highs: Is There Any Floor Left?
• TikTok Invests $8.8 Billion in Thailand Data Centers, Bypassing US-China Tech Tensions

Industrial

• Flight Or Fright? Poll Reveals Whether Plane Mishaps Hurt Air Travel In 2025
• Frontline Q4 Earnings: Revenue Beats, But EPS Sinks—CEO Cites ‘Unusually Soft’ Market

Healthcare

• Generic Drugmaker Amneal Clocks Mixed Q4 Earnings, Plans Expansion In High-Growth Areas Like Weight Loss Products, Biosimilars

Financial

• Legendary Investor Warns US Stocks Are Reaching Dangerous Levels, Sounds Alarm On ‘Super Bubble’—Is A Market Correction Coming?
• Activist Investor ValueAct, Once Linked To Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft Exit, Bought Meta, Visa, Sold Spotify In Q3: A Smart Bet?

Space

• China’s Tiangong Space Station To Host First Non-Chinese Astronaut In Coming Years, Pakistan Selected: Report
• Rocket Lab Unveils ‘Flatellite:’ Low-Cost, Mass-Producible Satellite To Target Large Constellations Amid Weak Q1 Guidance
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX Receives FAA Approval For Starship’s 8th Flight Test: Here’s When It Is Scheduled

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