Buy now, pay maybe? This new crypto card brings ‘the casino to the checkout line’
Financial products have been increasingly adding gamelike features that create competition or instant gratification to keep users hooked.
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Ometto Weighs Buying Cosan Farm Assets Instead of Funding Raízen
Billionaire Rubens Ometto is considering acquiring part of the farmland portfolio held by Radar, Cosan SA’s land management unit, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could derail the entrepreneur’s plans to inject fresh capital into Raízen SA.
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Oil shocks have historically triggered major market selloffs. Deutsche Bank says the Iran war is missing 3 key ingredients.
The red flags warning of a bigger pullback for stocks and other assets that are perceived to be riskier have not yet appeared, Deutsche Bank analysts said.
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Horizons Middle East & Africa 5/19/2026
Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)
Deutsche Bank’s Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks
A live conversation on keeping up with the news cycle.
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The Fight Against Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Bloomberg Investigates spends a year following a group of lawyers as they sue the Department of Homeland Security and scramble to help free those arrested under Donald Trump’s immigration policies. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Odd Lots: How Traders Keep Up With the News Cycle (Podcast)
It is hard to have a markets conversation that isn’t out of date within a minute or two. But we think this one, with Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal of Deutsche Bank, is basically evergreen. This conversation, recorded at our live show at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, is all about fundamentals: How Tarman, DB’s vice chair of global macro, and Singhal, the firm’s head of EM trading across rates, FX and Credit, make sense of conflicting headlines, whether the rally in tech stocks is to be believed
Global Inflation Weighs on G-7 as Higher Bond Yields Persist
Global finance chiefs are coming to terms with the new economic reality that a consumer-price shock they had hopes of skirting is looking likely to endure.
Ruble Tops Global Currencies as Putin Reaps Iran War Oil Gain
Russia’s ruble has muscled its way to become the world’s best performer against the dollar so far this quarter, buoyed by a surge in foreign currency receipts from oil sales following the outbreak of war in the Middle East.