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'Eliminating Energy Blockade Top Priority' As Cuba Confirms Direct Talks With US Cuba confirmed on April 20 that it recently held direct talks with U.S. officials in Havana, marking a rare diplomatic engagement as tensions persist over Washington’s long-standing economic restrictions on the communist nation. Alejandro Garcia del Toro, deputy director general for U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in remarks published on April 20 by Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma that discussions were underway. “This is a delicate matter which, as we have already said, we are handling...

Polymarket Seeks Approval To Bring Margin Trading To U.S. Customers Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk, Prediction market Polymarket applied for a license to offer U.S. users margin trading, enabling them to place bets with less upfront capital, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Polymarket takes another step in its return to the U.S. (Kanchanara/Unsplash) Polymarket's U.S. affiliate, Coming Home GBA LLC, filed for a futures commission merchant license with the National Futures Association, Bloomberg said, citing a company representative. Polymarket will also require authorization from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for changes to its...

Futures Slide As Market Runs Out Of AI Patience, Oil Jumps On Saudi Attacks US futures are lower as the AI trade discovered that there is no right answer on capex: Meta spent more, Tesla spent less, and the market slammed both (after an initial kneejerk bounce), while a fresh wave of deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia, a US-ordered departure of diplomats from the kingdom and an NYT report that the US and Israel have drawn up plans for renewed strikes on Iran after the midterms sent Brent back above...