Trump Walks Back Plans to Bomb Iran, Claims Deal Has Been Reached

Kalshi & Polymarket's Combined Volume Reaches All-Time High In July, Topping $50 Billion Authored by Danny Park via TheBlock.co, Kalshi and Polymarket saw their combined trading volume soar to a new all-time high in July as prediction markets continued to gain steam around the World Cup. According to The Block's data dashboard, Kalshi, Polymarket, and Polymarket US posted $50.59 billion in combined monthly trading volume in July, marking a 7.8% increase from June's $46.95 billion monthly volume. Kalshi remained in the lead, and recorded $37.7 billion in the past month. This marks a 14% month-over-month growth. Notably,...

Russian missiles and drones targeted multiple Ukrainian cities on Sunday, killing at least six people, in strikes that came a day after a Ukrainian drone barrage killed eight people in Russia. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its forces intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions on Saturday. Local officials said that seven people were […]

No Laughing Matter By Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank In her State of the Union speech, European Commission President Von Der Leyen summarized that the European Union is stronger than ever, but that the state of the Union is also as precarious as it has ever been. Speeding up the overhaul of the Single Market is an imperative in this context. She acknowledged that the European Union is under attack, both economically and physically: “hybrid threats facing Europe are less and less hybrid and less and less threats. The...