Flash News

TREE NEWS update: SpaceX is discussing the purchase of about 1,200 acres of land managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department that surrounds its launch facilities in the state. The potential acquisition would consolidate land around the company’s Texas launch site. No financial terms or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 closed down 0.06% at 26,756.12 points on Friday but gained about 3.6% over the week. Italy’s benchmark index edged up 0.07%, also finishing the week up 3.6%, while its bank index rose 0.18% for a weekly gain of about 5.2%. France’s index added 0.19% and the UK’s rose 0.42%.

TREE NEWS reports: The STOXX Europe 600 closed provisionally up 0.03% at 664.24 points, gaining about 2.4% for the week, with a sharp rise on Nov. 9 and holding near highs from Nov. 10-13. The Eurozone STOXX 50 fell 0.19% to 6,386.94 but rose about 3.5% over the week, while the FTSE Eurofirst 300 slipped 0.06% to 2,648.13.

TREE NEWS reports: Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment added to its CoreWeave position on a pullback while cutting its stake in Palantir. The move marks a rotation within Wood’s portfolio, buying the AI cloud-computing name on weakness and reducing exposure to the data-analytics company. Position sizes and transaction values were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has launched perpetual futures markets for GRAM, GRASS, QNT and ZRO, the exchange’s Coinbase Assets account said on X on Nov. 13. Retail and institutional traders in certain jurisdictions can access the contracts through Coinbase, Coinbase Advanced and Deribit.

TREE NEWS update: A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck near Kuqa City in the Aksu region of Xinjiang at 00:17 on November 14, according to an automatic determination by the China Earthquake Networks Center. The quake’s epicenter was located close to Kuqa City. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: Mossad Director Roman Goffman arrived in Washington on Friday for talks with senior Trump administration officials on Iran, three people familiar with the matter said. He is due to meet CIA Director John Ratcliffe before traveling to Miami to see White House envoy Steve Witkoff.

TREE NEWS update: European Central Bank Governing Council member and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said another ECB policy action is highly likely, signaling the central bank may adjust rates again. Nagel, who also heads Germany’s central bank, made the comment without specifying the timing or size of any move. The remark points to continued openness at the ECB to further policy steps.

TREE NEWS update: FTSE Russell said Turkey will retain its advanced emerging market classification and will not be placed on its watch list. The index provider said it will continue to closely monitor Turkish market developments and assess the effectiveness of measures already implemented. No timeline for further review was given.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin is heading for a sixth consecutive weekly loss, with the cryptocurrency down 22% so far in 2026. The current slide is shallower than the six-week slump seen in the first quarter of the year. Sunday’s close will determine whether the losing streak extends.

TREE NEWS reports: Advanced Micro Devices shares fell more than 10% on the day, extending losses as the Nasdaq 100 dropped 2.4% and the S&P 500 slipped 1.1%. The declines came as the broader U.S. equity market sold off, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 leading the move lower.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto-related stocks fell Friday as risk appetite cooled and interest-rate concerns weighed on markets, with bitcoin dropping to its lowest level since August. Bitcoin fell as much as 5.4% to $67,628.13. Strategy fell 3.4%, Coinbase 2.6%, Circle Internet Group 2.9%, MARA Holdings 5.0%, Robinhood Markets 4.5%, Riot Platforms 4.2%, Galaxy Digital 4.9% and Bullish 4.3%.

TREE NEWS reports: Russia’s economy expanded 1% year on year in the third quarter, slowing from 1.3% growth in the previous reading. Capital investment rose 6.2% year on year in the quarter, reversing a 6.6% decline in the prior period. The figures point to softer headline growth alongside a sharp rebound in investment spending.

TREE NEWS update: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Federal Reserve should not raise interest rates over inflation caused by an “energy supply shock” tied to the war with Iran. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, speaking on the same network after Bessent’s CNBC interview, pushed back, saying price pressures have accumulated well beyond what high oil prices can explain. The dueling interviews highlighted competing narratives over the U.S. economy ahead of midterm elections focused on inflation and rapid AI infrastructure expansion.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic said error rates across Claude.ai, the Claude API and Claude Code have returned to normal levels, after the services experienced elevated failures. The company said it is continuing to monitor the situation. It did not disclose the cause or duration of the disruption.

TREE NEWS update: Polymarket has opened sandbox testing for Nex, its new Rust-rewritten trading system, DeFi engineering vice president Josh announced on X. Nex has mirrored live production orders in shadow mode for the past week to validate latency, load stability and matching accuracy, but is not yet live. Internal tests show order latency P99 falling to 3.76 milliseconds from 1.55 seconds on the existing central limit order book, though the figure is not end-to-end latency. A four-week shadow test is planned, with launch expected in mid-December.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft said it is seeing encouraging recovery progress following a service disruption, and confirmed there is no indication the outage was caused by malicious activity. The company did not specify which services were affected or provide a timeline for full restoration.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase will conduct scheduled system maintenance on Saturday, Nov. 14, starting around 1 p.m. ET and lasting up to four hours. The exchange said user funds remain safe during the maintenance window, but several products may experience degraded performance. Users can track progress on the official status page.

TREE NEWS update: Germany will raise borrowing by more than €210 billion ($222 billion) next year, the second-highest amount since World War II, after lawmakers on the parliamentary budget committee backed a budget plan early Friday. The package proposes €561 billion in spending and now moves to a full parliamentary vote. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is using the budget to revive his unpopular government following weeks of coalition bargaining.

TREE NEWS update: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins said the data indicate inflation is too high, in remarks to Bloomberg Television. Collins did not specify a policy path in the comments, which add to a run of Fed voices flagging persistent price pressure. The remarks come as markets weigh the timing of the central bank’s next rate move.