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TREE NEWS reports: Moderna’s market capitalization surpassed $100 billion ahead of its quarterly earnings release, with the stock last up 9.5%. The move higher came before the company reported its quarterly results.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell to about $75,600 as midterm election results came in, then climbed past $81,000 on Wednesday, forcing out hundreds of millions of dollars in bets against crypto. The rebound squeezed short sellers who had positioned for further declines during the midterm dip.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rebounded after Democrats won control of Congress in the midterm elections, but the crypto industry now faces a tougher fight in Washington. A market structure bill remains stalled, and heavy industry campaign spending has exposed crypto’s vulnerability to shifting US political power.

TREE NEWS reports: ICE UK natural gas futures fell 5.22% in late European trading on Wednesday, Nov. 4, hitting a session low of 214.360 pence per therm. The TTF benchmark Dutch gas contract dropped 8.85% to a session low of 85.655 euros per megawatt-hour. ICE EU carbon permit futures edged up 0.32% to 90.22 euros per tonne.

TREE NEWS update: OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais said on November 4 that international energy transport and insurance costs have risen sharply since the start of 2026 and now exceed one-third of the value of crude oil itself. The higher freight and risk costs are feeding through the oil and energy supply chain, adding to the economic burden on producers and consumers and intensifying global inflationary pressure.

TREE NEWS reports: President Donald Trump is consulting advisers on whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should leave his post, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis seen as a potential successor. Trump has not yet decided whether to replace Hegseth. No timeline or final decision was given.

TREE NEWS update: ApeChain plans to switch its cross-chain infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, including upgrades of APE and USDC to Chainlink Cross-Chain Tokens. The announcements did not specify holder migration steps or a shutdown date for the legacy bridge.

TREE NEWS update: The Israeli military and Shin Bet said in a joint statement that an airstrike on Gaza City on the 1st killed Abu Saeed, the operations chief of Hamas’s military intelligence unit, who had previously held Israeli captives. The military said Abu Saeed had held senior Hamas roles for years, including commander of the group’s anti-tank battalion. No further details were given.

TREE NEWS update: Privacy Cash paused deposits after Elliptic traced about $1.2 million in theft-linked ETH and SOL into its pools. The team said withdrawals remain open. The move follows the Binance hack, with the traced funds tied to the incident.

TREE NEWS reports: WTI crude oil fell below $90 a barrel on Thursday, extending its intraday decline to 6.35%. The move marks a sharp one-session drop for the U.S. benchmark, which has now lost its footing above the $90 level.

TREE NEWS reports: The MSCI Nordic Countries Index rose 1.5% to 412.43 points, its largest single-day gain since June 12, when it closed up 1.8%. The financial sector posted the biggest advance among the index’s ten sectors. Pandora led individual Nordic stocks with a 10.9% gain.

TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury auctioned four-month bills at a stop-out rate of 4.090%, with a bid-to-cover ratio of 3.26. The sale drew demand at that yield.

TREE NEWS reports: Brent crude oil fell as much as 5.0% intraday on the day to trade at $98.31 a barrel. The move marks a sharp single-session decline in the benchmark, which is closely watched by macro and crypto markets alike. No further details on the drivers of the drop were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 rose 2.58% to 26,531.65 points in preliminary closing data, while France’s index gained 2.4% and Britain’s added 1.99%. Italy’s benchmark index rose 2.52%, with its bank index climbing 5.5%, the strongest sector move among the major European markets.

TREE NEWS reports: The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed provisionally up 2% at 58.60, with the banking sector gaining 4.8%. The eurozone STOXX 50 rose 2.35% to 6,289.04, while the FTSE Eurofirst 300 advanced 2.11% to 2,628.05.

TREE NEWS update: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday adopted amendments to its rules defining which registered investment companies, investment advisers and business development companies qualify as small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The change updates the thresholds used in the agency’s rulemaking cost analysis. The SEC did not specify the new thresholds in its announcement.

TREE NEWS update: Democrats have won control of the U.S. Senate, blocking President Trump’s path to reshaping the Federal Reserve by denying him the votes to confirm loyalists to the seven-member Board of Governors. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is expected to chair the Senate Banking Committee and could stymie nominees seen as overly compliant with White House pressure. The result may give the Fed and Chair Kevin Warsh more room to raise rates to fight inflation. The U.S. stock rate-cut winners index rose as much as 5.69% to 98.99 points.

TREE NEWS update: BNY Investments chief economist and former senior Federal Reserve official Vincent Reinhart said the U.S. Senate has always served as a check on the White House, noting that opposition voices emerged over how the Powell issue was handled, which shows how fragile the situation was. He added that the outcome of the midterm elections will make all of this even more difficult.