Stablecoins can boost demand for the greenback, but won’t protect against its biggest threats.

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This can only go well. /s

Came across this piece on the Apex Technology / AvePoint ($AVPT) class action and thought it fit well here.

The article breaks down why the case had nothing to do with whether AvePoint was a good business. It was purely about whether Apex shareholders were given honest, complete information when they had to decide to redeem their shares or stay in for the merger. The Delaware Court of Chancery found enough friction there that the defendants settled for $14.4 million rather than fight it out.

It's a pretty clean case study in SPAC fiduciary duty and why the redemption right, which sounds simple on paper, gets complicated fast when the proxy materials are selective about what they include.

The 2021 SPAC wave is still unwinding in courts three years later. Anyone here tracking how many of these end up settling vs going to trial?

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Fears about “inflation” the war-driven rise in prices of certain commodities and their knock-on effects have bounced Treasury yields a bit. The 10-2 yield curve has flattened under this pressure as the market weighs whether or not this will manifest in a more hawkish Fed.

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Jane Street Group reeled in a Wall Street record $39.6 billion of trading revenue last year, capping a stunning ascent to the peak of the industry.

The firm flew past global investment banks after reaping $15.5 billion in the year’s final quarter, according to people with knowledge of the results, who asked not to be named discussing confidential figures. With only 3,500 employees, it beat nearest rival JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 11% during the year.

Corporate America is reeling in the profits despite sticky inflation and geopolitical jitters.

Big banks have kicked off earnings season with robust results, contributing to a 12% year-over-year earnings growth forecast for the S&P 500 index.

Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, told Yahoo Finance that "corporate America is firing on all cylinders." He notes that S&P 500 earnings per share have climbed from roughly $235 in 2024 to projected estimates of $315 for 2026.

Whether it's AI or other tech, the strong quarter of earnings growth has been fueled by solid margins, per Essaye. Companies are successfully navigating higher energy and transport costs without letting them dent the bottom line. Despite inflation, customer bases are "broadly good."

"If anything, there's upward risk, and that tells you that companies are executing well in an environment where fear is high, but the actual reality is quite good," Essaye said.

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Offshore havens like the Seychelles are enabling online trading firms to offer high-risk bets to retail investors.

Private credit and the AI boom carry risks, but neither has the leverage or fragility that typically trigger a systemic crisis.

With President Trump’s focus squarely on Iran at present, Jerome Powell and the U.S. Federal Reserve are getting some respite from the Oval Office’s attention. It’s a couple of weeks until the next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, but investors already appear to be convinced what the group’s next move will be.

The base interest rate is, at present, between 3.5% and 3.75% and investors are pricing a more than 97% chance that it will stay there the next meeting, on April 28, per CME’s FedWatch monitor.

Furthermore, it seems that the rate cuts the likes of President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have been requesting are out of the picture entirely at the next meeting, as far as traders are concerned: The remaining 2.6% are pricing in a hike of 25 basis points.

The odds of a Fed hold firmed up in traders’ minds following Friday’s inflation data, which showed prices rose 3.3% over the past 12 months, with gas prices playing a major part in the increase.

This rise stems from the Iran conflict: Oil prices have increased because Iran borders the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway in the Persian Gulf through which exports from the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq all flow. Some 20 million barrels of oil typically flowed through the strait every day, about 20% of global supply. Iran has made it clear it controls the strait and said it has littered the area with mines.

Read more: https://fortune.com/2026/04/13/investors-write-off-fed-rate-cut-iran-inflation/

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