2026-02-11 02:00 UTC | ⛏️ 935981

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1. Bitcoin drops below $70,000 amid deleveraging
-- Bitcoin fell 19% in a week to mid-$60,000s due to 20% futures open interest drop from $61B and $2-2.5B liquidations.
-- Signals market stress with -2.88σ from 200-day average but orderly unwind without structural crypto failure.

2. S&P 500 erases yearly gains in rout
-- S&P 500 turned negative for 2026 on Feb 6 after three-day selloff wiping $1 trillion amid sector rotation to energy up 14%.
-- Reflects shift from tech dominance to cyclicals as 65% of components outperform, challenging AI-driven rally.

3. US captures Venezuela's Maduro
-- US military captured President Nicolas Maduro and wife in early January intervention sparking oil policy shifts.
-- Led to 13% crude oil surge and US sanctions lift on Venezuelan oil, reshaping energy geopolitics.

4. Russia strikes Ukraine energy infrastructure
-- Russian drones and missiles hit power stations causing nationwide emergency outages across Ukraine.
-- Exacerbates winter energy crisis amid stalled peace talks, testing global alliances.

5. NVIDIA unveils Rubin AI platform
-- Rubin delivers 5x Blackwell performance with Vera CPU, Rubin GPU for agentic AI and trillion-parameter models.
-- Accelerates enterprise AI factories, intensifying hardware race amid Big Tech spend surge.