2026-02-14 04:00 UTC | ⛏️ 936483

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1. Bitcoin crashes 50% from peak
-- Bitcoin dropped from $126k October 2025 to ~$66k February 2026 amid institutional selling and deleveraging.
-- Signals end of post-election rally, tests crypto maturity amid volatility below prior bears.

2. Munich hosts Ukraine-Russia peace talks
-- Trump announced high-level US-Russia-Ukraine meeting February 14 at Munich Security Conference with Vance, Rubio attending; Zelenskyy denies direct Russia talks.
-- Could yield ceasefire amid ongoing strikes, but risks excluding Ukraine and favoring Moscow.

3. Strong US jobs delay Fed cuts
-- January jobs beat expectations, lowering unemployment but cutting rate cut odds to 60% by June; stocks wobble, 10-year yield at 4.17%.
-- Signals resilient economy risking hotter inflation ahead of key CPI data.

4. AI hardware race intensifies
-- NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin platform post-Blackwell with H300 GPUs for trillion-parameter models; AMD launches Ryzen AI 400 at CES 2026.
-- Accelerates enterprise AI scaling, challenging NVIDIA dominance in data centers.

5. Inflation cools to 2.4% YoY
-- US CPI rose 0.2% MoM in January, down from 0.3%; core at 0.3% with energy decline offsetting gains.
-- Eases Fed pressure but stalls retail sales, influencing rate path amid strong jobs.