2026-02-16 11:00 UTC | ⛏️ 936889

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1. US CPI Falls to 2.4% YoY
-- Headline CPI eased to 2.4% vs 2.5% expected, down from 2.7%; boosts Fed rate cut odds to 50% for third 25bp cut in 2026; Treasury yields drop 5bp.
-- Signals cooling inflation, supporting earlier Fed easing and risk assets amid macro uncertainty.

2. Bitcoin Rebounds Above $70,000
-- BTC recovers from $60K low to $70,215 after 30% February drop, driven by soft CPI and rate cut bets; market cap tops $1.4T.
-- Ends capitulation, revives crypto risk appetite post-selloff from $120K peak, with institutional flows stabilizing.

3. Russian Drone Kills 15 in Dnipro
-- Russian drone strikes minibus of mineworkers in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing 15, injuring 7; amid escalated infrastructure attacks.
-- Heightens Ukraine energy crisis with nationwide outages, prolonging war's humanitarian toll.

4. AMD Launches Helios AI in India
-- AMD-TCS deploy 200MW Helios rack-scale AI architecture for Indian enterprises, accelerating sovereign AI factories.
-- Boosts India’s AI scale-up, enhances efficiency in training/inference amid global compute race.