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IBM just posted its worst single-session drop since Black Monday in nineteen eighty seven, after the company pre-announced second-quarter results that missed on both revenue and earnings. The selloff was severe enough to rattle the broader tech sector, though some contrarian investors are already treating the dislocation as a buying opportunity, arguing the long-term thesis remains intact.
Shifting to Washington, the Trump administration is reviving its push to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, a move that would mark an unprecedented step in legitimizing digital assets at the federal level. Markets are watching closely, as any formal government accumulation of Bitcoin would represent a structural demand catalyst with significant implications for crypto valuations and monetary policy optics.
And in the agricultural space, the USDA has issued a major revision to its beef-export sales data, drawing sharp criticism from ranchers and commodity traders alike. One producer described the deterioration in agriculture data quality as, quote, driving another nail into the coffin, raising serious questions about the reliability of the government figures that underpin futures markets and trade negotiations.
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