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🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer says the Clarity Act is "very close" to a deal allowing stablecoin issuers to share yield with holders for the first time, per The Block.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: Washington prepares new tariffs on pharmaceutical imports, piling trade war pressure onto markets already reeling from the Iran conflict with S&P 500 futures down 1.1%.

🚨🇰🇷 JUST IN: South Korea's KOSPI plunges 4%, leading Asian losses as Iran war fears hammer markets from Seoul to Tokyo, where the Nikkei has fallen 1.87%.

🚨🇯🇵 JUST IN: Nikkei 225 drops 1.87%, swinging from gains to steep losses, as Asian markets absorb Trump’s pledge to intensify Iran strikes for 2 to 3 more weeks.

🚨 JUST IN: Bitcoin plunges to $66,877, falling 1.7% below the $67,000 level, as risk assets sell off hard with the Nasdaq 100 down 1.3% after Trump pledged weeks more of intensified Iran strikes.

🚨🇮🇷 JUST IN: Strait of Hormuz traffic has collapsed 90% since Iran weaponized the chokepoint, with the IRGC now running a "toll booth" corridor near Larak Island where ships pay passage fees in Chinese yuan.

🚨🇪🇺 JUST IN: DAX and EuroStoxx 50 futures fall 1.2% and FTSE dips 0.2% as the Iran war selloff spreads to European markets, with S&P 500 futures also down 0.87% and Nasdaq off 1.04%.

🚨 JUST IN: Oil short sellers poured a record $977 million into the ProShares UltraShort crude ETF in March, its biggest monthly haul since the fund’s 2008 inception, while WTI crude has since ripped above $103 per barrel on the Iran war.

🚨 JUST IN: Brent crude spikes 4.3% to $105.50 per barrel with WTI up 3.6% at $103.74 after Trump threatens Iranian power plants and extends military operations 2 to 3 weeks.

🚨 JUST IN: Gold crashes 2% to $4,687 an ounce while silver sinks 3.3% to $72.61, erasing weeks of safe haven gains after Trump signals prolonged Iran military operations.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: Roughly $550 billion in S&P 500 market cap wiped in 25 minutes after Trump pledges weeks of escalated Iran operations, futures sliding 0.8% with Nasdaq down 0.9%.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: U.S. equity futures slide with S&P 500 down 0.54% to 6,582 and Nasdaq off 0.66% to 24,036 as Trump’s Iran escalation drives oil higher and lifts Treasury yields to 4.352%.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN: Betting markets price only a 53% chance Iran operations end this month on Polymarket, despite Trump’s pledge of a 2 to 3 week timeline, suggesting traders doubt a quick resolution.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN: Trump warns he will target Iranian power plants if peace talks fail, extending military operations in Iran for 2 to 3 more weeks with escalated strikes.

🚨 JUST IN: Gold fell 0.6% to $4,728.79 an ounce as Trump's declaration that U.S. operations in Iran are over triggered a sharp reversal from its two-week rally.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: President Trump announces U.S. operations in Iran have concluded, claiming Iran's navy is destroyed, its air force crippled, and the majority of its leadership eliminated.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: Oil prices spiked from $98 to above $101 per barrel as President Trump began his address to the nation on the Iran war.

🚨🇦🇺 JUST IN: Australia posts a A$5.69 billion trade surplus in February, smashing the A$2.85 billion forecast by 100%, with exports rising 4.9% month over month.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: Tesla's Full Self-Driving fleet surpasses 9 billion supervised miles driven, with 64% on highways and 36% in cities, on pace to hit 10 billion by mid-May.

🚨🇺🇸 JUST IN: Moody's assigns a provisional Ba2 rating to New Hampshire's $100 million Bitcoin-backed municipal bond issuance.