The markets: The S&P 500 closed up half a point yesterday at 5,975.38 ... The Nasdaq Composite was up over 1% on news of new chips from Nvidia … Bitcoin is back: trading at the $101,000 level … Europe and Asia markets were in the green this morning ... US futures were largely flat pre-opening bell.
Today: Elon Musk is annoying Europe’s leaders. For weeks, Musk has been using X to hurl insults at them, make (often misleading) accusations of criminality, and rally support for anti-immigration parties in Europe and the UK. Now some of them are pushing back. “Ten years ago if someone had told us the owner of one of the world’s biggest social-media companies would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany, who would have imagined that?” said French President Emmanuel Macron.
