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Amanda Cooper
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Reuters journo and markets geek🤓 Running🏃‍♀️ books📚puzzles 📝dogs 🐕assorted random stuff. Live in London with husband and kids.
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🎧Knock, knock.... Mr Gravity is paying #bitcoin a visit this week! On today's episode of @reuters.com Morning Bid, we talk about:
🪙Bears are circling crypto
💴US traders are taking their cues all the way from Japan
🚗 Tesla sales plummet in key European markets

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Gravity knocks on Bitcoin's door
December isn’t feeling so merry for Wall Street.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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🌞Morning! There's a bit more stability today, after yday's bond battering. Futures are pointing to a small uptick. EZ inflation later
🪙BTC ⬆️0.8% at $87,177
🥈SILVER: ⬇️1.5%, not far off $58.83 ATH
☠️UK OBR head quits over budget leak
📺 Warner Bros gets mostly cash offer from Netflix
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Bond and bitcoin selloff leaves stocks unsteady
Stocks made muted gains and traders were wary on Tuesday, following a slide in cryptocurrencies and a global bond selloff triggered by a looming interest rate hike in Japan.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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🪙 #Bitcoin bulls are having a "case of the Mondays" today as BTC slides 5% below $90K, as one bearish factor after another adds up today. #BTC buyers like Strategy and crypto-related stocks like Coinbase and Riot getting hit in today's premarket.

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Bitcoin drops 5% below $90,000; bearish factors rack up
Bitcoin fell below $90,000 on Monday, as a selloff gathered pace following the steepest monthly decline since mid 2021, as renewed risk aversion drove investors out of stocks and digital assets.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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😁 Happy Friday! Having decided to take social media stuff more seriously, here's why I have done ZERO social-mediaing today:
Trading is back up and running after an hours-long #outage on CME. There's never a dull moment in this job!
🪙🛢️💵🌽📈

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Global futures reopen after exchange operator CME hit by hours-long outage
Global futures markets were thrown into chaos for several hours on Friday after CME Group, the world's largest exchange operator, suffered one of its longest outages in years, halting trading across s...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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💼If you're still reading up on y'day's #Budget take a minute to read this great story on how the OBR's early forecasts stole Reeves' thunder from my splendid colleague @bruceandy.bsky.social who wrote/co-wrote SEVENTEEN stories y'day!

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UK watchdog's early budget release steals Reeves' thunder, stirs markets frenzy
Britain's fiscal watchdog apologised for publishing details of Rachel Reeves' budget early on Wednesday, a blunder that stole the finance minister's chance to reset the political narrative after month...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🌞Morning! Hopefully (🙏🙏🙏) a more sedate day today with #Thanksgiving and after the #Budget! JPY traders watching for any signs of intervention from the BOJ, while stocks happy to tick higher in the absence of any new catalysts.
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Stocks gain on Fed easing hopes, yen locked in intervention zone
Asian stocks rose on Thursday and the dollar was soft on growing expectations of an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve next month, while the yen remained on intervention watch, with traders we...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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😱 #OBR releases forecasts early, showing #Reeves will raise an extra GBP26.1 bln a year in tax
💷GBP briefly up to 1.32 before dipping to 1.3134
💰UK5Y yields now up 3bps at 3.965% from low of 3.935%
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November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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🌞Morning! The day we've all been "waiting for" is here. #Reeves will test the faith of #markets and voters with her #budget later.
💷GBP ⬆️for a 5th day vs USD (more about Fed than UK)
📈FTSE closed at 1wk high y'day

Keep calm and... well, do whatever you have to!

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November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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🎙️Check out @reuters.com new Morning Bid podcast, where we bring you a quick hit of the top markets news, 7 days a week!
📈Alphabet nears $4 trillion
💵 Fed cuts look like a dead cert, but the dollar is steady
🛍️ Black Friday is here, what might retail sales data show?
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November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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👋After a veeeery long absence, I'm back on Bluesky - partly for selfish reasons, as I have a new work project to promote - but also because it is a great source of markets intel and debate!
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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🥵 What a couple of weeks it's been. I've covered markets for +25 yrs and even in 2008 & 2020, I've never seen anything like it. Not posted here at all as it's so full-on. Here's a great take on the rollercoaster from my colleagues Dhara Ranasinghe & Tom Westbrook
👇🏻

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Ten trading days that shook financial markets
The pain, said Shuntaro Takeuchi, was 10 out of 10.
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April 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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🤯 Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I've had quite enough internets today...
Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. membership to British Commonwealth: ‘Sounds good!’
Trump indicates willingness to have America become 57th Commonwealth member
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March 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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😒More good news out of the UK.... the ONS says it will pause production of PPI data because of a methodology problem.

"This problem affects the years from 2008 onwards. However, the main impact on annual producer price inflation rates is seen in 2022 and 2023." - ONS statement
March 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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✈️🔥Follow the latest on the Heathrow fire with our Live Pages team here!
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Heathrow Airport Fire Live: Flights disrupted as Europe's busiest hub closed
The closure diverted flights around the world.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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🌼 Happy 1st day of Spring! It's a little jittery out there. The most-used word in this week's slew of cenbank statements HAS to be "uncertainty". It's a light data docket so in other news:
🔥Huge fire shuts Heathrow
🚗Tesla trade-ins set for record
⛏️Trump says to sign Ukraine minerals deal soon
March 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Amanda Cooper
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A fire broke out at a substation near London’s Heathrow Airport, sending fireballs into the night sky, a video obtained by Reuters shows.
March 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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😶‍🌫️ Uff...

"Tesla accounts for a large portion of recalled vehicles in the U.S. In 2024, Tesla topped the list for U.S. recalls with its vehicles accounting for 5.1 million call-backs, according to recall management firm BizzyCar."

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Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle
Tesla said Thursday it is recalling nearly all Cybertrucks in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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💷 Bank of England leaves rates unchanged at 4.5% (vote split 8-1) and warns against assumptions rates will fall over the coming few meetings as policymakers grapple with 'global trade policy uncertainty'
Market reaction is a bit "meh🤷‍♀️" so far
📉GBP -0.3% at $1.2958
📉GB10 -4 bps at 4.587%
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Turkey detained 37 suspects for allegedly making ‘provocative posts inciting crime and hatred’ over the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Minister said reut.rs/4hn4viT
Turkey detains 37 people over social media posts on detained Istanbul mayor
Turkey detained 37 suspects for allegedly making "provocative posts inciting crime and hatred" over the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Minister said on Thursday.
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March 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🌞Morning! Another day, another central bank deluge! The Fed struck a pretty neutral tone leaving the dollar up a touch but 2025 rate expectations little changed.
💵Turkey lira steady
💷UK wages +5.9% in 3m to Jan
💰Gold hits record $3057
🏦Next up: SNB, Riksbank, BOE
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Morning Bid: Central bank baton passes to Europe
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee
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March 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Reposted by Amanda Cooper
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Outside Istanbul’s main police headquarters, where Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political rival, was taken after his detention on the early hours of March 19 youtube.com/live/_3aXW-u...
LIVE: Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu detained at Istanbul police headquarters
YouTube video by Reuters
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March 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🍦I guess you could say he got frozen out....

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Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever decided to oust ice cream maker's CEO
Ben & Jerry's said its parent, Unilever , decided to oust the ice cream maker's chief executive, Dave Stever, escalating a battle over the subsidiary's independence on social policy issues.
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March 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Exclusive: US suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin
Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump Administration pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
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March 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🚨TURKEY: Erodgan's main rival detained on charges of corruption in what the opposition say is "a coup against our future president".
📉 Lira fell as much as 14.5% before recovering a bit; USD bonds and stocks hit hard, worst daily slides for both since mid/late 2023

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Turkish authorities order detention of Istanbul mayor, some 100 others
Turkish authorities ordered the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and about 100 others, including journalists and businessman, as part of a corruption investigation, the Sabah news website said on Wednesday.
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March 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🌞Morning! I've been off for a week but markets are THE story right now so I haven't missed much! This week's central bank bonanza has kicked off and next up> the Fed
🕊️Putin agrees to halt attacks on Ukraine energy system
💶EUR at 5m highs after German spending vote
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Tighter credit, slower spending by better-off households may further cloud Fed outlook
Tumbling stock markets and signs of tightening credit may make the Federal Reserve's job even more difficult this week as U.S. central bank policymakers try to weigh whether consumer spending will suffer as households take stock of the potential blow to their net worth and greater difficulty in obtaining loans.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM