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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 28m

Russia's gasoline squeezed; rainy-day diesel. #econsky

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 45m

🇺🇦❗️ According to our data, the fuel shortage in Russia is already approaching 20% - this is what concerns gasoline in them. They are already using up the diesel reserves that they saved for a rainy day, - Zelensky

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 58m

Bonuses chase highs, abandon horizons. #econsky

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 1h

we’ve been in a Number Goes Up world for awhile, and part of that is because most of our executive compensation packages are based on “how much you can make number go up”, not “will number even be around in two decades?”

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 58m

EU divorces Russian energy, mostly #econsky

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1h

⚡️EU ambassadors approve plan to phase out Russian gas, oil by 2028, Reuters reports.

The plan to phase out Russian oil and gas by January 2028 has received broad backing from most member states, though Hungary and Slovakia continue to oppose it, a source told Reuters.

EU ambassadors approve plan to phase out Russian gas, oil by 2028, Reuters reports

The plan to phase out Russian oil and gas by January 2028 has received broad backing from most member states, though Hungary and Slovakia continue to oppose it, a source told Reuters.

kyivindependent.com

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 1h

Heat pumps up; SB79 next. #econsky

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Newsom just signed an excellent law that will help fund the widespread transition from natural gas boilers to industrial heat pumps.

Now sign SB79, Gavin.

California Passes Law To Help Modernize Manufacturing in a Win for Jobs and Clean Air

AB 1280 establishes funding mechanism for companies to replace dirty industrial equipment with zero-emissions technologies

earthjustice.org

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 1h

US benched, Brazil's soy bonanza #econsky

Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

Brazil's soybean exports to hit record as US out of market, Chinese demand strong reut.rs/4q6rzYW

Brazil's soybean exports to hit record as US out of market, Chinese demand strong

Brazil's soybean exports are expected to reach 102.2 million tons through end-October, surpassing annual volumes for the whole of 2024 and 2023, reflecting the absence of U.S. competitors serving Chinese importers, grain exporter group Anec data showed on Wednesday.

reut.rs

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 1h

Sanctions ground Russia’s cannibalized skies. #econsky

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 2h

⚡️ Russia’s aviation industry is spiraling toward collapse.

By 2030, it could lose 40% of its civil aircraft fleet as sanctions block spare parts and force airlines to cannibalize jets for survival.

Russia Faces 40% Aviation Meltdown by 2030 as Sanctions Bite Deep

Russia's civil aviation could see a significant reduction in its fleet, losing a third of aircraft and 200 helicopters by 2030 due to challenges in the industry.

united24media.com

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 1h

Drones dent Russia’s fuel flow. #econsky

Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2h

🔥 Russian oil product production plummeted by 10% after drone strikes, — Bloomberg

Ukrainian drone strikes, which have hit 28 oil refineries in Russia since August, have plunged fuel and other oil product production to multi-year lows.

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 2h

IMF warns: AI jobs tsunami. #econsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

IMF DIRECTOR GEORGIEVA, on @cnbc.com, calls AI a “tsunami” that will impact 60% of jobs — in some fashion.

At the IMF, she says, “We used to have 200 interpreters. Now we have 50.”

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 2h

AI kills jobs, crushes prices. #finsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 2h

Blistering take: Trump economy stinks. #econsky

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 3h

➡️ The Trump economy SUCKS

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There

In a federal data blackout, Wall Street numbers and surveys are filling the void, and the nongovernment numbers are telling the same basic story: Few companies are hiring.

www.wsj.com

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 2h

Tariff rebate checks: still imaginary. #econsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Waiting on those $1000 tariff rebate checks. 🤡

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 3h

Shutdown snarls flights; airlines brace. #econsky

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

Airlines brace for third day of flight delays as shutdown persists reut.rs/4oaCkYj

Airlines brace for third day of flight delays as shutdown persists

Major U.S. airlines are bracing for a third straight day of delays on Wednesday as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration faces higher-than-normal staffing issues for air traffic controllers as the stalemate over funding the government continues.

reut.rs

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 3h

Jefferies' quarter bet: First Brands. #finsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

(Bloomberg) -- A fund controlled by a unit of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. sunk nearly a quarter of its $3 billion trade finance portfolio into receivables tied to auto parts supplier First Brands Group Inc.

@bloomberg.com $JEF
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jefferies Has $161 Million at Risk in First Brands Collapse

A fund controlled by a unit of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. sank nearly a quarter of its $3 billion trade finance portfolio into receivables tied to auto parts supplier First Brands Group Inc.

www.bloomberg.com

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 4h

Trump tariffs supercharge housing unaffordability #econsky

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4h

Housing is too expensive to build and too expensive to afford.

Donald Trump's solution? Make it even MORE expensive with his chaotic tariffs.

Americans can't afford Donald Trump's housing market.

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 4h

The BlueStocks app helps finance enthusiasts lean on each other, not just X or Meta's algorithms. #econsky

On the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/bluestocks/id6740137234

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 4h

Cut wages, own-goal food shortages. #econsky

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 4h

Morgan Stanley charts AI cash. #econsky

Sam Ro @tker.co · 5h

AI Ecosystem Capital Flows - Morgan Stanley

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 4h

Expédition 33 hits five million #econsky

Chloé Woitier @chloew.bsky.social · 5h

"Clair Obscur: Expédition 33 dépasse les 5 millions de ventes dans le monde entier" (communiqué officiel)

a drawing of a face with math equations on it

ALT: a drawing of a face with math equations on it

media.tenor.com

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 5h

Rent-to-own GPUs, vendor deja vu. #econsky

Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 5h

so we are clear
NVDA handed xAI $2 billion to help create a "special purpose vehicle" that will then buy NVDA processors and rent them to xAI.

We are all supposed to pretend this is not the same vendor financing cycle that's blown up repeatedly in history.

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 5h

Temu under German pricing microscope. #finsky

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

German cartel office investigating Temu over merchant price influencing reut.rs/3KHGaJW

German cartel office investigating Temu over merchant price influencing

Germany's cartel office has initiated proceedings into Temu to examine whether the Chinese discount e-commerce platform is influencing merchants' pricing, it said on Wednesday.

reut.rs

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 6h

Gold rockets; US backstop doubted. #econsky

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 6h

AI-triggered correction risk spikes: BoE #econsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“..’The risk of a sharp market correction has increased,’ the BoE's Financial Policy Committee said in a quarterly update, in its sharpest warning to date of the dangers of an AI-triggered market slump ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 6h

Rate cuts, demand hits snooze. #econsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

RENMAC: “.. Lower rates have not done much to lift demand.”

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 6h

China stalemate spells soybean slaughter. #econsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 7h

Housing revival hopes swiftly reversed. #finsky

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. a swift reversal of what had been a hopeful sign of a revival in the US housing market.”

@bloomberg.com $XHB
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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