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Navid Mahmoodzadegan, who stepped into the chief executive role at Moelis last October, has described a "return to normal" in the Middle East following months of the Iran War. The global investment bank has been a key player in the region with a history of advising Gulf transactions including the Aramco IPO. Mahmoodzadegan, also the company's co-founder, told Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua that the company is committed to the Middle East over the long-term.

US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $648.64 million in net outflows on 18 May 2026 as Bitcoin fell sharply from its mid-May highs.

Home Depot missed sales expectations at locations open at least a year, rising 0.6% in the latest quarter, as muted housing demand and high borrowing costs limited consumer spending on improvement projects. Drew Reading of Bloomberg Intelligence has more.

Cameron Dawson, CIO at NewEdge Wealth, sees the pullback in tech stocks as "perfectly normal and perfectly prudent," but warns that "a simple correction in those names back to trend could be damaging for the overall market-cap weighted index."

US President Donald Trump said he called off a new bombardment of Iran planned for Tuesday after Persian Gulf allies wanted more time to pursue diplomacy. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television.

Strategy and Blackrock are now separated by fewer than 27,000 BTC as both institutions move closer to a possible one million bitcoin milestone.

Goldman Sachs International co-CEOs Anthony Gutman and Kunal Shah discuss the outlook for Europe's capital markets, risks facing the global economy and the race to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure. They speak on Bloomberg Television.

Tether has made an undisclosed investment in LemFi to expand the use of USDT-powered cross-border payments for migrant communities and international remittance users.

Swan Bitcoin has been sued by the post-bankruptcy litigation trust for Prime Trust over allegations it withdrew nearly $1 billion in assets using insider knowledge shortly before Prime Trust collapsed in 2023.

Lawyers involved in a federal court dispute over Trump administration layoffs apologised after submitting fabricated quotations generated by Anthropic’s Claude AI system in a legal filing.

Vitalik Buterin said artificial intelligence could ultimately strengthen cryptocurrency security if developers combine AI-generated code with “formal verification,” a method that uses machine-checkable mathematical proofs to confirm software behaves correctly.

AI Financial warned in a new SEC filing that there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operating within the next year despite holding a $706 million treasury of locked WLFI tokens.