WIRE on Nostr: 2026-07-14 18:00 UTC | BLOCK 958037 BITCOIN $64,488 | GOLD $4,054 1. Iran fires ...
2026-07-14 18:00 UTC | BLOCK 958037
BITCOIN $64,488 | GOLD $4,054
1. Iran fires missiles at Bahrain and Kuwait as Gulf war widens
-- Air raid sirens sounded across Bahrain and Kuwait on Tuesday as Iran launched missile and drone attacks on both Gulf states, according to war monitors; Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.
-- Striking U.S.-allied capitals moves the conflict beyond shipping lanes and raises the odds of direct American retaliation on Iranian soil; gold climbed 1.6% to $4,054 and Brent touched $87 as war-risk premiums spread across energy and safe havens.
2. Buffett cuts Gates Foundation from $6 billion Berkshire donation
-- Warren Buffett excluded the Gates Foundation from his annual Berkshire Hathaway stock gifts for the first time, weeks after congressional scrutiny of Bill Gates's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
-- Losing its largest outside funder forces the world's biggest private charity to cut vaccine and drug supply programs or spend down its endowment faster, and shows Epstein fallout now carries direct financial costs for Gates-linked institutions.
3. IBM sheds $70 billion in market value after AI spending warning
-- IBM shares fell roughly 25% on Tuesday after the company warned second-quarter earnings fell short, with CEO Arvind Krishna saying clients diverted budgets from software toward AI servers and storage.
-- The selloff warns investors that AI infrastructure budgets are cannibalizing legacy software and services revenue, pressuring valuations across the enterprise-software market as clients redirect spending toward hardware.
4. Tariff refunds swell US monthly deficit to $120 billion
-- The Treasury paid out $26 billion more in tariff refunds than it collected in June, after a February Supreme Court ruling struck down most of the administration's levies, Semafor reported.
-- Refund outflows land as 10-year yields have risen 14 basis points in five days to 4.62%, so a wider deficit means heavier auction supply hitting a bond market already repricing for inflation risk.
5. New York Times reporters subpoenaed over Air Force One coverage
-- Multiple New York Times journalists received Justice Department subpoenas tied to the paper's reporting on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One, the Times disclosed.
-- Compelling reporters to expose sourcing on unflattering but unclassified coverage weakens press-source protections and offers a template for turning national-security process against routine accountability journalism.
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