🇹🇼📉❗️ — Republic of China (Taiwan) stock market trading halted, circuit breaker triggered.

#BREAKING
🇭🇰📉❗️ — Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slumps 9.1%

#BREAKING
🇭🇰📉❗️ — Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech Index falls 23% from March High!

🇭🇰📉❗️ — Cantonese e-commerce giant Alibaba Express and Baidu both down by 12%

🇨🇳📉📝 — Southern China's CHINEXT Index (Shenzen-based Stock exchange's subsidiary) falls 6.8%, despite promises of Chinese Government intervention

🇸🇬📉❗️ — Singapore stock market down over 7%

🇨🇳💸📉 — 📊 First Squawk on 𝕏:

"YUAN WEAKENS, DRAGGED BY FEARS OF CHINA-U.S. TRADE WAR
-WSJ"

#Geoeconomics

🔗 First Squawk (@FirstSquawk)

🇪🇬🇮🇱 After Israel violated the Peace Treaty in May 2024, Egypt decided to deploy hundreds of tanks, APCs, anti-aircraft systems, and artillery into Sinai, particularly in the Egyptian City of Rafah, which is located within Zone C as outlined in the treaty's security annex.

https://fxtwitter.com/EGYOSINT/status/1908896962327310470

🇺🇸📝 Smug Doomposting: "There's a good article waiting to be written on how American institutions (esp. political) are using anime aesthetics to legitimize/support their agenda, and how this in itself is a confession that domestic cultural entertainment is both bankrupt and less popular."

🔗 Smug

🇺🇸 REPORTER: "Is there pain in the market at some point you're unwilling to tolerate?"

TRUMP: "I think your question is so stupid. I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something — and we have been treated so badly by other countries."

🔗 Rapid Response 47

🇺🇸🪖🇪🇨 Blackwater founder Erik Prince joins security operation in Ecuador

Erik Prince, founder of the controversial security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, joined in law enforcement operations on Saturday in Guayaquil, one of Ecuador’s most violent cities, according to local officials.

The operations saw 10 houses raided and 40 people detained, Ecuador’s Interior Minister John Reimberg said.

Prince also said in a video posted by Ecuador’s Defense Ministry that he was in the country “providing the law enforcement and the military the tools and the tactics to effectively combat the narco-gangs.”

The aim, Prince continued, is to “put the narcos on their back heels and make them truly afraid of being caught.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/05/americas/erik-prince-ecuador-intl-latam/index.html