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IAG, the owner of airlines including British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, reported a 27% rise in annual operating profit to 4.4 billion euros.

Bitcoin fell roughly 17% in February to around $84,000 — the cryptocurrency's biggest drop over one month since June 2022.

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Cryptocurrencies have had an incredible run over the past few months, but that's coming to an end as many altcoins are crashing this week. According to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) had dropped 14.5% over the past week as of 4 p.m. ET, Chainlink (CRYPTO: LINK) was down 15.9%, Sui (CRYPTO: SUI) had fallen 14.9%, and Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA) was down 17.4%. President Donald Trump said tariffs on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico could begin next week and more may be coming.

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Global hedge funds sold more stocks than they bought by the largest amount in a year, mainly driven by their bets that stocks will drop, a Goldman Sachs note showed on Friday. Goldman Sachs said the gloomy sentiment was spread across all geographic regions, but mainly in North America and part of Asia, and was seen in almost all company sectors, except for communications services. In healthcare, net selling by hedge funds was entirely driven by short positions and ranked close to the highest level seen over the past five years.

Democratic politicians are calling for restrictions on politicians profiting from the launch or promotion of memecoins.