# NuseReal
Miscellaneous news
9 Highlights from Art Genève 2026 — 3 February 2026 (LINK)
— Mark Westall: "Art Genève continues to prove why it sits in that sweet spot between rigor and discovery. Less frantic than the mega-fairs, more curated than a market sprawl, it rewards looking slowly — and this year delivered a strong mix of sculptural ambition, painterly restraint, institutional presence and a few moments of genuine joy."
Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library: The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years — 3 February 2026 (LINK)
Tether, a blockchain financial services company led by CEO Paolo Ardoino, has stockpiled 140 tons of gold worth upwards of $24 billion and stored it in a former nuclear bomb shelter in Switzerland — 2 February 2026 (LINK)
— Tether has been collecting gold as part of its business plan of selling gold-backed stablecoins called XAUT. A form of cryptocurrency, the way stablecoins are supposed to work is their value is tied to a currency or commodity. The Tether Gold website claims that each XAUT token represents direct ownership of actual gold within the company's Swiss vaults, minus a 0.25% transaction fee of the XAUT's value and other charges.
GOP faces divide on ICE reforms as House struggles to end shutdown — 2 February 2026 (LINK)
Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it, with Amazon contributing to the Trump inauguration and putting a ridiculous $40m behind a regrettable Melania Trump documentary that is leaving seats empty — 2 February 2026 (LINK)
— As a major round of newsroom layoffs is threatened — losses that would further weaken an already decimated staff — Bezos is doing what should be unthinkable.
Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for renovations in July, Trump says, after performers' backlash — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
Carlos Alcaraz makes history with Australian Open title after defeating Novak Djokovic in enthralling men's final: youngest man ever to complete a career grand slam: at 22 years old, Alcaraz now joins an exclusive club comprising of just five other men who have won all four of tennis' grand slams — the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open — in the Open Era — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
Elena Rybakina, 26, the world No. 5, who was born in Russia but represents Kazakhstan, wins Australian Open for 2nd Grand Slam title against top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka — (LINK)
— Rybakina will be elevated to world No. 3 when the WTA's latest rankings land Monday. Since Wimbledon last year, Rybakina has achieved a tour-best 37-6 record, while her latest triumph over Sabalenka extends her consecutive win streak over top-10 opponents to a career-best 10 matches. Sabalenka's loss is the second in succession for her in an Australian Open final. Last year, she was upset by American Madison Keys, also in three sets. Each of the two years prior, she was crowned champion at Melbourne Park.
Melania film earns $8m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade. However 'Melania' fell substantially short of turning a profit because it cost $40m to make and $35m to promote — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
— The Hollywood Reporter said that the Brett Ratner-directed documentary defied predictions that it would bomb "based on empty, or nearly empty, seat maps in cinemas across the country". The film, which follows Melania Trump as she prepared to re-enter the White House in early 2025, was beaten at the box office by two horror films: Iron Lung and Rachel McAdams's Send Help. But it managed to beat out action film Shelter. The Hollywood Reporter described it as an "expensive propaganda doc" and "a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it". In trailing credits, it added, the first lady's achievements are rolled "in such laudatory fashion that North Korea would blush".
Bitcoin's price may have seen 'deepest pullback' at $77K: Analyst — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
Bitcoin's 'hopium' for bulls may be over and this weekend's slide could be just the beginning — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
Wharton study says stock returns aren't random: aggregate stock returns predictably drift, overshoot, and reverse because even sophisticated markets struggle with repetition — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
LA Olympics chief says he 'deeply regrets' emails in 2003 with Ghislaine Maxwell — 31 January 2026 (LINK)
DOJ concludes Epstein files review with release of 3.5 million records: Members of Congress can request to review un-redacted portions of the files — 30 January 2026 (LINK)
Gold and silver plunge, suffering their worst losses since the 1980s — 30 January 2026 (LINK)
Gold price tumbles as Trump's Fed chair pick eases central bank independence fear — 30 January 2026 (LINK)
Bitcoin pulls back to as low as $81,000 as horrendous day continues: sheds nearly $10,000 over 24 hours, now threatening to take out its recent November low of just under $81,000 — 30 January 2026 (LINK)
Brutal selloff! Gold, silver prices crash in exceptionally volatile session: traders lock in profits following Thursday's record-breaking rally — 30 January 2026 (LINK)
— On the MCX, silver futures fell by 3.04% while gold dropped 1.28%, influenced by bearish global markets and a stronger US dollar.
