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U.S. recession risk near 50 percent; can bitcoin repeat 2020 rebound?

As concerns about a U.S. recession grow, attention is turning to whether bitcoin can stage a rebound similar to 2020. Data cited by CryptoQuant contributor Axel Adler Jr puts recession odds near 50 percent. Moody’s Analytics lifted its 12-month probability to 48.6 percent and Goldman Sachs raised its estimate to 30 percent. Kalshi shows 36 percent. Analysts also cite a U.S.-Iran war and a surge in oil prices as key drivers.

Finance

Foreigners extend KOSPI selling to sixth session; weekly outflows top 10 trillion won for first time

Foreign investors extended net selling of KOSPI spot shares to a sixth straight session, with daily selling of more than 1 trillion won. Weekly cumulative net selling exceeded 10.1 trillion won, a first in South Korea’s stock market history. The Korea Exchange cited about 3.5 trillion won of net selling on March 26. The report pointed to Middle East instability and semiconductor concerns, alongside higher oil prices.

AI & Enterprise

Mistral releases open-source voice-generation AI model

French AI company Mistral has released an open-source text-to-speech model called Voxtral TTS, TechCrunch reported on March 26. The model can be used for voice AI assistants and customer support solutions and will compete directly with ElevenLabs, Deepgram and OpenAI. Voxtral TTS supports nine languages and can run on edge devices such as smartwatches, smartphones and laptops. It can create custom voices from samples under 5 seconds.