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Mobility
Used EV values hold up better than expected, depreciation gap narrows 80 percent
Used electric vehicles may be losing value less than the leasing and finance industries assume, an analysis showed. Data for 2025 used-car transactions in Germany, France, Italy and Spain put the depreciation gap between battery EVs and internal combustion cars at 12.9 percentage points. After adding variables omitted from previous calculations, the gap fell to 2.6 points. T&E said subsidies, taxes, inflation and vehicle configuration account for much of the difference, with new-EV price declines narrowing it further.
Crypto
Bitcoin checkpoints to watch this week; $65,000 is key level
Bitcoin rose to $63,960 ahead of the weekly close, its highest level in about two weeks, as markets watched a break above $65,000. The rebound coincided with short liquidations of just over $100 million across the crypto market. Traders flagged $60,400 to $60,900 as a key support zone. U.S. equity futures opened higher after a holiday, while upcoming releases include FOMC minutes, purchasing managers indexes and additional jobs data.
AI & Enterprise
AWS to raise prices 20 percent for AI cloud GPU reservation service
Amazon Web Services will raise prices by about 20 percent from July for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a core AI cloud product, Business Insider reported on Friday. AWS raised prices for the product by about 15 percent in January. The service lets companies reserve GPUs in advance to keep workloads from being interrupted and is used for large AI projects. Price increases are spreading across big tech, with high-bandwidth memory supply shortages cited.
