Inflation data, consumer confidence: What to know this week. Investors this week are poised to receive several key economic data reports offering the latest look at the state of inflation in the U.S., with investors and consumers alike jittery at the prospects of rising prices during the post-pandemic recovery. Heading into this week's PCE report, a number of other inflation prints have also exceeded expectations, pointing to an increase in both consumer and producer prices. Government data showed that headline consumer prices surged by a faster than expected 4.2% last month. Excluding food and energy, prices jumped 0.9% in April and were up 3.0% over the year. And producer prices also came in higher than expected, with core producer prices rising 4.1% in April over last year versus the 3.8% increase expected. These stronger-than-expected increases could portend some upside risk to this week's PCE print, some economists suggested.

The world of cryptocurrency is a strange one. Indeed, anyone who put money in a new cryptocurrency project called DeFi100 was in for a bit of a surprise this weekend: When they visited the website for the service, they saw nothing more than a message informing them they’d all been scammed. According to Financial Express, the total amount allegedly absconded with is in the range of $32 million. But the people behind the project have since denied any wrongdoing, even claiming they’d never had any investors fund the project in the first place.

It all started when a short but shocking message appeared on the project’s website. “We scammed you guys and you can’t do s*it about it,” it read, adding, “HA HA. All you moon bois have been scammed and you can’t do s*it about it.” The message was attributed to one “DEVSIN,” and a message at the bottom drove it all home further: “F*CK YOU MOONBOIS.

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