The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 337.36 points Friday, closing at 45,622.75 amid persistent worries over the U.S.-Iran conflict and a sharp rise in oil prices that heightened inflation concerns and clouded the o…
Gold is doing something counterintuitive on Friday, June 12: falling while almost everything else rallies. Spot bullion traded near $4,185 an ounce, down roughly 0.7% on the day, and was on track to lose more than 3% fo…
The USD/CAD pair is seen oscillating in a range during the Asian session on Thursday and consolidating its recent losses to a four-week low, touched the previous day. Spot prices currently trade just below mid-1.4000s, …
Researchers found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives to manipulate spot prices around contract settlement, proposing longer settlement windows as a potential fix.
The Port of Los Angeles reported its best June ever for shipping container traffic, an increase in ocean freight that port executives described as a tariff whipsaw effect, with shippers racing to beat President Trump's …
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find security vulnerabilities in its language models.
On the surface, the recently released June reading of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) appears cut-and-dry as it relates to the Federal Reserve’s near-term plans for interest rates.
The EUR/USD advances some 0.41% on Wednesday, trading at 1.1466 after US inflation data was softer than expected, weighing on the Greenback, as market participants expect a less hawkish Federal Reserve. Towards the end …
I models eat up a lot of memory. A 27-billion-parameter AI model, considered medium-sized by industry standards, needs roughly 54 GB of memory to run on half precision. Most laptops can't hold that. Some desktop rigs ca…
Commerzbank’s Dr. Henry Hao notes that China’s Q2 2026 GDP growth slowed to 4.3% year-on-year, below Beijing’s 4.5%-5% target and consensus expectations. Fixed-asset investment contracted sharply, while June industrial …
Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL) each rose roughly 3–4% on Wednesday after William Blair—a Chicago-based investment bank founded in 1935 that most equity investors know from tech and growth coverage—released a note sla…
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base App, handing responsibility for the product back to Coinbase while shifting his full attention to growing Base as a blockchain for global finance.
Concentration risk may have been overshadowed by major geopolitical events this year, but it hasn’t gone away. Indeed, the big AI hyperscalers remain a significant part of portfolios, but with that comes risk. Were AI t…
OCBC’s Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong expect Asian FX to trade with a better tone after softer United States (US) core Consumer Price Index (CPI) reduced near-term Fed hike expectations and pressured USD. However, e…
Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak said he is stepping back from leading the Base app after acknowledging that his bet on an onchain social economy failed to drive crypto adoption as he had expected.
In this episode of The Morning Filter podcast, co-hosts Dave Sekera and Susan Dziubinski discuss the latest developments in the Iran war and what investors should be monitoring. The stock market hit new highs last week;…
Cable spent the London morning drifting, printed the session low at 1.3381 shortly after 10:00 GMT, and then spent the New York afternoon repricing the entire Dollar complex. The Pound trades near 1.3540 at writing, up …
The rules governing global commodity markets are starting to witness a profound shift, which is putting critical minerals at the forefront of policy. On a recent episode of ETF Guide’s Metals in Motion, Justin Tolman, S…
The USD/CHF breaks a rising wedge, tumbles over 0.62%, and trades near three-day lows on Wednesday. The pair clears the July 14 swing low of 0.8067. At the time of writing, the pair trades at 0.8041.
USD/JPY has spent Wednesday doing an impression of volatility without any of the substance. The pair climbed to 162.42 through the London morning, was knocked down to 161.90 by the New York afternoon, bounced back to 16…
The US Dollar (USD) is under strong selling pressure on Wednesday, yet action around XAU/USD is muted. The Greenback found near-term demand at the beginning of the day, but changed direction following the release of the…
ING’s Chief Economist for Greater China, Lynn Song, notes that China’s second-quarter GDP growth slowed to 4.3% year-on-year from 5.0% in the first quarter, the weakest pace since late 2022. Despite growth averaging 4.7…
United Overseas Bank’s Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann note USD/SGD reversed its New York-session plunge after softer United States (US) Consumer Price Index (CPI), closing near 1.2910. UOB's Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nomin…
Bitcoin miners spent the past decade building out cheap electricity and heavy-duty power infrastructure. Now, some of the biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world are paying billions of dollars to use…