Oil prices rise as M.East supply jitters persist
Brent crude oil futures fell 45 cents, or 0.4%, to $110.83 a barrel by 0050 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures were down 27 cents, or 0.3%, to $103.88.
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Wall Street ends at a record high for the first time since mid-August
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market rallied to records on Tuesday as profits kept piling up for companies and as oil prices eased.
Tether Hit With Lawsuit Over $2.76 Million Stablecoin Freeze
Cross-border payments company Conduit is taking Tether to court, alleging the stablecoin giant froze $2.76 million of its money without justification and has refused for more than a year to release it.
Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price
Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2.1, the newest version of the AI model that turns a typed sentence into a picture, or edits a photo you already have.
Big Tech’s Borrowing: ProShares ETF Coming Soon
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the thematic investing topic that keeps on giving. However, artificial intelligence is no longer just an equity narrative. It has officially taken over the corporate bond market. Key Take…
Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free
A developer who goes by hashfunction has posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on the open-source AI repository Hugging Face, free to download. The dataset, published under the datasocial account, r…
Australian Dollar eyes 0.70 as three-day rally meets Fed minutes
The Australian Dollar extends its rally to three consecutive days, up 0.14% on Tuesday, as the US Dollar behaves erratically ahead of the release of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting minutes on October 7. The AUD/…
Bryan Johnson Spent Millions to Reverse Aging. He Says a Filter Works Better
Bryan Johnson, the face of the "Don't Die" movement, just posted the least immortal tweet of his career.
Chinese Yuan: Trade war risk rises on EU-China tensions – Commerzbank
Volkmar Baur at Commerzbank highlights China’s new anti-dumping probe into EU nitrotoluenes as likely linked to broader trade frictions. A Franco-German non-paper urges tougher EU action on dumping, subsidies and curren…
How Does Ripple Use XRP? Custody ‘Gas Station’ Tool Sends XRP Automatically To Cover Fees
Institutions that hold stablecoins or tokenized assets on the XRP Ledger face a small but real problem: every transaction needs a little XRP to pay the fee. Ripple Custody’s documentation describes a tool built to remov…
Circle Welcomes DJ Khaled to 'Team USDC' and Crypto Twitter Is Furious
Circle, the issuer behind the USDC stablecoin, welcomed rapper DJ Khaled to “team USDC” in a post on X on Monday—and Crypto Twitter lost its collective mind. But it’s probably not what it seems.
Crude inventories fall more than expected, boosting oil prices
September WTI crude oil (CLU26) is down -0.19 (-0.23%), and September RBOB gasoline (RBU26) is down -0.0276 (-0.88%).
Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil
Founders Fund has led a $5 million purchase of governance tokens in Anvil, a decentralized finance protocol focused on digital-asset collateral, as the project rolls out new tools aimed at bringing its technology to bus…
Bitcoin Price Faces $75K Risk as Trader Cost Basis Sets Key Test
Bitcoin faces a potential liquidity sweep around $87K before the analystâs projected move toward $75K.
Winklevoss Twins File for Zcash ETF After 13 Years of Bitcoin ETF Bid
Zcash native token ZEC rallies over 5% to around $1,357 following the Winklevoss ETF filing.
Winklevoss-backed Zcash ETF files with SEC for Nasdaq listing
The proposed fund would hold ZEC directly, with Gemini Trust serving as custodian and Winklevoss Capital affiliates eyeing up to a $100 million investment.
Crypto is expanding the boundaries of what can be priced
In its infancy, the crypto sector was bent on creating entirely new types of assets. First came Bitcoin and its derivatives, then Ether and its competitors. Governance tokens, NFTs, and memecoins all followed a formula:…
Canadian Dollar: Range-bound against US Dollar as political risks linger – Scotiabank
Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret report that the Canadian Dollar (CAD) is trading flat against the US Dollar, with markets showing little reaction to Quebec’s provincial election. Political risks re…
T. Rowe Price ETFs: TKNZ Tops Returns, TCAF Draws Most Cash
A crypto fund and a technology fund posted the best September returns among T. Rowe Price ETFs. Investors, however, sent most of their new money to a different set of funds. Key Takeaways: Crypto, technology and growth …
Fed's Daly says more hikes may be needed if shocks persist
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said she supported September’s rate hike and that additional rate hikes may be needed, depending on external shocks.
Is the Uranium Industry Ready for the Nuclear Energy Wave?
Generation mix: coal 1479 TWh (74%); hydro 144 TWh (7%); solar 119 TWh (6%); wind 93.5 TWh (5%); natural gas 58.8 TWh (3%); nuclear 47.9 TWh (2%); biofuels & waste 41.4 TWh (2%); oil 4.2 TWh
ADA Price Breaks Above 200-day EMA as Leverage Builds
Open interest reached $304M, its highest daily close since at least early April.
Bitcoin Falls Asleep, But Privacy Coins Zcash and Monero Are Waking Up
After weeks of Bitcoin turning heads and climbing the charts, the top of the crypto market is now barely moving. Bitcoin trades at $86,264.06, up 0.59% over 24 hours. Ethereum sits at $2,714.39, up just 0.34%.
8 Secrets Top Crypto Marketing Agencies Use to Build Massive Web3 Hype
Web3 hype is built in the weeks before launch day, from narrative, community and proof, and it rarely works when bought on the day itself.