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The Japanese Yen has a second buyer nobody will name

Thursday's record Yen defence is the story everyone has written. Friday is the one that matters, because the Dollar has been sold in three separate lurches since the Tokyo morning, nobody has claimed any of them, and th…

WTI Oil recovers above $83 ahead of OPEC meeting

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) US Oil trades higher on Friday, rising 0.76% to around $83.30 after staging a sharp rebound from an intraday low below $80.00. The Crude Oil has erased some of its weekly losses and is on t…

Gold slides as US yields surge, keeping $4,100 out of reach

Gold price tumbles nearly 1.50% on Friday as the US Dollar recovers some ground after Japanese authorities intervened in the foreign exchange markets a day ago, driving the Greenback to a 30-day low before recovering, a…

Crypto faces 3 barriers to next bull run, STS Digital CEO says

Institutional investors selling options, capital rotating into artificial intelligence and delays to U.S. crypto legislation are three of the powerful headwinds holding back price gains in digital assets even as Wall St…

The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders

Talk about crypto trading with any savvy trader, and the first thing that comes up these days is perpetual futures, or “perps” — derivatives contracts that allow traders to control a much larger position than the money …

Quantum computing nears commercial breakthrough, IBM CEO says

Quantum computing may be approaching its biggest milestone yet: generating meaningful commercial revenue, according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who said the technology is close to becoming a business rather than simply a…