S&P 500 Snapshot: Index Wraps Up Best Week Since April With Record Close
The S&P 500 capped off its best week since April with a record close, ultimately finishing with a gain of 3.6%. This marks the second straight weekly advance.
Finance
China: Credit demand and liquidity trends – DBS
DBS Group Research anticipates China’s credit demand to stay weak in July, with new Yuan loans around RMB 10.8 billion and M2 growth at 8% year-on-year. Corporate and household medium- to long-term lending are likely to…
Trump-Backed American Bitcoin director Justin Mateen buys nearly $2 million of ABTC stock
Justin Mateen, a director of the board at American Bitcoin (ABTC), the mining company backed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s family, purchased nearly $1.93 million worth of the company's stock over two consecutive trad…
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchanges It Says Laundered Millions for Iran
The U.S. Treasury just sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions for Iran's Revolutionary Guard—naming one operator who ran the scheme from Georgia and the UAE, and a second platform based in Iran.
Singapore: GDP revision and forecast upgrade – DBS
DBS Group Research expects Singapore’s final 2Q26 GDP to be revised up to 5.9% year-on-year and 1.3% quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted, driven by stronger manufacturing and services. With first-half growth above tr…
GBP/JPY Price Forecast: Rebound holds above 200-day SMA
The British Pound retreats against the Japanese Yen, down about 0.24%, as the Yen is poised to end the week on a higher note. However, GBP/JPY is poised to finish the week with minimal gains, trading at 212.64.
Trump Media pulls back from crypto, scraps Crypto.com's CRO token treasury deal
Trump Media (DJT) is unwinding parts of its crypto push, including scrapping plans to establish a publicly traded CRO token accumulation company, which it unveiled near the height of last year's digital asset treasury b…
Why is the bearish yen sentiment still strong?
We don’t fully trust the dovish repricing in Bank of Japan expectations after recent central bank appointments, but upbeat risk sentiment (Nvidia earnings were strong) and soft Tokyo CPI overnight can keep JPY under pre…
Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber Drivers Into a Nationwide Plate-Scanning Fleet
The controversial law enforcement vendor Flock Safety wanted to make every Uber, Lyft, and delivery car a moving license-plate reader.
Equal Weight ETF ROE Celebrates Key Three Year ETF Milestone
The ETF landscape has plenty of ways to signal momentum or positive news for ETFs, from tech charts to raw performance data. One key data point, however, is the three year anniversary of a fund’s launch. That not only s…
US Treasury’s OFAC sanctions 2 Iran-linked crypto exchanges
The US government sanctioned an individual and two crypto exchanges it said facilitated money laundering for a combined $5 million in digital assets linked to Iran.
Don’t Pen Value Investing’s Obit Just Yet
The purported death of value investing is widely lamented, but the reality is something different. Value investing is alive, but value stocks have long lagged growth counterparts. Still, there’s a compelling case for bu…
LINK Price Risks Another Retest as Whale Selling Clouds Chainlink Outlook
LINK has dropped below $10 after previously rallying from a 17-month consolidation near $6.
Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Warns Critical Flaw Is Under Active Attack
BTCPay Server warned users Friday that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability that could lead to stolen funds.
Trump Media Abandons Crypto Treasury, Prediction Market Ventures
President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group has scrapped plans to launch a Crypto.com-backed CRO treasury company and abandoned a broader digital asset deal with the company.
Hormuz deal hopes rise as talks progress – Reuters
A US official said on Friday that there is progress in Oman-Iran talks and that a deal could be signed soon, according to Reuters. Once the deal is announced, this would restore commercial shipping in the Strait of Horm…
Broad Market Momentum & Defensive Pivots: This Week’s Top ETF Flows
The ETF market saw a massive surge into core index heavyweights this past week, as investors poured billions into broad U.S. equities and mega-cap tech leadership. However, this aggressive accumulation was paired with d…
Gold Rally Shows How Fast Fed Repricing Can Reset Bullion Demand
Gold crashed 8% to $4,941 and silver plunged 17% to $95 on January 30, 2026, the worst single-day decline since 2013.
Dow Jones Industrial Average dodges a hike December still prices
The American labour market contracted in July and the Dow Jones Industrial Average answered with a gain of roughly 65 points, a tenth of a percent, trading near 54,000 into the afternoon. The session high just above 54,…
Circle expands USDC to OKX ecosystem with X Layer launch
The rollout gives X Layer users access to Circle-issued USDC and crosschain transfers as the stablecoin expands across major blockchain ecosystems.
Bybit sues North Korea and Lazarus Group over $1.5 billion hack, secures asset freeze
Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, has filed a civil lawsuit against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), its Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) intelligence agency and the Lazarus …
Chinese Yuan: Range trade holds with bullish tone against US Dollar – UOB
United Overseas Bank (UOB) analysts Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann see USD/CNH confined to a narrow intraday range, with flat momentum suggesting consolidation between 6.7450 and 6.7550. Their 1–3 week view still antici…
Natural Gas: Higher price forecasts on LNG squeeze – Commerzbank
Norman Liebke at Commerzbank has revised Gas and German power price forecasts higher, citing tighter European storage, increased reliance on LNG and structural constraints on Qatari exports. The phase-out of Russian Gas…
Bitcoin Still in Death Cross as Jobs Miss Cuts Rate-Hike Odds
The U.S. labor market cracked harder than anyone expected. Employers cut 23,000 jobs in July—the first net loss since the pandemic-era recovery, and a sharp miss against the 95,000 gain economists had penciled in.