Monero price rockets 33% to $438 amid $120 million onchain laundering maze
Someone routed $120 million in stablecoins through a chain of swaps this week, and a sudden jump in the Monero price made it visible.
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XRP sentiment falls to 8-month low, and that has been a buy signal before
Social chatter support for XRP has dropped to levels not seen since October, a point that has previously been a cue for traders looking to make short-term bullish bets on the Ripple-linked token.
The U.S. government is betting $2 Billion on quantum computing, and the defense side can't keep up
Last month, the United States Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies building the machines that break the cryptography defending Bitcoin and Ethere…
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal of criminal conviction on fraud, conspiracy charges
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his effort to overturn his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the operation and collapse of his former crypto trading empire on Friday.
For crypto, SpaceX's stock market debut could go either way
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India’s May retail inflation rises to 3.93% on year
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, through the National Statistics Office, released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for May 2026 on June 12, 2026.
UK economy contracts in April amid energy price pressures
The US-Iran conflict that erupted in late February remains unresolved, leaving the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut. Prolonged and severe disruptions in global energy flows have caused the oil market to tighten aggress…
The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped
Blockchain is no longer just a story of Wall Street banks and brokers leveraging the technology to optimize finance. Now, corporates are embracing distributed ledger to streamline business operations.
Jewelry giant Chow Tai Fook's shares rise 15% as higher gold price boosts profits
Shares of jewelry giant Chow Tai Fook surged 15% on Friday after it posted a record high performance in its financial year to the end of March.
Live updates: Bitcoin traders eye rally to $75,000, Japan set to hike rate to 31-year high
The Nasdaq-100 rebalance takes effect on June 22, with CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius Group (NBIS) among the five companies being added in the index's quarterly reshuffle.
Former SEC, CFTC Chair Gary Gensler argues that prediction markets don't overrule state regulations
Prediction markets should not preempt state laws around sports gambling, the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, said in a court filing late Thur…
XRP jumps 3% above $1.14 as institutional buying meets key resistance test
XRP bounced sharply from last week's selloff, reclaiming $1.14 on its strongest volume in weeks. Buyers pushed the token through resistance near $1.12 and kept buying into the close, a change from the short-lived reboun…
Bitcoin climbs back into the green as Trump signals an end to the Iran war
The risk-off mood that hammered crypto all week is reversing. Bitcoin is back in the green, and the trigger was a sudden de-escalation in the Iran war.
Parabilis Medicines closes $770.5 million IPO and concurrent private placement
Parabilis Medicines Announces Closing of Upsized Initial Public Offering, Including Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares
The road to SpaceX’s juggernaut IPO
On Monday morning, the AI juggernaut announced it had turned in its first IPO proposal to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It's a major step in the rush toward a public listing, as Anthropic and rival OpenAI…
U.S. stocks higher at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.86%
Market movements on Wednesday were dominated by the prospects of a ceasefire negotiation between the US and Iran. As Iran adopted a tougher stance, oil prices rebounded from their daily lows and eventually turned positi…
BlackRock seeks to buy at least $5 billion in SpaceX IPO shares, WSJ reports
June 11 (Reuters) - Asset manager BlackRock sought to buy at least $5 billion worth of shares in the initial public offering of Elon Musk’s SpaceX , the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar w…
Stock indexes rip about 2% each after Trump says Iran deal reached, signing soon
Follow updates on the war in the Middle East for Monday, May 25, here. See earlier developments below.
Brazil stocks higher at close of trade; Bovespa up 1.71%
Investing.com – Brazil stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, Consumption and Financials sectors led shares higher.
SpaceX’s historic IPO catapults it past some of America’s biggest names
The SpaceX public offering could very well be the largest public offering of all time—bringing in even more money than Saudi Aramco’s cosmic $29 billion public listing in 2019. And with the rocketing costs (pun intended…
Online spending accelerates to 13% growth in May - BofA
Investing.com -- Online spending grew 13% year-over-year in May, accelerating 2 percentage points from April, according to Bank of America aggregated credit and debit card data analyzed by analyst Justin Post.
S&P Global Ratings upgrades Nvidia to AA on explosive AI demand
Korean companies are experiencing a broad-based decline in credit ratings, with more downgrades than upgrades recorded in the first half of this year, according to credit rating agencies and market analysts Tuesday.
Elon Musk's SpaceX prices shares at $135, raising $75 billion in largest-ever IPO
SpaceX has priced its shares at $135, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched public market debuts in recent years.
Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
Coinbase said it launched a new product called Coinbase for Agents, a platform that allows artificial intelligence agents such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to connect directly to users' Coinbase accounts and carry …