Morgan Stanley expands crypto lineup with Ether, Solana ETPs
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched Ether and Solana exchange-traded products, expanding its fund lineup beyond Bitcoin.
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ZEC Price Climbs After Zcash Ironwood Upgrade Goes Live
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Corning plunges despite strong quarterly results — here's our plan for the stock
IBM (IBM) CEO Arvind Krishna kicked off the company's earnings call by acknowledging the shock warning a week ago that upended what had been a successful tech turnaround story.
Core Scientific revenue doubles in Q2 as AI colocation expansion accelerates
Core Scientific reported strong second-quarter revenue growth as AI colocation became its largest business, though a non-cash accounting charge resulted in a $1.15 billion net loss.
Forex Today: US Dollar eases ahead of Fed as Oil and Gold extend losses
The US Dollar (USD) trades slightly lower on Tuesday as investors reduce some exposure ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy announcement. The Greenback remains close to its recent monthly high, how…
First ChatGPT, Now Claude: Frontier AI Models Are Escaping Their Sandboxes
Just a week after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment and breached Hugging Face, researchers have demonstrated a similar containment failure involving Anthropic's Claude …
NVIDIA’s AI Defense Alliance Emerges as AI Risks Draw Skynet Comparisons
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Zcash Activates Ironwood Upgrade After Counterfeiting Scare
Weeks after a critical vulnerability sparked a market rout and raised questions about Zcash's supply, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency has activated Ironwood, an upgrade designed to ensure any counterfeit coins can ne…
Swiss Re sees rising insurance demand from France and Spain fires
When the opportunity arose to return to the UK and lead Swiss Re’s UK&I business as CEO in January 2022, it represented a natural next step for Jason Richards (pictured). With 25 years’ experience at the global reinsura…
'Anything remotely dovish' from Fed could be good for bitcoin, says analyst
Markets are split on whether the Federal Reserve will hike rates or stay on hold on Wednesday, but analysts say bitcoin
Ethereum startup EthSystems bets privacy is key to getting banks on public blockchains
EthSystems, a startup spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is betting that privacy, not scalability, is the biggest obstacle preventing institutions from moving financial activity onto public blockcha…
The Dumbest-Looking AI Prompt Just Beat Months of Careful Game-Design Prompt Engineering
Just two days after Claude Opus 5 shipped, AI investor and former HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer posted a video of a fully playable first-person shooter the model had built entirely on its own.
The chip rout is funding the Dow Jones Industrial Average's record chase
The Dow Jones Industrial Average trades just short of 52,900 on Tuesday, higher by close to 700 points and 1.3%, roughly 450 points beneath the record it set in the first week of July. Taken alone, that reads as a broad…
Why SPMO Stands Out in a Strong Momentum Year
Momentum has emerged as one of the strongest-performing equity factors this year. As investors continue rewarding companies with sustained relative strength despite persistent macroeconomic uncertainty, ETFs such as the…
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Code Is a Constitution, Changes Are Attacks on 'Economic Rights'
Michael Saylor isn't fighting BIP-110 anymore—he's fighting the very idea that Bitcoin's code can be changed. The Strategy executive chairman posted a nine-post thread to X on Tuesday that reframes the entire protocol d…
Wall Street veteran Don Wilson says regulators are getting perps all wrong
Perpetual futures have become one of crypto's defining financial products, but DRW CEO Don Wilson says much of what people think they know about them is wrong.
BlackRock, Fidelity, other Wall Street giants back the Clarity Act
The biggest names on Wall Street are lining up behind the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, marking one of the strongest public shows of support yet for legislation that would establish a new regulatory framework for th…
What’s Behind the Huge Flows Into Derivative-Based ETFs?
Derivative-based ETFs are pushing half a trillion in AUM right now, as investors have flocked to the growing category. Amid that rising interest in recent years, however, other investors may have questions. What is incl…
IMF Warns Brazil’s Stablecoin Boom Could Shake Its Economy
IMF warns Brazil's stablecoin growth is outpacing traditional capital flows, raising systemic financial risks.
US consumer confidence eases in July
Easing gas prices are making Americans feel better about their personal finances and the economy in June, but consumer sentiment remains at historically low levels amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East, according to …
Australian Dollar: RBA keeps hike option alive – BNY
BNY’s Geoff Yu highlights that Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Michele Bullock signaled a possible rate hike at the August 10–11 meeting, stressing inflation is still too high and productivity weak. She noted d…
Clarity Act News: Galaxy Research Lowers 2026 Passage Odds to 30%
Galaxy Research has lowered the probability of the Clarity Act becoming law in 2026 from 50% to 30%. Analysts said the biggest hurdle is the 60-vote threshold required in the U.S. Senate to advance the bill. While the l…
Swiss Franc steadies against US Dollar as Fed decision looms
The Swiss Franc (CHF) steadies against the US Dollar (USD) on Tuesday as the Greenback gives up its early gains, with traders turning cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy announcement on Wednesd…
Gold Price Forecast: XAU/USD sits out the panic it was built for
Gold trades near $4,020 in the New York morning, down roughly 1.4% on a session that started near $4,075 and never built a bid. The slide ran straight through a global equity shock that should have been the strongest ad…