Despite obstinate inflation and higher-for-longer interest rates, consumers continue to open their wallets and spend. But how they spend is another story. While physical stores struggle with rising operational costs, co…
Visa has introduced a new platform that enables banks, fintechs and payment providers to issue, hold and transfer stablecoins through its payments network.
Gold — the commodity most investors associate with the category — doesn’t currently appear at all in one broad commodities fund’s portfolio. Refined fuel contracts top the lineup instead.
Good morning. Thank you, Daron [Peschel], for that kind introduction. And welcome, everyone, to the Dallas Fed’s Houston branch. I’m looking forward to my conversation with Dr. Margaret Ford Fisher, chancellor of Housto…
Artificial intelligence and the subsequent data center boom are the primary contributors to the nuclear energy renaissance and investors’ newfound enthusiasm for nuclear equities and ETFs. Those ETFs include the ALPS Na…
Markets are taking a breath Thursday after one of the cleaner macro-driven crypto pumps of 2026. The June Consumer Price Index fell 0.4%—the steepest single-month drop since April 2020—collapsing Fed rate hike odds for …
A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to “kill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill” by making ethics a make-or-break issue on crypto market structure.
Entering Wednesday, the Russell 2000 and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes were up an average of 20.8% year-to-date, confirming small-cap stocks are back with a vengeance. Arguably overlooked in that scenario, some vibrant ETFs …
A potential $53 billion acquisition of PayPal (PYPL) by payments rival Stripe has reignited debate over what holds the keys to the next generation of digital payments.
Demand for income-generating investments has been remarkably strong in recent years as advisors search for ways to offset market volatility. High-yielding investments can provide a more predictable return stream. This i…
Eligible E*TRADE retail clients can now buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash.
Tradable will bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to Stellar, extending the blockchain’s push into institutional finance and tokenized real-world assets.
Visa introduced a new platform aimed at making it easier for banks, fintech companies and crypto firms to build products using stablecoins, expanding its push into blockchain-based payments as competition in the sector …
A Bitcoin wallet that had remained untouched since late 2017 sprang back to life Thursday, transferring 5,907.56 BTC worth about $383.6 million to a new address after more than 8.5 years of inactivity.
According to the Census Bureau’s Advance Retail Sales Report, consumer spending rose for a fifth straight month in June. Headline sales were up 0.2% as expected, marking a slowdown from May’s 1.0% increase.
The active ETF landscape continues to be one of the foremost sources of investing innovation. T. Rowe Price has established itself as a leader on this front, and the firm is doubling down on that role with its latest st…
This weekly update tracks some of the largest cryptocurrencies by market share: Bitcoin and Ether. While both are considered high-risk assets, they possess foundational differences that investors should understand. We h…
The BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider is expanding into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services as both DeFi and TradFi companies pursue onchain business.
Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21-month low. The thrill of scoring a top Pokemon card from a random pack is becoming big business
Prediction markets reached a record $113.8 billion in notional volume in Q2 as spot CEX trading, derivatives volume and stablecoin market cap declined.
WASHINGTON — Sales at U.S. retailers and restaurants increased modestly in September as resilient consumers moderated their spending after splurging over the summer.
MoonPay acquired Glide, a crypto infrastructure startup founded by former Robinhood Wallet engineers, to expand cross-chain crypto deposit infrastructure.
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