Pump.fun Under Fire Again: Curve Finance Founder Calls It a ‘Casino’ for Meme Coins
Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov has taken a swipe at Solana-based Pump.fun and criticized the platform’s role in the meme coin market.
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Brent Oil Holds Firm as Hormuz Disruption Tightens Global Supply
The Bloomberg Commodity Total Return Index has rallied sharply over the past week, driven overwhelmingly by the energy sector as renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East once again dominate commodity price actio…
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US Treasury yields surge as 30-year hits 2007 high
US Treasury yields advance on Monday during the North American session after reversing their course following the release of US Retail Sales data last week, which disappointed investors. Meanwhile, the lack of news from…
Memory Stocks Rally as Short Covering Adds Fuel to the AI Boom
The arithmetic behind Samsung Electronics' extraordinary 2026 run is simple enough: memory-chip demand for artificial intelligence has produced operating profits that would have seemed fanciful two years ago. The harder…
Strategy’s Future Hinges on Bitcoin Becoming a Real Currency: Jeff Booth
Bitcoin investor and Ego Death Capital co-founder Jeff Booth has said that Strategy’s long-term survival comes down to one condition: BTC has to work as an actual currency, not just sit on a balance sheet as an asset.
EUR/USD Gains as Fed Hike Odds Fall and ECB Tightening Bets Hold
ASX 200 rallies 1.37% to 8,844 as weak US payrolls ease Fed hike bets and gold rebounds above US$4,100, capping a choppy week bridging the FY26 close and FY27 open.
30-year Treasury yield tops 5.31%, the highest in 19 years
Treasury yields were higher on Monday as oil prices rose, with worries growing among investors about persistent inflation and government borrowing.
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Gold Outlook Balances Falling Fed Hike Odds Against Elevated Real Yields
The gold price outlook for July 2026 rests on a single tension: the price has fallen 28% from its January record on hawkish Fed expectations, while the structural forces that drove that record — central bank buying, fis…
Nvidia Valuation Looks Compressed Ahead of a $91 Billion Revenue Quarter
Nvidia's first-quarter earnings for fiscal 2027 delivered everything investors should want: $81.6 billion in revenue representing an 85% year-over-year surge, adjusted earnings per share of $1.87 beating analyst estimat…
AMD’s Bond Sale Signals Confidence in Its AI Capacity Expansion
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (US0079031078) stock is holding just above $483 after the company paired a strong Q2 2026 earnings report with plans for a multi-billion dollar bond offering announced on August 14, 2026, hi…
Dollar Weakness Boosts Cocoa Prices
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK25) Tuesday closed up +194 (+2.48%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25) closed up +74 (+1.21%).
Ripple’s (XRP) $1 Breakdown Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better
XRP has struggled to hold its ground in August and is facing renewed downside risk after slipping below the psychologically important $1 level.
Euro returns below 1.1600 as US Dollar selling pressure eases
EUR/USD trims earlier gains on Monday as the US Dollar (USD) shows signs of stabilization after opening the week under selling pressure. At the time of writing, the pair trades around 1.1580 after touching an intraday h…
Stock Indices Waver on Strength in Chipmakers vs Weakness in Software Companies
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) is down by -0.15% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is down by -0.44%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up by +0.28%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) are down -0.17…
Stocks Mixed on Strength in Chipmakers vs Weakness in Software Companies
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) is up by +0.17% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is up by +0.20%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up by +0.13%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) are up +0.05%, and…
Dollar Weakness Boosts Cocoa Prices
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK25) Tuesday closed up +194 (+2.48%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25) closed up +74 (+1.21%).
The US Dollar Index cannot rally with Washington on the offer
The Dollar Index trades near 99.50, roughly a tenth of a percent lower, having opened directly on its 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) and failed there inside the first minutes, with a session low just above 99.…
Will Resilient Consumer Spending Support Stocks as Fed Doubts Linger?
Fabio Bassi: Well, we believe that the macro outlook of resilient growth and sticky inflation is going to reinforce the broad risk on narrative that we have witnessed in the second quarter of this year.
WTI Oil climbs above $82 as Washington-Tehran standoff reignites supply concerns
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) US Oil advances on Monday and trades around $82.10 at the time of writing, up 0.68% on the day. Oil prices remain supported by the deadlock between the United States (US) and Iran, which ke…
British Pound edges higher as traders await UK jobs and CPI data
The Pound Sterling (GBP) registers modest gains of 0.14% on Monday against the US Dollar (USD) as investors digest softer-than-expected US inflation data and brace for the release of crucial UK jobs and inflation data. …
Trader Turns $9.6K Into $282K Tracking CZ’s Wallet
A trader turned roughly $9,600 into about $282,000 in under five hours on August 16 by watching Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s public wallet burn a batch of MARSCOIN tokens and buying into the same coin the instant it happened.
Nvidia backing $105 billion in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio
Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for a new artificial intelligence data center for OpenAI in Ohio, a securities filing revealed on Monday.
Japanese Yen struggles despite rising bond yields and BoJ hike bets
USD/JPY rebounds on Monday after coming under selling pressure earlier in the day, as the Japanese Yen (JPY) struggles to gain traction despite a weaker US Dollar (USD). At the time of writing, the pair trades around 15…