23+ hour, 46+ min ago   (516+ words) The Fed meeting is the main event for Wall Street this week. The Federal Open Market Committee begins its meeting Tuesday and will announce its rate decision Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET. Markets are pricing in roughly an 80% to 85% chance of a…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (456+ words) Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin launched on Wednesday and crashed almost immediately, falling as much as 98% from its opening price of 5 cents. The project’s team blamed the collapse on sniper bots and thin liquidity. Sniper bots are automated programs that detect…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (501+ words) The European Central Bank raised interest rates on Thursday for the second time since the war in Iran began, as rising energy prices push inflation higher across the euro zone. BREAKING: The European Central Bank officially hikes rates by 25 basis…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (392+ words) The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint advisory on Tuesday accusing Chinese AI companies of extracting capabilities from top US AI systems at an “industrial scale.” The targeted models included Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (554+ words) The U.S. Senate is set to hold a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on September 15. The bill would create a formal federal framework for crypto exchanges, brokers, and stablecoins, and would define which tokens are securities and…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (479+ words) Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin launched on Ethereum layer-2 network Base on Wednesday, opening at $190.81 before crashing to as low as $3.70 within the first hour. By 3:45 PM UTC, the token was trading around $2.10, according to CoinGecko, representing a drop of roughly…...

5+ day, 53+ min ago   (433+ words) The 10-year Treasury yield jumped to its highest level since 2023 after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $6 billion bond buyback plan that came in below what many on Wall Street had hoped for. You can't make this up. The US…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (432+ words) U.S. stock futures dropped Wednesday morning as fighting between the U.S. and Iran pushed oil prices above $100 a barrel for the first time since July. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell around 392 points, or 0.7%. S&P 500 futures were down 0.5% and Nasdaq 100 futures…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (488+ words) Oil prices jumped on Wednesday as fighting between the U.S. and Iran pushed Brent crude above $100 a barrel for the first time since July. Brent crude futures rose 2.6% to $100.45 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate gained 2.3% to reach $95.19 a barrel. The price…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (427+ words) Iran is now openly letting its businesses use Bitcoin and Tether’s USDT to handle cross-border payments. The country’s central bank has encouraged companies to bring overseas funds home through local crypto exchanges over the past several months. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru)…...