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According to CME FedWatch, on October 14, market pricing for a 25-basis-point rate increase in the Federal Reserve's October 28 meeting shifted dramatically after the release of September's CPI report. Odds jumped to roughly 50% from 22% before the data, then retreated to 31.6% by evening as traders reassessed the numbers. September consumer prices rose 3.7% year over year, above the 3.4% reading in August, with core CPI advancing 2.6% annually, exceeding economist expectations of 2.5%, accordin

According to Tom's Hardware, Elon Musk recently criticized Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix for 'extortionate' memory chip pricing during an unprecedented shortage of DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM), while praising Micron for taking a 'reasonable' approach. However, Micron's latest quarterly financials contradict this narrative: the company reported an 81% gross margin overall in Q4 fiscal 2026, with its mobile and client memory unit achieving a 90% gross margin.

According to an announcement from Capital World Group (00204), the company's unaudited consolidated net asset value per share as of September 30, 2026 was approximately 1.529 Hong Kong dollars.

According to ChainCatcher, Binance's bStocks tokenized stocks product reached $1 billion in user assets under management (AUM) on October 15, becoming the fastest such product globally to hit this milestone since its June 11 launch. bStocks has accumulated over $400 billion in trading volume since launch, with daily average trading volume exceeding $300 million. The platform currently supports nearly 100 assets and has processed $6 billion in 1:1 conversions between direct stock holdings and bSt

According to ChainCatcher, citing Fortune, tokenized fund liquidity platform Fission completed a $10 million Series A round in September, led by Pantera Capital with participation from Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital, and Ari Rubenstein. The platform addresses illiquidity in tokenized fund shares by acting as a buyer for investor redemptions, enabling settlement in 90 seconds or less compared to typical redemption periods of around 200 days. Users connect digital wallets, submit sale request

According to trader Doctor Profit, Bitcoin tested its 50-day moving average support on October 15. The trader believes the support level will hold and Bitcoin will continue to rise from current levels.

According to Glassnode data on October 15, Bitcoin is trading near support levels but faces elevated risk from a large cluster of bullish liquidations below the market. A secondary liquidation cluster sits around 75,000, which could trigger cascade liquidations if price declines further. In contrast, bearish liquidation positions have accumulated above 85,000 over the past week. Current conditions suggest downside long liquidation risk outweighs upside short squeeze pressure.

According to HTX Research, Bitcoin declined 3.5% and Ethereum fell 6.27% on October 15 following the release of September CPI data, with the market reaction extending beyond initial rate expectations. BTC spot ETF experienced cumulative net outflows of approximately $859 million over the past six trading days, further weakening price support. Derivative market data indicates leverage remains uncleared: SOL's open interest increased 7.95% within four hours after CPI release, signaling continued l

According to Glassnode data, Bitcoin is currently trading near key support levels, with a large cluster of long liquidations positioned below the market. If prices decline further, a cascade of liquidations could be triggered, with another liquidation cluster around $75,000. Meanwhile, short liquidation positions have continued accumulating above $85,000 over the past week. The fragility of the downside long liquidation zone currently exceeds that of the upside short zone.

According to Mpost Media Group, HSC Conference held a panel discussion titled "Infrastructure: Building Web3's Rails" on October 1 in Seoul at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Gangnam. The discussion featured Alice Liu, Head of Research at CoinMarketCap, as moderator, and six panelists including Marco Cora (Director, Foundation at ZKsync), Eunice Giarta (Co-Founder of Monad Foundation), Nick See Tong (APAC Lead at Base), Matt Visser (CEO of Sonic Labs), and Dasha Chernozub (Senior BD at QR Wallet). Part

According to Jin10, People's Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng outlined key policy positions at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting on October 15. Pan warned that escalating geopolitical conflicts remain the largest uncertainty for global economy, while volatility in sovereign debt markets and artificial intelligence asset valuation risks have heightened financial fragility. He emphasized that modernizing financial supervision does not mean loosening regulation and sh

According to Odaily monitoring, on October 15 between 17:50 and 18:16 UTC, a whale address (0x020ca66c30bec2c4fe3861a94e4db4a498a35872) increased its ETH long position by $4.64 million, raising total holdings from approximately $760,000 to $5.37 million. The address has accumulated losses of approximately $35.03 million on the account.

According to MSX.COM data, U.S. AI chip stocks declined in pre-market trading on October 15. Micron (MU) fell 3.91%, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell 2.66%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell 3.13%, and Broadcom (AVGO) fell 1.66%.

According to Tim Cook, Apple will launch a beta version of Apple Intelligence later in October with Alibaba's Qianwen model integration. The initial features include real-time translation, writing tools, and photo cleanup capabilities, though Siri AI will not be included in this release. "We're pleased that the core Apple Intelligence features can roll out gradually," Cook said during a visit to Shanghai. Alibaba's Qianwen will power AI capabilities across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for Ch

According to ChainCatcher, Lido announced on October 15 that it has enabled direct ETH staking functionality on its official staking interface for Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism. Supported by Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP, users can now obtain wstETH directly on their origin network without manually bridging ETH to Ethereum and back. Users' ETH is swapped for wstETH via dedicated liquidity pools on each Layer 2, while underlying staking remains on Ethereum mainnet t

According to EmberCN, PUMP fell 16% over the past 24 hours on October 15, with a large wallet address selling 1.264 billion tokens for $5.483 million USDC approximately 7 hours prior. The transaction had an average execution price of $0.0043 per token. The large single-batch sale incurred approximately 5% slippage. EmberCN estimates that if the order had been split into smaller trades, the whale could have realized approximately $5.78 million; the direct sale yielded only $5.48 million, resultin

According to The Defiant, HashKey Chain admins temporarily replaced contracts to transfer 142,818 USDT, with the original deposit code restored approximately 6 minutes later. The operation did not alter the final state of the deposit code, though a five-member multisig retaining three-signature requirements maintains instant upgrade authority over the contracts without time-lock delays.

According to SolanaFloor, Circle minted approximately 750 million USDC on Solana over the past 24 hours.

According to QwQiao, co-founder of AllianceDAO, on October 15, Anthropic's IPO valuation targets should be discounted by 50% when accounting for extreme outcomes. QwQiao reasoned on X that if AI leads humanity to infinite prosperity, money becomes meaningless; if AI eliminates humanity, money also loses value. Combined, he assigned a 50% probability to these two scenarios, leaving only a 50% chance of the "mundane middle ground" where humans continue working and money retains importance. Therefo

Charles Schwab is scheduled to report third-quarter 2026 earnings on October 15, with Wall Street expecting revenue of approximately $7.2 billion, representing 17% growth from $6.13 billion a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share are forecast between $1.65 and $1.67, compared with $1.31 in Q3 2025. The earnings release marks the first full quarter following the May rollout of Schwab Crypto, the company's direct cryptocurrency trading service for retail customers supporting Bitcoin and Ethere