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On Friday, September 18, the Soybean Fund fell 1.04%, with the U.S. Real Estate ETF declining 0.96% and the Agriculture Commodities Fund down 0.95%, leading losses among major U.S. asset class ETFs. The U.S. Treasury 20+ Year ETF, Brent Oil Fund, and Japanese Yen Long ETF fell up to 0.65%. On the gaining side, the Nasdaq-100 ETF rose 0.63%, Gold ETF up 0.73%, and Emerging Markets ETF gained 0.18%, while the S&P 500 ETF and Barclays U.S. Convertible Bond ETF each rose 0.13%.

This week at the All In conference, major world model developers including Yann LeCun's AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li's World Labs demonstrated secrecy around their commercialization strategies. Michael Rabbatt, co-founder and VP of World Models at AMI Labs, declined to detail the company's product plans, stating "We're still in a research and building phase, so we're not talking publicly about any product plans or timeline." Even data suppliers are left in the dark; Alex de Vigan, CEO of Physicl, tol

According to Scope, Greece's credit rating was upgraded to BBB+ from BBB today (September 18).

On Friday, September 18, U.S. industry ETFs posted mixed results. Utilities ETF declined 1.42%, Biotechnology ETF fell 1.21%, and Internet stocks ETF dropped 1.19%. In gainers, Global technology stocks ETF rose 0.79%, Technology sector ETF advanced 0.82%, and Semiconductor ETF surged 2.21%.

According to Saudi Civil Defense, the National Emergency Alert Platform in Jizan Province issued an alert on September 18.

On September 18 (U.S. Eastern Time), the three major U.S. stock indices closed with mixed results on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 95.40 points to 51,682.64 (-0.18%), while the S&P 500 rose 12.74 points to 7,650.50 (+0.17%) and the Nasdaq Composite gained 104.25 points to 26,522.55 (+0.39%). The mixed performance reflected elevated market volatility amid a rebound in 10-year Treasury yields near 5% and a large options expiration. However, semiconductor stocks

U.S. President Donald Trump stated today that Russia has already attacked Ukraine's allies, according to his remarks. Trump did not provide specific details about which allies were targeted or the nature of the attacks.

According to the New York Times, Anthropic is advancing IPO-related plans and expects annualized revenue to exceed $100 billion in 2026, with additional details potentially announced in the coming weeks. According to Bloomberg, the company formed a partnership with Accenture on embedded assessments, with both parties set to invest at least $1 billion over five years. Accenture will deploy assessors within Anthropic to evaluate frontier AI models. Anthropic's valuation is expected to increase in

According to Morningstar DBRS, the rating agency downgraded France's credit outlook to negative today (September 18), while maintaining the country's AA credit rating.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday to bring single-stock perpetual futures to the US market. The filing, submitted through Coinbase Derivatives, seeks regulatory approval for contracts offering 24/5 exposure to individual stocks without owning the underlying shares. Coinbase plans to initially offer perpetual futures tied to roughly 50 to 60 stocks, including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia. Unlike traditional futures,

According to ChainCatcher data via Gate, U.S. stock markets closed mixed on Friday (September 18), with the Dow Jones declining 0.19%, S&P 500 rising 0.16%, and Nasdaq advancing 0.39%. SanDisk jumped 10.99%, while Qualcomm fell 5.82% and Dell dropped 3.3%. Memory chipmakers SK Hynix rose 2.46% and Micron gained 3.92%, while Nvidia advanced 1.34% and SpaceX declined 1.36%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index rose 0.78%, with Alibaba climbing 4.34% and Baidu down 0.11%.

According to @tokenterminal, xStocks' decentralized finance total value locked (TVL) surged by $3.8 million over the past week, outpacing competitors Backpack and Binance bStocks, which saw inflows of $3.2 million and $1.7 million respectively. The growth reflects increasing investor interest in tokenized stock offerings within the DeFi ecosystem.

VerifiedX has joined Bitcoin For Corporations as an Executive member and become the exclusive custody partner for Bitcoin Magazine TV, the company announced recently. The collaboration aims to enhance Bitcoin's role as programmable financial infrastructure and attract institutional investors. VerifiedX operates as a financial operating system designed to improve Bitcoin's usability in payments, lending, and treasury management, with its Verified Bitcoin (vBTC) asset at the core of the offering.

According to Uniswap's Twitter announcement, Uniswap has partnered with Spark to develop a stablecoin FX layer aimed at providing shared liquidity infrastructure for stablecoin issuers. The initiative is designed to reduce market fragmentation by offering stablecoin issuers access to a shared pool of liquidity, leveraging Uniswap's V4 architecture which supports customizable, permissionless liquidity pools.

According to ChainCatcher, NScale announced an unsecured convertible loan agreement with Nvidia. The specific terms, including loan amount and conversion conditions, were not disclosed.

According to Jin10, the dollar index, which measures the U.S. dollar against six major currencies, fell 0.03% on September 18, closing at 100.222 at New York forex market close. The euro strengthened to 1.1483 U.S. dollars from 1.1475 the previous day, while sterling rose to 1.3391 U.S. dollars from 1.3353.

According to Sumy regional governor, a Russian guided glide bomb struck an apartment building in Sumy city, northern Ukraine, on September 18, killing 2 people and wounding 7 others.

According to Token Terminal, Binance's bStocks added 181,000 new asset holders in the past week, outpacing Robinhood's 148,700 new holders in the same period. The growth signals increasing adoption of tokenized stock trading among users.

According to ChainCatcher, AI infrastructure company NScale submitted its U.S. IPO application on September 18, planning to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NSCL.

Starknet officially launched strkBTC claims today, marking a new milestone for community engagement. According to @Starknet, registrations will reopen on September 22, allowing users to participate in the ecosystem.