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According to Jin10, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi on September 16, 2026 in Beijing. Wang urged all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and maintain international maritime safety and energy supply stability. He expressed concern over escalating regional tensions spreading to Yemen and the Red Sea, calling on all sides to cease complicating the situation and resolve disputes through dialogue and negotiation.

According to Farside Investors, U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds returned to net outflows on Tuesday (September 15), reversing Monday's rebound. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $288.7 million in net outflows, while Ether ETFs posted $49.5 million in outflows. The reversal followed the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act, with the chamber voting 49-50 against the comprehensive digital-asset market-structure legislation. Bitcoin fell roughly 4% to around $75,900 on the news. Fidelit

According to a Financial Times survey conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as the Federal Reserve convenes a two-day rate decision meeting, 50 of 51 top economists surveyed support a rate increase from the current 3.5%–3.75% range—the first such hike in over three years. Financial market traders are pricing in a 95% probability of a one-basis-point increase (25 basis points). The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price index, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge,

According to CoinShares' Q2 2026 analysis, Bitcoin miners are rapidly shifting to artificial intelligence compute infrastructure as mining profitability collapses. The average ex-tax cash cost to produce one Bitcoin reached $75,500 in Q2, while Bitcoin traded at $58,400, pushing the sector below cash breakeven. AI compute, by contrast, generates approximately $1.5 million in annualized profit per megawatt for miners—roughly three times the $0.5 million per MW that Bitcoin mining currently produc

According to Huobi HTX data, on September 16, the platform's spot trading volume rose approximately 43% over the past two weeks from its late August low, with consecutive growth recorded through the period.

According to BIT market data, crypto-related stocks declined in pre-market trading on September 16. Circle (CRCL) fell 2.12%, Microstrategy (MSTR) dropped 1.43%, Robinhood (HOOD) declined 1%, Miner Bitfarms (BMNR) fell 1.29%, Marathon (MARA) lost 0.36%, and Banco BNC (BNC) fell 2.04%.

According to PANews, TRON founder Justin Sun launched the "Justin Sun Prize" on September 16, a mathematics award designed to incentivize solutions to important math problems and their formalization into machine-verifiable code. The prize has no age or annual participant limits and requires only that submitted proofs pass complete machine verification from start to finish. Award funds are locked on the blockchain, with only the ability to add to the pool; no withdrawals are permitted. Each probl

According to the UK Grocery Manufacturers Association, food inflation in Britain is projected to reach nearly 7% in 2027, with predicted increases of 5.6% to 6.6% that year, followed by 5.3% to 6.3% in 2028. The forecasts, announced on September 16, cited factors including Middle East tensions, rising production costs, and extreme weather linked to El Niño as drivers.

According to a New York Post investigation, METR, a third-party AI safety evaluation firm, maintained undisclosed conflicts of interest with Anthropic during assessments conducted in 2026. Paul Christiano, who founded Alignment Research Center (the organization from which METR originated as ARC Evals), previously worked with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at OpenAI and later became one of five initial trustees of Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. Ajeya Cotra, a current METR technical staffer, is Ch

According to CNBC, Binance opened its Capital Connect wealth-management platform to wealthy individuals for the first time in September, expanding access previously limited to institutional investors. Users must hold at least $1 million in assets to qualify. The platform allows investors to compare and allocate to professional trading strategies without requiring separate fund structures. As of September, Capital Connect hosted 212 portfolios from 77 professional trading teams, up from 106 portf

According to an announcement on September 16, South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) introduced artificial intelligence-based analytical systems and digital asset tracking solutions to counter the expanding use of cryptocurrencies in illegal financial transactions. The FIU, under the Financial Services Commission, disclosed its national anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing strategy, noting increased risks from fraud, digital asset crimes, and organized crime. The agency

LIT dropped 67.11% in the past hour, now trading at $0.115177 after hitting a peak of $0.355979 earlier today (September 16). The cryptocurrency fell from $0.350231 to its current price, with a 24-hour decline of 55.81%. Market cap stands at approximately $5.2 million, while 24-hour trading volume remains low at $32,649. Thin liquidity and potential liquidation cascades in the derivatives market may have contributed to the sharp sell-off.

According to Jin10 Futures, the CFETS-NEX RMB liquidity sentiment index stood at 52 as of 16:00 on September 16, up 2 points from 14:30. By institution type: large banks reported 51 (up 2 points), mid-size banks 54 (up 3 points), and non-bank institutions 50 (up 1 point). The index ranges from 0 to 100, with 50 representing equilibrium and readings above 50 indicating tightening liquidity conditions.

Cryptocurrency exchange CoinEx announced Tuesday it will close on Dec. 22, 2026—nine years to the day after its 2017 launch. New account registrations have already halted, futures trading moved to reduce-only mode, and spot trading will end Sept. 29. Users have until Dec. 22 to withdraw funds. Founder and CEO Haipo Yang attributed the decision to prolonged market weakness and mounting compliance demands, choosing what he called a "clean ending" over a sale. CoinEx will repurchase its native CET

According to Salesforce, on September 15 at Dreamforce 2026, the company announced expanded partnerships with Nvidia, AWS, and Google Cloud. Salesforce introduced Koa, its first customer relationship management reasoning model built on Nvidia Nemotron for Agentforce, trained on synthetic data rather than customer data. Agentforce customers can now access AI models through Amazon Bedrock and integrate AWS Agents into Slack, while the Google Cloud partnership expands Salesforce infrastructure oper

According to Binance Wallet, DGrid AI (DGAI) launched on Binance Alpha today (September 16). Users holding at least 240 Binance Alpha points can claim 44 DGAI tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. Each claim consumes 15 Alpha points, and users must confirm receipt within 24 hours via the Alpha activity page. If the reward pool is not fully claimed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 every 5 minutes.

According to the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, today the mission reissued travel advisories for Saudi Arabia due to potential Iranian drone and missile threats targeting U.S. interests. The embassy recommended that U.S. citizens reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia amid heightened regional tensions. Additionally, the embassy advised against all travel to the Yemen border area due to ongoing terrorism threats.

Italy's harmonized consumer price index (HCPI) year-on-year rate for August came in at 3.2%, matching consensus expectations and holding steady from the previous month's 3.2%.

According to reports, SK Hynix and Intel are negotiating to establish semiconductor memory chip production in the United States for the first time, driving gains in U.S. equity futures ahead of market open on September 16. SK Hynix rose approximately 3% and Intel climbed about 5%.

Italy's August harmonized consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.1% month-on-month, confirming the initial estimate. The reading showed no revision from the preliminary figure.