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WTI crude oil declined 2.0% intraday, trading at $98.49 per barrel as of today.

WTI crude oil futures touched $103 per barrel intraday on September 16, declining 2.39% during the session.

According to Reuters, U.S. officials held talks with Houthi representatives in Oman over the weekend, following the group's seizure of a strategic position along the Red Sea coast.

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates rose to 6.97% for the week ended September 11, up from 6.85% in the prior week.

According to crypto commentator @SolanaFloor, Circle minted approximately $750 million in USDC on the Solana blockchain in the past 24 hours. This minting activity increases the stablecoin's supply on the Solana network.

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the MBA mortgage applications activity index fell 4.1% week-over-week for the week ended September 11.

According to Odaily, Circle launched its Arc public blockchain mainnet on September 16, completing a genesis mint of 10 billion ARC tokens. The network's 11 founding validators include BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. Circle stated that the token supply represents a technical milestone but does not constitute a commitment to public distribution. Arc uses USDC as its native gas token and supports sub-second finality with optional privacy features for

According to Solid Intel, Stand With Crypto will mark senators who voted against the CLARITY Act on its voting record cards ahead of the November midterm elections.

According to Slow Mist, the Brazilian banking malware campaign REF9334, active since at least May 2025, was recently disclosed. The KREMLIN malware ecosystem employs Ethereum smart contracts as dynamic resolvers to update command-and-control endpoints and payload hosting locations. The malicious infrastructure also distributes browser extensions to steal credentials and session tokens by bypassing Chromium security mechanisms. Researchers observed 1,515 infected hosts checking in after the campa

According to Jin10, on September 16, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he is prepared to make difficult decisions to stabilize the economy after inflation rose to 3.1% in August, the highest level in five months. Starmer told reporters the government will take "tough decisions" to keep the economy on track.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, on September 15, 2026, former Robinhood engineers Hefu Chai, 36, of Menlo Park, California, and Huaisong "Jerry" Xiang, 30, of Jersey City, New Jersey, were charged with one count of commodities fraud and one count of wire fraud each. Prosecutors allege the engineers accessed nonpublic information about upcoming cryptocurrency listings at Robinhood and used it to trade perpetual futures on the decentralized platform H

According to its official announcement, Base recently introduced B20, a new token standard designed to streamline token management and development on its blockchain. The standard aims to enhance the speed and safety of token operations, enabling developers to create and manage tokens more efficiently directly within the Base ecosystem. B20 is expected to attract more projects to the platform by reducing complexity and improving the overall developer experience on the network.

The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, sparking over $525 million in long position liquidations within 24 hours, according to a post by @SolanaFloor. Traders reacted sharply to the legislative setback, with the market experiencing significant sell-offs as uncertainty around regulatory clarity intensified.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that if European nations attack the Russian Federation, the war would take on a different form and be "very short," according to his latest remarks.

According to Jin10, U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rates hit 7.22% on September 15, marking the highest level since January 2025 and continuing an upward trend following the 7% breakthrough on September 10. The surge is driven by rising U.S. 10-year Treasury yields and market expectations of Federal Reserve rate increases. Data from the National Association of Realtors showed existing home sales fell 2% month-over-month in August, equivalent to 3.98 million units annualized, the lowest since June 2

According to sentiment polls closed on September 14, 98.9% of Zcash coinholders voted to maintain Bitcoin-style halvings rather than adopting a smoothed issuance model for Network Upgrade 7. The same polls showed strong support for reducing the target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, a change intended to triple network transaction throughput without altering ZEC's 21 million coin hard cap. The next halving is expected in late 2028.

According to Crypto Briefing, Saudi Arabia on September 16 accused the Houthi movement of targeting Mecca and declared the incident a "red line," escalating tensions in the Middle East. The accusation has dampened market confidence in the normalization of Strait of Hormuz traffic by December 31, with prediction-market odds now priced at 17.5% for a YES outcome, reflecting concerns over potential disruptions to critical oil shipping routes.

According to Bloomberg, Middle East crude prices surged to their highest levels since March following concerns over potential supply disruptions reminiscent of early conflict escalation. After an attack last week temporarily shut down a key Saudi pipeline, traders scrambled to secure alternative supplies. Oman crude futures jumped to $132.09 per barrel, with the premium to international benchmark Brent crude widening to nearly $24, the highest since March. Abu Dhabi's Murban crude, another key b

According to U.S. officials, on September 16 the Trump administration proposed a $2.8 billion ammunition sale to Israel, including 20,000 MK-84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117 bombs. The munitions are described as highly destructive 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) class ordnance.

Sumsub has launched Workforce Verification, a product that integrates document verification, biometric liveness detection and background screening into identity-access systems to counter deepfakes targeting employee accounts. The service covers recruitment, onboarding, account recovery, privilege changes and suspicious logins, inserting identity checks at high-risk moments such as password resets. The company claims its deepfake detection efficiency can reach 99.98%, though it notes performance