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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gate News: According to Gate’s official announcement, Gate’s Meme Gem product has launched multiple new Coins, including ARGUS, TOLLY, LONG, Architects, COOL, ARCAT, PI, BOZO, USDC, and other ARC chain Coins, as well as the PILL Coin on Solana and the ODYS Coin on Arbitrum. Meme Gem is a one-stop on-chain Trade product launched by Gate. Built around a Meme social trading ecosystem, it supports trading across multiple major public chains, including Robinhood, SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI,

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

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,

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 sup

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