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The S&P 500 has gained 141.0% since the end of 2019, according to data from the Kobeissi Letter. The index is experiencing a sustained bull run that positions it among the best-performing decades in US equity market history. The Kobeissi Letter reports that if the current pace continues, the S&P 500

Marblex, the blockchain-focused subsidiary of South Korean gaming company Netmarble, has launched Pixel Tamers globally, a Web3-enabled mobile game developed by Returnpixel. The launch expands Marblex's blockchain gaming portfolio with a pixel art-based idle role-playing game that combines monster c

RBC Capital downgraded Merck (MRK) stocks to 'Sector Perform' from 'Outperform' while raising the price target to $150 from $142, despite positive Phase 3 melanoma trial data from Merck and Moderna (MRNA). Analyst Trung Huynh called the stock's $150 valuation 'unprecedented' for a company facing

Rep. Byron Donalds won Florida's Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, the same day beverage companies Liquid Death and Garage Beer released a satirical advertising campaign about AI data center water consumption. Donalds, President Donald Trump's pick to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis, made data

Ben McKenzie's anti-crypto documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money will begin streaming globally on 22 August through Eventive, an independent film platform, after major streaming services declined to license it, Variety reported. McKenzie believes the documentary's timing made it

SK Hynix ADR shares extended gains for a second consecutive trading day, rising 5.10% to $164.13 as of 9:49 AM local time on the 20th in New York trading. The rally follows the company's announcement of a large-scale share buyback program totaling approximately 1 trillion won for 650,000 shares

President Trump announced that CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion during a White House meeting yesterday. The statement triggered immediate market reactions, with HYPE jumping 23% to $72 and BTC hitting $72k. The mee

Beldex, a privacy-focused blockchain ecosystem, has completed an $8 million funding round to accelerate development of its privacy infrastructure for Web3 and AI. The round was led by Sigma Capital with participation from NTC, Nxgen, Digital Consensus Fund, and EAK Ventures. The company will

Bitcoin.com is integrating USDU into its self-custodial web and mobile wallet, expanding distribution for the U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin registered with the Central Bank of the UAE. The integration provides USDU access to another consumer-facing crypto wallet months after its January launch. USDU

Base has introduced support for cryptocurrency payments by AWS-based artificial intelligence agents through an integration involving Coinbase and Stripe. The development follows the general availability of AgentCore Payments, an AWS service designed to provide AI agents with controlled access to pay

Ninety-seven percent of North American fund managers reported losses from unhedged currency exposure in the first quarter of 2026, even as participation in FX hedging reached a record 94%, according to the MillTech North America Fund Manager FX Report 2026. The average self-reported loss was

Fast fashion e-commerce company Shein delayed its Hong Kong Stocks initial public offering to September 1st, according to a report by South China Morning Post on Thursday (20th). The company's valuation cap will not exceed $30 billion USD, down from nearly $100 billion in 2022, representing

Micron (MU) announced plans to invest $10 billion to establish Micron Research Labs in Boise, Idaho, with shares gaining over 1% in morning trade on Thursday. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra stated that the decisions made today will determine who leads the AI economy of tomorrow. The initiative drew

HSBC and Standard Chartered completed the first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger, moving tokenised deposit obligations between two separate banking systems. The transaction occurred about six weeks after Swift announced on July 9 that its ledger was ready for initial

Institutional investors are using asynchronous tokenized vaults to manage cash, collateral, and short-duration yield on blockchain platforms. Five vault protocols built on the ERC-7540 standard—Centrifuge, Midas, Maple Finance, Superform, and Lagoon Finance—enable institutions to deploy capital on-c

Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes identified fake crypto anti-money laundering services designed to trick users into approving transactions that could drain digital assets, according to a report published Wednesday. The fake sites impersonate legitimate services such as AMLBot and use simulated

The Federal Open Market Committee released minutes from its July 28-29 meeting, revealing growing concern among members about persistent inflation that remains elevated even after discounting transitory factors such as tariffs and Middle East conflict impacts. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh proposed

ZetaChain's privacy-focused AI application Anuma surpassed 210,000 users through Aug. 17, demonstrating growing adoption of AI tools that integrate blockchain-based features with cross-model functionality. The platform added 28,312 users in July and gained more than 31,000 additional users through A

Bitdeer AI, the artificial intelligence division of Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer, signed a five-year customer deal worth approximately $400 million covering about 50% of the capacity of its A102 Malaysia facility before its energization, the company announced Wednesday. The deal was signed with an

Walmart shares fell about 6% in premarket trading Thursday after the retailer reported U.S. comparable sales of 2.6% for the quarter, missing analyst expectations of 3.8%. The miss marked Walmart's weakest comparable-sales growth in roughly six years and a sharp slowdown from the 4.1% increase in th