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Zillow Group resolved its antitrust lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission and five state attorneys general on Monday, heading off a federal trial scheduled to begin this week. The settlement removes an unpredictable legal overhang while leaving Zillow's rentals strategy fully intact. The

Crypto trader bowen1476 opened a 40x leveraged short position on 300 BTC worth approximately $23.13 million on August 24, marking the wallet's 15th short attempt against Bitcoin and Ether in five days. The new position comes after 14 consecutive losses totaling $4.56 million during the same

U.S. stocks opened lower Monday, Aug. 24, with semiconductor and technology shares leading declines as investors prepared for Nvidia earnings Wednesday, new U.S. sanctions on Iran and a key inflation report later this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 15.1 points, or 0.03%, to 53,261.95 at

RoboMarkets Ltd paid €100,000 to settle with the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission over possible violations involving organisational requirements, client communications, appropriateness assessments and the marketing of contracts for differences to retail investors. CySEC announced the settle

Meta Platforms is facing a federal lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general over allegations that it fostered addictive behavior in kids, with the trial getting underway in an Oakland court last week. Bank of America wrote in a note to clients Monday that while the Meta stock is down on

Bernstein analysts issued an Outperform rating on stablecoin issuer Circle with a $140 price target in a research note published Monday, citing signs of a new growth cycle for its USDC stablecoin. The firm pointed to what it called "digital dollar reflation" after USDC supply increased by

Monetary historian Barry Eichengreen told Kitco News he changed his view on dollar collapse speed on April 2nd, 2025, citing US Treasury interventions that signal market fragility. Gold closed the week above $4,600 an ounce with the dollar at its weakest since May as the Treasury moved to hold

Paramount Skydance and California's Attorney General escalated their conflict over the company's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) acquisition after California AG Rob Bonta canceled a scheduled antitrust negotiation meeting on the evening before May 23 (local time). Bonta stated Paramount le

Spot gold and silver prices rose in early U.S. trading Monday, with gold near $4,657.10 an ounce (up 1.19%) and silver at $69.160 (up 0.43%). The gains were driven by a weaker U.S. dollar, fiscal-risk hedging, and ongoing uncertainty in

Bitcoin reached $79,989 per unit on Monday as exchange open interest in futures contracts approached $58 billion, according to Coinglass data. Call options captured 59.37% of BTC options open interest on Deribit as traders

The US Treasury Department announced secondary sanctions targeting Iran's digital assets, aviation, gold, and shipping sectors on Monday, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The measures, described as an 'economic D-Day,' broaden sanctions risk for entities conducting business with Iran a

Coinbase launched tokenized US stocks on its Base blockchain Monday, integrating Chainlink price feeds to support their use across decentralized finance applications. The tokenized stocks include shares of Nvidia, Apple, Meta, and Alphabet, issued as B20 tokens natively on Base, Coinbase's layer-2 b

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) has been authorized as the first bank distributor of HKDAP, Hong Kong's first regulated local-currency stablecoin, providing institutional banking clients direct access to the digital asset. The authorization enables Standard Chartered to integrate HKDAP into

The cryptocurrency sector completed 267 mergers and acquisitions totaling approximately $8.6 billion in 2025, according to PitchBook data reported by Bloomberg. Architect Partners, using a different methodology, placed total deal value at $12.9 billion for the same period. Three transactions

Kraken raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation in November 2025, a 33% increase from its $15 billion valuation two months earlier. The cryptocurrency exchange paused its planned Q1 2026 IPO in March 2026 after confidentially filing its S-1 with the SEC in November 2025, citing unfavorable

Hyperliquid, the layer-1 blockchain and perpetual futures exchange, will release 14,175,778 HYPE tokens on August 29, worth about $1.2 billion at current prices, according to tracking site Tokenomics.com. The release equals 1.4% of total supply and 2.7% of HYPE's market capitalization. HYPE

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi filed financial disclosures detailing stock and options acquisitions in Bloom Energy Corp. (BE) and Intel Corp. (INTC) on July 24 and July 28. The filings, submitted to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, list purchases of 15,000 BE common shares and 200

KOSDAQ-related ETFs experienced increased fund inflows recently following regulatory measures on single-stock leveraged ETFs. On the 24th, the KOSDAQ Advanced Decline Ratio (ADR) reached 107.11%, up 7.04 percentage points from the previous trading day, indicating balanced buying and selling

Crypto exchange volume doubled in five days last week, rising from yearly lows to $37 billion in daily trading. The surge followed a market rebound, though current levels remain below the 12-month high of $105 billion set after liquidations. Monthly figures show $490 billion traded in August