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Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) stock rose 5.6% on August 3 to $137.15, giving the company a market cap of approximately $399 billion. The rally was driven by AI amid a surge in major technology stocks, including Amazon, which reached a $3 trillion market cap for the first time. The key financial concern is that remaining performance obligations (RPO) reached $638 billion, while free cash flow for fiscal year 2026 was negative $23.7 billion. Four-Day Oracle Stock Gain Data According to market data, Oracle s

Korean retail investors withdrew a net 526.8 billion won from Return to Domestic Market Accounts (RIA) in July, marking the first monthly outflow since the government-backed program launched in March. The exodus occurred as the KOSPI index recorded a 22.19% decline in July, the steepest drop

Korean retail investors withdrew from leveraged stock trading as margin loan balances fell below 30 trillion won for the first time in six months, according to Korea Financial Investment Association data as

Digital asset brokerage FalconX laid off about 10% of its global staff (based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong). On August 4, Bloomberg cited people familiar with the matter. FalconX also adjusted its Singapore business strategy, withdrew its license application submitted to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and shifted its Singapore business focus to crypto derivatives trading. FalconX said it would maintain its presence in the Asian market and expand

Amazon.com Inc., Snowflake Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. reached fresh 52-week highs on Monday as investors responded to AI-driven growth, analyst upgrades, and merger speculation. Amazon shares hit a record $287.16, pushing the company's market value above $3 trillion following strong second-q

Australian cryptocurrency boutique broker Caleb & Brown entered the UK market on Aug. 4, extending its services for wealthy investors beyond Australia and the United States. Swyftx Group co-CEO Andrea Yuen said the UK is an “untapped opportunity,” because investment levels in Bitcoin and other alternative risk assets in the UK are four to five times lower than in the US, Asia, and Australia. Caleb & Brown’s market positioning According to Swyftx Group’s statement, Caleb & Brown is targeting a hi

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock is drawing market attention. On Aug. 3, NVIDIA technical experts Jason Hardy and Ronil Prasad published a Vera CPU benchmark report on the official blog, revealing that Vera processors accelerate multiple storage performance areas compared with traditional x86 CPUs: CRC32C integrity checks are accelerated by 3.67x. CPU bottleneck for agentic AI storage In a report, NVIDIA explains that in agentic AI workloads, AI agents frequently and heavily retrieve enterprise knowl

Ripple announced strategic investments in Zilo and Licuido on Aug. 3, extending the XRP Ledger's institutional capital markets infrastructure with regulated transfer agency, token issuance, trading, settlement, and collateral capabilities. The investments target persistent capital markets

Palantir Technologies’ (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock surged during after-hours trading on August 3, rising 13.79% overnight and closing at $142.98. The company’s Q2 2026 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) were $0.41, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $0.35; Q2 revenue was $1.94 billion, above expectations of $1.8 billion. Palantir Q2 2026 Financial Highlights According to Palantir’s Q2 2026 earnings report, the key financial metrics are as follows: adjusted EPS was $0.41, above Wall Street’s estimate of $

Hanwha Asset Management listed the 'PLUS SK Hynix SanDisk Bond Hybrid 50' ETF on August 4, investing equally in SK Hynix and SanDisk while allocating half to Korean government bonds. The product targets retirement pension investors by combining memory semiconductor exposure with bond stability.

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) shares are drawing market attention as the company launches two new tokenized money market funds: BSTBL (BlackRock Select U.S. Treasury Liquidity Fund) and BRSRV (BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle). BlackRock CFO Martin Small said during the 2026 Q2 earnings conference call that BlackRock currently manages $60 billion in reserves for Circle. BSTBL and BRSRV product framework The core framework for BlackRock’s two tokenized money market products is as f

Samsung Asset Management announced the launch of the 'KODEX US CPU Semiconductor TOP10' ETF on the 4th, targeting investment in global CPU companies including ARM, AMD, and Intel. The ETF allocates over 25% to each of these three leading CPU firms. The launch responds to growing CPU demand as the

Meme coin launchpad Pump.fun allegedly laid off employees before token unlocks for its employees $PUMP , affecting more than 40 people; the report mainly comes from internal recordings and documents obtained by the crypto media outlet “Sandmark.” UK Companies House records show that Pump.fun’s UK parent company, Baton Corporation, has not yet filed its financial statements as of Sep. 30, 2025—more than one month overdue. Pump.fun Layoff Timing: Before Token Unlock Based on internal recordings an

Bitcoin (BTC) gives back a small portion of the overnight gains, currently around $63,460 as of Aug. 4. Tyler Williams, a senior official in the U.S. Treasury overseeing digital asset policy, has left his post. He played a core role in advancing the Trump administration’s agenda of “making the U.S. the crypto capital of the world.” Hashdex will shut down its Hashdex Bitcoin ETF, with the last trading day on Aug. 17. Macroeconomic Events & Crypto Market Hotspots 1、According to Cointelegraph, Tyle

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is set to report second-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, with Wall Street analysts issuing multiple price target increases ahead of the chipmaker's results. Susquehanna lifted its price target to $500 from $450 and maintained a Positive rating, UBS

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promoted the Foreign and International Monetary Authorities Repo Facility on '2일' (local time), calling it an 'important safety valve' and expressing hope for expansion in coming months. The statement followed joint US-Japan foreign exchange market intervention on

Shinhan Investment & Securities announced on August 4 that it will reduce its securities collateral loan rate to an annual 6.95% to ease customers' financial burden and improve transaction convenience. The revision simplifies the previously complex 24-tier rate structure into a single 6.95% annual r

Bitcoin non-custodial cross-chain bridge Boltz announced on X on August 4 that it will indefinitely suspend its exchange service until further notice. This suspension is not in response to a single security incident. Instead, over the past several months, the underlying infrastructure has continued to suffer AI-assisted automated probing. Although multiple exploit events have been contained, attackers’ iteration speed has exceeded the discovery and patching speed of a small development team, and

Strategy execution chairman Michael Saylor responded on X on Aug. 3 to criticism sparked by the company’s sale of Bitcoin. He said he has never sold my Bitcoin and emphasized that Strategy is a public company, not a private wallet. According to U.S. SEC filings, Strategy sold 1,638 Bitcoin last week, with a median cost of $63,957 per coin. Strategy sells 1,638 Bitcoin: details and current holdings According to a document Strategy filed with the U.S. SEC on Aug. 3, 2026, the company sold 1,638 Bi

Caleb & Brown, an Australian crypto brokerage owned by the Swyftx Group, has entered the UK market to serve wealthy investors. The expansion follows the firm's acquisition by Swyftx a year after in a deal worth more than $100 million. Swyftx Group co-CEO Andrea Yuen described the UK as an