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Foreign buyers purchased 14% fewer U.S. residential properties by unit volume and 19% fewer by dollar volume during the 12 months from April 2025 through March 2026 compared with the prior year, according to the National Association of Realtors. The decline mirrors the drop in international

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained on Tuesday why the United States bought Japanese yen in coordination with Japan. Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama confirmed on Monday that Tokyo bought yen "in coordination with the U.S. Department of the Treasury" on Friday. The intervention

Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) stocks surged 11.63% to $926.590 on August 4 local time after the heavy equipment manufacturer raised its full-year revenue guidance driven by strong data center construction demand. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $20.54 billion and adjusted earnings per

Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest banking group, cut its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) holding by 93.7% last quarter, reducing its position from 646,809 shares to 40,723 shares worth $1.36 million as of June 30, according to its Form 13F filing. The bank simultaneously tripled its iShares

Mysten Labs co-founder Evan Cheng predicted Sui will carry all digital payments within four years, as the blockchain moved more than $65 billion in gasless stablecoin transfers since June 10. The prediction positions Sui as settlement infrastructure for stablecoins and cross-border payments rather t

Tether Gold (XAUt) saw its physical gold reserves increase 9.5% in the second quarter, reflecting growing demand for tokenized gold exposure, according to Tether's attestation report. The reserve growth occurred as gold fell 14.1% during the quarter, marking its worst quarterly performance since the

Corvex (MOVE) announced a multi-year deal to provide clusters of Nvidia (NVDA) Blackwell GPUs to an unnamed leading AI company, sending MOVE stock surging 112% in pre-market trade on Tuesday. The agreement expands a previous customer commitment and covers dedicated clusters connected through Nvidia

Bitget introduced Private Copy Trading for its CFD platform, allowing professional traders to create invitation-only copy trading groups rather than making their strategies publicly available. The feature enables strategy providers to distribute multiple invitation links, build private trading group

OKX Chief Compliance Officer Jonathan Brockmeier told The Block that the exchange is seeing record inflows following the Coldcard exploit. The Coldcard vulnerability, disclosed last week, is one of the largest known thefts tied to a bitcoin hardware-wallet flaw. Brockmeier attributed the trend to

Cardano (ADA) gained about 25% over the past seven days, making it the strongest weekly performer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market value. The token reached $0.195, its highest level since July 4, while most major altcoins posted smaller gains. The advance occurred as wallet numbers

Snap (SNAP) shares jumped as much as 5.1% in pre-market trade on Tuesday after the company reported second quarter earnings that exceeded market estimates, prompting multiple Wall Street firms to raise price targets. The stock was on track to hit an over one-month high and ranked among top

BitMine Immersion Technologies disclosed last week that it holds 5.797 million ETH, equal to 4.8% of Ethereum's entire circulating supply, following an acquisition of 10,399 ETH under a $4 billion authorized repurchase plan. The firm simultaneously repurchased 4.5 million shares of its common

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to recover $1,413,037 from a brokerage account held by Singapore resident Zhi Ge, alleging the funds represent profits from options trades executed using material

Ripple announced strategic equity investments in two UK-based firms, Zilo and Licuido, on August 3, 2026, converting existing commercial partnerships into ownership positions to complete a full-lifecycle institutional capital markets stack on the XRP Ledger. The investments target the structural

Google Gemini AI predicts Bitcoin will reach between $95,000 and $115,000 by the end of 2026, framing the forecast as a structural rally driven by five converging forces rather than a single catalyst. Trading at $63,500, Bitcoin's bull case stacks the delayed

Illinois residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple over facial recognition features in the Photos app, with potential damages reaching $32.5 billion. The lawsuit alleges Apple collected biometric data from users' photos without authorization, using facial scans to generate unique

BlackRock launched tokenized share classes for European money market funds holding a combined $311 billion, marking its first on-chain fund access in Europe. The 12 new share classes span six funds in the BlackRock Institutional Cash Series, covering euro, sterling and U.S. dollar strategies in

On August 4, 2026, in the “Bitcoin August Price Prediction” event on the prediction market Polymarket, the “Below $62,500” option’s “Yes” probability surged from 49.5% to 89.5% within one hour—a 40-percentage-point swing. This sharp volatility was not merely isolated price noise, but a typical reaction to prediction markets functioning as real-time sentiment-pricing mechanisms. When the probability curve shifts so dramatically over a short period, the market is conveying a signal worth examining

Ark Invest purchased 54,776 Coinbase shares worth approximately $8 million across three exchange-traded funds on Monday, expanding its holdings after the crypto exchange's stock declined following last week's earnings report. The Cathie Wood-led investment firm executed the purchase as part of its o

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh announced a strategy to reveal less about the Fed's reaction function at a press conference last week. The reaction function describes how the central bank connects economic data and news to policy decisions. Warsh wants financial markets to evaluate the economy