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Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) warned on the 16th it may downgrade Indonesia's stock market from emerging market status, pressuring Bank Indonesia to raise rates to defend the rupiah. MSCI is reviewing reclassification from 'emerging market' to 'standalone market' - more severe than

U.S. spot Ether exchange-traded funds recorded combined net outflows of $103.28 million on October 19, according to Trader T, marking the fourth consecutive trading session of withdrawals. BlackRock's ETHA accounted for the majority of the day's outflows at $95.4 million. BlackRock ETHA

The USD-KRW exchange rate fell to a three-day low on the morning of the 20th, driven by export settlement flows from semiconductor firms. As of 11:05 AM, the rate traded at 1,328.70 won, down 1.60 won from the previous close. Export-related dollar selling pressured the rate downward as foreign

Binance launched its Auto Order Routing feature for Spot trading, enabling users to access better price routes without additional fees. The feature routes orders to secure optimal available prices across supported trading pairs. Binance announced the launch via tweet, positioning the tool as an

South Korean government bond yields rose on the 20th, with the benchmark 3-year Korea Treasury Bond (KTB) yield climbing 0.5 basis points to 3.882% and the 10-year yield advancing 0.7bp to 4.217% as of 11:03 AM local time, according to Seoul bond market data. The yield increases followed a sharp ove

U.S. spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $526.64 million in net inflows in a single day, according to data reported by Trader T on October 20. The inflows signal a rebound in investor demand for Bitcoin exposure through regulated investment vehicles. The 12 U.S. spot-Bitcoin ETFs

Most of the top ten U.S. stocks by trading volume on October 19 closed higher: Micron Technology (MU) led the gains, closing up 2.97% with $23.29B in trading volume; NVIDIA (NVDA) stock closed up 1.38% with $21.36B in trading volume; and Amazon (AMZN) stock closed up 4.98% with $14.31B in trading volume. Morgan Stanley named Amazon a “Top Pick” that day and raised its price target to $350. NVIDIA: JUPITER Supercomputer Completes Simulation of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with 104 Qubits; GTC

Japan's 20-year government bond auction on October 20 drew record demand as investors stepped in amid yields climbing to their highest levels in decades. Bloomberg reported the bid-to-cover ratio rose to a record 5.84, well above 4.01 at the previous sale and the 12-month average of 3.73. The

As of Oct. 19, the Pi Launchpad platform had completed two token tests: the first was IRRA, and the second was SLICE. SLICE is the most recently completed test. More than 242k Pioneer users committed 15.92 million Test-Pi to acquire 10 million $SLICE tokens. SLICE added a liquidity pool and real-time price charts and was linked to a real game. Pi Launchpad Core Mechanism: Pi Issuance Funds Enter the Liquidity Pool, Not the Project According to Pi Network's official explanation, Pi Launchpad's de

General Motors reports its third-quarter 2026 earnings before the market opens Tuesday. Wall Street analysts estimate adjusted earnings per share of $3.63 and revenue of $48.70 billion, according to LSEG average estimates. The results would represent relatively flat revenue compared with a year

The Ethereum Foundation announced the Glamsterdam upgrade, set to activate on the Hoodi testnet on October 26 at 17:42 UTC. The upgrade will raise the block gas limit to 200 million, aligning it with the Sepolia testnet, and will implement enshrined proposer-builder separation and block-level

Korea Export-Import Bank (KEXIM) CEO Hwang Ki-yeon stated on October 20 that the bank has no current plans to sell its stake in Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), addressing speculation triggered by an August consulting contract. Hwang made the remarks during a parliamentary audit by the National

The inclusionAI team at Ant Group open-sourced the Ming-3.0-tts speech-generation model series on Oct. 20, aiming to bring fine-grained speech control to small models suitable for local deployment. The code, task manual, and evaluation tables have been uploaded to GitHub, while the model weights have been released on Hugging Face and ModelScope, all under the MIT license. inclusionAI Releases Ming-3.0-tts: Code and Evaluation Tables Uploaded to GitHub The code, task manual, and evaluation tables

The identity verification network World launched “World ID for banking and finance” on October 18 at the Money20/20 fintech conference in Las Vegas, targeting the deepfake scam problem faced by banks and financial institutions. The launch also announced that World ID for Zoom would transition from limited testing, which began in April, to being officially available. World launches the banking version of World ID, with five institutions as the first design partners World officially launched “Worl

On-chain monitoring account @whalealert detected a large transfer of 82,314,668 XRP on October 20, estimated to be worth approximately $106.6 million based on the market price at the time. The funds were moved from one unknown wallet to another, and the identities of both wallets have not been disclosed. Following the transfer, XRP showed no significant immediate price fluctuations, while trading volume over the past 24 hours also remained relatively low. Transfer Details: 82.3 Million XRP, Appr

Tencent’s operating-system-level AI assistant, Marvis, has officially launched on the Kylin Software Store. The release targets the Kylin desktop operating system V10 SP1, supports x86 and ARM architectures, and is compatible with multiple domestic CPUs and mainstream computing platforms. Marvis was released on mainstream desktop and mobile platforms earlier this year. Kylin Marvis System Integration Features: Access to SecHub and System Manager, with Security Scanning Support The Kylin version

The Filecoin network completed an upgrade that changes how rewards are distributed across the platform. The upgrade allocates a growing share of rewards to services that attract paying customers onto the network, according to an announcement from the official Filecoin account. The adjustment aims to

Maple highlighted insights on stablecoins at the Money2020 conference. The decentralized finance platform, through its editorial lead, stated that stablecoins are likely to dominate B2B cross-border payments during the conference's second day. Maple focuses on providing liquidity and lending

SpaceX and Tesla will report their third-quarter results on October 20 and 21, respectively. According to data compiled by LSEG, SpaceX’s Q3 revenue is estimated at approximately $12.74 billion, while Tesla’s is estimated at approximately $27.88 billion. Barclays analyst Dan Levy expects a potential all-stock reverse merger, with SpaceX acquiring Tesla at an approximate valuation of $2.1 trillion. SpaceX Q3 Earnings Preview: LSEG Estimates $12.74 Billion in Revenue According to analyst consensus

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared two cost tables on X on October 17 comparing the cost structures of bitcoin mining and AI inference. The key difference is that electricity accounts for approximately 45.9% of total bitcoin mining costs, while computing hardware capital expenditures account for approximately 40%, putting the two categories roughly on par. For AI inference, hardware capital expenditures account for as much as 76%, while electricity-related costs total only approximately