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Apple stock rose 1.3% on Monday after Bank of America reported shorter iPhone 18 Pro delivery times compared to last year. The investment bank maintained its Buy rating and $370 price target on AAPL, even as shorter delivery times raised questions about demand for the premium smartphones. Apple

Nasdaq Chair and CEO Adena Friedman stated on October 8, 2026 that tokenization could unlock tens of billions of dollars in collateral across the global financial system. Speaking at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore, Friedman identified U.S. Treasury securities, equities and money market

Moscow Exchange plans to introduce direct cryptocurrency trading on December 1, 2026, for Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT. Boris Blokhin, the exchange's senior managing director for sales and business development, announced the target date on October 8 during the Sber Investments forum in Moscow. The

Korean retail investors in US stocks incurred currency losses exceeding 10 percent as the won-dollar exchange rate fell over 150 won from around 1,500 to the 1,330s. An investor who bought SpaceX shares at 1,490 won per dollar in late June faced currency losses that offset stock price recovery to

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) emphasized that changing decision-making structures and internal culture is crucial for successfully implementing its Total Portfolio Approach (TPA) investment framework. Choi Won-hyuk, head of KIC's Integrated Asset Management Division 1, made these remarks at a C

At 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on October 14, 2026, Matchday 2 of the Champions League league phase will feature a highly anticipated clash, with Atlético Madrid hosting Manchester United at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano in Madrid. Gate Event Contracts market data shows Atlético Madrid with a 49% win probability, Manchester United with a 26% win probability, and a 25% probability of a draw. Does the nearly two-to-one gap in win probability accurately reflect the two sides’ current competitive form? Wh

Blur, the nonfungible token marketplace that once overtook OpenSea as the largest NFT marketplace by trading volume, announced on X on Monday it is shutting down its website next month. The frontend will shut down on Nov. 12, while its onchain marketplace will remain operational. Blur did not

Crypto Tax in India has reached a critical juncture as the government enforces a flat 30% tax on all virtual digital asset (VDA) gains under Section 115BBH of the Income Tax Act, a framework that has remained unchanged since February 2022 despite industry pushback. India's 39 million verified

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued a detailed guidance note for Indian crypto platforms and foreign exchanges operating in the country on Crypto Tax in India, explaining issues related to reporting taxes and transactions under the provisions of the Income Tax Rules, 2026. The guidan

The Reserve Bank of India is renewing its call to bar banks and financial institutions from any exposure to crypto assets and privately issued stablecoins, according to internal government documents from May and June reviewed by Reuters. India's tax department, which taxes crypto gains at 30%, has s

Binance announced on Oct. 13 that it will discontinue Binance Pool, its in-house mining service, starting Nov. 10, ending all related services after more than six years of operation. The shutdown follows a regular review of the exchange's products and services. Binance launched the mining pool servi

Australian Bitcoin miner IREN has reportedly signed a multiyear AI cloud services deal with Anthropic, The Information reported on Sunday, US time, citing people familiar with the relationship. Neither IREN nor Anthropic has confirmed the agreement, and the report provided no value or exact

President Donald Trump stated on October 12 that China and Russia are unlikely to be providing military support to Iran, arguing both countries have too much to lose. Bloomberg reported on October 13 that Trump addressed these suspicions in a late-night Truth Social post, writing that any

The Bank of Russia has included Sber in the register of organizations conducting digital currency exchanges. Russia’s largest bank was granted this status to work with digital assets, while the launch of its first products in this area is scheduled for December 1. In October, Sber was also added to the register of digital depositories. Including Sber, the register of crypto exchanges contains nine organizations. Other participants include VTB and T-Invest Lab. Five organizations are included in

The International Monetary Fund warned against fiscal-monetary policy misalignment during an interview conducted on the 8th at the Bank of Korea headquarters. IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department Deputy Director Athanasios Vamvakidis stated that governments should save surplus tax revenue dur

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) will relocate to Sejong City in the second half of next year, the government announced on the 13th. The move aims to strengthen Sejong-centered government operations by consolidating economic policymaking agencies. However, the Financial

Jung Seok-moon, head of research at Presto, criticized Korea's regulatory approach to real-world asset (RWA) tokenization in an interview with Bloomingbit on Oct. 13, warning that the country risks losing industry talent without institutional reform. Jung, a digital-asset specialist overseeing resea

People Power Party lawmaker Lim Lee-ja urged South Korea to delay the planned January rollout of virtual-asset taxation for another year during the National Assembly's Oct. 13 audit of the Strategy and Finance Committee, citing incomplete tax standards and an underprepared computer system. Lim

Robert Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics on October 13 for research analyzing how households and businesses make decisions based on future expectations, according to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. In Seoul's

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called for one or two additional rounds of upgrades to public-key cryptography during an interview at the Network State Conference 2026. Buterin emphasized the need for enhancements to key parameters to address ongoing challenges facing the technology. Public-key