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Multiple retail forecasters project holiday retail sales will exceed $1 trillion this holiday season, marking a 4.5% growth according to Bain & Company's annual forecast. The projected increase is driven by higher tax refunds, which are up $43 billion or 17% year over year, adding cash to consumer w

BFXSecurities opened applications for its event titled 'The Future of Capital Markets,' scheduled for October 22 in Lugano. The gathering will bring together finance professionals to discuss Bitcoin, tokenization, and the direction of capital markets. Registration is currently open with limited

IonQ, Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Quantum Computing Inc. closed at $43.91, $15.74, $16.43, and $8.46 on 29 September 2026. From 31 December 2025 to 29 September 2026, IonQ declined 2.1 percent while D-Wave fell 37.2 percent, and from 28 August 2026 IonQ rose 12.0 percent while D-Wave

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix saw securities firms raise target prices in September as memory semiconductor prices reached record highs. PC DRAM prices climbed to $26 in September, marking a 4.0% increase from the previous month, according to market research firm DRAMeXchange. The price surge

A wallet linked to the Bitget cryptocurrency exchange hack moved approximately $4 million worth of Zcash into a privacy pool on September 30, according to CoinDesk. The transfer was executed to make the stolen assets harder to trace through blockchain analysis. Zcash's shielded pool technology

CryptoUK announced tomorrow a live discussion on significant changes to the UK's crypto tax landscape affecting stablecoins, CARF, and DeFi. The organization stated the event will explore practical implications for firms operating in or entering the UK market. The announcement reflects the UK's

South Korea's securities regulator referred multiple individuals to prosecutors on the 30th for insider trading and stock price manipulation. The Financial Services Commission Securities and Futures Commission identified three separate cases at its 17th regular meeting, involving undisclosed

HSC Conference Seoul will convene leading voices in cryptocurrency, institutional finance, and blockchain infrastructure on October 1st at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Gangnam. The event brings together over 50 professionals from firms including Maelstrom, Animoca Brands, Offchain Labs, S&P Global,

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds attracted $66.2 million in net inflows on Sept. 29, more than doubling the $31 million recorded a day earlier and extending their recent positive run. Ethereum ETFs reversed course on the same day, swinging from a $17.1 million inflow on Sept. 28 to a $2.8 milli

Solana's decentralized finance ecosystem has recovered its Total Value Locked to above $6.5 billion. The recovery follows a $285 million Drift hack that had impacted network confidence. Commentator @SolanaFloor highlighted the rebound as crucial for restoring trust among investors and users in the d

Bitcoin is trading at $83,000 ahead of the August core PCE inflation release scheduled for 8:30 a.m. ET on September 30. The price stands 0.71% above its 24-hour low of $82,700, with market focus on whether the inflation report will push BTC below that level. The Federal Reserve explicitly ties its

Anthropic is preparing a November IPO seeking a $2 trillion valuation based on its 2025 financials, according to a prospectus leaked this week. The Claude AI developer closed its Series H funding round on May 28 at a $965 billion post-money valuation using the same 2025 book of financials. The

South Korea's National Growth Fund launched its second round of sales today (the 30th), but investor enthusiasm proved significantly cooler compared to the first round's frenzy last May. The muted response stems from recent KOSPI declines that pushed first-round fund returns down to 1%, causing

Stable completed its Visa Direct integration on September 30, connecting its USDT-native Layer-1 blockchain StableChain directly to Visa's real-time payments network. The integration enables businesses using StableChain to send real-time payouts to bank accounts and mobile wallets in over 195

Lighter crypto (LIT) dropped sharply this week after Robinhood confirmed plans to route its new U.S. crypto perpetual futures product through Bitstamp instead of the Lighter platform. The price decline occurred following Robinhood's announcement at its Sept. 29 HOOD Summit, where the company

The Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center experienced a data breach between October 2025 and July 2026 that exposed sensitive information on 2.76 million living personnel and 294,000 deceased individuals. The unauthorized access compromised Social Security numbers and job details of military and c

Senator Richard Blumenthal released a report finding that 84% of 846 cryptocurrency wallets sanctioned over links to Iran and its proxies transacted exclusively or nearly exclusively in Tether's USDT stablecoin. The report, titled 'Tethered to Terrorism,' was produced by Democratic staff on the Sena

Polymarket prediction market data showed the probability of a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike at the October 27-28 FOMC meeting dropped to 41.5% on September 30, down 27 percentage points in 24 hours, while the odds of no rate change rose to 58.5%. The shift reversed much of the hike