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According to the interbank foreign exchange market on May 27, the Chinese yuan weakened against the U.S. dollar, with USD/CNY trading at 6.8291, up 3 pips. EUR/CNY rose to 7.9234 (up 1 pip), while GBP/CNY declined to 9.1614 (down 277 pips). AUD/CNY increased to 4.8825 (up 14 pips), CAD/CNY rose to 4

According to PANews, a whale trader turned an initial $4.33 million into $13 million by going long on Micron Technology (MU) over two months starting in March, according to on-chain analyst Yezhen. The trader deposited 4.33 million USDC in March and continuously added to the position using

According to U.S. Southern Command, on May 26, the U.S. military's Operation Southern Sword task force conducted a lethal strike against a vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the eastern Pacific. Intelligence confirmed the ship was traveling known drug-smuggling routes and

According to BlockBeats, OpenSea launched the Ethereum open standard ERC-8257 (Agent Tool Registry) on May 27, positioning it as an "app store for AI agent tools." The standard enables developers to register tools on-chain, declare access rules and pricing, and allows AI agents to autonomously

According to Beating, Xiaomi's MiMo large language model API underwent significant pricing changes recently, with permanent price cuts reaching up to 99% and unified billing across all context lengths. The flagship MiMo-V2.5-Pro model saw its cached input price drop to $0.0036 per million tokens

According to Omdia, Europe's smartphone market (excluding Russia) grew 2% year-over-year to 33 million units in the first quarter of 2026. Despite rising supply chain costs and increased product supply risks, the market showed resilience driven by solid consumer demand and channel inventory

According to PANews, on May 27, Resolv Foundation disclosed a comprehensive recovery pathway for the March 22 USR security incident that triggered a protocol halt. Pre-event USR/wstUSR holders receive 1:1 USDC redemption, while post-event holders get 1:0.5 USDC redemption. RLP reference price

On May 27 (Wednesday) morning, Shanghai Gold Exchange gold T+D (spot gold with deferred delivery) dropped 0.62% to 987.9 yuan per gram at market open, while silver T+D climbed 0.57% to 18,773.0 yuan per

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Europe route main contract rose over 2.00% intraday today, now trading at 2986.0 points.

Taiwan's weighted stock price index (TAIEX) gained 2.1% to 44,444.51 points at market open today (May 27), according to Taiwan Stock Exchange data.

Chinese commodity futures opened with mixed performance today, May 27. Eggs led gains with a surge exceeding 2%, while urea, nickel, aluminum oxide, and European shipping routes each climbed over 1%. On the downside, coke, lithium carbonate, and lean hogs each fell over 1%.

According to MSX.COM data, Micron Technology (MU) stock reached $976 per share premarket on May 27, marking a new all-time high. The stock was later trading at $957 per share.

According to Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan in a recent statement on X, Hyperliquid uses 99% of its fee revenue for token buybacks. Hougan stated that this capital allocation model makes the protocol's value capture logic and business model more straightforward and easier to understand for investors and stakeholders.

According to Jin10 Futures, the CFETS-NEX money market sentiment index rose to 49 as of 08:45 on May 27, up 2 points from 16:00 the previous day. Sentiment indices for large banks, mid-sized banks, and non-bank institutions climbed to 47, 50, and 48 respectively, each rising 2 points.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, Menefee won the Texas 18th Congressional District Democratic primary runoff on May 27, defeating 20-year incumbent Al Green. Crypto super PAC Fairshake and affiliated groups invested approximately $10.5 million in the race, allocating $6.5 million to s

According to Lookonchain data monitored by PANews, whale 0x3527 accumulated purchases of 132,758 HYPE tokens worth $7.96 million over the past 3 days. On May 27, the whale added 40,000 HYPE tokens valued at $2.38 million to its

According to Russian UN ambassador Vasiliy Nebenzia on May 26, the United States denied a visa to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov for a UN Security Council meeting. Nebenzia stated that the move violates the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States regarding the

According to Mizuho CEO Kihara in an interview on May 27, the Bank of Japan should implement a significant interest rate hike to benefit the bond market. Kihara expects the central bank to raise rates in June or July to combat inflation, noting that a "bold" 50 basis point increase would be more

According to Jin10, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Tuesday that approximately $20.6 billion in tariff refunds are being distributed to qualifying importers through a new portal. CBP acknowledged that earlier reports contained a significant error; the agency had

According to Xinhua News Agency, Japan's House of Councillors (upper chamber of parliament) passed legislation to establish a National Intelligence Conference on May 27. The bill, promoted by Prime Minister Suga Takayuki's government, aims to integrate and strengthen intelligence capabilities. The l