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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday a test indicating iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico carried the cyclospora parasite was a false positive, but the agency maintains its conclusion that shredded iceberg lettuce from central Mexico supplied by Taylor Farms caused an outbreak that

Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery received a temporary restraining order on Monday when California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed off on a 14-day pause following a Friday hearing in Oakland. The order stems from an antitrust lawsuit

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $75.7 million in net inflows for the week ending July 17, marking a second consecutive green week after eight straight weeks of outflows totaling more than $8.2 billion. The two-week recovery brought total net gains to $273.1 million across the 13 funds, according to

The Bank of Korea is launching the second phase of its central bank digital currency pilot in September, expanding real-world transaction testing to nine commercial banks as the country advances toward commercializing a digital won. The next stage of Project Hangang will shift from limited payment t

House committee leaders marked the one-year anniversary of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act's bipartisan passage, warning that regulation by enforcement is stifling American innovation. The bill remains stalled in the Senate since last year despite mounting industry pressure. Lawmakers

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo joined the board of directors at crypto exchange OKX, the platform announced Monday. Cuomo appeared on Fox Business the same day to promote 24/7 tokenized stock trading, deepening his existing ties to the exchange. Last month, OKX and Intercontinental

Pump.fun's PUMP token surged more than 22% on July 20 to reach $0.00207 after prominent Solana trader Ansem disclosed a long position at approximately $0.001675. The rally pushed the token to its highest price since May 12 and drove 24-hour trading volume past $131 million, a jump of over 500%

Decentralized exchange ApeX launched perpetual contract trading for CASHCAT with leverage up to 50x, the platform announced in a weekly update on July 20. The listing runs fully on-chain and requires no know-your-customer verification, continuing ApeX's push to capture speculative meme coin volume t

Veteran trader Peter Brandt predicts Bitcoin will reach the bottom of its current market cycle on October 4, 2026, extending his view that the cryptocurrency has not completed its bear-market reset. Brandt

SpaceXAI announced on Monday the release of a Microsoft Excel add-in integrating its Grok AI assistant directly into the spreadsheet software. The tool enables users to perform data analysis, build formulas, and execute financial forecasting using plain English prompts without switching

Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $105M in net inflows during the week of July 13–17, the strongest weekly figure since April and an acceleration from the prior week's $84M, according to data from CoinGlass and Farside Investors. The two consecutive positive weeks ended an eight-week outflow streak,

Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy and the largest publicly listed corporate Bitcoin holder, publicly opposed BIP-110 on July 11, a proposed one-year soft fork that would restrict non-financial data storage on the Bitcoin blockchain. Saylor argues the proposal introduces more systemic risk

Statistics Canada reported on July 20 (local time) that Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.8% year-over-year in June, below market expectations of 2.9% and down 0.4 percentage points from May's 3.2%. The decline was driven by stabilizing international oil prices following a US-Iran

Binance and Bybit recorded combined stablecoin outflows of nearly $2.3 billion over the past 30 days, according to CryptoQuant data published July 20. Binance accounted for approximately $1.55 billion of the decline while Bybit lost around $786 million. The withdrawals shrink readily available

Bitcoin is maintaining support at $60,000 while challenging $65,000 as the US-Iran conflict continues and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed again. Analyst Ali Martinez notes Bitcoin is showing the same pattern that led to gains of 550% and 7,500% in previous market cycles, citing historical data t

Archer Aviation (ACHR) and Anduril announced an autonomous VTOL aircraft platform for defense and commercial applications on Monday, sending ACHR Stocks up more than 9% at the time of writing. The companies unveiled an unnamed commercial version and a defense variant called 'Thunder', a Group 5 auto

South Korean financial authorities announced stricter deposit requirements for single-stock leveraged products, effective next month on the 5th. The new policy raises the minimum cash deposit from 10 million won to 30 million won for purchasing or adding to positions in leveraged products covering i

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria signed an executive order on Friday to harmonize virtual asset regulation across the nation's financial agencies. The order addresses what his office described as fragmentation in digital asset oversight and establishes a virtual asset council to coordinate

Russia's State Duma is scheduled to vote on July 21 on draft law No. 1194918-8, which would establish a legal framework for digital currency operations under Bank of Russia supervision. The bill cleared its first reading on April 21 with 327 of 340 participating deputies voting in favor, and the

The US Leading Economic Index (LEI) fell 0.2% in June to 99.1, reversing two months of gains, according to the Conference Board on local time July 20. The decline was attributed to weakened consumer expectations and reduced building permits across most categories, though financial components