Global TradFi & Macroeconomics

Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth oil fund plans to sell up to $300 million in foreign currency during August 2026, according to official announcements.

According to BlockBeats, international oil prices dropped sharply on August 3 as expectations of easing Middle East tensions drove trading. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell over 7%, while Brent crude declined over 5% to around $83 per barrel. Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that

According to Arkham data, trader James Wynn faced forced liquidations on his S&P 500 short positions for four consecutive days ending August 3, with his account balance plummeting to approximately $6,500. The liquidations occurred from last Friday through Monday of this

According to Beating Dynamics, researchers backtested real AI token usage against U.S. stock returns between January 2024 and April 2026 using approximately 3.8 trillion tokens from OpenRouter, an AI model aggregation platform. The researchers combined weekly token consumption, spending, and

According to Barron's, L3 Harris Technologies (LHX) posted strong Q2 earnings on July 29, beating Wall Street expectations with 28% EPS growth year-over-year, yet saw its stock decline 9% the following day as defense sector valuations compressed. The company also raised its full-year financial

Kioxia's stock rose 5.27% on the 3rd at the Tokyo Stock Exchange despite weaker earnings reported on the 31st of last month. The company announced a buyback of up to 800 billion yen (approximately 7.2 trillion won) representing 5.5% of outstanding shares, and a 3-to-1 stock split planned for

According to Business Insider, Situational Awareness—a hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner—was forced to liquidate most of its public stock holdings in early August after weeks of losses and margin calls from partner banks. The forced selling triggered a sharp

According to Tokyo Stock Exchange, Kioxia stock rose 5.27% on Aug 3 following the company's announcement of a shareholder return plan on July 31. The plan includes a share buyback of up to 800 billion yen (approximately 7.2 trillion Korean won), representing 5.5% of total issued shares, and a

Korean stock markets have activated over 70 market stabilization measures this year as extreme volatility grips trading. The Korea Exchange has deployed emergency mechanisms including sidecars and circuit breakers at an unprecedented frequency to prevent cascading sell-offs and investor panic. The r

According to SoSoValue, Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $365.17 million in inflows during July, their strongest month in 9 months. However, weekly inflows collapsed 74%, dropping from $103.9 million to $27.42 million in the week ending July 31. The pullback coincided with the Federal Reserve's July 29

According to Bloomberg, Zeiss Group's semiconductor division responded to investor concerns over supply chain bottlenecks, expressing confidence in meeting surging AI-driven market demand. The German optical equipment manufacturer has completed an expansion of its Oberkochen headquarters to

S&P Global reported July UK manufacturing PMI final figure at 51.9, below the preliminary estimate of 52.8 and June's 52.5, marking a 4-month low. The decline reflected price and demand trends not fully translating to labor market strength, with July manufacturing employment growth virtually

According to S&P Global, Britain's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) came in at 51.9 in July, falling short of the preliminary forecast of 52.8 and marking a four-month low. The index also dropped from 52.5 in June. However, the PMI remained above the 50-point threshold separating

According to BlockBeats, on August 3, whale trader Loracle increased and continues to build a gold long position worth over $23 million, according to monitoring by Mlm onchain. The trader simultaneously opened ETH short positions valued at over $28 million and SNDK short positions worth over $8 mill

According to TradingBeats monitoring, as reported by BlockBeats, SK Huynh (SKHX) open interest collapsed from approximately $364 million to $321 million between late August 2 and August 3, a decline of 11.9%. Excluding price movements, the underlying

According to Algeria's national oil company Sonatrach, well TG 16 at the Tiguentourine gas field experienced an uncontrolled gas leak on Sunday (August 2) during maintenance operations. No casualties were

According to Gate's trading data, GameStop (GME.N) premarket shares dropped 12% on August 3.