Global TradFi & Macroeconomics

Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) is being removed from the MSCI Philippines Standard Index at the close of August 31, following a stock decline of more than 40% over the past 12 months and a third this year. The company reported first-half revenues fell 10% to P75 billion while net income dropped 19% to P11.5

According to Jin10, gold prices fell on Tuesday (August 25) after hitting a three-month high, with traders focusing on upcoming U.S. inflation data and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's speech later this week. The move followed last week's announcement that the U.S. Treasury would double the

According to Bloomberg, Hims & Hers Health (HIMS) shares fell 8% on Monday (August 24) after Visa placed the company in its Acquirer Monitoring Program following a surge in credit card disputes. Weight-loss subscriptions accounted for 75% of the disputes. Hims must reduce its dispute rate

According to Gainscope data, the U.S. Dollar Index rose to 99.04 today, up 0.05% on the day.

According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw total net inflows of $338 million on August 24 (U.S. Eastern Time), marking the sixth consecutive day of net inflows. BlackRock's IBIT led with $209 million in inflows, bringing its historical cumulative inflows to $62.636 billion. Fidelity's FBTC f

According to SoSoValue, Ethereum spot ETFs received net inflows of $116 million yesterday (August 24, U.S. Eastern Time). BlackRock's ETHA led with $90.92 million in single-day inflows, bringing its historical total to $12.261 billion. The Ethereum spot ETF ecosystem's total assets under

According to Devere Group CEO Nigel Green on Aug. 24, U.S. public debt exceeded $40 trillion while the Congressional Budget Office raised its fiscal 2026 deficit estimate to $2.1 trillion, $200 billion above its February projection. Treasury data released Aug. 20 showed total debt at

The U.S. Treasury announced that, starting Sept. 9, it will raise the per-operation buyback limit for 10- to 30-year U.S. Treasuries to at least $4 billion. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestselling personal finance book Rich Dad Poor Dad, criticized the move on X, saying that expanding Treasury buybacks is essentially equivalent to printing “fake money” and constitutes disguised quantitative easing. He urged investors to shift their funds into hard assets such as gold, silver, Bitcoin, and hig

Financial Times reporter George Hammond reported that, after aggregating spending data from more than 70k businesses, payments platform Ramp found that more than two months after Anthropic launched its most powerful and expensive model, Fable 5, the model accounted for only about 11.4% of Anthropic’s overall tool spending. The figure comes as Anthropic prepares for a stock-market IPO that could take place as early as next month. Fable 5 Accounts for 11.4% of Spending but Only 6% of Token Usage A

According to Wccftech, Chinese memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) faces significant constraints in meeting Apple's memory demand for China, with production capacity already booked through 2027 and utilization reaching 95%. YMTC's current monthly output of 200,000 wafers, set to

In the third week of August, U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded $2.61 billion in net inflows for the week. Total assets in U.S. spot crypto ETFs reached $110.3 billion, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for approximately half of the entire category. However, during the same period, global monthly active on-chain addresses fell 18% year over year, while passive holders rose 16% year over year. The number of monthly active open-source developers stood at approximately 28k, down more than

According to Yahoo Finance and JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur, Nvidia's forward price-to-earnings ratio stands at 24 times ahead of the company's earnings report on Wednesday, roughly in line with the S&P 500's 21 times despite Nvidia being one of the fastest-growing U.S. corporations. JPMorgan's repor

U.S. stock futures traded mixed late Monday night as investors awaited Nvidia's quarterly earnings report, July's personal consumption expenditures inflation data, and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's speech at Jackson Hole scheduled for this week. Dow futures declined 0.04%, while S&P 500 future

According to Bloomberg, Apple plans to launch updated Mac mini models within the coming days, with M5 and M6 chip variants undergoing testing. The new Mac mini could debut before Apple's iPhone announcement expected in September, sources said. The refresh comes as Mac mini demand surges among

According to securities filings, Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, invested up to $13.5 million in Bloom Energy (BE-US) and Intel (INTC-US) in late July, with Bloom Energy as the primary focus. Pelosi purchased 15,000 shares of Bloom Energy and 200 call options on July 24 an

According to Jin10, on Tuesday (August 25), offshore Chinese yuan Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rates (CNH HIBOR) showed multiple tenors moving higher. Overnight HIBOR rose 4 basis points to 1.42061%, marking its highest level since August 19. One-week HIBOR increased to 1.42303%, two-week HIBOR

According to Kpler vessel tracking data, the number of commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz fell to a 3-month low on August 24.

According to financial disclosures made public on August 22, Trump purchased SpaceX shares valued at between $15k and $50k on June 23, giving him a more direct financial relationship with the long-standing military contractor, whose launch missions require federal government approval. White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said that Trump’s investment portfolio is independently managed by a third-party financial institution and that Trump and his family “cannot manage it.” Details of Trump’s Space