Global TradFi & Macroeconomics

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XPDUSD (Palladium - Cash) has dropped by 4% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market

Gate News message, April 23 — Robinhood Singapore Pte. Ltd. has received in-principle approval (IPA) from Singapore's Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to provide securities brokerage services, according to Robinhood's blog. The approval paves the way for Robinhood to launch comprehensive broker

Gate News message, April 23 — U.S. stock market futures declined across the board in premarket trading. The Nasdaq fell 0.6%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.39%, and the Dow Jones index slipped 0.2%. Among the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, Tesla (TSLA) led declines with a 6.75% drop. Nvidia (NVDA) fell 0.6

Gate News message, April 23 — Iran has brought Strait of Hormuz traffic close to a standstill after firing on three ships and seizing control of two of them on Wednesday, escalating tensions around a critical global energy route. The seizures came one day after Trump extended the ceasefire while

Gate News message, April 23 — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippines' central bank, raised its policy rate to 4.5% on April 23, marking the first rate hike in two years amid escalating Middle East tensions that have driven up domestic fuel and food prices. Inflation in the Philippin

LG Display announced on April 23 that first-quarter operating profit surged 338% to 146.7 billion won (US$99.8 million), marking its third consecutive quarterly profit, despite a 9% year-on-year revenue decline to 5.5 trillion won (US$3.76 billion), according to the company's earnings report.

Gate News message, April 23 — SK Hynix reported a strong first quarter on Thursday, with net profit jumping over 400% to $25.4 billion and revenue surging 198% to $35.55 billion. The March quarter marked the first time the South Korean chipmaker exceeded 50 trillion won in quarterly revenue, with sa

Gate News message, April 23 — S&P Global released data on April 23 showing that the Eurozone's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for April came in at 52.2 on its preliminary reading. A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion in manufacturing

Gate News message, April 23 — According to Andrew Batchelor, head of LCH ForexClear, the Chinese yuan is expected to surpass the Japanese yen as the second most actively traded currency against the U.S. dollar in foreign exchange options markets. Batchelor stated that when the Bank for

Gate News message, April 23 — BlackRock purchased approximately $900 million worth of Bitcoin within a single week, according to on-chain analysis platform Arkham. The firm's ETF clients currently hold an estimated average cost basis of around $87,000 per Bitcoin. The data reflects ongoing

Gate News message, April 23 — The Smarter Web Company has completed administrative arrangements with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), clearing the way for up to approximately 54 million new shares to be issued if all pre-IPO warrants are exercised. The warrant exercise window runs from April 24, 202

Gate News message, April 23 — European stock markets opened lower today. Germany's DAX30 index (benchmark German equity index) fell 0.31%, while Spain's IBEX35 index (primary Spanish equity index) dropped 0.67% and touched 18,000 points. The UK's FTSE 100 index (leading British equity benchmark) de

Gate News message, April 23 — Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Samsung Electronics' major chip production facility in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, demanding a larger share of company profits generated by the artificial intelligence boom, according to Bloomberg. Police told local media

Gate News message, April 23 — South Korea's economy expanded 1.7% in the first quarter, beating the central bank's 0.9% forecast and marking the fastest quarterly growth in five and a half years. Strong chip exports and a rebound in investment drove the expansion. Exports rose 5.1% and imports

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, AKESO (AKESO 09926.HK) has dropped by 12% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market

Gate News message, April 23 — Prediction market platform Kalshi has partnered with crypto oracle protocol Pyth as a data provider for its newly launched Commodities Hub, an interface enabling users to trade binary options on commodities including Brent crude oil, gold, lithium, and soybeans. Pyth wi

Gate News message, April 23 — American Bitcoin (ABTC), co-founded by the sons of U.S. President Donald Trump, expanded its mining operations in Alberta on April 22, bringing over 11,000 additional ASIC units online at its Drumheller facility. The deployment lifted the company's total hashrate to

Bitcoin critics and gold supporter Peter Schiff posted on X on April 23, saying that the STRC perpetual preferred stock introduced by MicroStrategy (Strategy) is “the most obvious Ponzi scheme to date,” and criticizing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to effectively stop Michael Saylor from promoting STRC.

According to a report by TASS on April 22, Ruslan Vestrovskiy, senior vice president and head of wealth management at Russia’s Sberbank, said at the Moscow Exchange Forum that once cryptocurrency-related regulation is implemented and exchanges begin organized trading, Sberbank will provide its customers with cryptocurrency trading services. On the same day, the Russian State Duma passed the first reading of a bill on cryptocurrency regulation.

Gate News message, April 23 — South Korea's Korea Exchange (KRX) announced on April 23 that it is constructing a domestic tokenized securities (STO) platform and working to establish a new securities market to support the initiative. According to KRX Chairman Jung Eun-bo, the exchange is