Tokenized gold trading volume hits $90.7B in Q1 2026, surpassing entire 2025 total
Tokenized gold spot trading volume hit $90.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026. For context, that’s more than the...
Market Analysis
Goldman Sachs delays Fed rate cut outlook to December 2026 amid inflation pressures
Goldman Sachs has pushed back its forecast for the first Federal Reserve rate cut to December 2026, with a follow-up...
Over $163M in long positions liquidated from crypto market in 24 hours
More than $163 million in long crypto positions were wiped out over the past 24 hours, adding to what has...
Gold falls on oil-driven inflation worries as US-Iran talks falter
Gold had a rough day. Spot prices slid 0.6% to $4,684.32 per ounce on May 11, while US gold futures...
Trump visits China for high-stakes talks with Xi Jinping, and crypto markets are watching closely
Donald Trump is heading to Beijing for a face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14-15, marking the...
China’s factory inflation reaches 45-month high amid energy price shock
China’s factory-gate prices just posted their sharpest increase since August 2022. The Producer Price Index climbed 2.8% year-on-year in April...
JPMorgan raises KOSPI bull case target to 8,500 on memory chip boom, and crypto may feel the squeeze
JPMorgan just bumped its bullish target for South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index to 8,500, a number that implies a 37%...
S&P 500 gains 142% with AI stocks, just 16% without them
Strip out the AI darlings from the S&P 500, and the index barely moved over the past two years. With...
JPMorgan raises KOSPI bull case target to 10,000 on memory chip supercycle
JPMorgan just slapped a 10,000 bull-case target on South Korea’s KOSPI index. For context, the index has already surged roughly...
Private-credit firms report decline in returns amid Fed rate cuts
As the Federal Reserve moves through its rate-cutting cycle, private-credit firms are watching their yields compress in real time. The...
China’s April PPI rises 2.8%, CPI increases 1.2% year-on-year, ending three-year deflation streak
China just posted its strongest producer inflation numbers in years, and the implications stretch well beyond Beijing. The April Producer...
South Korea confirms external strikes caused fire on HMM Namu, sending ripples through crypto mining economics
South Korea’s joint investigation team has confirmed what many suspected: the fire aboard the HMM Namu on May 4 was...
Trump calls Iran’s peace proposal totally unacceptable, oil prices rise
President Donald Trump posted two words on Truth Social that sent oil markets scrambling: “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.” The target of his...
Donald Trump to discuss Iran war with Xi Jinping during Beijing visit
Donald Trump is heading to Beijing. The US president is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14-15...
US stock futures decline as Trump rejects Iran deal response
Diplomacy between Washington and Tehran just hit a wall, and markets are feeling every brick. US stock futures tumbled after...
Oil jumps after Trump calls Iran’s peace offer ‘unacceptable’
Brent crude oil spiked 8% to $109.74 per barrel after President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s peace proposal, calling it “unacceptable.”...
Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell defends central bank independence amid Trump pressure
President Donald Trump has escalated his campaign against Fed Chair Jerome Powell to a level that’s making markets genuinely uncomfortable....
Iran proposes ceasefire and sanctions relief in response to US peace proposal, with big implications for crypto
Iran has fired back at a US peace proposal with a counterproposal of its own, and the demands are steep:...
Iran proposes ceasefire and sanctions relief in response to US peace proposal
Iran has put a peace plan on the table, and it comes with a list of conditions that reads less...
US government’s crypto holdings rise by over $4B since April 1
Uncle Sam’s crypto wallet got a whole lot fatter this spring. The US government’s cryptocurrency holdings have climbed by more...
Pimco warns Iran war could lead Federal Reserve to raise rates
For the better part of two years, markets have been pricing in a slow, steady descent in interest rates. Pimco,...
Putin hints Ukraine war may be nearing completion amid Trump-brokered ceasefire
Vladimir Putin chose one of Russia’s most symbolically charged days to float the idea that the war in Ukraine might...
