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1335 ET - Investors in cryptocurrencies have been keenly eyeing the status of the Clarity Act, in hopes of long-awaited regulatory certainty allowing bigger players to move forward with investment plans. The legislation is currently scheduled to be the subject of a cloture vote next week, where some…
The Kansas City Fed named cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in the official brief for this year’s Jackson Hole symposium. In 48 earlier editions, no agenda had made private digital money the subject of the meeting.The 49th symposium runs August 27 to 29 in Wyoming. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh g…
By Rory JonesThe Trump administration launched "Operation Economic Outcast" to squeeze Iran financially and try to force the regime into concessions to end the conflict in the Middle East.Washington is warning world leaders to stop doing business with Iran and threatening to cut companies from the U…
A business owner in Las Vegas faces a statutory maximum sentence of 280 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of running a $24 million crypto Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 400 investors.The US Justice Department said Monday that Brent Kovar was found guilty of 11 counts of wire f…
The U.S. Treasury Department is zeroing in on digital assets it says are being used to bolster Iran’s economy as part of what officials have described as an "economic D-Day."During a press conference on Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent debuted the Trump administration's plan to impose second…
Bitcoin trades at half its record price. XRP has lost roughly 73% from its own peak. Four events this week could decide whether either one escapes that range.Both drifted lower again over the past seven days. Washington delivers a presidential crypto meeting, Federal Reserve minutes and a debut re…
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has expanded its tokenization footprint with the launch of two new onchain money market products, according to an announcement on Monday.The OnChain Shares of the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and the BlackRock Daily Reinvestment…
Veteran macro investor Jordi Visser says the easy money in artificial intelligence is gone. He thinks Bitcoin is where the next big gains turn up.New company filings help explain why. The biggest AI spenders are now burning cash faster than they bring it in.Big Tech Is Burning Cash to Build AIGoog…
1132 GMT - The Bank of England remains in wait-and-see mode given limited evidence of second-round inflation effects from the energy crisis, says George Brown at Schroders in a note. The BOE held interest rates at 3.75% on Thursday, as expected. "Despite the sharp rise in energy prices, the majority…
Bitcoin (BTC) heads into the end of July juggling volatility catalysts as the Federal Reserve reacts to US inflation.Key points:The Fed will deliver its latest decision on interest rates as US bond yields spike, with markets seeing a September hike as likely. June PCE inflation is due on Thursday af…
0721 GMT - Yields on U.K. government bonds, or gilts, decline slightly as oil prices stabilize, reversing Thursday's rise when 10-year gilt yields hit a 2-month high of 5.122%. U.K. retail sales data for June were better than expected, with monthly sales rising by 1.0%, better than the consensus for…
Michael Saylor is making the case for Bitcoin with a history lesson. The MicroStrategy chairman shared River research tracking over 60 government currencies since 1700. His point is simple. Paper money keeps failing, and Bitcoin was built to fix that.River, a Bitcoin financial services firm, publis…