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Bullish or Bearish on BTC: Five updates that could affect markets this week
Bitcoin began the week with a strong comeback after weathering its largest-ever liquidation day, giving traders a brief sense of relief by rebounding to $116,000. However, this week’s tense wait for e...
3 Things That May Impact Crypto Markets in Week Ahead
The ongoing US government shutdown is hampering policymakers’ efforts to analyze economic data, which could influence monetary policy. Crypto markets and stocks tanked on Friday and over the weekend i...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent narrows Fed chair search to 5 candidates
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reduced the crowded field for the Federal Reserve chair down to five contenders after a series of long interviews, some running for two hours. The cut from 11 cand...
Dollar comeback burns hedge funds’ short FX bets
Betting against the dollar has been the favorite trade of 2025 in the $9.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, but that gamble is being crushed as the greenback climbs to a two-month high. Even wh...
Fed’s Barr urges caution on rate cuts over tariffs
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr has called for a cautious approach to any upcoming interest rate reductions. Barr warned that tariffs could result in persistent inflation. In remarks prepared fo...
Trump wants aggressive rate cuts as Scott pushes structural changes
Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has just finished weeks of interviews with 11 candidates for the top job at the Fed, all of them questioned about their stance on interest rates, asse...
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes credits Trump, Xi monetary policies for BTC bull run
Arthur Hayes has declared that the rise of Bitcoin today has less to do with its programmed halvings and more to do with what Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are doing with their currencies right now. In ...
Fed payments innovation conference to feature top crypto and finance leaders
The Federal Reserve’s Payments Innovation Conference on Oct. 21 will bring some of the world’s most powerful voices in global finance and cryptocurrency to a small island off the coast of Connecticut....
Fed minutes confirm that Powell and board plan to cut rates 2 more times this year
According to minutes released Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will push ahead with two more interest rate cuts before the year ends, with Jerome Powell and the board almost entirely united on the decis...
Pundit to XRP Holders: Big Moves in U.S. Payments
A quiet revolution is unfolding in the American financial landscape—one that could redefine how money flows among banks, businesses, and consumers. The U.S. Federal Reserve is deep into building moder...
Citadel’s Ken Griffin says gold, silver, BTC lead ‘debasement trade’
Citadel’s founder and CEO Ken Griffin confirmed the trend to pick silver, gold, and BTC as a ‘debasement trade’, counting on security against weakening fiat. Griffin believes individual investors are ...
U.S. national debt is climbing by nearly $6 billion every day
The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee data shows that the national debt is close to $38 trillion and increasing at a rate of roughly $6 billion daily. The total national debt now stands at about ...