Wheaton Posts Record H1 Revenue of US$1.8 Billion Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (TSX: WPM, NYSE: WPM) reported record first-half 2026 revenue of US$1.8 billion and…
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South Korea’s Gambling Crackdown Hits Polymarket The Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC) announced on Tuesday, August 18, that it is moving to block access…
Brent Breaks $90 on Trump’s Oman Warning Brent crude surged above $90 a barrel on Monday, August 17, 2026, climbing 2.7% after President Donald Trump…
30-Year Yield Surges to 5.31% The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury reached 5.31% on August 17, its highest level in 19 years, according to…
Bitcoin Steadies Near $64,000 Amid 30-Year Yield Spike Bitcoin is holding its range near $64,000, even as the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level…
Record Volume Spike Sets Up Correction Risk Cryptocurrency markets opened Tuesday, August 18, 2026, with a substantial surge in trading volumes across major assets, including…
NexGold Q2 Cash and Losses Ahead of Goldboro Build NexGold Mining Corp. (TSX.V: NEXG; OTCQX: NXGCF) on Aug. 14 reported second-quarter 2026 results, with cash…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs saw $389.7 million in net outflows for the week of August 10-14, reversing the prior week’s inflow streak. Fidelity’s FBTC led…
Ethereum to $10K: Analyst Sets Sell Level Popular trader DonAlt has revealed a theoretical $10,000 target for Ethereum, while planning a strict real-world profit-take at…
JPMorgan Accepts Bitcoin Collateral: Banking Meets Crypto On Monday, 17 August 2026, JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank by assets, announced it will accept Bitcoin…
Tether Audit Clears, Wintermute AI Bet, Hayes $50K Warning In a week marked by regulatory clarity and strategic pivots, Tether secured a clean audit from…
Grayscale Research projects Ethereum’s annual supply inflation could fall to roughly 0.4% and Solana’s to about 1.1% by 2031, assuming two pending network proposals are…
Roman Storm’s Legal Strategy Turns to Big Tech On August 16, 2026, Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto mixer Tornado Cash, publicly targeted Google and…
Galaxy Cuts Passage Odds to 10% Ahead of September Vote Galaxy Research now assigns just a 10% probability that the CLARITY Act becomes law in…
A new Financial Times poll finds a majority of US voters say they are worse off financially under President Trump. Democrats now hold a lead…
Quantum Computing Stocks Dominate Weekly Winners US-listed large caps closed the week ending Friday, 14 August 2026, with a clear theme: quantum computing and AI…
SEC Review Opens for Leveraged Crypto ETFs The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing a Cboe proposal to list six leveraged exchange-traded funds…
SpaceX’s Capital-Efficiency Advantage In AI On August 15, 2026, Elon Musk reiterated that SpaceX holds a massive competitive advantage in artificial intelligence—one that Amazon, Google,…
Israel’s Oldest Bank Moves into Digital Assets Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest and oldest commercial bank, announced on Friday, August 14, 2026, that it is preparing…
Maryland’s Tax Court ruled the state’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising gross receipts tax unconstitutional, ordering refunds to Apple, Google, and Peacock TV (Comcast). The tax, enacted…
Beijing’s New Disaster Management Mandate President Xi Jinping has called for China to pivot its disaster management strategy toward prevention, emphasizing that safety and resilience…
Gold, Silver Rally as Soft Retail Sales Cut Fed-Hike Odds Spot gold and silver prices moved higher in late-afternoon U.S. trading on Friday, August 14,…
XRP’s Split Personality: USD Weakness, BTC Strength On Saturday, August 15, 2026, XRP presents a paradox: it’s sinking against the US dollar, yet technical signals…
Big Tech’s Green Promises Fade by 2026 In 2019, Amazon pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. The…
SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor Acquisition Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: SPCX) finalized its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding company Cursor on August 14,…
Oracle’s $165B New Mexico Project Slips on Gas Pipeline Oracle’s planned $165 billion data center campus in New Mexico—Project Jupiter—has hit a low-tech snag: the…
AI Boom and Fed Complacency Face a Consumer Test Wall Street’s summer rally is facing a critical juncture as the AI-driven earnings boom collides with…
Anthropic’s Funding Talks Signal AI Arms Race Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly in advanced discussions with investors to raise additional…
U.S.-Iran Deadlock Keeps Tanker Traffic at Historic Lows Crude oil benchmarks are heading for a 4% weekly gain as the United States and Iran remain…
Iran Strikes Tankers, Oil Holds Gains The UAE reported on Wednesday that two of its oil tankers were attacked by Iranian forces in the Strait…