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Hedge funds placed a very large bet against the Japanese yen, and then the yen moved against them. CFTC data shows that leveraged funds accumulated net short positions of roughly 138,000 contracts in yen futures as of June 30, 2026, the highest reading since 2007. The yen then strengthened sharply,

TL;DR:Remixpoint sold all of its Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Dogecoin holdings, generating ¥117.8 million in combined gains while retaining roughly 1,506 BTC.Ethereum produced the largest altcoin profit at ¥60.2 million, while Dogecoin was the only sale to record a loss, totaling ¥3.3 million.Bitcoin

The US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly tripling what forecasters had penciled in. Consensus estimates had clustered around 55,000 to 65,000 new nonfarm payroll positions, making this the kind of miss that forces Wall Street to quietly update its spreadsheets and publicly update its talk

Tech companies went on a borrowing spree to fund their AI ambitions. Now some of their bonds are starting to look like bargains, at least to one of the sharpest eyes in corporate credit.Robert Cohen, director of corporate credit at DoubleLine, is making a case that high-quality technology bonds, spe

Tesla launched commercial Cybercab rides in Austin, Texas on September 3, 2026. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an audit into the vehicle that very same day.The Cybercab has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no rearview mirror. It is a purpose-built robotaxi, designed from

Anthropic is reportedly close to selecting Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as underwriters for its anticipated $2 trillion initial public offering (IPO), according to the Financial Times. This development follows earlier reports in June, which indicated that these investment banks were already on b

Anthropic, an AI startup known for its Claude-maker lab, is reportedly close to appointing Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as lead underwriters for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The IPO could potentially value Anthropic at over $2 trillion, positioning it as one of the largest tech IP

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has defended public Bitcoin advocacy as protected speech under United States law. He also described Bitcoin as a commodity rather than a security, while separating advocacy from illegal conduct. Meanwhile, his comments come as lawmakers continue debates ove

Microsoft published its third annual Responsible AI Transparency Report on September 1, 2026, laying out a sweeping set of updates to how the company governs, evaluates, and polices its AI systems. The throughline this year: agentic AI, the class of systems that can remember context, make autonomous

Speculators are getting increasingly nervous about stocks and increasingly bullish on oil. That’s the takeaway from the CFTC’s latest Commitments of Traders report, released September 4, which covers futures positioning through September 1.Non-commercial traders, the category that mostly captures he

Pineapple Financial has migrated over $1B in residential mortgage records onto the Injective blockchain, crossing a milestone that few traditional lenders have come close to matching in the tokenization of real-world assets.Pineapple Financial, listed on NYSE American under the ticker PAPL, began th

Key InsightsNvidia stock closed Sept. 3 at $228.45, within roughly 3% of its $236.54 record high.Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion and invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek.Nvidia generated $21.34 billion in quarterly free cash flow and retained about $99 billion of share-repurcha

Stellar’s expanding RWA market, institutional participation, stablecoin activity, and protocol development are reshaping its ecosystem during 2026.G20 discussions around tokenization, blockchain, and faster payments align closely with infrastructure developed by Stellar and Ripple.MoneyGram, tokeniz

Kai-Fu Lee has a message for the Fortune 500: your AI strategy is probably fake. In a Bloomberg interview, the CEO of 01.ai and chairman of Sinovation Ventures laid out a blunt assessment of corporate America’s AI adoption, calling most programs “theater” unless they’re actually moving the needle on

Order-book volume rose 79% as fewer accounts handled larger XRP trades, pointing to a sharper concentration of daily exchange activity.RLUSD balances reached $539 million, rising 642% year over year as XRPL increased its share of total RLUSD balances to 34% during Q2.Retail activity weakened across