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In its latest Q4 market outlook, strategist Scott Rubner said investors should be prepared to use further weakness as an opportunity to rebuild equity exposure.The call comes with the S&P 500 still near record highs, but underneath the index the market looks much weaker. Only about 25% of S&...

A Lloyds Banking Group survey found that nearly three-quarters of major UK financial institutions expect tokenization to reshape financial services. Banks and asset managers increasingly explore blockchain-based infrastructure for payments, settlement and liquidity management. Lloyds, the UK's large

TL;DRU.S. employers added only 29,000 jobs in September versus expectations for 90,000, while unemployment rose to 4.2% and wage growth also missed forecasts.Bitcoin jumped from above $86,000 toward $87,250 after the release, as traders interpreted softer labor conditions as supportive for risk asse

CoinDesk reports:As AI models become increasingly lightweight, VRAM is becoming more expensive. NVIDIA is addressing this contradiction with a product that cuts memory.On Friday, October 2, Eastern Time, NVIDIA announced the DGX Spark desktop AI computer with a 64GB unified memory configuration, sta

CoinMarketCap reports:David Ellison, CEO of Paramount SkyDance, announced today that following the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) next week, the combined entity will be named “Skydance.”Pursuant to an agreement reached in February this year, Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. fo

Europe wants to prevent the future of digital money from being written exclusively in dollars. As regulators advance the development of the digital euro and the United States accelerates the adoption of private stablecoins, European banks have begun to make their move to secure their position in the

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 406 points, or 0.8%, in morning trading. Caterpillar shares jumped roughly 3.7%, while Nvidia gained about 2.8%. Together, the two stocks contributed around 219 points to the Dow’s advance.The rally followed a September employment report showing the U.S. e

Gold jumped more than 1% Friday after a surprisingly weak U.S. jobs report pushed Treasury yields lower and sharply reduced expectations for another Federal Reserve rate hike this month.Spot gold rose to around $4,223 per ounce, while U.S. gold futures climbed as high as roughly $4,254. The move fol

ChainCatcher report: NEAR Protocol officially announced that the newly launched Bitwise NEAR ETF has accumulated net inflows exceeding $50 million, indicating that institutional investors are choosing NEAR. Relevant data shows that the ETF began trading on September 29, and by September 30, its cumu

Broadcom is moving deeper into AI financing, with as much as $60 billion in funding being assembled for customers including Anthropic.The structure reportedly includes about $42 billion of senior secured financing and another $18 billion of junior debt, with Blackstone involved in the latter. The fi

Quant: Banking partnership triggered a massive rally, with momentum remaining strong.Sui Network: Bitcoin collateral integration boosted demand, though short-term consolidation seems likely.Bittensor: Recovery continues, but major resistance must break for trend confirmation.As October begins, sever

According to Reuters, Amazon has discussed transferring thousands of Nvidia GPUs into a special-purpose vehicle, or SPV, which would own the chips and lease them back to Amazon. The vehicle could raise outside debt and potentially sell investors an equity stake.The proposal comes as Amazon prepares

CoinDesk reports:As expected, there is unprecedented demand for .si domains following President Trump's executive order requiring all government agencies to refer to "AI" and "artificial intelligence" as "SI" and "super intelligence."This recalls what happened at the beginning of the AI boom: intere

A newly disclosed unfunded-channel flaw could leave Eclair, a Bitcoin Lightning implementation, crashing repeatedly without an attacker spending BTC on-chain. The flaw affected reachable nodes running v0.14.0 and earlier, with saved channel records making a restart insufficient to restore service.Re

Former BlackRock vice president and Milk Road podcast co-host John Gillen has identified several factors he believes contributed to Quant’s (QNT) dramatic price breakout.For context, QNT staged a remarkable rally last month, climbing from around $65 in mid-September to $372 on September 27. This rep