According to a diplomatic Monetary Fund assessment released on Monday, the global economy is expected to grow faster this year than previously anticipated, but rising trade barriers and escalating diplomatic tensions may impede that growth. According to the organization’s most recent quarterly assessment, the global economy is expected to expand by 3.3% this year, up
Emirates NBD, a banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENAT) region, has issued a $272 million (AED 1 billion) digital bond utilizing DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). This is the largest public digital bond issued in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The digital bond will be listed on Nasdaq
Monday is mainly controlled by bears, according to CoinStats. BTC/USD The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen by 2.17% since yesterday. On the hourly chart, the rate of BTC is in the middle of the local channel, between the support at $91,917 and the resistance at $93,632. As most of the daily ATR has passed,
The price of Bitcoin dropped to $0 on perps decentralized exchange Paradex overnight, according to numerous users, after a database migration issue affected the Paradex blockchain, its block explorer, bridge, and API. An issue was first flagged on the Paradex status page at 12:36 a.m, ET on Monday, shortly after social media posts flagged a
The new week for Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins began with US President Donald Trump threatening NATO countries with extensive tariffs over control of Greenland. As this event shook global markets, Trump announced that the US would impose a 10% tariff on goods from the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland starting
Key Takeaways IBM and e& have launched agentic AI aimed at transforming enterprise compliance and governance. The platform supports continuous, governed automation of compliance tasks, improves decision consistency, and provides 24/7 organizational access. At the 2026 World Economic Forum, IBM and e& unveiled a governed, action-oriented agentic AI solution built on watsonx Orchestrate, IBM’s platform
Key Takeaways OpenAI plans to launch its first hardware device in the second half of 2026. The device may be a simple, screenless wearable, but specifics remain undisclosed. OpenAI is aiming for a late 2026 debut of its first hardware device, said policy chief Christopher Lehane at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in
Bitcoin BTC$93,137.33 has remained between the November low near $80,000 and the January high around $98,000 for 59 days, and is now approaching the roughly 60-day timespan that marked previous consolidations since the collapse of crypto exchange FTX marked the cycle bottom in 2022. Take, for example, April 2025 during the market turmoil related to
Despite years of gloomy forecasts, best-selling personal finance author and prominent ‘finfluencer’ Robert Kiyosaki’s favorite assets, gold, silver, and Bitcoin (BTC), are all up in early 2026, meaning a $1,000 investment at the start of the year would already be showing a double-digit gain. To see how his strategy is holding up, we calculated the
In a recent social media post, Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra argues that it is easier to confiscate Bitcoin compared to gold. The argument that Bitcoin is easier to confiscate than gold cuts directly against one of the asset’s most cherished myths: that it is inherently resistant to state power. Is Bitcoin actually more vulnerable to