Stocks reversed sharply on Wednesday after Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve has made “no decisions” on a rate cut for September, ending weeks of speculation across Wall Street and crypto markets. The statement came during a press conference following the Fed’s latest policy meeting and immediately triggered losses across major indexes and crypto assets.
An Australian digital asset investment firm, Jelly C, has joined a new “collateral mirroring” program, enabling lower-risk institutional crypto trading via the OKX exchange. This program uniquely allows Standard Chartered, a global investment bank, to handle asset custody. Jelly C will primarily use Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market fund (TMMF) as off-exchange collateral for trading
A new Ripple report reveals global banks are rapidly shifting to blockchain, forecasting a $19 trillion tokenized asset explosion as finance braces for its digital future. $19T in Tokenized Assets Coming? Ripple Says Financial Rails Are Already Shifting Ripple, CB Insights, and the UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies released a report on July 30 examining
The cumulative market capitalization of public companies that own crypto is now at $160 billion, up from roughly $90 billion to start the year — a new trend in which investors are hungry to get crypto exposure via US equities. This expansion over the last six months reflects a larger trend in corporate treasury strategies,
A high school kid from rural Oklahoma just did what Wall Street’s algorithms haven’t: he let ChatGPT run wild with $100 and watched it outperform the market by a massive margin. Nathan Smith’s experiment started four weeks ago with a simple premise—give ChatGPT complete control over a small portfolio of micro-cap stocks and see what
Tech giants Robinhood, Meta, and Microsoft reported second-quarter 2025 earnings on Wednesday, and all four beat analyst expectations. Their stocks reacted immediately, with each company seeing gains in after-hours trading. According to the financial disclosures released July 30, the reports revealed major growth across key metrics like revenue, user activity, cloud sales, and trading volumes,
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has sparked a bearish sentiment among market participants following his FOMC speech. Powell indicated that inflation is likely to rise higher in the coming months thanks to the Trump tariffs. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin price has crashed on the back of this hawkish statement from the Fed Chair.
Following today’s interest rate decision, analysts believe the Fed’s potential rate cuts will be extremely challenging, not only from an economic perspective but also from a communication perspective. Tom Graff, Facet’s Chief Investment Officer, said the Fed faces a complex dilemma. Graff noted that the newly implemented tariffs are expected to increase inflationary pressures, and