The Bank of Korea has warned that concentrated and leveraged trades linked to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could increase financial-market volatility if demand for artificial intelligence chips weakens. Bank of Korea’s September monetary policy report, published on Sept. 10, examined the country’s semiconductor-led expansion alongside rising asset prices, household borrowing and changing conditions in
Leopold Aschenbrenner of hedge fund Situational Awareness has returned after losing billions of dollars in July — and he’s already losing money again. CNBC broke the news Friday morning, six weeks after Aschenbrenner’s historic blow-up, that Situational Awareness was re-buying AI stocks and leveraged options on tech stocks. By Monday’s open, every one of the
The UK Financial Conduct Authority will publish a tokenisation roadmap later this year after receiving 123 responses to a joint call for input with the Bank of England. London’s trading industry is coming home! The feedback showed broad support for the regulators’ approach, but respondents called for faster progress, clearer timelines and a move from
Onchain RWAs have recently crossed the $30 billion mark, reflecting a robust growth of over 70% this year. This surge highlights the increasing integration of real-world assets into the crypto sphere, a trend emphasized by OKX in a recent tweet. As the market evolves, this could reshape investment strategies and liquidity in the crypto sector
Nvidia’s most valuable endorsement these days isn’t going to a chipmaker rival or a hyperscaler — it’s going to two companies most casual investors had barely heard of two years ago. Speaking at last week’s Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang singled out CoreWeave and Nebius Group as the neocloud operators
Newly released Federal Reserve data show domestic hedge funds expanded their gross balance sheets during the second quarter, months before the central bank’s September rate decision. The potential risk to Bitcoin is indirect. A policy surprise could raise funding or collateral demands across leveraged portfolios, forcing funds to find cash in liquid markets. Gross asset
Gold buyers just got a reminder of how quickly a single inflation report can shift the mood in the metals market. Prices slid to roughly $4,331 an ounce on Monday after U.S. inflation data landed hotter than economists expected, and traders responded by piling into bets that the Federal Reserve will raise rates this week.
In brief India’s securities regulator SEBI, alongside the RBI, launched “Demat 2.0,” a pilot to issue and settle corporate bonds as digital tokens on a permissioned ledger run by depositories NSDL and CDSL, targeting a $620 billion market. Three issuers—REC, Larsen & Toubro and IIFL Finance—have raised a combined 1,025 crore rupees (~$107 million); the
Fragmented regulatory regimes are limiting stablecoin adoption in international trade, according to Juan Marchetti, director of the trade in services and investment division at the World Trade Organization (WTO). “The constraint is not technology. It is actually regulation and the lack of development of regulatory frameworks,” said Marchetti during a Monday speech in Geneva, at
Last week, US CPI data was released. August CPI in the US exceeded expectations, and the persistence of core inflation, in particular, changed expectations regarding the Fed’s interest rate policy. August data exceeded expectations. This has increased the probability of the Fed raising interest rates at its FOMC meetings on September 15th and 16th to