Friday, 30 October 2026
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US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was approaching a decision on Iran, warning Tehran faced the “easy way or the hard way” as the Pentagon kept military options open amid continued attacks on commercial vessels …
One laptop, $6.3 billion gone. Attackers drained cryptocurrencies worth about $6.3 billion (about €5.7 billion) from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, on Thursday evening. It is the largest crypto theft ever…
Spot gold trades at $4,158 an ounce, up 0.4% from Friday's close of $4,140.68, after a session range of $4,125.22 to $4,170.27. December futures on Comex are at $4,189.50, up 0.65%. The gain recovers a small part of las…
US stock futures fell on Thursday, October 29, as Alphabet's earnings miss renewed concerns over the rising cost of artificial intelligence investments.
“Let the oil flow!” With those words on Sunday evening, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States had reached an agreement to end the war with Iran after more than one hundred days and open the Strait o…
The blockade on ships “entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas” will begin on Monday, U.S. Central Command said. But U.S. forces will not impede vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a step back from Pr…
Diplomatic developments weighed on prices, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying Tehran remained open to negotiations. The Wall Street Journal reported that US Vice President JD Vance had contacted Mohsen …
On October 28 Eastern Time, SK Hynix shares surged 12% following a third-quarter financial report that beat consensus, driven by memory price hikes and improved product mix. Record revenue and operating profit, alongsid…
The US and Israel have teased strikes around their elections, particularly against Iran’s civilian infrastructure.
The Fed heads into its September meeting with inflation still at 3.4% and markets heavily pricing a rate hike, turning the decision into an early credibility test for Kevin Warsh.
The cryptocurrency had been widely expected to break higher in anticipation of a halving, but instead it sold off.
Oil prices dropped amid hopes of easing US-Iran tensions, yet persistent Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia kept crude near six-month highs, reflecting ongoing regional instability and supply concerns.
Stocks bounced to a higher finish Monday after artificial intelligence systems maker Anthropic stepped toward a potentially mammoth initial public offering. Tech stocks shined ahead of earnings due from three Big Tech n…
Oil prices fell for a third day on Friday as easing concerns over Saudi supply disruptions outweighed anxiety about a widening the Middle East conflict amid fresh fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthis. Bren…
Spot gold rises 0.9% to $4,087.79/oz; silver, platinum and palladium each climb over 1% ahead of Fed's policy decision
August 18, 2026, 2:15 AM EDT. Nicotine pouches are becoming a bigger earnings driver for Philip Morris and British American Tobacco as cigarette volumes decline. BAT expects industry pouch revenue to rise from £4 billio…
U.S. stock futures reversed a downtrend in the overnight session on Wednesday, as strong quarterly results from Micron Technology (MU) and massive revenue target updates from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) helped ease AI trade co…
Europe’s benchmark natural gas price jumped by 2% at opening in Amsterdam on Monday, extending the 7% weekly gain from last week, as concerns mount that the gas withdrawal season has started amid no signs that Qatar’s L…
Bitcoin price consolidates near $74,200 as traders eye the FOMC meeting. Our 4-hour chart analysis reveals critical support levels and RSI divergence.
Anthropic is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the artificial intelligence company at more than $2 trillion, even as it reported a net loss of nearly $42 billion in 2025 and faces massive future …
Gold has spent the past several weeks doing something that makes macro traders uncomfortable: the variables that normally underpin the bull case have been moving broadly in its favour, while the price itself has been he…
For months, gold looked untouchable — the asset you bought almost on autopilot if you believed the world was quietly debasing its money and sleepwalking into another inflation wave. The metal was riding structural deman…
(Kitco News) – Gold prices clung for dear life to the $5,000 per ounce support level as long as they could this week, but a series of pessimistic central bank statements and a discouraging Iran war outlook proved too mu…
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