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“Shadow Chair” Demands Rate Cuts as Waller Frets Jobs, Warsh Slams Independence — Will Their Voices Tip the Scale?
Even if Trump were to nominate a "Shadow Chair" to the Federal Reserve's board, it would be challenging to significantly alter the direction of U.S. monetary policy in the short term.TradingKey
Fri, Jul 18
Meta Poaches Two More Researchers from Apple, What’s Happening Within Apple?
TradingKey - Meta has once again lured talent from Apple, securing two researchers following the high-profile recruitment of top AI researcher Rongming Pang with a staggering $200 million package. The company has hired Mark Lee and Tom Gunter to join its superintelligence lab, according to Bloomberg
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Fri, Jul 18
Pricing the “Trump Fires Powell” Scenario — Deutsche Bank: U.S. Treasury Divergence and a 6% Drop in the Dollar?
TradingKey - The ongoing political pressure from President Donald Trump on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — including threats of removal — has stirred significant market concern over Fed independence and monetary policy stability.TradingKey
Fri, Jul 18
Tesla Cybertruck Q2 Sales Halved! Has Musk's "Cyber Pickup" Myth Crumbled?
TradingKey - In the second quarter of 2025, Tesla's Cybertruck experienced a significant drop in sales within the U.S. market. The latest data shows that only 4,306 units were delivered in Q2, a year-on-year decline of 50.3% (compared to 8,755 units in the same period of 2024), marking the lowest...
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Fri, Jul 18
Meta Closes $8B Shareholder Lawsuit as Zuckerberg Reaches Settlement
TradingKey - On July 18, Beijing time, tech giant Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with several current and former directors and executives, settled a highly publicized shareholder lawsuit related to user privacy.TradingKey
Fri, Jul 18
Is Ethereum the next treasury asset trend?
Ethereum (ETH) rallied to a five-month high, breaking above $3,600 on track to recover a higher price range. As the coin enters an official bull market, corporate buyers are once again in the spotlight for their approach to holding ETH for the long term.
Cryptopolitan
Fri, Jul 18
Ethereum (ETH) Inflows ‘Enormous’; Experts See Break Of ATH Next Week – Whales Are Buying These ETH Tokens
Ethereum inflows have been enormous this past week, driving renewed optimism around Ethena and ETH Price and fueling talk of a break above the all-time high. Whales and institutions alike are moving capital on-chain and into spot ETFs, underlining the conviction in Ethereum’s long-term thesis.Cryptopolitan
Fri, Jul 18
Pound Sterling set for third straight week of losses amid growing UK labor market concerns
The Pound Sterling (GBP) ticks up slightly on Friday, but remains near an over two-month low around 1.3375 during the European trading session The outlook of the GBP/USD pair, which is set to close in the red for a third consecutive week, remains vulnerable due to growing concerns about the United K
Fxstreet
Fri, Jul 18
GBP/JPY hits fresh YTD highs above 199.85 amid generalised Yen weakness
The Pound is keeps marching higher for the second consecutive day as the Japanese Yen struggles, hammered by a mix of lack of progress in the trade talks with the US, rising political uncertainty, and easing inflationary trends, which muddle the BoJ’s monetary policy outlook.
Fxstreet
Fri, Jul 18
Crypto Stocks Jump as US House Approves Three Crypto Bills, Trump Set to Open Retirement Market to Crypto Investments
Crypto stocks jumped in premarket trading. BitMine Immersion Technologies and GameSquare rose 15%; Upexi and BTCS rose 13%; Canaan rose 10%; SharpLink Gaming rose 9%; Sequans Communications and Bit Digital rose 6%; BTC Digital rose 5%; Tron rose 4%; Coinbase and Circle rose 2%; MARA Holdings and Rio...Tiger News
Fri, Jul 18
PRECIOUS-Gold heads for weekly dip on firm dollar; platinum at highest since 2014
Palladium scales near two-year peakDollar heads for second weekly riseInvestors monitor trade negotiationsGold down 0.5% so far this weekBy Brijesh Patel July 18 (Reuters) - Gold prices traded flat on Friday and were headed for a weekly drop, weighed down by an overall stronger dollar and solid U...Reuters
Fri, Jul 18
France Wants to Mine Bitcoin With Wasted Energy—Here’s What That Means
French lawmakers have introduced a proposal to launch a five-year trial program that would allow the use of surplus electricity for Bitcoin mining. The initiative, formally submitted on July 11, is intended to optimize the country’s energy grid while exploring new avenues for economic developm...Bitcoinist
Fri, Jul 18
EUR/JPY Price Forecast: Bullish outlook remains in play, overbought RSI warrants caution for bulls
The EUR/JPY cross gathers strength to around 172.80 during the early Asian session on Friday. The Japanese Yen (JPY) weakens against the Euro (EUR) amid reduced Bank of Japan (BoJ) rate hike bets.
Fxstreet
Fri, Jul 18
Ethereum Road To $10,000: Replay Of May’s Playbook Predicts Another Breakout
After beating the resistance mounted at the $3,000 by bears for months now, the Ethereum price looks primed for a further breakout. Expectations currently are that the Ethereum price rally will trigger the next altcoin season and possibly lead to a push toward new all-time highs for ETH.NewsBTC
Fri, Jul 18
Japan’s June CPI Eases — Markets Bet BOJ Will Keep Stimulus Alive
TradingKey - Japan’s core consumer price index (CPI), excluding fresh food, rose 3.3% year-over-year in June, down from 3.7% in May — signaling a moderation in inflationary pressure and offering the Bank of Japan (BOJ) more policy flexibility.TradingKey
Fri, Jul 18
Japan's Nikkei edges down, off near 2-week high amid election outcome worries
TOKYO, July 18 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average slipped from a more than two-week high to trade lower on Friday as investors weighed the outcome of the nation's upper house election due on the weekend.Reuters
Fri, Jul 18
Japan bonds tread water as wary investors await weekend election
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO, July 17 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds held steady on Thursday as the market turned calm in the final run-up to potentially pivotal upper house elections, following a selloff earlier in the week that sent long-term yields to record peaks.Recent polls suggest the ruReuters
Fri, Jul 18
