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United States President Donald Trump intends to shift his focus to North Korea’s nuclear programme now that Washington has reached an agreement with Iran, South Korea’s president has said.
Lee Jae Myung said in a news conference that Trump told him on Friday at a G7 dinner that “the time had come to pay attention to the North Korea issue,” a comment that could signal renewed US focus on Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities.
Lee also told Trump that sanctions against North Korea were “ineffective”, pointing to deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow
The two Koreas remain technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, and are separated by a Demilitarized Zone through which the border runs. North Korea announced its first nuclear test in 2006 and is believed to have dozens of nuclear weapons
Pyongyang has repeatedly declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear state since a 2019 summit between Kim and Trump, in Hanoi, collapsed over the scope of denuclearisation and sanctions relief
Kim has pledged to expand North Korea’s nuclear capabilities as he unveiled a new facility for developing nuclear bomb fuels.
Trump met Kim three times during his first term – once declaring they were “in love” – as he pushed to hammer out a long-coveted deal on denuclearisation. But no tangible progress has been made
Trump stepped up his courtship of Kim during a tour of Asia last year, saying he was “100 percent” open to a meeting. The offer has gone unanswered
The US president even bucked decades of US policy by stating North Korea was “sort of a nuclear power
On Sunday, Trump posted an uncaptioned photo of himself and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un taken at a meeting in Singapore in 2018.
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US President Donald Trump is tightening the screws on Cuba, with an indictment against former Cuban President Raul Castro and military threats that echo Washington’s playbook in Venezuela. But after surviving decades of pressure from the United States, Cuba is preparing. As blackouts spread and tensions rise, is this just political theatre, or the beginning of a major confrontation
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Brazilian police have intercepted 108 Cuban nationals in a single day as they were being smuggled into the country.
In a statement on Tuesday, officials noted that the incident was part of a growing trend of undocumented immigration from the beleaguered Caribbean island to Brazil.
Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security described the operation as a “rescue”, designed to disrupt human trafficking and irregular migration.
“According to the Federal Highway Police (PRF), this was the largest humanitarian rescue operation ever recorded in a single incident in Roraima,” the ministry said, referring to one of Brazil’s 26 states
Roraima is situated in the Amazon rainforest, along the border with Guyana and Venezuela. The ministry said that a “large portion” of Cubans are using Guyana as a gateway to enter Brazil
The blockade has had wide-ranging repercussions, with public services in many areas grinding to a halt. The country has been gripped by multiple island-wide blackouts, and residents are reporting difficulties accessing basic supplies like food and medication.
“Migration flows of Cubans to Brazil were never particularly intense,” the report said. But then, starting in 2022, Cuban immigration into Brazil started to “rebound vigorously
“It is important to note that, in 2025, refugee applications submitted by Cubans surpassed those submitted by Venezuelans — not only due to a drop in applications from the latter group but, above all, due to the sharp rise in cases filed by Cubans, exceeding 40,000 requests,” the report explained
The report also warned that the upward trend could continue, given the conflict between the US and Cuba.
Since returning for a second term, US President Donald Trump has taken an active role in Latin American politics and has suggested he may use military force to initiate regime change in Cuba
“Should geopolitical tensions between Cuba and the United States of America escalate, migration flows toward Brazil could very well increase,” the report concluded
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Cuba’s Communist Party has approved a raft of unprecedented free-market measures as part of an emergency economic package.
The package was submitted to the country’s National Assembly on Thursday, where it is all but assured to pass.
The plan would expand opportunities for private enterprise and create measures to attract additional foreign investment, including from Cubans
It could also set the stage for private real estate development ⁠on the Caribbean island and the ⁠transformation of state-owned businesses ⁠into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes. It would also ‌allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated ‌finance ‌sector.
Speaking to the party’s Central Committee in a broadcast on Thursday, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the country’s dire economic situation could not be blamed on external pressure alone.
For decades, the US has imposed a trade embargo on Cuba, weakening its economy. Since January, the US pressure against Cuba has increased, with the administration of President Donald Trump blocking fuel deliveries to the island.
Meanwhile, US Vice President JD Vance was asked on Thursday if the Trump administration would now turn its sights to Cuba after reaching a memorandum of understanding to end the war on Iran.
We’re actually talking to the Cuban government right now about how they could change their ways to change that,” Vance said
If they make smart decisions, we’re going to have a much better relationship with that island.
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Oil prices have begun rising again as an agreement between the United States and Iran hangs in the balance.
Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose 0.65 percent on Friday, after falling as much as 0.9 percent earlier in the day, as traders continued to weigh the practical effect of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding on ending their war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Brent futures for August delivery stood at $80.37 as of 06:30 GMT, taking the benchmark above the $80 threshold for the first time since Wednesday, after an earlier slide spurred by an uptick in commercial vessels transporting energy supplies through the strait.
It comes after Israel launched a series of attacks on Lebanon, killing 16 people and threatening the ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah forces in southern Israel on Friday killed four Israeli soldiers, according to Israeli media.
The strait is also believed to contain an unknown number of Iranian naval mines, necessitating mine-sweeping operations that could take weeks.
On Thursday, the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO), one of the world’s largest organisations representing tanker owners and operators, called for greater clarity on the practical steps needed to facilitate safe passage through the waterway
“Without clarity on these issues, ships will be unsure whether to transit the Strait of Hormuz,” INTERTANKO Managing Director Tim Wilkins said in a statement
“Some ships will, of course, start to move. That will be natural. But ship owners have adopted a very cautious approach,” Wilkins said
“The safety and security of seafarers have been uppermost in their minds, and no one wishes to jeopardise that safety-first approach when things appear to be moving in the right direction
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SpaceX just executed the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history, exercising its option to buy Cursor parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock deal that pulls a rocket company straight into the center of the AI coding war. According to CNBC, the deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
The move, disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 16, lands days after SpaceX completed the largest IPO ever, raising $75 billion.
With the new public-market currency and a soaring share price, Elon Musk’s company is spending equity to own one of the fastest-growing software products on the market.
SpaceX secured an exclusive option in April to acquire Anysphere or walk away for a $10 billion breakup fee. On June 16 it exercised that option and signed a $60 billion merger agreement with Anysphere and its subsidiary X67. Cursor becomes a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary once the deal closes, currently expected in the third quarter of 2026.
Anysphere shareholders will receive SpaceX Class A stock priced on the company’s average share price over the seven trading days before close. If the deal collapses under specific conditions SpaceX owes $10 billion, and $4 billion if antitrust regulators block it.
Antitrust reviewers will scrutinize a deal that concentrates a leading coding tool inside a company already tied to xAI and Grok. Cursor’s developer base, much of it loyal to a product known for neutrality across models, may bristle at new ownership. Folding a nimble startup into a sprawling aerospace and AI conglomerate carries its own friction.
What is settled is the signal. Agentic coding tools are now strategic assets that command space-program prices, and SpaceX paid up to own one of the best.
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Capital is flowing out of the largest tech companies and bitcoin as investors pile into semiconductors, memory stocks and space-related opportunities.
The best-performing stocks of the past decade are coming under pressure as investors question the enormous cost of the AI arms race and rotate into new fields with stronger momentum.
Microsoft (MSFT) is down 33% from its recent highs, while Meta (META) has dropped 28%. Tesla (TSLA), Amazon (AMZN), Nvidia (NVDA) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are all trading more than 10% below, with Apple (AAPL) the best performer at -7%.
It's not as though capital has given up on AI entirely. Instead, it's flowing into the companies that provide the infrastructure that the boom feeds on. Beneficiaries include chipmakers, including memory-chip producers, and real estate, needed to host the vast server farms that support AI processing.
The biggest winners from the rotation have been memory and semiconductor stocks. Memory-chip maker Sandisk (SNDK) has surged roughly 800% this year and the Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF, which focuses on memory-related companies (DRAM), is up about 140%. In microprocessors, Micron Technology (MU) has gained about 230% this year, and the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) 67%.
In addition, capital has been attracted SpaceX (SPCX), Elon Musk's space exploration company that is also expanding into AI. Last week, the company raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history.
While AI has become the market's dominant investment theme, the cash required to feed the growth is rising even faster. Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are expected to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditures this year, a 77% increase from last year's record level.
Free cash flow is no longer fully funding these ambitions. Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, collectively borrowed some $93 billion last year, accounting for roughly 6% of total corporate bond issuance.
Another source of support is also fading. Share repurchases have fallen 33% to $132 billion in 2025, reducing a key pillar of demand for these stocks.
The story today is not just about concerns over AI spending. It is also about capital rotation. Investors are moving out of the Magnificent 7 and crypto, two of the market's biggest winners over the past several years, and reallocating toward semiconductors, memory, and SpaceX-linked opportunities that are increasingly viewed as the next beneficiaries of the AI investment cycle.
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Bitcoin miner-turned-AI infrastructure provider HIVE Digital Technologies has finalized a three-year sovereign cloud infrastructure contract valued at approximately $220 million to provide high-performance compute capacity within the Canadian market.
The agreement was executed by HIVE's wholly owned BUZZ High Performance Computing unit and combines Bell AI Fabric's data center and connectivity network, Cohere's enterprise AI models and BUZZ HPC's GPU cloud infrastructure into a Canadian AI stack designed for enterprise and government customers, according to a company statement on Thursday.
HIVE said the infrastructure comprises 2,304 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs as part of Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems, interconnected with Nvidia Quantum InfiniBand networking and utilizing liquid cooling.
BUZZ HPC will deploy the sovereign AI cloud and GPU cluster at Bell's facility in Merritt, British Columbia. The AI factories are powered by renewable energy and designed for ultra-low power usage effectiveness, per the statement.
The company said it is funding the acquisition of the Blackwell systems with a portion of the proceeds from its $115 million convertible note financing completed in April. HIVE added that the partnership aligns with Canada's federal AI strategy by combining domestic connectivity, compute infrastructure and AI models while keeping data under Canadian control.
Earlier Thursday, the company announced that the Boden Municipal Council approved its acquisition of the Big Boden 32-megawatt data center in Sweden. HIVE has operated at the facility as a tenant since 2018, investing over 960 million SEK ($100 million) in the region, and plans to upgrade the site to Tier III infrastructure standards to support enterprise-scale AI workloads.
HIVE recently reported fiscal 2026 revenue of $297.8 million, up 158% from a year earlier, including a record $19.5 million from its HPC business
Shares of HIVE rose over 11% in pre-market trading on Thursday to $4.40, up from its previous close of $3.97, according to Yahoo Finance data.
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Mrs Alison-Madueke, who served as petroleum minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s government from 2010 to 2015, was discharged and acquitted of a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery and five counts of accepting bribes by the London Southwark ‌Crown Court.
She was acquitted of all six charges by the UK court after over 46 hours of deliberation and debate on the charges brought by the prosecutor. Mrs Alison-Madueke’s trial for corruption and bribery came to an end after about a decade in a UK court.
The former minister was tried alongside her brother, Doye Agama, who was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, and Olatimbo Ayinde, who was charged with one count of bribery.
She later became the first woman to lead the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), placing her among the most influential figures in global energy diplomacy.
Prosecutors argued that business figures seeking opportunities in Nigeria’s oil industry funded an extravagant lifestyle for Alison-Madueke in Britain between 2011 and 2015.
The acquittal concludes one of the highest-profile corruption cases involving a former African public official.
The case had become a test of how effectively Western authorities could pursue complex corruption investigations spanning multiple jurisdictions, financial systems and regulatory agencies.
It also showed growing efforts by governments to strengthen accountability in sectors such as energy, where billions of dollars in public revenues and private investments are at stake
The ruling is unlikely to end debate over governance and transparency in Nigeria’s oil industry, a sector that has faced repeated scrutiny over the management of public resources despite years of reform efforts.
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Bitcoin (BTC) price declined by 2% to $65,014, closely tracking the decline in the total crypto market cap amidst Japan’s central bank interest rate hike. The digital asset price declined after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) raised interest rates to 1%, the highest in 31 years.
BOJ’s past interest rate hikes stoked significant sell pressure, but BTC’s dip was minimal. Crypto analysts cite several factors, including a US-Iran peace deal, as reasons this decision did not trigger the 20-30% historical sell-offs seen in previous BOJ rate cycles.
The risk-off sentiment on Wednesday appears to be driven primarily by a broad market pullback amid weak institutional demand, as evidenced by continued spot ETF outflows and a leveraged flush.
BTC’s drop mirrored a 1.54% decline in the total crypto market cap to $2.23 trillion. This high correlation indicates the move was driven by macro or sector-wide sentiment rather than a Bitcoin-specific catalyst.
Bitcoin is currently acting as a high-beta proxy for the entire digital asset market, with its direction heavily influenced by aggregate capital flows. Institutional demand remains weak. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a net outflow of $64.09 million, reversing prior inflows.
The immediate macro trigger is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement due June 18. The trend is bearish below $64,368, but holding $64,000 could prevent a deeper slide.
The Fed’s communication on interest rates: a hawkish tone could pressure risk assets further, while a neutral stance may offer relief. Bitcoin’s decline is part of a cautious market digesting weak ETF flows and elevated leverage. The path of least resistance remains down until it reclaims the $64,368 level.
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The naira fell against the US dollar to N1360 at the official window as FX liquidity has declined sharply over the past 24 hours, reflecting tight inflows from exporters, non-bank corporates, and foreign investors.
The local currency has been fluctuating amidst less aggressive forex market interventions by the Central Bank. The market remains confident of adequate FX injections as the authority maintains its stance to keep the local unit stable against the dominant US dollar and other Western currencies.
Foreign transactions were executed between N1,357 and N1,361.500 during the day, indicating a liquidity shortage in the Nigerian foreign exchange market (NFEM).
Interbank FX turnover reduced to $54.293 million, from $125.686 million the previous day, translating to about a 57% decline in 24 hours at the forex market.
While currency market liquidity continues to swing, Nigeria’s gross external reserves inched higher again, settling at $50.886 billion, its 2009 high, amid sustained inflows from multiple sources.
The oil market receipts contribute significantly to Nigeria’s foreign reserves uptrend, supported by high crude oil production and elevated global commodity prices.
Oil prices are continuing to drop, as hopes rise for a return to stability in global energy markets before the signing of a framework agreement on ending the United States-Israel war on Iran.
After rising more than 50% during the conflict, the price of crude on Wednesday afternoon in Asia was only about 7% higher than before the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28.
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Jito (JTO) price pulled back by 9.69% in 24 hours to $0.710, underperforming the broader market decline of 2.17%, primarily due to low liquidity amplifying a risk-off move.
JTO’s price surged roughly 40% in the week leading up to June 16, 2026. Analysts cite the upcoming July launch of JTX Trade—a unified trading platform—as the primary catalyst.
Jito is strategically evolving from a core Solana staking protocol into a broader crypto economy, validated by its Coinbase integration and a token rally fueled by its upcoming JTX platform.
The move marks a significant expansion from backend infrastructure into a retail-facing product, with a planned July 2026 launch that could reshape how Solana users interact with on-chain markets.
The drop was likely exacerbated by a lack of buy-side orders to absorb selling, not a specific, high-conviction negative catalyst. A sustained recovery in trading volume above $150 million to signal renewed interest and stability.
Overview: The key near-term trigger is whether JTO can defend the $0.70 psychological support level. If it holds and reclaims $0.75, it could signal stabilisation. The main risk is a break below $0.70, which could trigger further stops toward the next support near $0.65.
The trend is bearish in the short term, but oversold conditions near support could lead to a bounce. Price action around $0.70, coupled with a spike in buying volume, would confirm a reversal.
Jito’s sharp decline was primarily a liquidity-driven amplification of broader market weakness. The key factor now is whether it can find a floor
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Global markets were mixed, with Wall Street closing lower, while European bourses rallied as the US Federal Reserve kept rates on hold, albeit with a hawkish tone that could tighten financial conditions for Americans.
While the US Federal Reserve kept rates on hold at yesterday’s policy meeting, a hawkish tilt from committee members dominated global sentiment, pushing Wall Street into the red.
S&P 500 closed 1.21% lower, the NASDAQ gave back 1.34%, and the Dow Jones shed 0.98% after policymakers signalled a possible rate hike later this year amid renewed inflationary concerns.
Europe ended on a firmer note as the FTSE 100 edged up 0.14% and the Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.68%, supported by falling energy prices amid progress toward an interim agreement between the US and Iran.
The cautious overnight tone on Wall Street reverberated across Asian markets on Thursday as investors mulled higher interest rate expectations and earlier news that US President Donald Trump digitally signed an interim peace deal with Iran to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The Hang Seng Index is currently down 1.70%, and the ASX 200 is trading 0.38% lower, while Japan’s Nikkei 225 is currently up 1.87% on the back of solid gains from semiconductor and AI-related shares.
Tencent’s 1.75% decline may weigh on Naspers and Prosus at the open with a weaker move on the ASX 300 Metals and Mining Index (-1.21%) suggesting that local mining counters may also face additional pressure during today’s session – platinum and palladium are under notable strain with gold also falling earlier this morning.
The local bourse saw a volatile start to Wednesday’s trading session but managed a leap higher in late afternoon trade, finishing the session firmly above the line as investors continued to assess global headlines surrounding the Middle East and interest rate expectations as well as a host of local economic releases including inflation and retail sales figures.
The All Share Index and Top 40 Index gained 0.41% and 0.46% to close at 116 025 points and 108 041 points, respectively. Financials (+1.37%) were the best performers, bolstered by banking counters (+1.75%), with Standard Bank (+2.25%) and FirstRand (+2.18%) leading the day.
Resources (+1.03%) maintained momentum from the PGM rally while Industrials (-0.97%) bucked the trend, closing in the red as Naspers and Prosus fell 2.65% and 2.36%, respectively.
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC Ltd.) has renewed its agreement with TotalEnergies for a 24-month extension of technology deployment to detect, measure, and reduce methane and carbon emissions.
The agreement was signed by NNPC Ltd.’s Executive Vice President, Upstream, Udy Ntia and TotalEnergies Country Chair and Managing Director, Matthieu Bouyer, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ntia, in a statement by Andy Odeh, Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC Ltd. said the duo renewed the agreement to extend the deployment of Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications (AUSEA) technology across its upstream operations.
The agreement is aimed at helping NNPC Ltd. meet its gas flare reduction obligation in keeping with its Oil & Gas Decarbonisation Charter (OGDC) commitments, Oil & Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0 participation and near-zero methane ambition by 2030.
Today’s signing represents a practical step in NNPC Limited’s journey to build a credible, transparent and action-oriented decarbonisation programme.
Through the AUSEA initiative, we are strengthening our ability to detect, quantify and prioritise methane abatement opportunities using advanced measurement technology,” Ntia said in the statement.
Sangster said the AUSEA technology was instrumental to that feat, even as the company looked forward to near-zero methane emissions by 2030.
AUSEA is a drone-based technology developed by TotalEnergies in partnership with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Reims.
It helps in the identification of unaccounted emission sources, establishment of basis for querying and improving current emission reporting processes.
It also helps in the provision of data to review operational system and implement corrective actions, as well as estimation of flare combustion efficiency.
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Oil prices extended their decline on Thursday after the US and Iran signed an interim agreement to end hostilities and pave the way for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, easing concerns over supply disruptions through the world’s most critical oil transit route.
The international benchmark Brent crude traded at $78.31 per barrel, down about 1.5% from the previous close of $79.55. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell 1.1% to $75.21 per barrel, compared with $76.02 in the previous session.
Brent prices had climbed as high as $82.97 on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump warned that military action against Iran remained possible if Tehran failed to comply with the terms of the agreement.
The decline followed confirmation that Washington and Tehran had electronically signed the “Islamabad memorandum,” a Pakistan-brokered framework aimed at ending the conflict and restoring maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement posted on X, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the agreement had been signed by the presidents of both countries and would take effect immediately.
Under the memorandum, Iran is expected to reopen the Strait while the US will lift its naval blockade. Sharif also said a formal ceremony is scheduled to take place in Switzerland on June 19 with the support of co-mediator Qatar.
The agreement follows a 14-point memorandum reached on June 14 that commits both sides to ending the conflict and pursuing diplomatic solutions. According to international media reports, the framework includes provisions related to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the removal of the US naval blockade, and efforts to end hostilities across the region, including in Lebanon.
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.5%-3.75%, in line with market expectations.
The Fed also raised its year-end federal funds rate projection to 3.8% from 3.4% estimated in March. The central bank increased its 2027 rate forecast to 3.6% from 3.1% and its 2028 projection to 3.4% from 3.1%, while leaving its longer-run rate estimate unchanged at 3.1%.
The revised projections signalled that policymakers now see the possibility of interest rate increases in 2026, raising concerns that tighter monetary conditions could slow economic growth and weaken oil demand, adding further pressure on prices.
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The bond market is sending a signal that complicates prospects of a near-term bitcoin bull run.
omething has drastically shifted in the bond market, and it's offering negative cues to risk assets, including bitcoin
The gap between the U.S. 10- and two-year Treasury yields has narrowed to just 28 basis points, the tightest spread since April 2025, according to data source TradingView.
That's what's known as yield curve flattening, and it's flashing "the clearest market signal that the Fed is getting more hawkish," according to Skanda Amarnath, executive director of EmployAmerica, a policy research organization focused on monetary, fiscal, and industrial-level policies.
A more hawkish Fed generally means higher interest rates for longer, and that's bad news for bitcoin and other assets that offer no inherent yield. As expectations for higher interest rates firm up, fixed-income investments become more attractive relative to non-yielding risk assets like crypto, often pulling capital away.
The flattening isn't isolated to the 10-year/2-year spread either. The gap between 30-year and 5-year yields has also narrowed to its lowest level since April of last year, reinforcing the broader shift
The move marks a notable reversal from the start of the year, when the curve was steepening, a sign markets were pricing in rate cuts, which were then cited as a tailwind for risk assets including cryptocurrencies. That tailwind now looks like it's fading.
Right now, the move looks like the former, especially in the wake of Wednesday's Fed decision, in which the central bank held interest rates unchanged, but the broader messaging leaned hawkish.
While new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said the committee remains dedicated to delivering price stability, the Fed's updated dot plot pointed to higher rates ahead than previously projected. The median rate projection for 2026 climbed to 3.8% from 3.4% in March. For 2027, it rose to 3.6% from 3.1%, and for 2028, the projection moved to 3.4% from 3.1%.
The committee was notably split on the path forward. One member projected a rate cut, eight see rates holding steady, three expect one hike, five expect two hikes, and one projects three hikes.
Taken together, these signals suggest the path to a bull revival in BTC may be easier said than done and the cryptocurrency could remain under pressure for sometime. That would be broadly consistent with the widely discussed four-year halving cycle theory, which points to a potential bottom forming around October.
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Bitcoin briefly slipped below its 200-week moving average twice in the past two weeks, a rare event that Kraken says has historically marked strong entry points for buyers.
has recently been flirting with a level that has historically proved a near-perfect entry point for bulls, generating handsome returns, crypto exchange Kraken's Chief Economist Thomas Perfumo told CoinDesk.
That level is the 200-week simple moving average (SMA), which represents the token's average price over that period, providing traders with a clear glimpse of the long-term trend while cutting through day-to-day noise.
Twice in the past two weeks, BTC dipped briefly below its 200-week SMA before climbing back above it by the end of each week. As of writing, bitcoin is trading at $63,900, just above the 200-week SMA of $62,358.
That's notable because, as per Perfumo, closes below this level have been rare, occurring on only about 10% of trading days since mid-2017, and have historically marked unusually attractive entry points for buyers.
Historically, buyers at this level have gone on to see median returns north of 113% over the following year and 313% over two years," Perfumo said in an email.
Median here means that if you lined up every single time someone bought BTC below the 200-week SMA and ranked their returns from worst to best, then 113% is the return that sits right in the middle. It also means half of those buyers enjoyed higher returns than that while the rest ended with less. That's different from a simple average return, which can get skewed by one or two big outliers, or extraordinary gains.
The story gets even more positive. Not only has buying below the 200-week average produced triple-digit gains over one- and two-year periods, but the pain of holding through that period has been limited.
For those who accumulated below the 200-week MA, the median time to break even on their investment has been just two days, while the median maximum drawdown over the subsequent year has been only 9%," Perfumo noted.
However, he was careful to caveat the data, stressing that "past performance is no guarantee of future results. But the historical record makes a clear case: at these levels, bitcoin has tended to offer immense value."
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Following State Street, Fidelity is targeting reserve assets that underpin the expanding stablecoin market.
Fidelity Investments is the latest Wall Street firm seeking a role in one of the fastest-growing corners of digital assets: managing the reserves that back stablecoins
The asset manager is launching the Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund, a money market fund designed for stablecoin issuers and institutional investors under the reserve requirements established by the recently enacted GENIUS Act, on Thursday.
The launch comes just days after State Street unveiled a similar product, the State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund, underscoring how traditional financial firms are increasingly competing for a market that could swell into the trillions of dollars if stablecoins become a larger part of the global financial system
Stablecoins — digital tokens pegged to assets such as the U.S. dollar — have grown into a roughly $320 billion market and are widely used for trading, payments and cross-border transfers. Industry forecasts cited by State Street project the sector could expand to between $1.9 trillion and $4 trillion by 2030 as institutional adoption increases.
That growth would create a corresponding pool of reserve assets that must be invested in highly liquid instruments.
The GENIUS Act, signed into law last year, established the first federal framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. Among other requirements, issuers must hold reserves in cash, short-term Treasury securities and certain government money market funds.
The legislation has created an opportunity for traditional asset managers to offer regulated vehicles that stablecoin issuers can use to manage those reserves while generating yield.
Fidelity's fund will invest in U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds with maturities of 93 days or less, cash, overnight repurchase agreements backed by Treasuries and other government money market funds that comply with the law.
Fidelity has a longstanding history in fixed income and money markets, making us uniquely positioned to offer a money market fund for stablecoin issuers that is compliant with the new GENIUS-Act legislation," said Robin Foley, Fidelity's head of fixed income, in a statement.
While Fidelity's announcement focused on reserve management, State Street framed its launch as part of a broader push into tokenized finance through partnerships with crypto firms such as Anchorage Digital and products designed for onchain liquidity management.
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Limitless Labs co-founder and CEO CJ Hetherington said he does not expect any single prediction market platform to dominate the category, comparing its likely trajectory to offshore perpetual futures exchanges where no operator has approached 90% market share.
Hetherington made the comments on a call hosted by Bernstein analysts Gautam Chhugani, Ian Moore and Nosher Ali Khan, who regularly cover Coinbase, Robinhood, DraftKings and Flutter.
During the conversation, Hetherington pointed to Binance's perpetual futures market share, which peaked at roughly 50% before gradually eroding as rival exchanges gained traction, as the structural template for how prediction markets will evolve.
Hetherington stated that professional market makers and high-frequency traders generate most of the volume and fees in derivatives markets and multi-tenant across venues to arbitrage pricing differences.
We already know some of the largest traders on other platforms are also the largest traders on our platform," Hetherington said, adding that those traders interact with Limitless purely through its API rather than its website.
Limitless, a Base-native prediction market platform that Hetherington co-founded in 2023, now clears close to $2 billion in monthly volume, according to Bernstein.
The platform is roughly 60% Asia-Pacific and 30% Europe by user base and has not yet launched for U.S. customers, pending regulatory approval.
Hetherington was skeptical of cross-category expansion in either direction. He said he doesn't think it makes sense for Limitless to launch on-chain perpetual futures, and was equally doubtful about Hyperliquid's prospects in prediction markets, an idea he said investors raised constantly months ago, but that has produced little traction.
Hetherington compared the speculation to early-2000s questions about whether Google might build a prediction market, noting that once Google actually tried it, the idea faded from conversation. He said the lack of momentum behind Hyperliquid's prediction market push suggests either that building real liquidity in the category is harder than commonly assumed, or that volume on rival platforms is more inflated than it appears.
Limitless is currently rebating 100% of its revenue to market makers as it prioritizes growth, Hetherington said, and cautioned that headline retention figures of 80% to 90% across the industry are "stupid numbers" inflated by automated trading rather than genuine user loyalty.
He said the top 5% to 10% of users generate the vast majority of platform volume, noting that a single "user" account can represent a trading desk with dozens of people behind it.
The comments come as Bernstein has separately projected the 2026 FIFA World Cup will drive a $5 billion to $10 billion uplift in consumer prediction market volumes, part of a broader forecast that the sector reaches $1 trillion in annual volume by 2030.
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Australia’s High Court delivered a unanimous 7-0 ruling siding with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in its appeal over Block Earner’s former fixed-yield digital asset product, finding the offering required an Australian financial services licence under existing law.
The High Court held that Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd, which trades as Block Earner, offered a product that functioned as a facility for financial investment and also qualified as a derivative because investor returns varied with the value of underlying digital assets and exchange rates, according to a court document dated June 17.
The matter will now return to the Full Federal Court to determine ASIC’s appeal on penalties arising from earlier Federal Court proceedings against Block Earner.
In a statement on Wednesday, ASIC said it commenced civil penalty proceedings against Block Earner in November 2022, over concerns the Earner product was offered without a licence, leaving investors without important protections.
The Federal Court found in February 2024 that Block Earner had operated an unregistered managed investment scheme, but subsequently relieved the company from financial penalties in June of the same year, according to the statement.
ASIC appealed for a penalty waiver the same month, prompting a cross-appeal by Block Earner on July 9, 2024. The Full Federal Court allowed Block Earner's cross-appeal and dismissed ASIC's appeal on April 22, 2025. The High Court overturned that decision on Wednesday.
This reinforces ASIC’s long-standing position that the definition of financial product is broad and technology neutral and so captures new and emerging products without the need to amend the legislation,” Court said in the statement.
Block Earner, which voluntarily closed its Earner product in November 2022, has since shifted its business model away from yield products. The company was granted an Australian Credit Licence in May 2026 and has been developing a crypto-backed home loan offering.
The licence marked the first time a digital asset platform in Australia had been authorized to provide credit products under its own licence.
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