California’s finance watchdog claims Nexo made nearly 5,500 loans to Californians without a valid license and did not properly assess their ability to repay....
Brian Armstrong and crew stated that they cannot support the draft bill in its current state, leading to a delay in today's scheduled markup....
The London Stock Exchange's new Digital Settlement House uses tokenized bank deposits for instant, round-the-clock settlement across blockchain and traditional payment networks....
The all-stock deal adds Semler’s 5,048 BTC to Strive’s treasury, lifting total holdings to 12,797.9 BTC and ranking it 11th among public companies....
Ethereum remains the leader in total value locked, but declining usage and economic uncertainty in the United States may hinder a rally to $4,000....
The short-term outlook doesn't bode well for the GPU market. Hardware Unboxed recently announced that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card may have just hit end-of-life status, since major board part...
Bitcoin inches toward $100,000 as ETH and select altcoins look to make fresh 2026 highs. Do technical charts confirm that the bull market has restarted?...
Onchain gold products added billions in new value last year, outpacing physical bullion and most gold ETFs as trading activity increasingly shifted to blockchain rails....
Crypto experts say political pressure on the US Federal Reserve could drive volatility but also shift flows toward Bitcoin and gold in the long run....
A revised Senate CLARITY Act draft would allow activity-based stablecoin rewards tied to payments, wallets and staking, while barring interest paid solely for holding tokens....
It’s been about a year since AMD and Nvidia released the Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 5090 , respectively, and this would usually mean that gaming PC prices would start to normalize a bit. And wh...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Noam Galai/Getty Images America's biggest bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase, reported fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday. CFO Jeremy Barnum discussed how reduced interest ...
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/14/is-passive-investment-inflating-a-stockmarket-bubble Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626826 Points: 11 # Co...
Perp DEXs only handle a fraction of the trading activity seen in TradFi investments, but their infrastructure is catching up to the slow and fragmented centralized trading venues....
China's trade has reached a "new historical high" in 2025 and Beijing plans to 'open more' in 2026 as Trump's tariffs force producers to push their products in alternative markets....
The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday . Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease f...
While markets appeared barely fazed by the fate of Venezuela's oil industry, they are considerably more nervous about the potential impact of internal unrest and foreign escalation when it comes to Ir...
According to Customs data, the surplus was boosted by trade gains in December, with exports climbing 6.6% from the year before, better than economists’ estimates and higher than November’s 5.9% year-o...
Donald Trump’s sudden 25% tariff on nations trading with Iran puts Beijing squarely in the spotlight. China knows how to evade sanctions and has the muscle to retaliate. DW explores what this showdown...
The Louvre museum and several other French cultural sites are increasing the price of entry for visitors from outside Europe. So-called "dual pricing" is quite common in less wealthy countries but rar...