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Norges Bank has maintained a hawkish stance against persistent inflation with a further rate hold.The bank’s governor, Ida Wolden Bache, announced on March 26 that its monetary and financial stability committee would maintain the policy rate at 4%.“As recently as in January, we expected the policy rate to be reduced this year,” she said. “But we cannot make any promises about the policy rate, and certainly not in today’s world of abrupt shifts in the outlook.” Wolden Bache said the job of Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy…

Onchain commodity trading is proving it’s more than a short-term spike, but limited liquidity continues to hold the market back from competing with traditional venues.Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 market recorded a new all-time high on March 23, with roughly $5.4 billion in perpetual futures volume across commodities and macro assets. Silver led the activity at $1.3 billion, followed by WTI crude oil at $1.2 billion, Brent crude at $940 million and gold at $558 million. Equity indices, including the Nasdaq and S&P 500, also saw notable volumes.HIP-3 per volume. Source: ArtemisIndustry participants say the spike shows growing demand for macro exposure onchain.…

Inc.’s price action following its fiscal 2025 earnings release suggests its stock price may drift sideways or even lower in the near to mid-term. However, as tepid the price response was, the results were robust, pointing to accelerating business and a timeline to profits, causing analysts to cheer. It is the analyst response to focus on in Q2 2026, as they are bullish on this stock, have increased their coverage, and are driving the forecasts higher. MarketBeat tracked a handful of revisions immediately before and after the release, including numerous price target increases and affirmations that extended the trend. Targets…

David Sacks confirmed on March 26 that his 130-day term as White House AI and crypto czar has expired. The administration will not appoint a replacement. The most critical stretch of crypto legislation in years now moves without its chief White House advocate.    The intelligence layer for fintech professionals who think for themselves. Primary source intelligence. Original analysis. Contributed pieces from the people defining the industry. Trusted by professionals at JP Morgan, Coinbase, BlackRock, Klarna and more. Join the FinTech Weekly Clarity Circle →       David Sacks confirmed on March 26 that his tenure as the White…

For investors and traders navigating the current volatility, here is a backdrop of what happened over the recent trading sessions, characterized by escalating geopolitical tension and significant market retreats:Those are some important catch-up from investingLive.com and now let’s dive in some interesting angles I see from the prediction markets lately.Prediction Markets Are Starting to Price Time, Not Just OutcomesKey points:Prediction markets are shifting from pricing the size of shocks to pricing their sequence. Rates markets increasingly imply an uneven policy reaction function, with inflation drawing faster responses than growth weakness. Elections are no longer being treated as a clean uncertainty…

Investors looking for signs that the SaaS sell-off is overdone and a recovery at hand need look no further than small-cap This SaaS stock provides a customer engagement platform for businesses and is gaining traction amid AI “disruption”. The risk that AI modelers will disrupt SaaS stocks across the board remains, but is now in a more realistic light. It is far less likely that they will significantly disrupt the software industry, and more likely that the established, traction-having SaaS companies providing utility with AI will continue to dominate their fields. After all, SaaS companies like Braze are integrating the…

The Iran war has sent petrol and diesel prices to their highest levels in years, sparked warnings of fuel rationing across Europe and triggered calls for Britain to drill more North Sea oil and gas. But analysis suggests the UK is looking for solutions in the wrong places – and that one of them is sitting on people’s driveways or parked in the street.If more drivers switched electric vehicles, Britain would sharply reduce its petrol and diesel consumption, with every car charged from the grid rather than the pump extending the country’s fuel reserves – and experts say the potential…

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Dakota Wealth Management increased its position in Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX – Free Report) by 14.9% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 83,265 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock after acquiring an additional 10,822 shares during the quarter. Dakota Wealth Management’s holdings in Chevron were worth $12,690,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Decker Retirement Planning Inc. bought a new position in Chevron during the third quarter…

The crypto industry’s reaction was that a quantum computing threat was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024.Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for signatures, both of which are theoretically vulnerable to quantum decryption, but the consensus was that the threat was decades away. Breaking encryption would require millions of physical qubits (a unit of information in quantum systems). Willow had just 105.That story has marginally changed sixteen months later, and Google isn’t dismissing anything.The company announced this week that it is setting a 2029 deadline to migrate its authentication services to post-quantum cryptography,…