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The earnings season heats up this week with two megacaps set to release their latest results. Google-parent Alphabet and Tesla are among the 77 S & P 500 companies scheduled to post second-quarter reports. Investors will also have a look at IBM’s quarterly numbers, after the legacy tech giant posted preliminary figures that sent the stock plunging . The reports follow a tough week on Wall Street, with the major stock benchmarks dragged lower by a decline in semiconductors and simmering tensions between Iran and the U.S. So far, the season is off to a strong start. Of the roughly…

There are simply too many companies in the world. Apple, Google, Amazon, Ryanair. I’m probably forgetting some. How could I not? There are so many companies. Thankfully, here in Hollywood, we’re culling the herd. My memory says thanks. My career, on the other hand, does not.After Disney swallowing up 20th Century Fox (which is now just called “20th Century Studios”, making it sound like a company that makes gramophones), Discovery merging with Warner Brothers, and Skydance buying Paramount, you’d think the industry would be done kneecapping itself through strategic acquisitions. Wrong again, friend. Warner Bros Discovery – swimming in debt…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Netflix — The streaming giant dropped more than 10% after its in-line results for the second quarter failed to impress investors. Netflix earned 80 cents per share on revenue of $12.56 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of 79 cents per share on revenue of $12.59 billion. The company, however, also said it would cut back how often it releases its “What We Watched” reports — which give investors a look at engagement on the platform. Alphabet — The Google parent company slid for a second day in a…

IntroductionAutonomous Market Makers (AMMs) transformed decentralized finance (DeFi) by replacing traditional order books with smart contracts that automatically provide liquidity and execute trades. Platforms like Uniswap, Curve, Balancer, and many others proved that anyone can become a liquidity provider while enabling permissionless trading around the clock.However, the next generation of AMMs is poised to become far more intelligent than today’s liquidity pools. Rather than simply following fixed mathematical formulas, future AMMs will leverage artificial intelligence, real-time market data, programmable liquidity, and cross-chain infrastructure to optimize trading, reduce risks, and maximize capital efficiency.The evolution of AMMs may redefine how liquidity functions…

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SCRYPT, the Swiss-licensed institutional digital asset infrastructure provider, has integrated BENJI, the tokenised share class of Franklin Templeton‘s Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX), into its own treasury operations. The deployment went live on 25 June 2026 and gives SCRYPT continuous, on-chain access to a yield-bearing instrument issued by one of the world’s largest asset managers, which holds approximately $1.68trillion in assets under management. The company says the move makes it one of the first Swiss-regulated digital asset infrastructure providers to manage internal liquidity through a tokenised money market fund issued by a global asset manager. It did not…

F/m Investments’ Washington, D.C., office is just a short drive from the Federal Reserve’s headquarters. But under the central bank’s new leadership, CEO Alexander Morris has found the distance feeling far greater.Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh embarked on an overhaul of the central bank’s forward-looking communication since taking the post in May. That move sounded the alarm for market participants like Morris, whose investing theses rely in part on predicting what the Fed will do with interest rates.”We’ve made a pretty good business out of decoding Fedspeak,” said Morris, referring to the jargon-heavy communication preferred by central bank leaders. “And he…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed down -1.01%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.77%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -1.49%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -1.02%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -1.51%. Stock indexes settled sharply lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 posting a 1-week low, the Dow Jones Industrials sliding to a 2.5-week low, and the Nasdaq 100 falling to a 5-week low.  The global selloff in chipmakers continued on Friday amid concerns that massive gains fueled by the buildout of artificial intelligence have run too far to justify…

When Cuba’s national grid collapses, as it did for the third time in 10 days on Tuesday, a collective groan spreads across its cities and people wonder, again, whether the island’s antiquated electricity system may soon become unrecoverable.The 777-mile Caribbean island of 9.5 million people has been sweltering under a six-month-long oil blockade imposed by the US, part of a pressure campaign to bring down its communist government. But the parlous state of Cuba’s infrastructure goes far further back.“The backbone of the system is still the big power plants,’ said Jorge Piñon, a senior energy researcher at the University of…