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A man walks past an electronic board showing the Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on April 7, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were set to open broadly higher Tuesday as oil prices fell on renewed hopes for a breakthrough in the U.S.-Iran peace negotiations. President Donald Trump on Monday said negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely,” though he warned that the U.S. could resume attacks if the talks failed.Oil prices declined further after Trump’s comments. West Texas Intermediate futures for July fell 5.61% to $90.99 per barrel as of 7:37 p.m. ET. International…

Ever since Big Tech went all in on artificial intelligence more than three years ago, seven companies have done the heavy lifting for overall S&P 500 earnings growth. But more recently, the other 493 names in the index have started to pull their weight.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed up +0.37%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up +0.58%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +0.42%.  June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26) rose +0.35%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQM26) rose +0.42%.Stock indexes settled higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 posting 1-week highs, and the Dow Jones Industrials posting a new all-time high.  Stocks were supported by hopes that the US and Iran are moving closer to a peace deal. Also, chipmakers and AI-infrastructure stocks rallied amid the unrelenting enthusiasm for artificial intelligence.  In addition, Workday rose…

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Four child-sized humanoid robots take the stage at an arena in eastern Seoul, and as the opening beats of a song by K-pop star G-Dragon begin, they start to dance.Arms swinging, legs stepping in sync, heads bobbing, wigs and baggy clothes swishing, until – mid-performance – one of them seemingly malfunctions and has to be removed from the stage.Welcome to Galaxy Robot Park, a new 16,500 square metre facility in Gangdong district that its creators claim is the world’s first robot theme park.Galaxy’s chief executive Choi Yong-ho at Galaxy Robot Park. Photograph: Galaxy EntertainmentIt represents an ambitious – some might…

May 22, 2026 Agencies publish resolution plan feedback letters for certain domestic and foreign banking organizations Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Reserve Board For release at 4:00 p.m. EDT The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve Board today published feedback letters for several resolution plans submitted in July 2025. Resolution plans, also known as living wills, must describe a banking organization’s strategy for orderly resolution in the event of material financial distress or failure. The agencies conducted a joint review of the 2025 resolution plan submissions from the eight largest and most complex domestic banking…

Ethereum price is being suppressed as it is drowning in FUD and bearish prediction. Add to the mix, Vitalik’s alleged new relationship. Too many engagement bait, too little in price action. But Ethereum has been historically pumping when Vitalik is happy, or? Vitalik just got an asian girlfriendEthereum to $10,000 pic.twitter.com/Rd0723bcLS— LilMoonLambo (@LilMoonLambo) May 21, 2026 The FUD wave stems from sellers with Bankless dumping their ETH bag, followed by Harvard multimillion’s exit. ETH sentiment has also hit a rough patch, with ETF outflows compounding the noise. Institutional analysts, however, are framing this differently: accumulation patterns and ETH’s positioning as…

The U.S. appears close to reaching an agreement that would end the war with Iran and reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, according to reports Sunday, sending oil prices sharply lower.

With only 3.6 million people, what are the fintech, digital and wider economic developments of Mongolia in 2026? Mongolia’s fintech landscape in 2026 reflects a country attempting to modernise at speed while balancing the realities of geography, economic concentration and financial inclusion. It is a market shaped by vast distances, a young digitally connected population and an economy still heavily influenced by mining and commodities. Yet over the past several years, Mongolia has quietly emerged as one of Central Asia’s more interesting fintech stories. That trajectory was already visible in Richie Santosdiaz’s earlier 2024 article for The Fintech Times, “Fintech…

Key PointsHarvard’s endowment just sold all of its Ethereum and some of its Bitcoin holdings.Those sales may or may not be linked to the institution’s bearishness about those coins. There are still plenty of reasons to be bullish about both assets.10 stocks we like better than Bitcoin ›When one of the world’s wealthiest universities makes an apparently sudden and unexpected reshuffle of its crypto holdings, it tends to make a splash. On that note, Harvard’s endowment fully liquidated its $87 million Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) position in the first quarter of this year, and slashed its stake in…